rainfall

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• Scientists know that aerosols — both natural, as from volcanoes, and human-caused, as from pollution — can change a cloud’s thickness, ability to scatter sunlight or how much rainfall it produces.

• Climate change has boosted the cost of flood damage caused by heavy rainfall in the United States by $75 billion over the past three decades, accounting for about a third of total losses, Stanford University researchers say.

• Days of extreme rainfall — which have doubled in the Southeast as a consequence of warming — stymie septic systems.

• The heavy rainfall is related to a slow-moving cold front that will draw tropical moisture into the region, including some from Tropical Storm Eta in the Gulf of Mexico.

• Total rainfall from Wednesday through Thursday should run about one to three inches.

• The ancient Maya believed that the underworld of caves was home to gods that controlled rainfall and harvest bounties.

• The Golden State got slammed by record-low rainfall in 2013 and remains frighteningly dry despite a few recent storms.

• That state had its lowest rainfall (and its second-hottest weather) in recorded history in 2011.

• And in the last two years, rainfall, which averages 34 inches annually, has fallen at about half that rate.

• The nearest place with average rainfall is about 60 miles away.

• The heaviest usually occurs, however, during the summer.