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impacts if week, especially in northern california. is climate change playing a role, number one, in what we re seeing and will see in the next few days and out west in california and also when it comes to the increasing likelihood of this mega storm that you talk about in your study? we live in a warming world. so in that context, climate change effects essentially all weather events to some extent. the question is how and to what degree really. when it comes to extreme precipitation, we know that warming temperatures bring about an exponential increase in the water vapor holding capacity of the atmosphere. so that rises very quickly even for small amounts of warming. that raises the ceiling on how intense precipitation can become in a warming world. and so we probably have already seen about a 10 to 15% increase in that ceiling on how intense precipitation can become. so while we certainly have seen major storm sequences before we had a lot of climate change, we do believe that t