TS.B.4.2 Worldwide, people are increasingly experiencing unfamiliar precipitation patterns, including extreme precipitation events . Nearly half a billion people now live in areas where the long-term average precipitation is now as high as was previously seen in only about 1 in 6 years . Approximately 163 million people now live in unfamiliarly dry areas  compared to 50 years ago. The intensity of heavy precipitation has increased in many regions since the 1950s . Substantially more people  live in regions where annual maximum 1-d precipitation has increased than in regions where it has decreased   since the 1950s. At the same time, more people  have been experiencing longer dry spells than shorter dry spells since the 1950s , leading to compound hazards related to both warming and precipitation extremes in most parts of the world
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