The amount of rain falling on New Hampshire every year is going up, and projections say it will continue rising. But in what might seem like cruel irony, the storm patterns contributing to that trend are also a reason we’re seeing our landscape get drier, according to a study published last week by researchers from Dartmouth College.

It’s an example of how climate change is disrupting the balance we rely on to sustain groundwater supplies in the Northeast and around the world, experts said. Study coauthor Justin Mankin said facing up to these conditions will require us to be prepared for diverging extremes.

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