Professor Hannah Cloke OBE is an internationally recognised hydrologist specialising in floods, climate extremes, and disaster risk reduction. She works with news media and the entertainment industry on climate, water and environmental issues.

From travel and commerce to nature and ecology, rivers are the lifeblood of so many important parts of our lives. This #WorldRiversDay, @hancloke.bsky.social dives into 7 important questions our water research aims to answer! 💧 rdg.ac/4pHJ15v

🌧️The July 2021 extreme rainfall in Western Europe was near the upper bound of plausibility in the current climate, though alternative storylines reveal more severe potential outcomes. @vikkithompson.bsky.social @hancloke.bsky.social @erichfischer.bsky.social 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

It's going to take more than a couple of new reservoirs to prevent the UK's coming water crisis, writes hydrologist @hancloke.bsky.social - we need to rethink how we build homes & communities to avoid a future of alternating flood & drought: theconversation.com/englands-wat...

England’s water crisis can’t be solved with reservoirs alone. Prof Hannah Cloke @hancloke.bsky.social explains why reducing leaks, rethinking demand and managing drought risk are just as vital.

🌐 Introducing GRIT: the First Global Bifurcating River Network 🏞 developed by Michel Wortmann as part of the NERC Large Grant EvoFLOOD, in the Hydro-Climate Extremes group @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

An article on "Anemoi: open-source winds of change in European weather forecasting" by Prof. Hannah Cloke (@hancloke.bsky.social) is the topic of the latest @unirdg-met.bsky.social research blog. You can check it out here! blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-...

Make a splash at the #CommunityFestival2025 with our flood simulator table and flood prediction fruit machine. Join Professor Hannah Cloke @hancloke.bsky.social and learn how flood defences and the choices we make about building houses can reduce the impact of floods! Book now: rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ

What a lovely day by the beautiful River Mole! Thankyou @sirgeogy.bsky.social for your time, expertise and infectious enthusiasm 💦

What does climate change mean for the UK, and how can we prepare? In Ep. 1 of the @festivaloftomorrow.bsky.social podcast @hancloke.bsky.social and Elizabeth Kendon @bristoluni.bsky.social discuss the models & maps used to predict the future #climate and how technology can save lives. rdg.ac/3CMpQUN

Find us at #FestivalOfTomorrow on 21-22 February. Our team of hydrologists and climate scientists will showcase the science behind managing floods and give you a chance to try your hand at flood prediction and risk management. rdg.ac/4hILmsB @festivaloftomorrow.bsky.social @hancloke.bsky.social

Prof @hancloke.bsky.social will speak about the challenge of preventing floods in a changing climate, of making the forecasts more useful and what we can do individually to protect ourselves. #FestivalofTomorrow #flooding

Hello all, we have a report of wind damage associated with a thunderstorm that passed to the northwest of Reading just after 8am today (27/1). If anyone in the area has further information please can you send a report to: www.torro.org.uk/severe-weath...

Excited by hydrology and environmental science? 🚨 We are recruiting 5 student (undergrad and post-grad) interns for the Hydro-JULES summer internship programme. For more info and to apply visit hydro-jules.org/hydro-jules-....

2024 was the fourth warmest year for the UK on record (behind 2014, 2022 and 2023) and included the warmest Spring on record.

ECMWF has made the land-surface model component of our forecasting system (the IFS) open source. It's called ecLand, and can be found here: github.com/ecmwf-ifs/ec....

Almost a million more homes in England are at risk from flooding than six years ago due to climate change, new houses built in floodplains and a more accurate assessment of the threat, according to the Environment Agency www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

👩‍🎓Want to do a #PhD in hydrological modelling 💦 & flood forecasting 🌊? Industrial PhD position with KAjO & me on the WeatherGenerator ⛈️ project - deadline to apply 31 Dec 24 ⤵️ #AcademicSky www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

🚨New #HEPEX blog post🚨 An interview with the retiring Beth Ebert, a legend of forecast verification hepex.org.au/interview-wi...

Major new research finds “shockingly” fast changes to flows of Earth’s c. 3 million rivers, mapped across 35 years. “Rivers are dynamic and beautiful beasts & humans should never take them for granted or squander the resources they provide us with.” (Hannah Cloke) www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/c...

Climate data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social shows, it is virtual certainty that 2024 will be the warmest year on record and the first calendar year above 1.5°C. This does not mean the Paris Agreement has been breached, it means ambitious #climateaction is more urgent than ever 🧪⚒️🌏🌡️📈

Red, Amber and Yellow weather warnings are in force across the the UK for strong winds, heavy rain and snow as a result of #StormDarragh Here's an overview of the warnings on Saturday 👇 More details: bit.ly/WxWarning

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...

Read the peer-reviewed research papers that inspired the story... Surprise floods 🌊 - the role of our imagination in preparing for disasters 🧪 Research led by Joy Ommer shows how a lack of imagination about flooding can lead to not taking adequate action in advance ⤵️ doi.org/10.5194/nhes...

