Sentence examples for more extreme rainfall from inspiring English sources

Dr Peter Stott, of the Met Office, said more extreme rainfall was likely to be the most noticeable impact.

The flooding, which caused billions of pounds of damage, led to the government publishing a review in September which anticipates 20-30% more extreme rainfall than before.

Warmer, wetter winters and more extreme rainfall are what the UK can expect from climate change, meteorological experts warned on Friday.

He said Cameron was right to "suspect" a link between recent rainfall and climate change, and that the UK could expect to see more extreme rainfall, but stressed that more work needed to be done to make such attribution clearer.

"The thousands of rock art sites in the park are at risk from damage by more extreme rainfall events, while sea level rise is happening at twice the global average along the northern Australian coast," the draft report said.

Professor Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist at the Met Office, said: "The trend towards more extreme rainfall events is one we are seeing around the world, in countries such as India and China, and now potentially here in the UK.

"If we see on average more intense rainfalls or more extreme rainfalls or a higher number of rainfalls, we're going to have more pathogens entering our waterways," she says.

Resolution alone will not suddenly create for us the perfect predictive tool to answer whether more UK extreme rainfall events are occurring under increasing levels of carbon dioxide.

But elsewhere, more extremes of rainfall (a lot all of a sudden, then none for a long time) are to be expected.Earlier this year, The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, looked at what a British garden might look at in 2050.

Stormwater detention facilities are often used in modern drainage systems to reduce the hydraulic load on existing sewers, due to the increase of impermeable surfaces and to the more frequent extreme rainfalls, consequence of climate changes.

Flash flooding could also become more frequent as extreme rainfall events are consistently predicted to become more severe.