The Met Office today reports Increasing influence of climate change on UK climate.
The UK rainfall total for 2019 was 1,227 mm, 107% of the 1981–2010 average, and 112% of the 1961-1990 average. Most of the UK received above average rainfall, with the exception of parts of East Anglia and the Home Counties, western and northern Scotland and Shetland.
According to the BBC article Climate change 'driving UK's extreme weather':
Hannah Cloke, professor of hydrology at the University of Reading, identified a number of concerning trends.
She said: "As well as extreme hot temperatures, the stand-out weather events in 2019 were the many different types of floods, causing millions of pounds worth of damage and causing misery to many people."
"The picture that emerges is of the multiple flooding threats that are facing the UK, many of which are exacerbated by climate change."
Gareth Redmond King from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said: “These are records we shouldn’t be breaking. Tropical temperatures may be nice on occasion, but here in the UK they are a stark reminder that we are in a climate crisis."
"The whole world has to act ahead of next year’s UN climate conference; and as hosts we must urgently raise our ambition if the UK is to show global leadership."
