The Met Office forecasts up to 35% more precipitation in winter with climate change.
There is NO allowance for this in Aggregate Industries’ guesstimate of the MWWT – the maximum water table – the base of any quarry, as we have posted.
Last month, we had Record breaking rainfall. Who knows where it will go from here?
This is the @metoffice February % of monthly average rainfall map. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like it. pic.twitter.com/hdagWqZOl8— John Curtin (@johncurtinEA) March 2, 2020
Time-series of UK rainfall for February since 1862, including the provisional new record value for 2020.— Simon Lee (@SimonLeeWx) February 29, 2020
There have now been 5 Februaries since 1990 with rainfall totals that would have been unprecedented before then.
Wetter winters in the UK are expected with #ClimateChange. pic.twitter.com/viWek6zIJj
Astonishing rainfall figures for February ... not only the wettest on record for the UK but also the wettest in the very long England and Wales rainfall series that extends back to 1766. Here's how the February 2020 rainfall anomalies looked across Europe. #Floods pic.twitter.com/t51pHnEa5C— MetDesk (@metdesk) March 1, 2020
