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September 18, 2020

Don’t write off government algorithms – responsible AI can produce real benefits

Allison Gardner, Keele University

Despite the exams algorithm fiasco, UK government bodies are making positive uses of the technology.

A woman wades into flood waters in Calgary, Alta., on June 14, 2020, after a major hail storm damaged homes and flooded streets. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

September 3, 2020

Extreme precipitation events have always occurred, but are they changing?

Francis Zwiers, University of Victoria and Ronald Stewart, University of Manitoba

Climate change has boosted the likelihood of heavy rainfall, hailstorms, flooding and drought seen in some parts of the world. What does the future hold?

They may look comfy to sit on but you’d plummet through and hit the ground. Sam Schooler/Unsplash

May 28, 2020

What would it feel like to touch a cloud?

Katja Friedrich, University of Colorado Boulder

You might have already felt what it would be like inside a cloud made of condensed water vapor.

Icy hailstones can do major damage, depending where they land. AP Photo/Nati Harnik

September 20, 2018

Destructive 2018 hail season a sign of things to come

Samuel Childs, Colorado State University

The future climate that scientists predict for the middle of the United States is one that will foster more hail events with bigger hailstones.

Knowing about hailstones in advance would be preferable. AAP Image/Dan Peled

November 28, 2017

All hail new weather radar technology, which can spot hailstones lurking in thunderstorms

Joshua Soderholm, The University of Queensland; Alain Protat, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Hamish McGowan, The University of Queensland; Harald Richter, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and Matthew Mason, The University of Queensland

New “dual-pol” weather radars promise to spot large hailstones forming inside thunderstorms, giving people a heads-up when it’s about to hail.

A large thunderstorm rolls over Sydney in 2015. AAP Image/Newzulu/Haig Gilchrist

November 14, 2016

To understand how storms batter Australia, we need a fresh deluge of data

Christopher J White, University of Tasmania; Jason Evans, UNSW Sydney, and Kevin Walsh, The University of Melbourne

Severe storms bring a complex mixture of weather conditions, often in a very localised area. This unpredictability can make them very damaging, and very hard to study too.

‘Plates of the Outback’ - A supercell thunderstorm near Urana, NSW drifts over the landscape. John Allen

December 18, 2014

Australia faces a stormier future thanks to climate change

John Allen, Columbia University

The supercell that hit Brisbane on November 27 this year caused more than A$500 million worth of damage, produced hail up to 7.5 cm in diameter, and lashed the city with winds of more than 140 km an hour…

Hail in summer - not so rare. @SCRainey2997/Twitter

July 30, 2014

Extreme weather isn’t so unusual – it just depends how far back you remember

Lucy Veale, University of Nottingham

Hail, heavy rain, lightning and flash flooding – not necessarily typical summer weather in southeast England. But the recent unexpected deluge saw homes evacuated, stations flooded, and road and rail services…

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