Britain faces a severe increase in damaging storms and floods after scientists found climate change could have a “much worse” impact on winter weather than previously thought. Experts have been warning for years that global warming will bring warmer and wetter winters because warmer air holds more water. However, scientists at the Met Office have now identified another way that rising greenhouse gas emissions could “severely” affect Britain with increased flooding and more storm damage. An Atlantic weather pattern known as the North Atlantic oscillation, measured as the pressure difference between the high in the islands of the Azores in the mid-Atlantic to the low in Iceland, already plays a key role in determining winters in Britain and northern Europe. When it is positive, it

Source: The Times March 12, 2025 14:55 UTC