An often overlooked consequence of climate change is more precipitation in the form of violent thunderstorms. By evaporation of seawater hopes the moisture on which there is more rain. The insurance industry knows this already, they should pay more. You see how incurs damage. Europe has just had such a year in which the nature of work. All kinds of unusual catastrophes. It looked like the book of revelations. Floods in Asia: Cherrapunji, India 26 470 mm of rain in one year. By far the worst storm ever in a city cases. Similarly in China. Winters are also milder and wetter for example. On the European. It's another one of the signs that something has changed in the environment. It is often warmer than a century ago. Heat waves are more common. Since 1900, there is 18% more rainfall cases. That rain / hail / snow falls mostly in the winter, spring and autumn. The KNMI has mapped how Europe's climate change looks like in the next century. This results in a number of general climate scenarios:
• There will be milder winters and warmer summers • In the winter it gets wetter, there is more precipitation • are expected extreme downpours in the summer less summer days but fewer small showers which include agriculture thus hinders longer periods of drought. |