Lloyd’s posts £2bn loss for 2017 – one of costliest years for natural catastrophes in past decade Following one of the costliest years for natural catastrophes in the past decade, Lloyd’s of London has announced an aggregated market loss of £2 billion for 2017. Announcing the loss in its Annual Report for 2017, the world’s specialist […]
The Easac study, Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation, looked at new data and models focused on a potential slowdown of the Atlantic Gulf Stream, due to an influx of freshwater from melted ice sheets in Greenland. Global floods and extreme rainfall events have surged by more than 50% this decade, and are […]
Harvey, like Sandy & Katrina before it is rewriting our understanding of ‘extreme’ weather events and the language we use to describe these. As one American put it, ‘a 1 in a 1000 year storms can occur today and we are watching play out’. The power and energy of these major storms have each had […]
I’d be delighted to publish any blogs that try and draw together the messages and lessons from some of these recent river valley flooding events. The Coverack floods can be set in several contexts but this week the Met Office warns of ongoing high risk of unprecedented rainfall New innovative research has found that for England […]
Extreme weather events linked to climate change impact on the jet stream Date: March 27, 2017 Source: Penn State Summary: Unprecedented summer warmth and flooding, forest fires, drought and torrential rain — extreme weather events are occurring more and more often, but now an international team of climate scientists has found a connection between many […]
A new scientific review of the winter floods of 2015/2016 confirms that the event was one of the most extreme and severe hydrological events of the last century. The new hydrological appraisal – ‘The Winter Floods of 2015/2016 in the UK’, published on the first anniversary of Storm Desmond (December 5th), brings together both river […]
This is what extreme events look like. We know that climate change predictions suggest that we will have more extreme events. Cumbria: Met Office – Storm Desmond’s records: http://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/ The Met Office’s warning re climate change a month ago: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/2015/global-average-temperature-2015 How will the insurance industry respond? This is what the insurance industry has done in […]