Though scientists are skeptical whether global warming causes the storm like Harvey, they say it could bring a soggy, record-breaking glimpse of wet and wild future.

When the rain stops, Harvey will have dumped around 1 million gallons of water for each man, woman, and child in southeastern Texas, scientists say.

They aren’t sure whether the tempest was exacerbated by a worldwide temperature alteration, they do take note of that hotter air and water mean wetter and possibly more extreme tropical storms later on.

Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer said “This storm should serve as a warning. This is the kind of thing we are going to get more of”.

There’s a scientifically acknowledged technique for determining whether some wild weather occasion has the fingerprints of man-made climate change and it includes complex computations.

Those could take weeks or months to finish, and afterward considerably longer to pass peer review.

However, scientists agree with the notion that future storms will dump considerably more rain than the similar size of storms did in the past.

That is on the grounds that hotter air holds more water. With each degree Fahrenheit, the atmosphere can hold and after that dump an extra 4 percent of water (7 percent for each degree Celsius), scientists say.

Global warming also implies hotter oceans, and warm water is the thing that fuels hurricanes.

The University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy said Hurricanes need at least 79 degrees F (26 C) as fuel, and water at least that warm ran more than 300 feet (100 meters) deep in the Gulf.

When Harvey moved toward Texas, water in the Gulf of Mexico was nearly 2 degrees (1 degree Celsius) warmer than normal, said Weather Underground meteorology director Jeff Masters.

At some point Tuesday or early Wednesday, parts of the Houston locale will have broken the almost 40-year-old U.S. record for the heaviest precipitation from a tropical system — 48 inches, set by Tropical Storm Amelia in 1978 in Texas, meteorologists say.

As of now, 15 trillion gallons of rain has fallen on a vast range, and an extra 5 trillion or 6 trillion gallons are gauge before the end of Wednesday, meteorologist Ryan Maue of WeatherBell Analytics figures.