Effects of Rainfall, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, 2000.2001: The brown streaks down the whitewashed

Effects of Rainfall, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, 2000.2001: The brown streaks down the whitewashed walls and façades of these old adobe buildings were a consequence of a very small (< 25 mm) rainfall earlier in the 2001 summer (southern hemisphere), the year the photos were taken. The sun baked adobe is easily eroded by even tiny amounts of precipitation, but in this area many years see <5mm of rain, and more than a few years none at all. 2015: “According to news accounts and several meteorologists, it was the heaviest and most extensive rainfall in the Atacama Desert region in nearly a century. Rain totals barely exceeded 50 millimeters (2 inches), but they came in one of the driest regions of the world. The town of Antofagasta received 24 millimeters (an inch) of rain on March 25-26; with a yearly average of 1.7 millimeters, that was about 14 years worth of rain in a day.”  The consequences have been devastating with several hundred people unaccounted for thanks to catastrophic mudslides.But of course “climate change is but a mirage created by the science cabal to commander more government money for research.”  Yes, a single year of observation is meaningless as a demonstration of long term trends, but when all of the evidence over much of the earth and over more than a decade points to a conclusion… -- source link

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