Does climate change spell the end of the Irish summer?
Natural variability in the climate system has a big role to play in determining the type of weather we experience in any season in Ireland . This variability will not be ended by climate change. Modelling work suggests that Irish summers will become on average warmer and drier but nothing can be said about individual future years; natural variability will ensure that an occasional very wet or cool summer will still occur (climate modelling work also suggests that there will an increase in the frequency of extreme weather e.g. heavy downpours). See ‘Ireland in a Warmer World-How will Climate Change affect Ireland’ to see the likely impacts that climate change will have on our weather.
Natural variability in the climate system has a big role to play in determining the type of weather we experience in any season in Ireland. This variability will not be ended by climate change. Modelling work suggests that Irish summers will become on average warmer and drier but nothing can be said about individual future years. Nnatural variability will ensure that an occasional very wet or cool summer will still occur (climate modelling work also suggests that there will an increase in the frequency of extreme weather e.g. heavy downpours). See ‘Ireland in a Warmer World-How will Climate Change affect Ireland’ to see the likely impacts that climate change will have on our weather.
