From Separate Incidents to Simultaneous Disasters: The New Normal in Extreme Weather Patterns

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Doug McIntyre: Most of this stuff is horrible in the summer, and we haven’t even hit hurricane season yet.

So you’re going to have this tremendous confluence of horrible weather events that will happen all at the same time.

When you look at that, what are you seeing compared to your experience going back a number of years?

Dave Callaway: Well, you got to look at it in context, Doug.

And I think the most important thing you just said there is happening all at the same time.

Four or five years ago, when climate change really started to bite, you know, we would have a heat dome in Seattle.

It would make big national headlines.

It would go for three or four days.

Then there’d be a fire or a wildfire in California or, you know, a tornado in Oklahoma.

And these were kind of, they happened, and they happened frequently, but they were happening kind of as separate things.

Now it’s happening so frequently that we’re seeing these things happen concurrently.

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