On Tuesday, 3 June 2014 01:09:15 UTC-7, exmetman wrote:
If these events are on the increase in the summer months as their research concludes, isn't it a shame that the Met Office and Environment Agency don't release 'real time' hourly rainfall data from the hundreds of automatic gauges in their network for the rest of us to see and not just for some University research?


If they did release real data we would all realize they are lying.

ANyway, "The research, a result of a collaboration between the Met Office and Newcastle University, used climate change computer models ..."

Ah, the good old computer models. So they aren't using real data are they, they are using model data, because real data shows no increase in rainfall, heavy rainfall, unusual rainfall, or what ever beyond the normal likely hood of such events occurring. (Basically, in a stable system, there is always the chance for a record to be broken)