‘100-year storms’ are becoming routine ‘for whatever reason’ says Eversource head

I have a story in today’s Monitor about a project between Eversource Energy (PSNH to us NH old-timers) and Plymouth State University to extend and improve a project that Eversource has with Univ. Connecticut to focus weather forecasting to better predict power outages due to wind or ice. Here’s the story.

You can never fit everything into a story that you might want to fit, and here’s something I left out: Eversource NH President Bill Quinlan prefaced his remarks by talking about how destructive “once in a century” storms seem to be hitting several times a decade – and carefully added: “for whatever reason.”

The funny thing is that he made the comments in the Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute at PSU – which has entire classes in climate change science.