03:55 Climate crisis: what one month of extreme weather looks like – videoMike Kendon, senior climate scientist at the Met Office National Climate Information Centre, and lead author of the study, said: “The UK’s climate is already changing. Average weather is only part of the picture, however: scientists are particularly concerned that the UK’s weather is growing more extreme. Flooding has struck the UK again in recent days, after a heatwave earlier this month, raising questions over the UK’s ability to cope with extreme weather. Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, which published the paper, warned of the danger of seeing warming weather through “rose-tinted glasses”, by focusing on warming weather, and said the extremes of heat and rainfall would bring many problems. Ed Hill, director of the UK’s National Oceanography Centre, said: “An immediate consequence will be higher extreme sea levels during high tides and storms which cause flooding.”

Source: The Guardian July 28, 2021 23:01 UTC