Scientific report | Severe rainstorms are spreading across Europe due to climate change

Arabia Weather - The AGU Earth and Space Sciences Platform published a scientific report indicating that due to climate change, an increase in extreme precipitation is expected as atmospheric humidity rises. However, the total precipitation in an event also depends on the rate of intensification, the efficiency of precipitation, and its duration. Here, a new approach following a “component-based approach” to severe weather forecasting identifies important aspects of the response of extreme rainfall to climate change, relevant from an impacts perspective and that have been largely neglected to date. Using climate simulations at 2.2 km, we show that future increases in extreme precipitation across Europe occur not only due to higher humidity and updraft velocities, but also due to slower storm movement, increasing their local duration.

According to his study, currently, severe, almost constant rainstorms are uncommon in Europe and rarely occur over parts of the Mediterranean, but they are expected to occur in the future across the continent, including in the north. The main reason appears to be a decrease in the temperature difference between the poles and the tropics, which weakens upper-level winds in the fall, when these short-term extreme events occur. This slow movement of storms is increasing locally accumulated rainfall amounts, enhancing the risk of flash flooding across Europe beyond what was previously expected.

A rainy summer and the European continent faces the challenge of climate change.

After conducting a study by Arab weather specialists, it was noted that the European continent, like other countries of the world, is witnessing major climate changes in the recent period, as the European continent was exposed to heat waves during which temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius, and this coincided with the crossing of upper depressions at an unexpected time. It is usual, which leads to the emergence of severe weather disturbances similar to those that occur in the transitional seasons such as autumn and spring as a result of the large temperature differences between the layers of the atmosphere, which activates ascending air currents and contributes to the construction of dense cumulus clouds that carry with them heavy rains and severe hailstorms of large sizes that cause damage to Public property.

Arabia Weather specialists confirmed that the European continent is indeed facing major challenges as a result of climate change, which leads to an increase in weather fluctuations and extreme natural phenomena such as floods, drought, and sea level rise. This challenge requires a joint response and sustained efforts from governments and communities to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change, reduce carbon emissions and preserve the environment and natural resources.

God knows.

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