>Doug Alexander walks through-waist high water flowing in front of his North Atlanta home to his car Monday to pick up his son from school. Elissa Eubanks, [email protected]

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– By Mark Vogan

You can bet your bottom dollar that if it hasn’t already, it will, global warming will be the cause of the flooding in Atlanta, the Southeast and southern Plains. Just like the severe drought in 2007 was also the likely cause. This is another weather event that could be actually a two-way combo of both an El Nino pattern that’s becoming better established as it brings a warmer end to a very warm, dry Pacific Northwest, Western Canada and Alaskan summer and likely fall season and may be enhancing precipitation and altering distribution across the southern tier rather than points further north like we have been more aquainted with over recent La Nina years and with a warmo AMO, the drought has gone on for several years now, but things are changing and this unprecidented rain event which could become a record or near-record-breaker for Atlanta and the Southeast for amount of rain, short duration in which it came down and the sheer scale of the flooding which has submerged a large area and many of that is neighbourhoods as well as Six Flags over Georgia…

However a cooling world may also be an ingredient as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation starts to wane. A warm AMO tends to support increased drought in the Southeast and remarkably we are seeing 20 inches of rain come down across North Georgia during a warm (but waning AMO) as well as this event not linked to any tropical cyclone.

A cooling down of the globe could very well bring increased rains as well as a low solar cycle which increases global cloudcover, more cloud cover, more rainfall?

The cooling process of the Pacific is possibly enhancing the snowfall across North America after two back to back record breaking snow years in the West and for the Midwest and New England, cooling off of the atmosphere may increase condensation, therefore enhanced precipitation. Bring cooler air, you get snow!

Cooling of the Atlantic may also be responsible for increasing snowfall in the Alps of Europe also.

I think were Atlanta and the Southeast is concerned, it’s more likely to be a cooling of the Globe, which means the Atlantic must be cooling, hence, a global cooling and therefore the reason for Atlanta and the South’s stunning rains. Global Warming which cannot be happening when the tropics are as dead as they could ever be for time of year and the lack of activity GLOBALLY, the Pacific is stuggling to sustain this El Nino and we’re seeing a fairly impressive cold pool which if I am not mistaken looks to be spreading between Newfoundland and Scotland.

Oh, of course the Antarctica is well above normal with it’s vastly increasing ice pack as well as Greenland and the Arctic, global warming would NOT be increasing Arctic and Antarctic ice would it?

Thanks for Reading.