auckland has been hit with another wave of heavy rainfall, just days after record breaking rain left parts of the city underwater. a month s worth of rain fell on new zealand s largest city overnight, triggering landslides and flooding homes once again. the latest deluge has forced motorways and railway lines to close. weather presenter chris fawkes has more. you will remember the scenes of devastation that we had in auckland on friday following extreme rainfall, when 261 millimetres of rain was recorded in just 2a hours, smashing the previous 24 hour rainfall record. well, we have just seen another 71 millimetres of rain in auckland over the last 2a hours and this represents another month s worth of rain falling on those areas that have experienced all that flooding over recent days. the latest batch of thunderstorms, you can see them piling in across the auckland area here on the satellite picture, for hour after hour after hour. and again, those storms were powered by a rich vein of
which is approximately enough rain to fill loch ness, so quite a remarkable amount. once we have got that system for knowing just how much rain fell right across the uk, talk me through this one which goes back over 180 years. just how has rainfall changed in the uk over time? so this is a uk national rainfall series. there is a lot of natural variability in our weather from one year to another, so this line is going up and down. what we have done is we have put a trend line through this data. you can see there are fluctuations in this data, but what we can see most apparent towards the end of the data is we can see this increase in rainfall and that is broadly as we expect, that as our climate gets warmer, it also gets wetter. and in 2022, the met office was able to extend the uk s official rainfall record back even further in time, an extra 26 years to 1836. that s after thousands of volunteers helped to digitise millions of handwritten rainfall observations in the extra spare time t
so this line is going up and down. what we have done is we have put a trend line through this data. you can see there are fluctuations in this data, but what we can see most apparent towards the end of the data is we can see this increase in rainfall and that is broadly as we expect, that as our climate gets warmer, it also gets wetter. and in 2022, the met office was able to extend the uk s official rainfall record back even further in time, an extra 26 years to 1836. that s after thousands of volunteers helped to digitise millions of handwritten rainfall observations in the extra spare time they had during the pandemic. all of this is bound for pakistan for the victims of that catastrophic flooding. just one of a number of weather related disasters in 2022. another is drought in east africa,
changed in the uk over time? this is a uk national rainfall series and there is natural variability in the weather from one year, so the line goes up and down but what we have done is we have put a trend line through the data. you can see there are fluctuations in the data but what we can see most apparent towards the end of the data is this increase in rainfall and that is as we expect, as the climate gets warmer, it gets wetter. in 2022 the met office was able to extend the uk official rainfall record back even further, an extra 26 years back to 1836, after thousands of volunteers help to digitise millions of handwritten rainfall observations in the spare time they had during the pandemic. all of this is bound for pakistan for the victims of the catastrophic flooding. just one of a number of weather related disasters in 2022. another is drought in east africa, a huge gate every continuing as famine limbs following for failed
in the data but what we can see most apparent towards the end of the data is this increase in rainfall and that is as we expect, as the climate gets warmer, it gets wetter. in 2022 the met office was able to extend the uk official rainfall record back even further, an extra 26 years back to 1836, after thousands of volunteers helped to digitise millions of handwritten rainfall observations in the spare time they had during the pandemic. all of this is bound for pakistan for the victims of the catastrophic flooding. just one of a number of weather related disasters in 2022. another is drought in east africa, a huge effort continuing as famine looms following for failed rainy season is bad in west africa,