Happy New Year 2024 (and sorry for the forum being offline some hours) /DM
<snip> A study has found that atmospheric rivers over Britain will become more frequent and intense as global temperatures rise this century in response to increasing concentrations of man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, he said.“Atmospheric rivers could become stronger in terms of their moisture transport. In a warming world, atmospheric water vapour content is expected to rise … with air temperature. This is likely to result in increased water vapour transport,” Dr Lavers said.“The link between atmospheric rivers and flooding is already well established, so an increase in the frequency of atmospheric rivers is likely to lead to an increased number of heavy winter rainfall events and flood,” he said.“More intense atmospheric rivers are likely to lead to higher rainfall totals, and thus larger flood events,” said Dr Lavers, the lead author of the study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, with his colleagues at the University of Reading.
This meme has been all over the UK press in the past 24 hours.