More Rain Is Predicted for Northwest Winters
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A University of Washington climate researcher says Pacific Northwest winters will get grayer and rainier over the next 50 to 100 years because of a low-pressure system near the Aleutian Islands that is moving north and east.
Eric Salathe said that weather so far in the future may not seem relevant to many people now but that the storms brought on by climate change would affect everyone currently paying for or designing a new bridge or roadway.
In addition to the system tracking northward, Salathe said, its storms are becoming more intense.
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