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Science Weekly
Are cold and wet UK summers here to stay? - podcast
Ian Sample talks to Matt Patterson, postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, to find out what’s causing the chilly weather, whether it’s really as unusual as it seems, and whether any sun is on the horizon for the UK
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Australia put on La Niña watch by Bureau of Meteorology as Pacific sea surface temperatures cool
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Kenya flood death toll rises as more torrential rain forecast
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Zimbabwean president declares state of disaster due to drought
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Scientists divided over whether record heat is acceleration of climate crisis
Some believe global anomalies are in line with predictions but others are more concerned by speed of change
February 2024
El Niño forecast to drive record heat from the Amazon to Alaska in 2024
Coastal areas facing ‘enormous and urgent climate crisis’ as event supercharges human-caused global heating, scientists say
Fearsome threesome: how a trio of climate drivers is baking Australia’s west and leaving the east soaked
A rare confluence of El Niño, the Southern Annular Mode and the Indian Ocean dipole is to blame for the country’s unusually polarised weather
February on course to break unprecedented number of heat records
World ‘not prepared’ for climate disasters after warmest ever January
‘Life-threatening’ storm system batters California, with flooding and high winds
About 309 results for El Niño southern oscillation
Science WeeklyAre cold and wet UK summers here to stay? - podcastIan Sample talks to Matt Patterson, postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, to find out what’s causing the chilly weather, whether it’s really as unusual as it seems, and whether any sun is on the horizon for the UK
