The USAID-funded Famine Early Warning System Network is critical for monitoring and predicting acute food insecurity globally, the impact of it going offline will be enormous, even outside of USAID-funded activities. www.devex.com/news/usaid-f...

USAID-funded famine early warning system goes offline due to aid freeze

A key food insecurity data tool used by humanitarian groups worldwide has been taken down due to the Trump administration's stop-work order on USAID, raising alarm among aid workers.

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An interesting / worrying forecast for the South West Indian Ocean, with another tropical cyclone on the way. @ecmwf.bsky.social IFS: growing likelihood of the cyclone making 2nd landfall in MDG. AI models: storm staying out in Moz channel, or even landfall in MOZ charts.ecmwf.int/products/cyc...

The path of #CycloneChido was well forecasted several days ahead, but communities on small islands like Mayotte can't move out of the path of the storm - there's nowhere to go.

Super Typhoon Man-yi (Pepito) was the first time we triggered the Philippines Red Cross Early Action Protocol. Previously we've had issues due to poor intensity forecasts 72 hours ahead of landfall, related to rapid intensification. This time the @ecmwf.bsky.social 9km ensemble did well!

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Six tropical typhoons have hit the Philippines in a month in an unprecedented pattern of extreme weather. The IFRC is appealing for more aid, increasing its initial Emergency Appeal with the aim of enabling the Philippine Red Cross to widen its scope of assistance. bit.ly/4fFExaf

You can now share the Warming Stripes directly to BlueSky, such as these for my town of Reading: showyourstripes.info/s/europe/uni... (Find the graphic you want to share, click the blue options button - the one with three horizontal lines - and select the butterfly!)

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Great new paper by Climate Centre colleague and Reading PhD student Dorothy Heinrich (+ Erin Coughlan de Perez: "More than Magnitude: Towards a multidimensional understanding of unprecedented weather to better support disaster management" doi.org/10.1016/j.wa... www.linkedin.com/posts/antici...

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A new paper by by Dorothy Heinrich, Liz Stephens and Erin Coughlan de Perez explores unprecedented weather events and the humanitarian risks these pose.…

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