Executive summary: 24-hour extremes, in frequency and amount of rain, are increasing more than at the hourly scale, but this begins to break down regionally when more stringent definitions of extremes are used.

We looked at changes to extreme precip events across the eastern US. While it should come as no surprise that they are increasing in both frequency and total amount of rainfall, we wanted to look at how these are changing across a spectrum of extremes and at different time scales.

Yeahhh, nah.

Update: “Two major US scientific societies have announced they will join forces to produce peer-reviewed research on the climate crisis’s impact days after Donald Trump’s administration dismissed contributors to a key Congress-mandated report on climate crisis preparedness.”

What an unmitigated disaster this is