Were the torrential downpours of this past year larger than normal?

[repoman]

I really know little about weather so I don't know where to look.

But I have read that with AGW there will be larger torrential rains, partly because warmer air holds more water.

We had Texas, the British Isles and now Nagasaki.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/21/national/kumamoto-area-downpours-leave-two-dead-three-missing-trigger-evacuation-advisories/#.V2qmuVdlkxc

There was a strong El Niño as well...

 

[fromderinside]

Maybe up there. Not down here though. Still, got decent snow pack this year after drought level last year, We got 7% of normal near Mt Shasta and about 15% at Mt. Hood.

 

[Malintent]

I really know little about weather so I don't know where to look.

But I have read that with AGW there will be larger torrential rains, partly because warmer air holds more water.

We had Texas, the British Isles and now Nagasaki.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/21/national/kumamoto-area-downpours-leave-two-dead-three-missing-trigger-evacuation-advisories/#.V2qmuVdlkxc

There was a strong El Niño as well...

Here is a repository of weather data, collected and archived by NOAA's Center for Environmental Information:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records

 

[another1]

THE SCENE AT 1:15 PM, 6/22/16

Jackson and Wood Counties in West Virginia are now under a 10% risk of SIGNIFICANT SEVERE due to winds that may gust to 74 MPH+.

Yesterday it seemed worse. Today has been thundery and birds are chirping louder than usual, but not much rain.

 

[bilby]

Total rainfall worldwide has been increasing over the last century, with more wetter than average years (and fewer drier than average years) more recently.

The US EPA graph below uses data from Blunden, J., and D.S. Arndt, eds. 2014. State of the climate in 2013. B. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 95(7):S1-S257, and comes from https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/science/indicators/weather-climate/precipitation.html:

 

[Malintent]

wow, it never rained a drop anywhere in the world from 1901 to 1909, huh?
I think maybe the data is skewed a bit by increases in measuring stations over the centuries, no?

 

[Playball40]

wow, it never rained a drop anywhere in the world from 1901 to 1909, huh?
I think maybe the data is skewed a bit by increases in measuring stations over the centuries, no?

Not what the graph says.

 

[bilby]

wow, it never rained a drop anywhere in the world from 1901 to 1909, huh?
I think maybe the data is skewed a bit by increases in measuring stations over the centuries, no?

Or maybe you just don't understand what the graph is showing.

 

[Malintent]

or that... I misread.