Hello everyone on BlueSky 💦 I'm Hannah a Professor of Hydrology 🌊 at the University of Reading 🧪 Find out a bit more about me by listening to The Life Scientific where I talk to @jimalkhalili.bsky.social about water, rivers & poetry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I have a new fully funded PhD available, open to international students on "Monsoons at the kilometre scale". @ncas-uk.bsky.social University of Reading with CASE support from the Met Office and working with Dr Richard W Jones www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #monsoon #highres

Guess who has passed their training 🥳 and is now the most recent recruit to the army of weather observers who have recorded data at exactly 9am every morning at the University of Reading since 1908 🌡️ 🌧️ 🧪

“The mathematics of flood defence is quite simple. Every £ we don’t invest now in robust flood protection will cost us several £s [later]. Setting up new taskforces while cutting funding to environment agencies such as Defra is like rearranging furniture on a sinking ship"- @hancloke.bsky.social

speaking to Sky News about the UK’s floods 🌊 in the wake of Storm Bert

very awesome paper on 360 immersive storytelling to engage communities with flood risk ⤵️

rdg.today/bbc-radio-4-... @hancloke.bsky.social @jassicrea.bsky.social

Listen to the wisdom of @floodmary.bsky.social and make sure you have a #FloodPlan ⤵️

It's nearly time for Chloe's Ark 🛶 A play about love & floods 🌊 written by the talented @ohleanneallen.bsky.social, directed by the fabulous @jassicrea.bsky.social with a little flood science 💦 from me & Jessica Lamond #ExperimentalStories tomorrow 2:15pm BBCR4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Changes in global temperature (1850-2023) Find similar graphics for your country or city: www.ShowYourStripes.info #ShowYourStripes

The rivers of the New Forest are so pretty in Autumn 🍂 💦

BBC News - Berkshire residents warned to prepare their homes for flooding - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did you know the #ECMWF forecasting system was upgraded this week? 🌐 One of my favourite updates: new forecasts of thermal stress 🥵🥶 - UTCI, wet bulb globe temperature, wind chill, heat index & humidex - are now openly available in our charts catalogue! 🗺️ 🔗 charts.ecmwf.int/products/med...

Next Friday (21st June) is #ShowYourStripes day! Join a free-to-attend conversation about the Warming Stripes between myself & Tom Clarke. Learn about how they became a global climate symbol. In person in Reading: whatsonreading.com/venues/conce... Watch online: whatsonreading.com/venues/conce...

A great pleasure to be in Tokyo with @fpappenberger.bsky.social visiting the world famous 🌏 Dai Yamazaki Lab 🌊 #BestRiverModelInTheWorld

How well can global ensemble forecasts predict #TropicalCyclones in the SW Indian Ocean? How have forecasts improved? How does the MJO affect cyclones and their forecasts? 🌀 We evaluated 10 years of forecasts from ECMWF & UK Met Office to find out: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A warming world Losing biodiversity #EarthDay

Happy writers at our ECMWF / Uni of Reading #WritingRetreat Many fabulous journal articles now in progress ✍️ 💪

Very excited to be reappointed as an ECMWF Fellow and looking forward to continuing our collaborative research on earth system modelling, floods, tropical cyclones, machine learning and much much more 🌍💦 ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

Another #HEPEX blog post by the ever productive @fpappenberger.bsky.social. This one’s on the concept of futility in hydrological forecasting. Let us know what you think in the comments! hepex.org.au/the-hidden-c...

February 2024 was the warmest February on record globally, 1.77°C warmer than pre-industrial 9th month in a row that was warmest on record for the respective month of the year Global temperatures for the past 12 months are the highest on record, at 1.56°C above pre-industrial #climate ⚒️🧪

With @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social new tool Climate Pulse, we can see that by the end of February global temperatures have ‘cooled’ from record-breaking levels to 2023 levels for this time of year 👉 check it out: pulse.climate.copernicus.eu 🧪⚒️🌍

Last chance to apply for our fabulous 5 Year postdoc position in #MachineLearning with #ECMWF - deadline 26 Feb 2024 💦🌍

Exciting update! @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social - launch the Interactive Climate Atlas atlas.climate.copernicus.eu/atlas
 This new tool builds on the data of the IPCC Climate Atlas and enables exploration of CMIP6 climate projections and other datasets including observations and reanalysis.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @hancloke.bsky.social on characterizing an upgraded version of the Global Flood Awareness System: an application to flood forecasting in Bangladesh; the veracity of not utilizing coupled models for hydrological modelling; and model performance for extreme events.

🚨#MachineLearning #AI Job alert #UniversityOfReading #ECMWF Want to revolutionise land surface hydrology in Earth System models? 🌍 5 year postdoc position - apply by 19 Feb 2024 Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction research programme #AFESP ⤵️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFM942/p...