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Video•May 28, 2015

Woods Placky Talks Heavy Rain with Sam Champion

Woods Placky Talks Heavy Rain with Sam Champion

  • Published: May 28th, 2015

Climate Central's Chief Meteorologist talks heavy rain and climate change with The Weather Channel's Sam Champion.

Program Summary

Heavy rains are in the news as . Bernadette Woods Placky, Climate Central's chief meterologist, gave a breakdown of the recent records set in the Southern Plains and the connection to climate change on Thursday morning in an interview with The Weather Channel's Sam Champion. In true weather-geek fashion, Woods Placky invoked the Clausius Clapeyron equation — an equation that lays out how much more water the atmosphere can hold as it warms — and also highlighted Climate Central's  interactive, which shows rising heavy rain trends across the U.S.