Ever wondered why rain 'events' are getting more intense?

[webcraft]

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Pissing down again across most of the country, and again tomorrow. Several inches at a time - which seems to be becoming the new norm.

The answer to the oft-asked question of whether an event is caused by climate change is that it is the wrong question. All weather events are affected by climate change because the environment in which they occur is warmer and moister than it used to be….

The air is on average warmer and moister than it was prior to about 1970 and in turn has likely led to a 5–10 % effect on precipitation and storms that is greatly amplified in extremes. The warm moist air is readily advected onto land and caught up in weather systems as part of the hydrological cycle, where it contributes to more intense precipitation events that are widely observed to be occurring.

Kevin E. Trenberth - former head of the Climate Analysis Section at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research


- W

 

[Lakesailor]

Quite agree. Climate is changing. Jet stream is moving.

Now. Just why that is may be a subject for discussion.

 

[NormanS]

No sign of warmer air around here!

 

[Cantata]

First proper rain here in the SE since July! We really need it!

 

[reginaldon]

We've got it!

 

[webcraft]

First proper rain here in the SE since July! We really need it!

Enjoy!

- W

 

[Wansworth]

somethIng is a miss we are not getting the rainfall we have had historically.Last winter we watched low after low divert north mainly over Scotland.In a region where "RAIN IS AN ART"the government are making provison for drought.Not long ago we belonged to a yacht club on the banks of a wide flooded valley,we sailed under the road bridge...its now the norm to walk on the valley floor ,under the bridge.......

 

[capnsensible]

In the 14 odd years I lived on and off in mcjockland, it was nearly always hissing down. What has changed?

 

[[70521]]

I spent my early years in Fort William now moved south; perhaps not as much rain just a tad warmer.

 

[webcraft]

In the 14 odd years I lived on and off in mcjockland, it was nearly always hissing down. What has changed?

Strangely, we have been getting less rain here on the West Coast.

- W

 

[NormanS]

Strangely, we have been getting less rain here on the West Coast.

- W

We're making up for it now!

 

[wotayottie]

Be that as it may but this is the first summer I can remember when we have not had all summer even a couple of weeks with a sustained stable high pressure system over the UK. Summer has simply been a warmer version of winter with depression after depression.

 

[NormanS]

Be that as it may but this is the first summer I can remember when we have not had all summer even a couple of weeks with a sustained stable high pressure system over the UK. Summer has simply been a warmer version of winter with depression after depression.

The North-West of Scotland had one of the driest summers on record. So it all depends where you were. Paying for it now, though.

 

[BruceDanforth]

Strangely, we have been getting less rain here on the West Coast.

- W

Are you finding that it isn't raining with more intensity than when it didn't rain previously?

 

[ChrisE]

Be that as it may but this is the first summer I can remember when we have not had all summer even a couple of weeks with a sustained stable high pressure system over the UK. Summer has simply been a warmer version of winter with depression after depression.

That's because you live in Wales!

On the south coast, well Lymington, we had the best July and August for a couple or three years.

In Bristol where I work M-F, it rarely stopped raining.

QED move from Wales to the south coast if you want a drier spell....

 

[Beadle]

First proper rain here in the SE since July! We really need it!

Bring a few cans up to North Yorks

We've got all the water you could wish for - and more to spare.

 

[capnsensible]

The costa del sol is doing an impression of Helensburgh today.