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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — With weather warming up for the most part in New England, what better time to reflect and take a look ahead at the potential extreme winter conditions to come— and according to a new study, there could be a lot of it coming.
The article from the journal Climate Change says snowfall and rain will only get heavier with each storm, but the number of extreme precipitation events will be far more common in New England by the end of the century if we don't break our fossil fuel habits.
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Extreme events include rainfall that's an inch and a half more, or 20 inches or more in snow.
Year round the study says those events could be up more than 50 percent with the number of extreme winter storms more than doubling. This is a worst case scenario, the article finds that if fossil fuel use drops by the mid-century, the region could see a 30 percent rise instead.
As just a couple of possible outcomes— researchers say flooding fields could decimate crop yields and swollen rivers could directly impact many of New England's aging bridges.
WBZ's Kendall Buhl reports.
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