>– By Mark Vogan

I don’t know if it’s my imagination, perhaps as I grow in my meteorological mind or I’m just paying more attention to the weather here, but is our rainfall frequency becoming more regular and more importantly, more intense.. It seems extreme precipitation events are becoming more regular. The floods of 07, the 2007 and 2008 summer rains, the wet and windy winters, particularly January 2007 which was a bad month of precipitation and wind energy..

I wrote a post already regarding my belief that summer rainfall is becoming greater as the earth or if the earth is cooling. Cooling the NET TEMPERATURE OF EARTH would release greater amounts of water vapor from the oceans into the atmosphere, therefore INCREASING PRECIPITATION. Summer 2008 brought floods to the UK. This summer we have seen more floods and August-September-October and even now into early November, we have seen floods that in some places across the country, lifelong residents have never seen before.

Many will label this possible increase in rainfall as a result of global warming, I put this down to a cooling ocean that feeds to increased water vapor in the atmosphere, that’s if there is any relationship whatsoever.

Northern Ireland has appeared to have had an increase in “extreme rainfall events” with the downpour out of the blue which stopped a soccer match dead after 16 minutes that went from a perfect day for football under good conditions, to a pitch that was waterlogged!

The “Boscastle flood”, the York, Carlisle, Glasgow etc etc floods seem to becoming more common and of greater frequency. Yes I am being cautious as many would shout for AGW straight away. Yes I also agree that these events can’t be linked straight to global cooling, just in the same way they can’t be linked to global warming, but with increased early season and late season snowfall as well as an apparent increase in snowfall in many places during the winter months, I just wonder whether precipitation annually is both linked and on the increase?

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