Chris White introducing the ANTICIPATE COST Action on extended-range multi-hazard predictions and early warnings
Great to be in a remarkably sunny Glasgow and connect with familiar & new faces for the first general meeting of the ANTICIPATE COST Action @anticipate-action.bsky.social, led by @drchriswhite.bsky.social on extended-range multi-hazard predictions and early warnings.
Excited to kick things off 🚀
Introducing ANTICIPATE, a new @costprogramme.bsky.social EU COST Action bringing together multi-hazard researchers, forecasters and stakeholders from across Europe, led by @drchriswhite.bsky.social and Pauline Rivoire.
I have been offline for 6 days and have >200 emails... this in itself isn't so bad. But what's making me sad is the amount of people who are emailing back WHILE THEY'RE ON HOLIDAY.
Damnit academia, why do you make us feel like we have to do this?! #alsoguilty.
Yeah exactly. It also strikes me as a film that wouldn't make much sense if you hadn't read the book!
@lsaffin.bsky.social and I went last week! Rocky is perfect. But as with all these things we vote the book is better!
Oh hey risk day! It's been a good while since I made a poster (before COVID!!) and it was lots of fun putting this together. But I always underestimate how long this takes compared to writing a talk.
Paper coming sooooon 🤞🤞
🧩 The paper ends by exploring the causes of wind/solar variability across the whole of Africa. A great resource for those wishing to dig into the drivers in more detail for early warning systems.
☁Rajeev's then developed a unique set of weather patterns that explain causes of year-to-year variability over Africa that are more bespoke to variability than the traditional ENSO/MJO style teleconnections
⚖ This helps us to understand the impacts of large scale modes of variability on potential wind/solar sites while still thinking about important logistical constraints.
Well done Rajeev on your first PhD paper!
A breakdown of the key points below:
🧶 Extending a model supply region methodology to incorporate a climate variability criterion
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
I think the hours slogging into the github website in COVID were now totally worth it for the amount of clutter Chatgpt has stripped from it to answer the prompt 'can you draw a picture of me at work?'
All it needs is some dog.
OR....
Are you interested in energy meteorology and climate resilient critical infrastructure for Low- and Middle-Income Countries? Come and join our brand-new EGU session! Submit your abstracts to this one! www.egu26.eu/session/58070
Got back from holidays and starting to think about your EGU abstract that's due next week?
Well if you're working and/or researching in the world of physical climate risks for the finance sector then I might be able to save you some time hunting for a session to submit too.... pick this one!! :)
Solar panels: now in goat-resistant flavor
It's that time again!!
Newcastle University's Climate risks and resilience CPD course is now available for registration for a January start! 🥳
A £100 early-bird discount is available for those signing up before December 19th. Details and sign-up here:
cpd.ncl.ac.uk/courses/cour...
Alongside @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social, we've written an insight as to why the insurance industry is impacted by, and requires an understanding of, weather and climate.
Check it out in the post below👇👇
The importance of weather and climate science in the insurance industry
"Insight" article in @rmets.org Weather from @mattpriestley.bsky.social & @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wea....
Announcement for the EGU session on Climate Risk Assessment, including QR code and short description.
Excited to announce our #EGU26 session on Climate Risk Assessment for Finance & Insurance Sectors with @mattpriestley.bsky.social A. Ciullo @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social @natalieslord.bsky.social
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
@iiasa.ac.at @riskkan.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu
Yeah it baffles me how much of my money the trains take compared to the cost of my commute if I drove :(
Maybe I need to get into cycling up the A1...
Return train London --> Brussels for only £70 and 2 hours each way. Cheaper than the equivalent flight, and less faff at each end.
The clean travel revolution is happening! 🙌
(Let's not mention my Leeds --> London train is more £ than the whole rest put together....)
With all of these different weather regimes/patterns/teleconnections/TCTs* how do you decide which ones to use to predict at different lead times?
Well we've had a go at finding you the answer!
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Nice work led by Kristian.
*my personal favourite! :)
One of my favourite interactions with the peer review system came up as a Google memory today 😂
My wonderful University have just completed the paperwork on a grant I had that ran from Oct 2023 - Mar 2025. And they're confused why I'm not particularly interested... It's been FINISHED two months 😂🤦♀️
Makes me feel less bad about that fence i've been meaning to paint for 2 years in my garden...
This time last year at #EGU I met Jim Wilczack and he invited me to join him and an excellent team on this perspective piece that we've had published today!
It's helping a little with my EGU FOMO :)
pubs.aip.org/aip/jrse/art...
Abstract submission to the 5th National Climate Impacts & Risks Meeting (Bristol 18-19 Sept 2025) is now open! www.climatebristol.org/projects/nci...
We're interested in all climate impacts and adaptation, with a day dedicated to health. Come join us!
The latest paper led by Kieran (with a little help from me) where we compare the traditional regression-based techniques that I've used a lot over Europe, to more complex machine learning methods to model state-wise Indian demand.
Lots of open data available too!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Excited to be involved in one of these exciting UKRI funded projects. www.ukri.org/news/africa-...
More calls like this please! :) #capacitybuilding #climateresilience #energymeteorology
Our rapidly changing climate means it is of key importance that climate scientists continue to work with energy system modellers to develop best practices for stress testing highly weather-sensitive future power systems and this report continues to make progress towards this goal.
Using the UK Met Office's UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) We can see the anticipated changes in energy system composition have a much larger impact on management of the future energy system than near-term climate change.
We also modelled 28 European countries for the present day climate, and can see that while GB is experiencing its most extreme short-duration stress events, it is common for interconnected countries to also be experiencing times of high need.