Global warming is causing previously rare phenomena to become more frequent. This is the warning from the general coordinator of Research and Development at the National Center for Monitoring and Alerts for Natural Disasters, meteorologist and climatologist José Marengo. In his assessment, “we are living in a climate of extremes. Extreme rainfall is increasing and this is also a trend for the future; rain that should have fallen in a month is falling in one or two days.”
“The scientific community has already shown that extreme rainfall is becoming more intense and frequent. The reservoirs appear to be undersized, the drains are clogged with trash that the population leaves on the streets, the governments are more reactive than proactive, and prevention is very rare in the communities,” says José Marengo.
