STUART ONYECHE wrote:
Is the latest rainfall event really unprescedented? Particularly
interested in whether there have been similar summer events in
terms of
both spatial area of rainfall combined with magnitude of the rain.
Media/
politicians are too keen to add recent events to the GW bandwagon,
conveniently ignoring the point that with GW our summers are
supposed to
get drier, as far as I understand it. I thought the extreme rain
events
would be autumn/winter synoptic scale events such as those in 2000,
not
summer synoptic scale.
"Graham P Davis" ...


Yes, GW is forecast to give us drier summers, but that is because
there will
be fewer rainfall events in summer. However, single rainfall events
are
likely to be heavier due to the increased warmth.


.... that is my understanding of the current knowledge, and it sounds
sensible: some commentators are trying to get this message across, but
generally it's getting lost in the 'noise' of "let's stop Climate
Change"! Yesterday's newspapers were studded with adverts with the
core theme that if you do this and that, we can 'help stop Climate
Change'. I'm sure the late Hubert Lamb would have raised an eyebrow at
the thought that mere human beings could somehow *stop* the climate
changing!

Martin.


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