1/7 🎉 Excited to share our new paper, out now in Geophysical Research Letters! We looked at something underexplored in the extremes literature: the spatial footprint of extreme precipitation (EP) events across the US over the last ~45 years. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Climatology and Trends in Spatial Scales of Extreme Precipitation Over Land in the Contiguous US

The distribution of US daily extreme precipitation spatial size is logarithmic, and large-area events dominate trends and climatology Large-area extreme precipitation events tend to be more inten...

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Silt & muddy water from the Puyallup River flowing in the Thea Foss Waterway in downtown Tacoma this evening with the tides. Round two of this bad atmospheric river is about to begin. Big flooding on local rivers including the Puyallup. #wawx #tacoma #pnw #downtowntacoma #fosswaterway #puyallupriver

Major flooding is underway in parts of the Pacific Northwest. An "atmospheric river" (moisture plume) continues to dig a few states inland, with water rescues and evacuations in Washington -- and reports of collapsed bridges in Idaho/Montana. #PNW #flood #weather

👀 After all the rain and flooding we've already had here in the PNW, this is what's coming on the heels of it on Monday.