0.29 inches so far, it'll be interesting to see how much they end up with.

https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/weather/current/KLAS.html 

Not often you see Las Vegas, in August, being cooler than the Costa del Sheppey!

Interesting and it depend on the rainwater temps if can bring it down to 17C to break a record but can't see it happening and temps will rise tonight high 20's when rain slowed down a bit.

Probably first time to know that in the UK is a bit warmer than Death Valley in summer months.    Here today was 23C and Death Valley currently 22C with rain amount rising to 0.63IN at 6pm, I get that hourly update from NOAA site.  

https://youtu.be/YmyRFnLDGmU 

The radar show like a bit of pivoting which Death Valley are in the meddle and still more rain to come  so likely to top 2 or 3 inches by the end.

I wonder how the flat salt lake would become a real lakes now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/24/global-heat-records-europe-asia-south-america/ 

SW USA had a cooler summer from the way I see all blues over that regions.  Death Valley did not reach 50C which is unusual for August as it always does.

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Amazing it snowing in August after the Alps had very warm summer as well.  Variety is the key that UK never get anymore.

https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1697015711451758821?t=DMJxygUqvSFNXGo8p55rwA 

and widespread, too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66702891 

https://news.sky.com/story/greece-at-least-one-dead-as-cars-washed-away-during-storm-daniel-with-7-000-lightning-bolts-recorded-12955426 

😲Rainfall totals for today and tomorrow 60-70cm

and for an even more dramatic take

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12482499/Shocking-moment-car-washed-sea-torrential-rain-hits-Greece-sparking-killer-floods-people-ordered-streets.html  with the headline Desperate Brits beg for help after being left stranded on storm-lashed Greek holiday island 

Some wild flood photos from a few days back in Austria

https://news.sky.com/story/austria-flooding-river-levels-reach-100-year-high-amid-storms-12950819 

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/09/fire-to-flood-greeces-destructive-roller-coaster-ride/ 

Reminds me of when I spent September 1996 travelling and camping around Italy on trains. We arrived overnight into Florence where it had been 37C the previous day. It then proceeded to rain pretty much the entire month, everywhere including the South and Sicily. The only settled weather we had was in Venice right at the end of the month, with days of 17C. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-66748239 

Weather authorities issued a "black" rainstorm signal on Thursday night, a warning triggered by rainfall exceeding 70mm an hour. The Hong Kong Observatory later reported an hourly rainfall of 158.1 millimetres, the highest since records began in 1884.

754mm fell in 24 hours which is a record for Greece and an incredible amount of rain - more than I get in a year.

We know that global warming increases the amount of water that can be carried in the atmosphere, and heavier rainstorms have long been forecast to be a symptom of climate change.

Coupled with the amazing bouts of heat that many places have also encountered, is this the year that the impacts of climate change take a big step up?

I think it might be

Looking at the Global SST's for this year and the extreme +ve anomalies I think we may be experiencing some sort of step change and these crazy SST anomalies are being reflected in far more extreme rainfall events all over the globe

No concrete evidence of causation afaik but definitely a correlation

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/ 

 El Niño also adds more forcing into the atmosphere meaning more energy hence higher rainfall.

Could effect us this late Autumn and into winter in terms of rainfall??

It does and it could.

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