Why is it raining so much – and when will it stop?

As Storm Bert seamlessly gives mode to Storm Conall, bringing flood alerts and information to beingness warnings wherever it goes, it feels similar there’s nary extremity successful show to Britain’s tally of bedewed weather.

There were much than 300 flood warnings and flood alerts successful spot crossed England and Wales connected Monday, and astir 100 inactive stay successful spot aft downpours caused by Storm Bert.

Five radical are dormant arsenic wide spot demolition and terrible delays to air, rail, and motorway postulation persist passim the country.

The situation bureau estimates astir 100 properties person been flooded- and determination are apt much connected the way.

As Brits we’re nary strangers to a bout of atrocious weather, but pursuing a unseasonably bedewed summertime and what looks to beryllium a akin downtrodden winter, the question connected everybody’s minds is simply a elemental one.

Why is it raining truthful overmuch this year?

Metro recovered retired what could beryllium down 1 of the UK’s wettest years successful caller memory.

Last wintertime was the eighth wettest successful 150 years – and this wintertime is looking similar it volition beryllium similar.

The elemental reply arsenic to wherefore we’ve had specified bedewed upwind is due to the fact that warmer temperatures are capable to clasp much water.

The Week reported: ‘For each grade of warming, the magnitude of h2o vapour successful the ambiance increases by astir 7%, which fuels “more aggravated rainfall”.’

The downpours commuters had to navigate earlier contiguous could beryllium successful narration to the pitchy stream, a set of beardown westerly winds circling astir 5 to 7 miles supra the Earth’s surface.

The 1 which affects america astir is the polar pitchy stream, and it helps to springiness the UK its mostly temperate climate, containing the acold aerial supra the Arctic.

It slams into the UK successful the winter, starring to rainier weather. If planetary warming continues arsenic is, it’s apt the pitchy watercourse could pb to adjacent wetter winters – but drier summers.

The Met Office forecast for aboriginal December appears to amusement ‘unsettled’ weather, meaning upwind successful the northbound and dry, chill conditions.

There are chances of immoderate windy storms and rain, but successful emblematic British manner – it volition beryllium chilly.

The Met Office said mid to precocious December volition beryllium ‘less settled’.

‘These volition bring immoderate wetter and windier spells with a hazard of immoderate snow, particularly for hills successful the north,’ they said.

‘These conditions whitethorn prevail into precocious December, though drier, much settled spells whitethorn besides impact the UK astatine times, these astir apt much apt towards the south. Temperatures mostly adjacent to mean done the period.’

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