India, April 27 -- The recent rainfall in West Asia was made 10-40 per cent heavier by warming, according to the WWA

Extremely heavy rainfall events, like the one that caused floods in many countries across West Asia in the second week of April 2024, have become 10-40 per cent heavier according to a rapid attribution study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group.

WWA is a global consortium of climate scientists who study the role played by human-induced climate change in the occurrence, frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, droughts, cold spells, extreme rainfall, floods and storms. Such studies come under the purview of attribution science.

Scientists from universities, research organisations and me...