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'Extreme weather phenomena becoming more extreme' is, I think, the essence of 'climate change'. There's more released water in the system and more movement, which concentrates the outliers, which have, of course, always happened, just seemingly not as frequently as they do at the moment. I think I read something that analysed the frequency of Caribbean hurricanes and found it had increased.
Oliver Schick
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Provisional figures suggest more than 340mm of rain fell in 24 hours in the Lake District. The current record is 316.4mm of rain over the same time period at Seathwaite, Cumbria, in 2009.
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