Would you trust a weather forecast made by a machine that had learned how weather systems behaved by reviewing thousands of past weather maps?
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Parts of southeast Australia are inundated yet again. Clearly, short-term weather forecasts are not enough to protect communities in times like these.
Scientists have unimaginably more powerful supercomputers than their predecessors.
Sting jets are poorly understood, but could have a big influence on Britain’s future winter storms.
Southern Africa’s current above-average rainfall is a climate variability signal - a short-term fluctuation in average wet-season conditions.
Weather forecasting is complex and challenging. The process entails three steps: observation, analysis and communication.
The key ingredients for a storm to undergo bombogenesis are an unstable atmosphere, temperature differences and high-speed winds in the upper atmosphere.
Monsoons are weather patterns that bring thunderstorms and heavy rains to hot, dry areas when warm, moist ocean air moves inland. They’re challenging to forecast, especially in a changing climate.
Australia has expansive areas of flat land — usually agricultural land — and it’s over these large, flat areas that tornadoes like to form.
I helped forecast disaster – but nothing prepared for me what happened next.
Extreme heat warnings can help change our dangerous relationship with hot weather.
This summer is likely to be hot and dry, but that’s more down to climate change than miserable spring.
The US is shifting to a new set of climate ‘normals’ – data sets averaged over the past 30 years. But normal is a relative concept in a time of climate change.
It has only been in the past century that weather prediction on Earth has advanced enough to work two weeks in advance. Predicting space weather, however, is only reliable an hour in advance.
With the onset of spring come thunderstorms, and sometimes tornadoes. Learn how these systems form and why night tornadoes are especially deadly.
Ramping up fossil power sources is no longer a good option in an energy-supply crisis. Bring in the weather forecasters.
At the start of the cyclone season in the Pacific, weather forecasters are changing their warnings to focus less on weather information and more on the damage expected from an impending storm.
Hurricane and tornado winds spin in circles, but there’s another, equally dangerous storm type where winds barrel straight ahead. They’re called derechos, and are most common in summer.
Massive cyclone that hit India and Bangladesh could have been so much worse.
More than one million weather observations were made by aircraft each day in 2019. Since the pandemic started, these have dropped by 90%.
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Professor of Atmospheric Science and Colorado State Climatologist, Colorado State University
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Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science, University of Reading
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Professor of Practice in Meteorology, Professor of International Affairs & Director Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, Penn State
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Adjunct Professor (Practice) in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Professor of Physical Geography, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor emeritus, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Senior Meteorologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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