{"id":367426,"date":"2025-08-23T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367426\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:27:11","slug":"ni-weather-experts-say-to-expect-more-frequent-extreme-weather-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367426\/","title":{"rendered":"NI weather: Experts say to expect more frequent extreme weather events"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official summer statistics will be available at the end of the month but so far it has been drier and warmer than average with three heatwaves in the bank, although officially the first one occurred at the end of spring. <\/p>\n

We have also had a named storm – Storm Floris<\/a> – and the new set of storm names will soon be available for the coming autumn season.<\/p>\n

But the question has been asked: “Was this year an outlier and why has it been so good?”<\/p>\n

Various areas of high pressure have allowed for a lot of dry weather and being on the edge of a couple of European heatwaves have boosted the temperature. <\/p>\n

That is the short answer to this year’s set up.<\/p>\n

Being warmer than average also follows the trend of a warming planet. <\/p>\n

Climate change is happening and experts warn that we can expect more frequent extreme weather events, whether that be periods of very warm weather, more frequent storms, flooding or droughts.<\/p>\n

It is important to remember that this is an overall trend and does not rule out some cooler, wetter spells in the mix too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official summer statistics will be available at the end of the month but so far it has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-367426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115078551585175204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}