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Earth has just ended a 13-month streak of record heat – here’s what to expect next

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16 August 202416 August 2024

A 13-month streak of record-breaking global warmth has ended. From June 2023 until June 2024, air and ocean surface water temperatures averaged a quarter of a degree Celsius higher than...Read More >

Why the UK has only had one named storm so far this winter – an expert explains

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27 February 2023

Storm Otto, which was named by the Danish Meteorological Institute, hit Scotland and north-east England last Friday (February 17 2023) with wind gusts of over 80mph, disrupting power to 61,000…Read More >

Can we really use El Niño to predict flooding? And five things I learnt writing a Nature paper.

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15 March 201815 November 2021

Water@Reading PhD student Rebecca Emerton is often asked how she got a paper published in Nature at such an early stage in her career. She shares her top five tips…Read More >

Will the ‘little boy’ of the Pacific bring disaster? Improving El Niño flood forecasts

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17 March 2017

By Rebecca Emerton, Water@Reading research group When an El Niño is declared, or even forecast, we think back to memorable past El Niños (such as 1997/98), and begin to ask…Read More >