1/ Excited to share my new paper w @radleyhorton in @NatureClimate on exceptional land warming in coastal northeastern US and its connection to atmospheric circulation changes and AMOC-related SST increase in the adjacent shelf region of the Atlantic.
nature.com/articles/s4155… 🧵 2/ Check out these press releases that capture the gist of our study
+ @UMassAmherst by @DaeganMiller umass.edu/news/article/c… @CNS_UMass @UMassGeo

+ Columbia: news.climate.columbia.edu/2021/09/23/the…

Flooding depends on many factors but what’s truly shocking is the amount of rain falling from the sky. So many such events in the past few days.

Exhibit 1: Zhengzhou, China: year's worth of rain (25 inches) in one day, about 8 inches of that came down in just one hour.

https://twitter.com/PeterGleick/status/1418338770542227457

Exhibit 2: Maharashtra, India: many places with over 8 inches in one day with some receiving up to 17 inches in one day. Whooping 800% above normal rainfall in some places this season. en.gaonconnection.com/heavy-rainfall…

So I had a rather unpleasant encounter with the US Border Patrol in New Mexico yesterday. ‘Deportation’ threat several times …for no good reason. 1/ My partner & I were traveling through NM for the past week, & yday, on our way to Albuquerque from Las Cruces, we came across a Border Checkpoint on Rt185 ~100 miles north of the border (didn’t know they existed so far north). When asked if we were US citizens, we said no. 2/