Rainfall intensity up 20% in Ireland: ‘We must learn to live with it’

A new study has found rainfall intensity has increased by 20% in the UK and Ireland due to human-caused climate change .was found when comparing 14 named storm events in the two jurisdictions over the last year to if they had occurred in pre-industrial times when the planet was 1.2 degrees cooler.today, climatologist John Sweeney said people in the Midlands would “certainly agree” with the study’s findings after experiencing lots of rain this week.

“Now it’s a one in five-year event and if we go to two degrees of warming it will be a one in three-year event,” he said. “It’s telling us that the kind of things we expected to happen in the future are happening around us now andProf Sweeney said it’s “no surprise” to see rainfall intensity on the rise.

“We’ve had lovely heatwaves in Ireland throughout the year too, last week even, so the land has been very warm,” he said. “The uplift of air is substantially driving up rainfall production and, also, the oceans have been giving storms that greater capacity to hold water vapour.The number of days of rainfall recorded in Ireland last year ranged from 283 at Knock Airport in Mayo and 212 at Phoenix Park in Dublin.Main image: A man struggles along a road on a day of high wind and heavy rainfall in Co Donegal in August 2018.

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