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Wildfire Whiplash – sudden shifts with painful consequences.

23 January 2025
Wildfire Whiplash – sudden shifts with painful consequences. Rapid transitions between wet and dry conditions can increase frequency and severity ...
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The Franklin Fire – Are Santa Ana Winds Getting Worse?

13 December 2024
Santa Ana winds intensified the ongoing Franklin fire in Malibu, California, forcing mass evacuations and valiant firefighting efforts. These hot, ...
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Asheville rainfall extremes

12 December 2024
Earlier this year on September 27th Asheville, NC was the center of the devastation brought by hurricane Helene, with record-breaking rainfall which ...
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Inigo Seasonal Prediction and Analysis of RisK: I-SPARK

6 December 2024
AI weather forecasting is in the news again this week, with Google DeepMind’s release of GenCast. AI weather models have made rapid progress for ...
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Atlantic hurricane seasonal changes

29 November 2024
The 2024 hurricane season began with the earliest Category 5 hurricane ever recorded. In an unprecedented twist there was an eerily long and ...
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AI Weather Forecasts and Typhoon Shanshan

6 September 2024
Typhoon Shanshan made landfall in the Kagoshima Prefecture of southern Japan on August 29th bringing considerable flooding and rainfall with it. Some ...
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Introduction to Patrick Ball

12 August 2024
Inigo Welcomes Patrick Ball to the Climate Science Team. “As a Risk Scientist within Inigo’s Catastrophe Research team, my role is to help ...
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Hurricane Idalia

31 August 2023
Idalia made landfall as a major hurricane this week in a season where we’ve been anticipating what might become of a Battle Royale between the ...
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Lahaina Wildfire

24 August 2023
Lahaina, located on the northwest coast of the Hawaiian island of Maui, experienced a devasting wildfire in August 2023. Several factors likely ...
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Seasonal forecast update

23 August 2023
The Copernicus Climate Change Service produces monthly seasonal forecasts from many different weather forecasting centres to help us understand ...
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