Local experts are brainstorming with 黑料吃瓜网 municipalities about possible resilience measures against climate change鈥檚 impact on future storms, as more rain is expected through this weekend.
Rain showers have slammed the state and the Northeast for over a week, flooding rivers, farms, roads, and buildings. Several more inches of rain hit Vermont, and .
Greg Carbin, chief of forecast operations at the NOAA's Weather Prediction Center, said , since warmer oceans lead more water vapor to end up in the atmosphere. And it鈥檚 happening more often.
鈥淲e've had a number of repeat episodes with rainfall extremes that in the past you would expect to occur maybe every few decades, maybe once every hundred years,鈥� Carbin said. 鈥淏ut they seem to be on the increase, which we would expect with a warmer climate.鈥�
David Murphy, the director of resilience planning at the , has been working directly with towns on solutions for mitigating flooding. Those range from increasing pipe capacity, to creating sidewalk rain gardens. But it鈥檚 not an easy or quick process.
鈥淢aybe they have funds to replace two bridges and not five. And so the next time there's a flood, they see the results of that: two of them didn't flood as badly and three of them may have washed out,鈥� Murphy said. 鈥淪o they do make progress.鈥�
Murphy said while 黑料吃瓜网 towns have overall done a good job strategically rebuilding after past floods, it always takes more time, and funding, that towns don鈥檛 always have.
Some of happened the first week of July. Climate change is already causing
Even more, , and Murphy is worried about towns being able to recover before a possible big storm arrives.
鈥淚t's about a year for the average washout of a major road to get completely restored, it just takes time,鈥� Murphy said. 鈥淎nd so if something hits us in August, September, there may be areas that just have not yet had a chance to rebuild.鈥�
State officials are also working to face the issue head-on: in June, that named Bristol, Hartford, Manchester, and Norwalk as recipients for flood resilience planning. Several other projects were also funded in the nearly $9 million awarded to 21 inaugural grant winners.
