![]() ![]() Dr Halverston spoke about the increase of tropospheric water vapor, dynamic uplifts, stalled fronts and moisture regenerating echo training. Just last week extreme precipitation killed two people in Harford County. Hadn't Frederick, MD taken extensive flood management measures over the last 30 years, it would have been devastated on may 15 this year, just two weeks ahead of its brethren on the Patapsco and Tiber. Helverston, UMBC)Ī look at a Maryland map for this year seems to bear this out. Rising annual flood peaks of Dead Run tributaries (Prof. Halverston illustrated a more moderate upward trend with measurements of flood gages in the Dead Run in Baltimore County. He and his colleagues have bad news: Showing national and state maps of Maryland, the experts noted that extreme rainfall and flooding events are on the rise, not only in one unlucky town but especially in the northeast where some see a 51% increase of extreme precipitation. Geography and environmental systems professor Jeffrey Halverston, PhD of UMBC, an expert of severe weather dissected the storms of 20 which devastated the historic mill town for its natural, anthroprogenic and meteorological components. ![]() The academics showed that Ellicott City with its dreadful history of dozens of devastating floods (1868 14 houses were washed away and about 40 people killed) is not a unique case of either bad luck or bad planning. ![]() The academic side, the human side and the failure to be prepared ![]()
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