‘Strength of spirit, resilience and willingness’ Morin said that “from research in our group, about intensive storms in Israel’s region, and how would they be at the end of the century compared to the beginning, we found that they will become more concentrated: less total rainfall, higher rain rates, lower coverage area and shorter duration.”īut in other locales, she said, “both rain rates and total rainfall increase.” Noting that “rain is naturally a highly-variable phenomenon,” the professor told JNS, it is hard to “quantify what part of the change is due to global warming and what part is because of natural variability.” It is shown droughts are increasing in their duration and frequency.” “The increase in extreme events is not only regarding rain but also regarding droughts. “This means that the historic 100-year event now has a higher frequency, and the current-day 100-year event is more intense than the historical one,” she said. In California, wildfires have burned more than 147,000 acres since the start of 2022, while in other parts of the state, and in much of the Southwest, water rationing tightens as the water basin for millions of people continues to dry up for lack of rainwater.Īccording to Efrat Morin, a professor at the Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “in general, it is known that extreme rain events are going to get more extreme,” but with high place-to-place variation. Another spate of excessive heat is expected in the next few days, with warnings stretching from Texas through the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast and New England. Throughout the United States this summer, the weather has been extreme, challenging people, pets and infrastructure. This assistance is critical to our efforts and essential for our people.”īeshear was planning to visit Israel this week but canceled to stay and help his constituents.
… The damage suffered is enormous and recovery will be a long-term effort. I cannot give you the why, but I know what we do in response. I wish I could tell you why areas-where people may not have that much-continue to get hit and lose everything. Andy Beshear said, “I wish I could tell you why we keep getting hit here in Kentucky.
ANOTHER WORD FOR CYNDICATE SERIES
This is the latest in a series of weather-related disasters to hit Kentucky, where a row of tornadoes in December decimated areas in the western part of the state.Īs Kentucky Gov. Displaced residents are being housed in 15 shelters and two campgrounds at state parks, with more than 10,000 Kentuckian utility customers still without any power.
More than 1,300 water rescues have been made in recent days and almost all of the missing have been accounted for, according to local officials. A commander with the National Guard in Kentucky briefs Rabbi Avrohom Litvin on where disaster relief is most needed.
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