We all know local weather change is making our climate extra excessive in order that when it rains, that rain tends to be heavier with a higher likelihood of inflicting flooding.
It’s harder to hyperlink storms to local weather change.
The UK has a historical past of impactful storms stretching again tons of of years, lengthy earlier than the introduction of named storms in 2015.
Met Workplace scientist Emily Carlisle says: “There’s some proof that storms with sturdy winds (windstorms) will grow to be barely extra frequent sooner or later in north-west Europe and likewise grow to be extra clustered, in order that we expertise a number of storms one after the opposite.”
Scientists are extra assured that the coastal impacts of windstorms, from storm surges and excessive waves, will worsen as the ocean degree rises.
