Katharine’s Imaginary Extreme Rainfall & Droughts

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By Paul Homewood

Let’s look at some more pearls of wisdom from Katharine Hayhoe, in her interview with Yale 360:

Our weather is becoming much more extreme, where it’s either feast or famine. I’ve been here [Lubbock] for five years and in five years we’ve had the longest dry period on record, we’ve had the record drought that we’re in right now, and we’ve had two 100-year rain events.

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Crosbyton is the nearest USHCN station to Lubbock, just 33 miles away.

Below is the whisker plot for daily rainfall there:

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Extreme rainfall events are randomly distributed, and there is no evidence whatsoever that extreme rainfall is either becoming greater or more common.

And droughts?

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The story is the same for Texas as a whole, apart from that one outlier year of 2011, rainfall has actually been increasing. Previous droughts, notably in the 1950s, were far worse than anything Katharine has experienced.