The Reading Uni boffins have global respect for their skills in meterology – but when the patterns change over this will be a tripple whammy to Southern Europe which will get less Northern European tourists, still random weather what destroys their crops, but it won’t stop refugees from countries wracked by both war and environmental conditions..
The UK’s dismal recent summers can be blamed on a substantial warming of the North Atlantic Ocean in the late 1990s, according to new scientific research. The shift has resulted in rain-soaked weather systems being driven into northern Europe, increasing summer rainfall by about a third.
The pattern is likely to revert to drier summers and may do so suddenly, according to Prof Rowan Sutton, at the University of Reading, who led the work. “I can’t guarantee it but it is likely,” he said. “However we are not sure of the timing, which is what every one wants to know – but we are working on this now.” Sutton added that when the switch occurs, it could happen as rapidly as over two to three years.
Warm North Atlantic Ocean causing UK’s wet summers, study shows | Environment | The Guardian
