After years of waiting for help, Liam and Rachel are cutting their Lismore home in half and moving to higher ground

Very interesting paper teasing out the nuances of flood risk distribution in the US using an incredible individual-level dataset. Documents a huge concentration of flood risk among the very highest income group - lots of wealthy people enjoying the coast and river views from their second homes.

Amazing new application developed by @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social to explore and compare past weather around the world, hour by hour, from 1940! What was the weather like on a specific day special to you? 🌤️☀️⛈️☔ Go take a look ➡️ weather-replay.climate.copernicus.eu #dataviz #climate

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We hire a PhD apply.refline.ch/273855/1872/...

Punchy cold change approaching south east Australia.

A response to recent reporting in Germany, in service of clarity and accountability: First, it’s important to be precise when it comes to critical infrastructure like Signal. Signal was not “hacked” — in that our encryption, infrastructure, & the integrity of the app’s code was not compromised. 1/

People living in low-lying areas of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, have been urged to evacuate, as heavy rain continued to drench the city.

#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

You can set your watch to autumn headlines declaring a catastrophic El Niño or La Niña. In this article, I throw a bucket of cold water on the heated headlines and reflect on why autumn forecasts of Nino3.4 are to be read with caution. theconversation.com/why-the-phra...

Young Powerful Owlet falls asleep while intently watching some ducks. This is my favourite Owlet movie ever. We always finish our Powerful Owl talks with it zzzzzzzz #birds #brisbane

Heading to EGU this year? Here’s a HEPEXers guide of what not to miss hepex.org.au/highlights-e...

Convection around Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle's developing eye feature.

Excited to announce Groundsource - an open-source dataset of historic flood events! This has easily been one of the coolest projects I've worked on recently! Thread 🧵 for details and all relevant links. 1/n

Widespread showers and thunderstorms over Australia's interior, associated with a slow-moving tropical low over the Simpson Desert.

Tropical low drawing stupendous amounts of atmospheric moisture over the Simpson Desert and surrounding parts of central Australia.

Australia’s national science agency needs “at least” another $1 billion in funding over the next decade to arrest an existential slide propelled by crumbling facilities and the “sovereign risk” of losing its position as a national and international leader in research. satpa.pe/TGSCfvn

Tropical Cyclone Mitchell over the Indian Ocean and intensifying. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...

Back-to-back 50°C days in South Australia! Andamooka reached 50.0°C on Thursday and Port Augusta reached 50.0°C today (Friday). These are among the top nine temperatures on record in Australia.

Submissions for the Inquiry into Funding & Resourcing for the CSIRO close today. More than 20k people signed my petition calling for proper funding of the CSIRO. If you care about evidence, innovation, and Australia’s future, this is a real opportunity to be heard. www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Extreme heat continues to circulate over central/eastern Australia, under a persistent upper-level high. The system is expected to break down on the weekend.

New all-time record set for Victoria, Walpeup 48.9°C, noting that Ouyen won’t report until tomorrow as it is a manually recorded site. reg.bom.gov.au/places/vic/

Hundreds of workers responsible for pollution prevention, weather forecasting, conservation and environmental disaster response are set to be cut from ECCC as Prime Minister Mark Carney's government takes a chainsaw to the public service. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/n...

Variously onshore winds - seasonal, and with SAM now positive - holding the bulk of the heat over eastern Australia west of the Divide.

Cars being washed towards the sea at Wye River this afternoon, less than a week after the Victorian town was evacuated due to nearby fires. Video via Luke Day on FB.

New study by Konrad and Ryan in my team @wslresearch.bsky.social as part of @extremeswsl.bsky.social Some randmoness can help in sub seasonal streamflow and water temperature forecasts. A piece for friends of statistics 🤓

I wrote a commentary discussing Daniele's huge new global synthesis of controls on hydrological processes in forested catchments: read it here: rdcu.be/eXTrq . Some surprising findings on the importance of overland flow, soils and antecedent conditions.

First time I’ve ever lived somewhere that’s had a forecast for catastrophic fire weather. Don’t know what I was expecting, but it is disconcerting

Aussie weather in 2025.

Christmas Day temperature forecast for Australia. 🎄

Excited to unveil Caravan-Qual! 🌊 We've expanded the Caravan framework to bridge the gap between water quantity and quality. This new open dataset features: 🔹 ~70M observations 🔹137k stations 🔹 100 constituents 🔹 Linked streamflow, forcing & attributes Links in 🧵

NCAR is a major pillar in global climate and weather research. This would have disastrous impacts. International leaders who care even the slightest about understanding future climate risks ought to condemn this. @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social #climate

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

🚨New paper CCRC scientist Andrea Taschetto and team have published a comprehensive review of ENSO impacts in Australia in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com. This is an important and long-overdue synthesis, building on foundational studies such as McBride & Nicholls (1983). ++

Sumatra death toll past 500 now www.bbc.com/news/article...

Summer begins with negative AAO/SAM continuing (warmth/high pressure over Antarctica pushing sub-Antarctic westerlies further north than usual). The bushfire risk across parts of eastern Australia increases with every burst of westerlies.

So, your forecasts are sharp and reliable, but are they valuable? Our new EMS paper on RUVPY is out - reference implementation of RUV. Honest assessment needs to be tailored to the specific decision. RUV is general enough to model almost any context. Go forth and tinker. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm - by @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at the CSIRO

A powerful Owlet stretching its magnificent wings. #brisbane #birds #wildoz

1/2 We just published the Global Carbon Budget 2025, with a mix of bad news (CO2 emissions continue to grow) and encouraging news (35 countries saw emissions decline over the past decade while growing their economies). Read the highlights in a short article: theconversation.com/the-worlds-c...

🚨New blog post🚨 Everyone needs more #HEPEX podcast content, including you 🫵 hepex.org.au/hepex-throug...

Eastern Australia has gone from dry, stable westerlies in mid-October to something a little more showery for the start of November. Here's how the broad-scale pattern has evolved. Note that negative AAO/SAM (reds over Antarctica) hasn't quite dissipated yet.

I will be helping give a webinar on the climate and hazard work underpinning the Australian National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA), Monday 20 Oct - please register! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b1585f...

Low pressure system sweeping along the NSW coastline on Thursday morning.

The coming and going of air masses and jet streams over Australia and New Zealand during winter 2025.