Innovations Report: Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have found that winter precipitation – such as rain and snow – became more intense in the UK during the last 100 years. Anzeige Similar increases in heavy rainfall have now also become evident in spring and, to a lesser extent, autumn. A previously reported reduction in heavy summer rainfall appears to have ended during the 1990s, with observations for the last decade indicating a return to more typical amounts of intense …