This feels like the right music to be listening to while working on climate projections of hail risk to crops...

Great new research from Killian Brennan and Lena Wilhelm shows that hailstorms in Europe are influenced by dust from the Sahara. Crucial to gain this kind of microphysical understanding for hailstorms. acp.copernicus.org/articles/25/...

The Australian Climate Service's National Climate Risk Assessment is an excellent document - it gives a comprehensive and robust assessment of the state of knowledge on climate risks now and for the future. It makes for sobering reading. 1/4 www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

The @ametsoc.org has released a statement on the deeply flawed DoE 2025 Climate Synthesis report. It reaffirms that the modern climate is changing primarily because of human influence; this is harmful; scientists agree; and response options are available. Read here: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

Shocked to discover that Excel can't open two independent documents that have the same filename. In 2025.

David Bowen’s “plant machete” uses electrical signals from a houseplant to control a machete vimeo.com/744608966?fl...

Joanna Aldridge (QBE) presented on projections of large hail risk in the USA.

Greeshma Surendran from @ccrc.bsky.social uses pseudo-global warming models to look at changes in extreme wind gusts.

Next up, David Bee Olmedo from @nsw-bnhrc.bsky.social and @ccrc.bsky.social discusses scaling of extreme rainfall with temperature calculated using radar data.

Our afternoon session at the storms workshop is on climate impacts. Getting us started is Sarah Chapman from the Queensland Government talking about projections for storm environments under different warming levels.

An important panel now at our storms workshop, as early career researchers tell us about their experiences, hopes and dreams in storm science and industry.

Todd Lane from Uni Melbourne explores the types of organised convection that occur in Australia - not all storms follow the standard textbook model.

Anthony Cornelius from Weatherwatch uses radar data to look at possible hailstorm drivers.

Harald Richter (BOM) starts our workshop session on observations and modeling by talking about learnings from the @noaa.gov spring forecasting experiment 2025.

At our storms workshop, Rob Warren (BOM) looks at the climatology and large-scale environments of thunderstorms across Australia

Jordan Brook from BOM now explains rapid forecast updates including a primer on ensemble forecasting

James Harding from the BOM gets the workshop started today with a description of how thunderstorm forecasting works.

The sun is out for the second day of the science-industry workshop on severe convective storms, hosted by the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response

Wrapping up the storms workshop for today, Joanna Aldridge (QBE) moderates a panel session with Stephen Lau (Finity), Rob Fortune (Guy Carpenter), and Matt Mason (Uni Queensland) talking about insurance, catastrophe modeling and resilience. More workshop on our second day tomorrow!

You know you’re at a severe storms workshop when…

Lakshmi Kalavapilly from the Uni of Queensland now gives a presentation on developing a stochastic hail model for Australia.

Kieran Pope from Moody’s now gives us an overview of stochastic catastrophe modeling.

Kristelle Ho now tells the storms workshop about quantifying Australia’s hail hazard and risk for insurance purposes

Next at our storms workshop, Luis Ackermann presents results from a partnership between the Bureau of Meteorology and Suncorp to look at hail damage.

Danielle Udy talks to the workshop about characterising wind hazards from reanalysis #icrrstorms

At our science-industry workshop on severe convective storms we now move to assessing storm risk. @bethanyellis.bsky.social kicks off this session, talking about assessing storm impacts on primary industries in NSW #icrrstorms

Finishing up our session on storm hazards and impacts, Tanya Patel shows new results on the land/ocean contrast in lightning around Australia’s tropics #icrrstorm

Alain Protat from the Bureau now tells us about 3D wind analysis using Doppler radar data #icrrstorms

Matt Mason takes us on a change in scale to talk about the aerodynamics of individual hailstones - important for trajectories and damage calculations #icrrstorms

@borisblanc.bsky.social now examines interannual variability and climate drivers for hail in major Australian cities #icrrstorms

Ralph Trancoso from the Queensland Government breaking down the relative influences of atmospheric features on Australian rainfall, at #icrrstorms.

Next at #icrrstorms, @acaciapepler.bsky.social talking about compound wet/windy extremes in Australia. Damaging events that are tricky to capture from observations and reanalyses.

@joshuasoderholm.bsky.social opens the science presentations at ICRR’s storms workshop by giving us an overview of the incredible @nsficechip.bsky.social field campaign. #icrrstorms

UNSW Dean of Science Professor Sven Rogge opening the ICRR workshop on severe convective storms. An exciting lineup ahead!

The calm before the … 2nd science-industry workshop on severe convective storms at UNSW today!

Unusual to see graupel/small hail in the desert! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

I had the pleasure of joining @sarahinscience.bsky.social and @instrachan.bsky.social on the Totally Cooked podcast from @21stcenturyweather.bsky.social to talk about hail - how it forms, where it hits, and how climate change might affect it. Listen here: 21centuryweather.org.au/engage/total...

Tyne Logan at the ABC wrote this excellent deep-dive article about our work on projected changes in hail damage potential over Australian cities. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Predictions of more damaging hail for our big cities. Latest research from @timraupach.com @ccrc.bsky.social

New paper! Dr Joanna Aldridge and I simulated hailstorms in a warmer world over major Australian cities. We project increased hailstone size around Sydney/Canberra, Melbourne and Perth, and increased frequency around Sydney/Canberra and Brisbane. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Mauna Loa Observatory, home of the iconic Keeling Curve is at risk of shutdown. A new Conversation piece by CCRC's Alex Sen Gupta, @katrinmeissner.bsky.social & @timraupach.com explains why this matters for climate science. Don’t miss it. theconversation.com/mauna-loa-ob...

With 27 >$1b extreme weather events last year in the US, it’s dangerous for Trump to further cut weather forecasting, research, and climate monitoring. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/c...

Just over a month until our Science-Industry Workshop on Severe Convective Storms, and the exciting draft program is now available at unsw.to/storms! Register now, places are limited!

At The Conversation, in a piece led by Alex Sen Gupta, we argue for continuing critical climate monitoring as the US considers defunding Mauna Loa CO2 observations. theconversation.com/mauna-loa-ob...

What questions should you consider when assessing physical climate risk using climate model data? A useful set of questions to ask, with New Zealand examples, in a recent paper from @lukeharrington.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1080/0303...

The abstract submission deadline for this year's Science-Industry Workshop on Severe Convective Storms, to be held 7-8 August at UNSW Sydney, has been extended until 8 June. Submit your storm science or industry abstract now and come join us in August! unsw.to/storms

Thanks so much for coming to visit us on your amazing tour of Australia, @tamuatmo.bsky.social and @eniels13.bsky.social!

Great article, by @alexwitze.bsky.social, on the ICECHIP (@nsficechip.bsky.social) campaign currently ongoing in the USA. This major campaign will capture crucial data for understanding damaging hailstorms, but its future is under threat due to Trump's science cuts. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Also, @wesmorgan.bsky.social is on Bluesky too and deserves a follow for smart discussion of all things Australia + Pacific + climate change.