It's that time again!! Newcastle University's Climate risks and resilience CPD course is now available for registration for a January start! 🥳 A £100 early-bird discount is available for those signing up before December 19th. Details and sign-up here: cpd.ncl.ac.uk/courses/cour...

Alongside @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social, we've written an insight as to why the insurance industry is impacted by, and requires an understanding of, weather and climate. Check it out in the post below👇👇

The importance of weather and climate science in the insurance industry "Insight" article in @rmets.org Weather from @mattpriestley.bsky.social & @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/wea....

Excited to announce our #EGU26 session on Climate Risk Assessment for Finance & Insurance Sectors with @mattpriestley.bsky.social A. Ciullo @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social @natalieslord.bsky.social meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio... @iiasa.ac.at @riskkan.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu

Return train London --> Brussels for only £70 and 2 hours each way. Cheaper than the equivalent flight, and less faff at each end. The clean travel revolution is happening! 🙌 (Let's not mention my Leeds --> London train is more £ than the whole rest put together....)

With all of these different weather regimes/patterns/teleconnections/TCTs* how do you decide which ones to use to predict at different lead times? Well we've had a go at finding you the answer! rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Nice work led by Kristian. *my personal favourite! :)

One of my favourite interactions with the peer review system came up as a Google memory today 😂

My wonderful University have just completed the paperwork on a grant I had that ran from Oct 2023 - Mar 2025. And they're confused why I'm not particularly interested... It's been FINISHED two months 😂🤦‍♀️ Makes me feel less bad about that fence i've been meaning to paint for 2 years in my garden...

This time last year at #EGU I met Jim Wilczack and he invited me to join him and an excellent team on this perspective piece that we've had published today! It's helping a little with my EGU FOMO :) pubs.aip.org/aip/jrse/art...

Abstract submission to the 5th National Climate Impacts & Risks Meeting (Bristol 18-19 Sept 2025) is now open! www.climatebristol.org/projects/nci... We're interested in all climate impacts and adaptation, with a day dedicated to health. Come join us!

The latest paper led by Kieran (with a little help from me) where we compare the traditional regression-based techniques that I've used a lot over Europe, to more complex machine learning methods to model state-wise Indian demand. Lots of open data available too! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Excited to be involved in one of these exciting UKRI funded projects. www.ukri.org/news/africa-... More calls like this please! :) #capacitybuilding #climateresilience #energymeteorology

An absolute pleasure to work with the Climate Change Committee on this piece of work out today: Reasonable worst case stress test scenarios for the UK energy sector. www.theccc.org.uk/publication/... Key points I'd like anyone to get from this are given in the thread below :)

New paper day! Increasingly Seasonal Jet Stream Raises Risk of Co-Occurring Flooding and Extreme Wind in Great Britain rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... The final piece in the CGFI and friends compound wind flood risk puzzle, led by John Hillier :-)

Join Newcastle University's Climate Change Vulnerability Risk and Adaptation course and gain the expertise to understand, evaluate, and respond to climate-related hazards. Sign up here: lnkd.in/eB8rBGxk

Now this is the kind of advert I can get behind! Great work Science Moms! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYwP... sciencemoms.com

Bittersweet proposal rejection this morning with the feedback: '9/10 Outstanding: The application very strongly meets all the assessment criteria.' What can you even do at this point except just submit again and hope you win the lottery? #rantover #needsomechocolate #someonegiveUKRImorecash

Wildfires aren’t a problem in the UK, right? Wrong. Not on the same scale as we are seeing in LA, but there are thousands of wildfires every year in the UK. In the heatwave of July 2022 wildfires broke out in London. Our new paper explores the risks: doi.org/10.1002/cli2...

Great to host Dr Ji-Eun Byun from Glasgow university today for a project meeting and fascinating lunchtime seminar! Now just to finish off the project :)

I didn't have a single meeting today, spent all day making plots, drinking tea and eating apple crumble...and just needed to shout it into the ether. Sometimes science is still glorious! :) #stillgotit

Great summary of the @rmets.org 'State of the Climate for the UK Energy Sector 2023/24' report by Ben Hutchins. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUFv... Was great to work on this report and see the energy reanalysis used in collaboration with stakeholders. Hopefully we can do even more next year!

Happy New Year Bluesky friends! If you're just warming up for the new term here's something to read that I really enjoyed being involved in: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kJtd3QJ-d... A probabilistic risk assessment framework for the impact of extreme events on renewable power plant components.

Come see me in salon G at 16:50 to hear about how I use high resolution climate data to help prepare future energy systems for weather-driven extremes. Important networking has happened so far today. But I'd love to meet some interested humans as well as puppers! 😂 #AGU24 #pawsitivity

I'm at #AGU24 drop me a message if you'd like to meet up and talk about anything energy-meteorology or climate impacts!

Great resource developed by @ruarirhodes.bsky.social for @rmets.bsky.social I've been lucky to explore the world of catastrophe modelling a bit in my research and it's a very cool job option for weather/climate enthusiasts! www.rmets.org/news/atmosph...

🔔🔔 Call for abstracts for a new session at EGU 2025 "Weather and Climate Science Insights for the Insurance and Financial Sectors" (NH11.4). Co-organised with @mattpriestley.bsky.social , Natalie Lord, @pjyng.bsky.social, and Nikolaos S. Bartsotas. Submit here: lnkd.in/e6MR69gk

Today in engineering at @newcastleuni.bsky.social we've had a map-themed bake off and a session from PhD students about their recent placements. Not every day is a good one in academia in terms of research culture... But everything is a little better when you're full of cake. 🗺️🍰💬

This is a super resource for talking about different climate hazards across different parts of the world. Top work @carbonbrief.org !

Oh hey there bluesky. On a sleepy Sunday evening I've arrived from the dark side. 👋