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extreme weather events
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How AI can improve storm surge forecasts to help save lives
A hurricane’s storm surge can quickly inundate coastal areas. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Navid Tahvildari, Florida International University Hurricanes…
November 2, 2025
Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
NASA, CC BY-NC-ND Steven Sherwood, UNSW Sydney; Benoit Meyssignac, Université de Toulouse, and Thorsten Mauritsen, Stockholm University How…
July 6, 2025
Two key ingredients cause extreme storms with destructive flooding – why these downpours are happening more often
Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton A powerful storm system that stalled over states from Texas to Ohio for…
April 23, 2025
That Arctic blast can feel brutally cold, but how much colder than ‘normal’ is it really?
Philadelphia Eagles fans braved temperatures in the 20s to watch their team play the New York Giants on…
January 23, 2025
‘Unprecedented’ climate extremes are everywhere. Our baselines for what’s normal will need to change
Thomas Rosenzweig/Shutterstock Milton Speer, University of Technology Sydney and Lance M Leslie, University of Technology Sydney Extreme temperature…
December 11, 2024
