Is climate change causing both wetter and drier summers? The UK’s Met Office warned the government that the 2024 summer could see 50 days of rain! [emphasis, links added]
In the summers of 2018 and 2022, for example, Europe was hit by drought, and government-paid experts and the media blamed man-made climate change.
Many claimed that drought would be the future for British and European summers.
For example, the UK’s Met Office warned:
As global temperatures rise, there is a risk drought will become more frequent in the UK. Data available here.
Winters across the UK are projected to get wetter, while summers are expected to become drier. However, it is the distribution of this rainfall that will determine future UK drought risk.
Today: Prepare For “At Least” 50 Days Of Summer Rain!
Ironically, it has just been reported by news site LBC here that the Met Office now has warned the government “to prepare for at least 50 days of rain in the next three months, leading to fears over further flooding in the UK and dashing any hopes of a warm British summer.”
All The Talk Of Climate-Change-Induced Droughts Has Shifted To Drenched Summers!
“Last summer saw 40 days of rain, but the Met Office expects this summer to be even worse, jeopardizing popular summer events such as Wimbledon, Trooping of the Colour, Royal Ascot and many festivals including Glastonbury,” LBC adds.
More Rain And More Drought In The Summer
The reason for all the expected rain, according to the LBC site, is global warming.
“Climate change is largely to blame for the UK’s wetter weather. As the atmosphere warms, it holds more moisture – around 7% for each degree.”
Ironically, the wettest ever summer ever in the UK occurred in 1912, which saw rainfall on more than 55 days. At the time, the UK was about one degree Celsius cooler so the atmosphere was capable of holding 7% less water. Why would it rain more back then?
Met Office Concedes Its Forecasts Not Possible
It’s becoming glaringly clear that climate science is indeed full of contradictions and theoretical errors. Climatic statements can’t be taken seriously anymore.
Hours later, the Met Office tried to backpedal, telling tyla.com here that it “had to come forward to shut down reports that the UK is reportedly set for 50 days of rain this summer” and: “It is not possible to forecast a specific number of days of rain for the whole of summer.”
“When looking at forecasts beyond five days into the future, the chaotic nature of the atmosphere starts to come into play – small events currently over the Atlantic can have potentially significant impacts on our weather in the UK in several days’ or weeks’ time,” the Met Office told Tyla.
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True to one definition of insanity, the alarmists keep making forecasts linked to climate change and expect to be right this time. The MSM keeps reporting the forecasts and never admits to their failings. The Bits used to say “Spot the Looney” . It is them.
Time for a Flood in the Met Office and wash away the bad Stain of Liberal Environmentalism
Another record-setting year for hurricanes is predicted, just like the last 3 years. No look-back post-audit of these ridiculous claims.
If you get onto the UK Met Office website https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/maps-and-charts/rainfall-radar-forecast-map and look at “rainfall radar” you can use the bar at the bottom to scroll through the previous 12 hours’ rainfall in 5-minute intervals. But when you get to within 10 minutes of the current time it switches to “Forecast”, which most of the time differs considerably from what was happening just prior to that point. So they’re not very good at even 10-minute forecasts.