Originally Posted by CBreezy

You keep misquoting me. But I can understand your lack of understanding of how weather works. Thanks for the Private Pilot answer to "what makes weather."

Harvey wasn't caused by global warming. Certainly you could make the argument that its quick rise to a category 4 was helped by the fact that the Gulf water temps were between 3 and 7 degrees F above average. I'm not making that argument, though. Harvey would have been a Hurricane even if temperatures were average. The argument, however, is that the long wave pattern, the thing that is the force behind why Highs and lows move and the number of such systems globally, has been experiencing a greater frequency of quasi-stationary events. It is what kept a large Hurricane and subsequent rain event mostly stationary for the better part of a week. It is what caused record flooding last year and the year before in Texas. It is what caused the record flooding in Missouri. It's what caused the dangerous heat wave in Seattle.