“If you look at the 1970s, it was rare to have more than 25 days a year without precipitation,” he says. In the 1990s, it was 59. Between 2015 and 2023, his unpublished preliminary analysis indicates an average of 119 rain-free days each year, he says. Since 2002, he’s also been collecting long-term data on haze and cloud water to help understand it all, he says. Final results are imminent.
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