How the UK is going to get even wetter – due to climate change

https://inews.co.uk/news/science/uk-even-wetter-climate-change-3301830?ITO=newsnow

by Wagamaga

25 comments

  1. 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.

  2. 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

  3. 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?

  4. This is a win, wetter is better, soon in the future people would wish the world is a rain forest.

  5. I’m loving the not so subtle climate change denial and anti-science comments here…

  6. Great I was just thinking how much I love wearing wet clothes for 9 months of the year.

  7. I thought it was supposed to be getting hotter…. or colder… oh no drier! Actually no wetter!
    This October will be the most of something on record if this weather carries on

  8. Genuine question. How long or how much water would it take to sink the U.K.?

  9. Question for those who understand this better than me: does this “help” us in one sense? 

    As in, further South parts of Europe such as the Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, even south of France are basically looking at “desertification” over the next couple of decades whereas (allowing for the fact that it’s evidently very difficult to track these things precisely) things like the AMOC collapse and increased storm activity in the Carribean, Gulf of Mexico, Southern US, etc means we essentially get more rain and probably a slight cooling effect (essentially reversing the warming of the last few decades). 

    Seems like clearly we are going to have to get better at coping with flooding and high winds but water security may become less of an issue than we thought? 

    Aside from the fact we are likely going to see a major social fallout from the incredibly thorny issue of what to do about the huge numbers of displaced people who will be heading north as regions like the Sahel, south Asia etc become increasingly uninhabitable (already seeing the beginnings of this now eith our European cousins increasingly opting for far right parties and asking for a harder line on immigration), what else am I missing here?

    I read John Lanchester’s *The Wall* a couple of years back. Not a happy read, but starting to seem eerily prescient now. I recommend it if you’ve not read it and are a realist about what the future for our kids might look like. 

  10. I can’t wait to see the increase in drainage maintenance budgets that’ll arise from this. 

  11. Under the sea

    Under the sea

    Darling it`s better

    Down where it´s wetter

  12. Mad how people have been brainwashed into denying science for reasons unknown.

  14. As there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it, try not to worry about it.

  15. But people in power sneer that we’ve had enough of experts at this.

  16. There was an article 3 days ago saying the UK will get drier apart form Manchester. Which is it?

  17. If the climate changes drastically this century it’ll be due to a dramatic rise in CO2 consumption per-capita in China, India, other parts of Asia, Latin America and possibly Africa towards the latter part of it.

    Soyjack brits biking everywhere or eating vegan slop will make exactly zero difference to anything. Spend your mental energy on things which actually matter.

  18. The question in my mind is whether one wet month sets a trend for the future, given that average annual rainfall over the last 100 years shows no significant trend up, nor down, beyond fluctuations here and there. Climate change is happening, but the jury is out as to what the implications for the UK will be and how long change will take. This includes the possibility that climate change for the UK may equate to the status quo, of course.

    At the moment, it seems to me that when it comes to the weather, people are making everything fit their narrative.

    Anyway, I like hiking in the rain and have not bought a house on a flood plain, so there!

  19. Yesterday the news was everywhere will get drier except Manchester.

  20. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. I’ve lived here all my life and even I can feel it getting wetter and wetter every year. We’re getting rain in the summer months of June, July and August and not just once but multiple times. I don’t remember that occurring so often about a decade ago.

    The rest of the months in the year don’t need to be spoken of since rain is self explanatory during the rest of the year. Rain has now become the annoying norm at this point. Just the grey misery looming all day, being wet all the time, constantly having to carry a brolly (just bought one last week actually, before that I’d get wet lol). It is what it is. I used to get depressed before but I’ve learnt to accept it because this is what life in the UK is like and accepting it will make us get through it easier.

    Think of it this way. I’d rather be here, cold and wet than in a hot country where climate change is making it even warmer because that’s completely unbearable.

  22. For more doses of reality like this, check out r/collapse

  23. what on earth could have inspired to article about miserable weather

  24. I’m from wales, if I move my arms fast outside I can swim into the sky

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