Extreme Weather

• Increasing temperatures means the World is likely to see less frosty days and cold spells, but we are expected to experience an increase in heat waves and hot spells
• Greater risk of drought in continental areas
• Increase in extreme precipitation events
• Hurricanes likely to be more intense in some parts of the World due to more rainfall and more intense winds
• An intensification of the Asian summer monsoon is expected
• There will be regional variation in temperature changes; increases will be higher over land and in the northern hemisphere
• However the temperature increase over the North Atlantic will be small