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Originally Posted by Weighingin
2. So an event like the massive hailstorm in Guadalajara may be said by some to be a sign of climate change and others may say a freak weather occurrence.There have been hailstorms there in the past.
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Yes and no. Instead of looking at a single event we can look at the number of events, size of events and severity of events in a single year. So yes, there have been hurricanes before, but if the size of them has doubled, the number of them has doubled as well and the severity has increased significantly, then that is something that has not happened.
So yes, we have had hurricanes in the past, but hurricane Sandy was 1,000 miles in diameter. Never had a hurricane that big before. Likewise Hurricane Harvey dumped 27 trillion gallons, or in numbers that are easier to understand that is one million gallons of water for every person living in Texas. Never saw anything like that before.