The Met Office are at it again trying to scare the public into believing that rainfall is going to become dramatically heavier due to global warming. Luckily there are records kept which show that such events are not unprecedented, but have in fact occurred periodically over many years (and no doubt even before records were kept). Here is the evidence:
Extreme Rainfall In 1937 | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)
As more co2 gets into the atmosphere, temperatures increase, higher temperatures hold more water vapor, more water vapor in the atmosphere will create more extreme rainfalls. This is just physics.
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Climate change will quadruple extreme rainfall events, study suggests.
In practice things are not as simple as you might think. Yes, it is true that the atmosphere can hold more water vapour as it gets warmer, but remember that there has only been a one degree warming since 1850, so this increase is very small. Also the atmosphere does not have to be saturated. It often is not and in any case the day-to-day variations in temperature are far greater than the one degree average rise across the globe. The records show that there are no more extreme rainfall events today than there were in the past.
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