When Risks Become Reality: Extreme Weather in 2024 is our annual report, published this year for the first time.
When Risks Become Reality: Extreme Weather In 2024
Year: 2024
Climate change supercharged late typhoon season in the Philippines, highlighting the need for resilience to consecutive events
The 2024 typhoon season in the Philippines was extraordinary, with six typhoons affecting the country within just 30 days, several of them simultaneously active in the region. This clustering of storms in November, never before witnessed in the basin, affected more than 13 million people, destroying lives and livelihoods and putting enormous strain on resources and infrastructure.
Extreme downpours increasing in southeastern Spain as fossil fuel emissions heat the climate
From October 29-30, 2024, eastern Spain was hit by exceptionally heavy rainfall.
10 years of rapidly disentangling drivers of extreme weather disasters
In the summer of 2003, a devastating heatwave killed more than 70,000 people across Europe.
Can we come up with a meaningful number?
Today, three years after his death, and before the 10-year anniversary of World Weather Attribution, the last paper Geert Jan and I worked on together is published. The paper presents a quantitative statistical synthesis method we have developed over the last eight years of conducting rapid probabilistic event attribution study. It is a statistics focused … Continue reading “Can we come up with a meaningful number?”