Intense ribbons of rain also bring the heat, Yale scientists say

The new study suggests that temperature in atmospheric rivers is worth noticing, too. Scholz and Lora analyzed 40 years of global weather data from NASA ’s MERRA-2 reanalysis, as well as seven publicly available algorithms that track atmospheric rivers worldwide.Specifically, they looked at temperature increases related to atmospheric rivers on two timescales: hourly temperature spikes and …