Fire Season 2025 in western North America: Distinctly unusual, and still evolving 20 March 2026 Daniel Swain PhD Key Points An anomalous winter firestorm: the Los Angeles fires of January 2025 While by many definitions the traditional “fire ... Read
Hurricane Season 2024 retrospective 20 March 2026 by Charles Powell (University of Cambridge) and Ruth Petrie (Inigo) Key points Forecasts for the season Coming into the 2024 hurricane season, almost ... Read
Rainfall Extremes in a Changing Climate: Detecting Change and Improving Predictions 20 March 2026 Key Points Last week I was in Vienna at the annual meeting of the European Geoscience Union (EGU), a large gathering of the wider international ... Read
2024 Hurricane Season Preview 20 March 2026 2023 saw a “Battle Royale” commence between two competing forces – a developing El Niño in the Pacific and warm seas in the Atlantic – and ... Read
Hurricane Season 2023: Half-Term Report 20 March 2026 We’re now past the climatological peak of the hurricane season: half term, if you like. As we approached the hurricane season, a lot of the ... Read
The big picture – uncovering the 2022 hurricane season, climate change and climate variability 20 March 2026 There was a sense of foreboding at the start of the hurricane season. La Nina was present, and seasonal forecasts spoke of much-above-average ... Read
The increasing risk of hurricanes – were we lucky in 2020? 20 March 2026 A hurricane season will always be viewed with some trepidation; the potential for big-hitting losses is always there even in the quieter years: 1992 ... Read
