I was going off the quote in the OP which comes from the Guardian article which is credited to the Met Office. It dates from 2011 and says: > A warmer atmosphe

I was going off the quote in the OP which comes from the Guardian article which is credited to the Met Office. It dates from 2011 and says: > A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture Nothing in that specific causal claim is dependent on season. If anything the obvious inference is that rains should be harder in summer and less so in winter. It isn't very important because as a sibling comment says, drier summers and wetter winters is long predicted via other mechanisms. Nonetheless, the article goes on to say that: > So far, any impact that climate change may have had generally on regional rainfall cannot be distinguished from natural variations So they seem to be agreeing with what I wrote above. Not much is happening in this dataset.