@[email protected] Much of what you write is reasonable but be careful about using recollections to think about what was. Anecdotal evidence is absolutely unreliable. Our summers are dry because of large scale circulation effects. The jet stream moves north in the summer (and weakens) and we tend to live under a large high pressure pattern. That drives sinking air (decreasing relative humidity). That's not going to go away in a warming climate. However, the strength of the jet stream relies on the temperature gradient from south to north (weaker in summer, thus weaker summer jet stream). That gradient is changing. High latitudes are warming more than mid-latitudes. Winter storms move along under the jet stream (simply speaking) and they bring the moisture inland. Atmospheric rivers are different again. There's more moisture for them to bring as we warm. I don't know how climate change will affect their frequency and range.

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