Monsoons sweep Europe due to global warming. What should we expect next?

The increased rainfall that Europe has witnessed in recent decades isn’t strictly caused by monsoons and shouldn’t really be described as a Monsoon (see below).

What’s tended to happen in Europe is that where rainfall was once fairly regular, it is now more unpredictable, there are prolonged periods of dry weather then short periods of intense rainfall. Where I am (in the UK), the local reservoirs are down to just 10% of their capacity and earlier today we were watching people rescuing fish from the canal because there’s almost no water left in it.

The changing weather patterns now mean that drought conditions are common in Europe and that the number of floods has trebled, it’s expected that by 2100 flood events will have increased seven-fold.

Many of the floods are caused because rainfall is much more intense. It’s no longer that unusual to have a months worth of rain, or even six months worth of rain, falling in just a few hours. When that happens, floods are inevitable.

What should we expect next? It will be a continuation of the trends that have become established in recent decades – more heatwaves, more floods, more droughts, more intense downpours, more rain overall, higher temperatures, more localised wind events.

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The article you linked to makes the classic error of thinking that Monsoons are a type of rain, they’re a type of wind. The Monsoon (wind) brings with it areas of intense rainfall, these are the Monsoon Rains and they fall during the Monsoon Season.

Strictly the Monsoon (capital M and singular) is confined to southern Asia but more generically speaking monsoons (little M and plural) occur in several parts of the world.

Extreme weather events are becoming much more frequent. More record highs, more heat waves and more flooding. On top of that, a glacier four times the size of Manhattan just broke away from the Greenland ice sheet. True, it won't add to the amount of water in the oceans. But it will desalinate the oceans more. And when there's not enough salt in the ocean, the global currents will shutdown. Warm water from the South will no longer be brought to the North. This will bring on another ice age much more quickly than would happen naturally. Any place above 42 degrees latitude will become uninhabitable.

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Global climate change is partly to blame for the abnormally hot and dry weather especially the current incidence across Europe.We will always have climate extremes. But it looks like climate change is exacerbating the intensity of the extremes. natural catastrophe database it runs “shows that the number of extreme weather events like windstorm and floods has tripled since 1980, and the trend is expected to persist. The weather extremes, and the chance of a record-warm 2010, undercut a view of skeptics that the world is merely witnessing natural swings perhaps caused by variations in the sun’s output.

Still, the unrelenting rains that have produced the Asian flood is the sort of extreme weather that is likely to become more common with climate change

However,here are likely to be more extreme high temperatures in the future.

We will experience more extreme weather conditions. The earth and our solar system is moving into the centre of the galactic plane which affects the earth's magnetic field, as well as all the other planets in our solar system. Our solar system is adapting to its new position in the galaxy, thats what is causing this climate change. Its a natural cycle that happens every 26000 years. It happened before, its happening now, and it will happen again far into the future.

Wow, so natural weather patterns "proof" global warming? I am shocked and amazed that AGW supporters will use anything that happens as "proof" of man made climate change. You have to remember that since we have only been studying the climate for the past 30 years or so and only have spotty temperature records going back to the mid 1800's means that we don't know what we don't know. Then again, most climate scientists have also pushed aside the fact that water vapor has doubled since water vapor is over 90% naturally occurring and is the #1 green house gas by far.

First of all, this is not a peer reviewed scientific journal. It is one paragraph.

Second, it is just some guy who did not even sign the article, not a scientist. He is only claiming to quote scientists.

Third, it's just weather.

Come on believers, live up to the standards you set for us.

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Interesting. Indeed precipitation is projected to increase in central Europe, although mainly in the winter months.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWa...

The page below discusses some of the other impacts we can expect to see more frequently, like droughts and heat waves and rising sea levels.

Because everything about the weather that we don't like can be blamed on global warming....