“More like one in 20 years,” says reader David Alan Anderson. “Please do not buy into the “climate change” BS.”
You’ll see many comments (below) saying that this was nowhere near a 1,000-year event. Looks like I quoted some biased sources.
More than 14 inches of rain in the last week – Bracing for up to four more inches on Sunday.
The forecast of more rain is troubling because the ground is already saturated with water, making it easy for more rain to lead to even more flooding, said Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper.
“If this had been snow, we would have had close to 15 feet of snow,” said Hickenlooper.
From Wednesday through Friday, more than half a year’s worth of rain fell on the region, with 24-hour rainfall amounts of between 8 and 10 inches — enough, according to Climate Central, to classify the storm as a one in 1,000 year event
The National Weather Service called the rainfall “biblical,” breaking multiple state rainfall records, including wettest month ever recorded in Boulder.
On average, Boulder gets about 1.7 inches of rain during September. So far this month, Boulder has received 12.3 inches of rain. This smashes the record for the wettest month ever in Boulder, which was set in May 1995 when 9.59 inches of precipitation fell — and September isn’t even half over!
Boulder’s average yearly rainfall is 20.68 inches, which means that Boulder picked up well over half its annual precipitation in just a couple of days.
The following two linked articles then go on to ever so subtly suggest that global warming might have caused the flood.
“The amount by which this event has exceeded past events suggests that manmade warming may have played some role by making the event worse than it would have otherwise been,” says Climate Central.
How incredibly stupid they must think we are.
As I warn in Not by Fire but by Ice, I think we could see the greatest floods in 11,500 years as we head into the coming ice age. It has nothing to do with global warming; it has to do with the ice-age cycle.
It’s a cycle. It’s a cycle. It’s a cycle.
See both articles:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/15/2621881/colorado-floods/
Thanks to Stephanie Relfe for these links