23 Oct 2024
The changing climate means we will see more extreme weather in the coming years, the National Drought Group heard at its latest meeting (16 October 2024), which was attended by Water Minister Emma Hardy. The Environment Agency chaired a routine meeting of the expert group in which it was confirmed that water resources are currently […]
31 Jul 2024
New analysis of observations shows that extremes of temperature in the UK are most affected by human induced climate change. This means the UK is seeing, on average, more frequent periods of hot weather, bringing challenges for infrastructure, health and wellbeing. The observations also suggest an increase in rainfall extremes. The new analysis features in […]
31 Mar 2022
A superhuman effort by an army of volunteers during the UK’s first COVID-19 lockdown has resulted in 5.2 million rainfall observations, recorded by hand on paper sheets now stored in the Met Office archives, being added to a digital national record. The record now has significantly more data for pre-1960 and has filled in what […]
13 Jul 2021
Covered in the Guardian Human activity such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use change were a key factor in extreme precipitation events such as flooding and landslides around the world, a study has found. In recent years, there have been numerous instances of flooding and landslides: extreme precipitation, an amount of rainfall or snowfall […]
06 Apr 2021
Met Office 11th March Record-breaking rainfall like that seen on 3 October 2020 could be 10 times more likely by 2100. A new study by scientists in the Met Office Hadley Centre has found that days with extreme rainfall accumulations will become more frequent through the century. The research used the record rainfall observed on 3 […]
26 May 2020
Environment Agency – weekly rainfall – the emerging dry spring contrasts sharply with the very wet early start to the year. From black (the new high level) to red EU Parliament approves increases in water re-use Water scarcity is affecting more and more EU countries More water reuse expected to alleviate the stress on freshwater […]
05 Mar 2020
New items this week in yellow Storms Ciara and Dennis have prompted a torrent of commentary going way beyond the standard mantra of Government on cost beneficial investment. The themes from the last two weeks are merged here illustrating that the issues go well beyond discussions of investment in big flood schemes. It is about […]
06 Dec 2019
CEH: Submitted by Katie Muchan on Fri, 22/11/2019 – 15:04 An unsettled and wet period since late September followed by persistent heavy rainfall in late October and early November has caused severe flooding across northern and central England. Our hydrologists have provided the following background information, based on provisional data provided by the Environment Agency and the Met Office, […]
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