Guest post: How hourly rainfall extremes are changing in a warming climate
The floods across Europe, China and the US in recent months have again brought to the fore the ability of extreme rainfall to take lives, destroy hom... Read More
Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world
In the early 2000s, a new field of climate-science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, h... Read More
Factcheck: Did climate change contribute to India’s catastrophic ‘glacial flood’?
On Sunday 7 February, a sudden flood devastated a Himalayan valley in the Indian province of Uttarakhand. It tore through two hydroelectric dams, kil... Read More
Guest post: The role of ‘atmospheric rivers’ in UK winter floods
The arrival of Storm Christoph last week has led to widespread flooding across northern regions of the UK, affecting thousands of homes. At the peak ... Read More
Met Office: A review of the UK’s climate in 2020
It is no exaggeration to say that 2020 has been a dramatic and memorable year for the UK – and our weather and climate is no exception. We... Read More
Jet stream: Is climate change causing more ‘blocking’ weather events?
The past few months have seen some remarkable weather, from the UK’s sunniest spring on record to Siberia’s dramatic heatwave and “zombie wildf... Read More
Guest post: Cost of extreme weather due to climate change is severely underestimated
Over the past decade, a compelling body of evidence has linked a range of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change. This area o... Read More
Met Office: The UK's wet and warm winter of 2019-20
As the UK begins to see the longer, warmer days of spring, it leaves in its wake a winter that broke records for both temperature and rainfall. Th... Read More
Met Office: Why the UK saw record-breaking rainfall in February 2020
February 2020 was the UK’s wettest February on record in a series dating back to 1862. England, Wales and Northern Ireland all saw their wettest Fe... Read More
Guest post: Are UK floods becoming worse due to climate change?
Once again, lives have been turned upside down by flooding across large parts of the UK, following the exceptional rainfall brought by storms Ciara a... Read More
Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change
The persistent march of a warming climate is seen across a multitude of continuous, incremental changes. CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Ocean heat con... Read More
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