A rise in summertime thunderstorms has been 'robustly connected' to climate change for the very first time by scientists at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Climate change is also the culprit fueling a host of other weather anomalies that includes longer heat-waves spells, higher pollen counts and urban smog, the scientists say. This was while there was six percent less was going toward the summertime extratropical cyclones, larger, milder weather systems that span thousands of miles. The researchers' results estimate the average impact of global warming on summertime energy of the atmosphere over the Northern Hemisphere. They now hope to be able to resolve this further, to see how climate change may affect weather in more specific regions of the world.

Source: Daily Mail February 18, 2019 19:52 UTC