‘Extreme’ storms increase in state, report says

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

The old saying turns out to be truer every day: When it rains, it pours.

Vermont is experiencing more and more storms that drop “extreme” amounts of rain or snow, according to an analysis of 59 years of weather records by a national coalition of environmental groups.

“This is the kind of downpour that hurts farmers instead of helping them. It’s the kind of torrent that washes away carefully groomed ski hills,” said Bill McKibben, an author, climate crusader and scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College.

McKibben appeared at a news conference called by the Vermont Public Interest Research Group to release the report and urge faster action on curbing the carbon emissions blamed for global climate change.

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