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We 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 is tougher 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 Office scientist Emily Carlisle says: “There is a few proof that storms with sturdy winds (windstorms) will change into barely extra frequent sooner or later in north-west Europe and in addition change into 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 stage rises.
