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Fri 11 Nov 2009Heavy rains part of new weather pattern
CLIMATE CHANGE:THE SERIES of “massive” rain belts across Connacht this week are a foretaste of new weather patterns due to climate change, an NUI Galway lecturer has said.
Kieran Hickey, lecturer in geography, said it had been at least 20 to 30 years since there had been such a combination of heavy, highly intense and prolonged rainfall in the west.
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