Wet summers 'caused by sea warming'

A recent run of wet summers in Ireland and the UK could be caused by substantial warming of the North Atlantic Ocean, according to a new scientific study.

A shift in European climate in the 1990s to mild, wet summers in the north and hot, dry summers in the south is linked to the warm phase in a pattern of rising and falling sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean, research published online in Nature Geoscience has shown.