That is ugly for most of the country. The Pacific ridge saves our butts here for a while at least.

Not wet, but definitely cloudy. I remember some article about how Seattle went from one of the sunniest summers in history in 2009 to one of the cloudiest in 2010.

The Clausius Clapeyron equation shows that global saturation vapor pressure increases 7% for every degree C of warming. Combining that with the global energy budget equation literally says that global mean precipitation has to increase by 1-2% for every degree C of warming. It has to, fundamentally, increase. The question then is how that increase is distributed globally. If circulation remains the same, it all goes to the areas where it is already raining. If the circulation slows down, then no, wet won’t necessarily get wetter regionally. Climate models have shown some increased precipitation along with slowing circulation. So, yes, if the climate models are wrong about the circulation changes then “wet gets wetter” won’t apply in some locations. But you would be crazy to think that the trend won’t largely hold overall, even if there are some exceptions.

Yeah, if you just look at one station the last decade has averaged a few inches above the long term mean. But then as recently as 2000-2013, we saw a decade+ period average well below the long term mean. Before that the 90s were a much wetter decade. Point being, I'm not sure the most recent "trend" really represents much long term.

I should have dropped this last night.