🔥🥵🔥This summer the UK is experiencing unprecedented wildfires - many near urban areas. Following the heatwave of 2022 we showed climate change is leading to increasing fire weather in the UK. doi.org/10.1002/cli2... @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social @nathanaelmelia.bsky.social @climatedann.bsky.social

Detecting Rising Wildfire Risks for South East England

In July 2022 southeast England experienced a record breaking heatwave and unprecedented wildfires in urban areas. We investigate fire weather trends since 1960 in southeast England using a large ense...

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Hourly disaggregation of daily wind projections: an analogue-based, spatially coherent approach to support energy applications - exciting new ideas about how we get around the lack of hourly surface wind outputs for energy modelling doi.org/10.1088/2753... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

Hourly disaggregation of daily wind projections: an analogue-based, spatially coherent approach to support energy applications

Hourly disaggregation of daily wind projections: an analogue-based, spatially coherent approach to support energy applications, Benseddik, Zainab, Bloomfield, Hannah, Rougé, Charles

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Way to make me keep time... Put my husband as the following talk 😂

Leo Saffin@lsaffin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've got a talk in the Friday afternoon session. But a tough act for me to follow

A pleasure to host @timwoollings.bsky.social, Ken Mylne, @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social & @drchriswhite.bsky.social yesterday for the annual @earthscista.bsky.social symposium, this year on "From dynamics to impacts: Weather in a warming world". Thank you all for visiting and giving such great talks!

Come and do a PhD with me! Understanding the Risk of Damaging and Disruptive U.S. Winter Weather in a Changing Climate Drop me an email if you're interested and find out more here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Academic friends please share!!

Don’t miss our @egu.eu session ‘Physical Climate risk assessment for the financial and insurance sectors’ Thur May 7th, orals 8:30 - 15:45 in room D1🟪, posters 16:15-18:00 in X3🟪 @mattpriestley.bsky.social, A. Ciullo, @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social, @natalieslord.bsky.social @riskkan.bsky.social

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.

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 🤞🤞

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...

Towards resilient renewable energy deployment in Africa through a weather-aware optimization framework - npj Clean Energy

npj Clean Energy - Towards resilient renewable energy deployment in Africa through a weather-aware optimization framework

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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.

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

Prof Ray Wills@profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 7mo ago

I'm posting this for no other reason than goats Well, solar's a pretty good reason, too And also, solar is the GOAT

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👇👇

Simon Lee@simonleewx.com · 8mo ago

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....

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....

The importance of weather and climate science in the insurance industry

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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

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! :)

Balancing Informativity and Predictability in Circulation Type Forecasts: A Case Study of Energy Demand in Great Britain

Circulation types can be a powerful tool for assimilating meteorological information into applications, such as forecasts of energy demand. However, there are usually many different circulation type ...

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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...

Wind and solar energy droughts: Potential impacts on energy system dynamics and research needs

This Perspective article provides a brief overview of the topic of wind and solar energy droughts (henceforth WSDs). It does not attempt to provide a complete l

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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...

Building and explaining data-driven energy demand models for Indian states - IOPscienceSearch

Building and explaining data-driven energy demand models for Indian states, Hunt, Kieran M R, Bloomfield, Hannah C

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💡A recent study by @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social and Kieran Hunt in #EREN uses eXtreme Gradient Boosting to model weather-driven energy demand in India. It outperforms traditional models and identifies critical periods of energy deficit that risk the national grid: 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

Africa-UK physics projects to drive collaboration and innovation

A major new initiative is now underway to advance scientific research, innovation, and economic development across sub-Saharan Africa.

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An absolute pleasure to work with the Climate Change Committee on this piece of work out today: Reasonable worst case stress test scenarios for the UK energy sector. www.theccc.org.uk/publication/... Key points I'd like anyone to get from this are given in the thread below :)

New paper day! Increasingly Seasonal Jet Stream Raises Risk of Co-Occurring Flooding and Extreme Wind in Great Britain rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... The final piece in the CGFI and friends compound wind flood risk puzzle, led by John Hillier :-)

Join Newcastle University's Climate Change Vulnerability Risk and Adaptation course and gain the expertise to understand, evaluate, and respond to climate-related hazards. Sign up here: lnkd.in/eB8rBGxk

Now this is the kind of advert I can get behind! Great work Science Moms! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYwP... sciencemoms.com

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