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United Kingdom: Batten the hatches as summers to have more heavy downpours
2016-06-21 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: The state of the British summer has always been a constant source of fascination and irritation, if only for its fickle nature. Now the latest prediction is for more heavy summer downpours. Our study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows the first evidence that summer downpours in the UK could become heavier with climate change. We used a very high-resolution model more typically used for weather forecasting to study changes in hourly rainfall. Unlike current climate models, this...
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United Kingdom: Puffin numbers under threat from freak downpours
2015-08-02 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Puffin numbers on one of Britains most important seabird colonies may be hit by the terrible summer weather, wildlife experts have warned. Flooded burrows on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast have been blamed for a serious drop in the number of fledged puffin chicks this year. Each year National Trust rangers monitor 100 burrows with eggs on the islands and last year found 92 birds had fledged, seen as a remarkable success. But this year only about 50 successfully fledged chicks,...
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Across U.S., heaviest downpours on the rise
2015-05-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Record-breaking rain across Texas and Oklahoma this week caused widespread flooding, the likes of which the region has rarely, if ever, seen. For seven locations there, May 2015 has seen the most rain of any month ever recorded, with five days to go and the rain still coming. While rainfall in the region is consistent with the emerging El Nio, the unprecedented amounts suggest a possible climate change signal, where a warming atmosphere becomes more saturated with water vapor and capable of previously...
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Global warming may quintuple summer downpours in UK
2014-06-02 04:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: By 2100 southern England will be drenched by five times as many sudden summer deluges as it is today, probably causing more flash floods, according to an advanced climate model. Other parts of the world are likely to experience similar increases in downpours, and global warming will be to blame. Sudden heavy downpours cause many floods, such as the flooding of Boscastle in Cornwall in 2004 (see picture, above right). The new finding comes just months after some of the worst recorded floods in the...
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Arctic thaw tied to European, U.S. heatwaves and downpours - study
2013-12-08 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A thaw of Arctic ice and snow is linked to worsening summer heatwaves and downpours thousands of miles south in Europe, the United States and other areas, underlying the scale of the threat posed by global warming, scientists said on Sunday. Their report, which was dismissed as inconclusive by some other experts, warned of increasingly extreme weather across "much of North America and Eurasia where billions of people will be affected". The study is part of a drive to work out how climate change...
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