“…Unlike air temperature, changes in precipitation (both mean and extreme) were not uniform, and were mostly less significant, both on a global scale (Alexander, 2016;Gu & Adler, 2023;Sun et al, 2021) and on smaller spatial scales (Burić & Doderović, 2021;Zeder & Fischer, 2020;Zheng et al, 2022;Kelebek et al, 2021;Kömüşcü & Aksoy, 2023;Kpanou et al, 2021;Li et al, 2019;Luppichini et al, 2022;Milošević et al, 2021;Ogrin et al, 2022;Popov et al, 2017bPopov et al, , 2018bPortela et al, 2020;Senent-Aparicio et al, 2023;Fan et al, 2023;Hänsel et al, 2022;Harp & Horton, 2022;Ciftci & Sahin, 2023). However, it should be noted that in many parts of the world, an increasing trend of intense precipitation has been observed (Alexander, 2016;Dunn et al, 2020;Sun et al, 2021).…”