Storm Bert: Rain to increase as climate warms, says scientist
She continued: “So it will not only happen more frequently but when it does happen, the rain will be harder and that means that the water has to find somewhere to go much more quickly.
“That’s more likely to lead to these kinds of flood impacts that we’re seeing.”
People were forced to leave their homes in Yate and the town centres of Bradford-on-Avon and Chippenham were brought to a standstill with roads and schools also closed on Monday.
Speaking to the BBC in the aftermath of the storm, Ross Henning, Wiltshire councillor for Chippenham, said: “Climate change is creeping up on us”.
He added: “There should be some mitigation put in place for people affected by floods. There are things that Wiltshire Council can do.”
The Met Office’s analysis of data from the past 100 years, analysed by UK website Carbon Brief, shows we can expect UK winters to continue to get wetter and warmer, external.
Dr Archer said climate change scientists were already trying to understand how climate change shaped Storm Bert.
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