Reply #2: Warmer than normal Indian Ocean Temps

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Fueling the monsoons’ intensity are warmer-than-usual temperatures in and above the Indian Ocean. At 2 Fahrenheit degrees above late-20th century levels, the air can hold about 8 percent more water. At higher temperatures, the air is also more buoyant, and “invigorates the storms,” said Trenberth.

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Vladimir Petoukhov, a climate modeler at Germany’s Potsdam Institute, agreed that a link is possible. “Different geographic locations of the Northern Hemisphere could be simultaneously subjected to drought-like and flood-like conditions,” he said. “These phenomena cannot be regarded as solitary local structures.”

As regional temperatures continue to rise, “the frequency of such events could markedly increase,” said Petoukhov.


I see nothing about the jet stream



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