Flooding and droughts experienced together

Britian is bizarrely facing the prospects of a winter of both floods and droughts together, the Environment Agency has warned.

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The Government's Flood Resilience Taskforce has met for talks on flood preparation, emergency planning and temporary defences. This is after the Met Office warned of a wetter-than-usual autumn particularly in western and northern England.

Global warming, caused by carbon pollution, means we are experiencing far heavier rainfall in the UK as extreme weather increases. For every one degree warmer, the atmosphere can hold seven per cent more water so when it does rain, the risk of flooding is increasing.