Himawari-8 data assimilated simulation enables 10-minute updates of rain and flood predictions. Using the power of Japan’s K computer, scientists from the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science and collaborators…
NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean and saw Tropical Cyclone Berguitta moving southwest toward the island of Mauritius. A tropical cyclone alert class 2 is in effect…
Ice jams have caused severe problems along some rivers in north eastern USA and eastern Canada since 12 January, 2018. States of emergency have been declared and around 200 people…
Tropical cyclone Ava dropped extremely heavy rainfall over Madagascar as it passed over the eastern side of the island country on January 5 and 6, 2018. NASA calculated how much…
Winter rains falling on recently burned ground triggered deadly mudslides in Santa Barbara County, California on January 9. NASA calculated the amount of rain fall between January 8 and 10,…
Ambitious plans to create a new “Northern Forest” that will stretch from Liverpool across to Hull in England have been kick-started following an announcement by the UK Prime Minister Theresa…
Severe snowy weather in winter or extreme rains in summer in the UK might be influenced by warming trends in the Arctic, according to new findings. Climate scientists from the…
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Ava as it made landfall along the coast of northeastern Madagascar. On Jan. 5 at 5:24 a.m. EST (1024 UTC) the Visible…
The Environment Agency has announced plans to map England’s entire landscape by 2020, using the data to assess flood risk and inform conservation work. Using aircraft equipped with laser scanners,…
On 22 December tropical storm Tembin (known locally as “Vinta”) hit Mindanao island in the Philippines. The storm affected more than 715,000 people across 23 provinces, in particular the provinces…
Tropical Storm Kai-Tak moved through the central and southern Philippines over several days and weakened to a remnant low pressure area in the South China Sea. As it moved over…
The Irish Minister of State for the Office of Public Works & Flood Relief, Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran T.D gave an update on progress with the whole of Government response to…
World Weather Attribution’s (WWA) scientific analysis has found that human-caused climate change made the record rainfall that fell over Houston during Hurricane Harvey roughly three times more likely and 15…
A NOAA-sponsored report shows that the warming trend transforming the Arctic persisted in 2017, resulting in the second warmest air temperatures, above average ocean temperatures, loss of sea ice, and…
Bangladesh is one of the most flood-prone countries in the world due to its unique geographical location, topography and exposure to tropical cyclones. With 50% of the land less than…
Researchers from Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report in the journal Nature Climate Change that extreme cyclones that formed in the Arabian Sea for the…
