September looks set to be one of the wettest yet for some parts of England, and climate change means the whole country is likely to carry on getting rainier still.
While there’s always variability in UK weather – making it one of our favourite conversation topics – the wet conditions are part of a trend of more rain and more extreme rainstorms caused by the warming climate.
The Met Office is due to announce this week that several counties in England have had their wettest September since records began, including Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire.
vehicleopperator329 on
Climate change is a marketing strategy. Nothing more. Id explain but i cabt be asked
frogboxcrob on
Is adding CO2 to the atmosphere going to alter the climate? Almost certainly
Do I trust any predictions on something that has more factors in it than you can imagine? No
Don’t get me wrong changing the climate from what we know is safe and predictable is a bad idea so I’m all for nuclear and green energy goals.
But any piece about “what’s going to happen” is as good as looking in a crystal ball or asking your mate Steve what he reckons.
It’s more complicated than any model can sufficiently predict
Mammoth-Ad-562 on
Some questions I have;
If the water system is intensifying then how come it’s taken over 50 years for Reading to break the record for September rainfall?
>That compares with 146mm of rain for the previous highest rainfall figure for September in Reading, which was in 1974. “That’s a surprisingly large amount by which to break a record,” said Dr Thompson.
If warmer air holds more moisture and we have been getting hotter since the Industrial Revolution then how did it take that long for Reading to get a wetter September?
If the effects of climate change are unpredictable then how are we so sure that our knowledge is accurate enough to start predicting things like apocalyptic weather events?
KingKaiserW on
This is a win, wetter is better, soon in the future people would wish the world is a rain forest.
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September looks set to be one of the wettest yet for some parts of England, and climate change means the whole country is likely to carry on getting rainier still.
While there’s always variability in UK weather – making it one of our favourite conversation topics – the wet conditions are part of a trend of more rain and more extreme rainstorms caused by the warming climate.
The Met Office is due to announce this week that several counties in England have had their wettest September since records began, including Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire.
Climate change is a marketing strategy. Nothing more. Id explain but i cabt be asked
Is adding CO2 to the atmosphere going to alter the climate? Almost certainly
Do I trust any predictions on something that has more factors in it than you can imagine? No
Don’t get me wrong changing the climate from what we know is safe and predictable is a bad idea so I’m all for nuclear and green energy goals.
But any piece about “what’s going to happen” is as good as looking in a crystal ball or asking your mate Steve what he reckons.
It’s more complicated than any model can sufficiently predict
Some questions I have;
If the water system is intensifying then how come it’s taken over 50 years for Reading to break the record for September rainfall?
>That compares with 146mm of rain for the previous highest rainfall figure for September in Reading, which was in 1974. “That’s a surprisingly large amount by which to break a record,” said Dr Thompson.
If warmer air holds more moisture and we have been getting hotter since the Industrial Revolution then how did it take that long for Reading to get a wetter September?
If the effects of climate change are unpredictable then how are we so sure that our knowledge is accurate enough to start predicting things like apocalyptic weather events?
This is a win, wetter is better, soon in the future people would wish the world is a rain forest.