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2016 was the world’s warmest year on record, due in part to a very strong El Niño event. But 2023 (and 2024) could beat that record – what should we expect?
Nationally, 57% of the population says they’re not prepared for a flood disaster. Surveys and disasters show that those most at risk are least prepared.
Each rainbow is personal – the rainbow you see isn’t exactly the same rainbow the next person sees. It’s all in the eye of the beholder.
Extreme weather is a threat to the UK’s electricity system – and climate change is likely to make it even worse.
This year’s Sierra snowpack is looking a lot like 1983’s, and that was a year of flooding and mudslide disasters. A meteorologist explains what’s ahead.
Cyclone Ilsa has intensified off the Western Australian coast and is now classed as a category-five system. How did this happen?
Researchers are turning to computer models, drones and other methods to improve tornado forecasting.
An expert explains why the UK’s winter has been relatively calm.
The Met Office has predicted that England is to be affected by flooding this February.
The growing threat of flash flooding as a result of more intense rapid rain bursts means the city needs to update its flood defences.
Storm Fiona caused a lot of property damage and erosion on the Canadian coast. But its effects are also felt in the depths of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Processes like La Niña set the scene for the sort of extreme weather that has hit eastern Australia. But what decides which towns and suburbs are hit hardest, and which ones are spared?
Coastal hospitals are still at high risk, nearly two decades after Hurricane Katrina’s flood disaster at Memorial Medical Center shocked the world.
Hurricanes don’t usually maintain high wind speeds as they make their way toward Atlantic Canada. But ocean warming may be linked to the increasing intensity of storms like Fiona.
A project to transcribe Dutch colonial records of the weather in Cape Town can benefit modelling of future climate scenarios and assist in forecasting weather now.
Are severe and extreme weather events on the rise? And does this have anything to do with manmade climate change? The simple answer is: it’s complicated.
Storms and flash floods often follow a heatwave.
It’s not just mosquitos. Flooding, extreme heat and other climate-related hazards are bringing people into contact with pathogens more often, and affecting people’s ability to fight off disease.
The Met Office issued its heatwave warning six days before the mercury peaked – potentially saving many lives.
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Research Scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science and Colorado State Climatologist, Colorado State University
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Associate Professor of Meteorology, Central Michigan University
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Professorial Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Geography & Environmental Systems, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Principal Research Scientist in Extreme Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Geography, Middle Tennessee State University
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Professor of Physical Geography, James Cook University
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Emeritus of Geography, Louisiana State University
