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2. • • Since warmer air can hold more water, climate change is also leading to heavier rainfall and extreme floods in other areas. This claims lives, destroys homes and infrastructure, and puts a huge economic burden on our societies.
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   How does rain affect our daily lives?

   • This slideshow shows real life examples of how rain affects our daily lives and the world around us. Rain provides plants and animals, like this red squirrel, with water. Like us, plants and animals need water to grow and survive. (Gary Cook / Alamy Stock Photo) The water in our taps starts off as rain.

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   How does humidity affect rainfall?

   • Humidity also affects rainfall. Experts agree that, in warmer climates, major storms are dropping more rain. Rain gauges show that the rainiest day each year has gotten roughly 3.5% wetter for every degree Fahrenheit of global warming, the same rise we’re seeing in humidity.

   How is climate change affecting the weather today?

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   How does rainfall change over time?

   • It can also mean long, dry periods are interspersed by torrential downpours, or drought and flooding in quick succession. The researchers examined observational data and found since the 1900s, rainfall variability has increased over 75% of the land areas studied. Europe, Australia and eastern North America were particularly affected.

   New research shows how global warming is messing with our rainfall

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   Are storms causing more rainfall?

   • The scientists found that rainfall associated with storms is becoming both more intense and more likely. In a pre-industrial climate, rainfall from storms as intense as the 2023-24 season, had an estimated return period of 1 in 50 years.

   Climate change drives increase in storm rainfall - Met Office

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   How has rainfall impacted our communities?

   • “Over the recent autumn-winter period we have witnessed the impact that heavy or prolonged rainfall has had on our communities, our land and the farming and agricultural sector, waterlogging the soils with virtually no time for them to dry out and become usable.

   Climate change drives increase in storm rainfall - Met Office

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   Will rainfall increase more sharply in extreme events?

   • Rainfall is likely to increase more sharply in the most extreme events, and appears to do this nearly everywhere on the continent. In 2022, we looked at rainfall hour-by-hour in Sydney using radar data. We found the maximum hourly rainfall increased by 40% in Sydney over the past two decades.

   New research shows how global warming is messing with our rainfall

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4. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › articlesHow does rain and extreme weather affect people's lives ... - BBC

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   Rain is very important and can affect our lives in many different ways. In this article you can learn: How rain affects our daily lives; What causes a flood; What causes a drought

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   Sep 30, 2020 · Experts agree that, in warmer climates, major storms are dropping more rain. Rain gauges show that the rainiest day each year has gotten roughly 3.5% wetter for every degree Fahrenheit of global warming, the same rise we’re seeing in humidity.

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   Jun 24, 2022 · Stefan Ellerbeck. Climate change is already affecting people’s lives in a variety of ways. Global warming is the biggest health threat facing humanity, the World Health Organization says. It’s also making people rethink family planning choices and putting properties at risk of becoming uninsurable.

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8. www.metoffice.gov.uk › about-us › news-and-mediaClimate change drives increase in storm rainfall - Met Office

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   May 22, 2024 · Human-induced climate change made the heavy storm downpours and total rainfall across the UK and Ireland between October 2023 and March 2024 more frequent and intense, according to a rapid...

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   Jun 17, 2024 · More than 70 million people in the US are under heat alerts this week, with extreme temperatures as high as 105F (41C) forecast in some areas.

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    Aug 3, 2023 · Where water is scarce, land dries up causing crop failure and people’s health is at risk from lack of drinking water. Since warmer air can hold more water, climate change is also leading to heavier rainfall and extreme floods in other areas. This claims lives, destroys homes and infrastructure, and puts a huge economic burden on our societies.

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    Jul 28, 2024 · The past century of human-induced warming has increased rainfall variability over 75% of the Earth's land area—particularly over Australia, Europe and eastern North America, new research...