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Jamie Hannaford
@jamiehannahydro.bsky.social

Hydrologist, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)
Visiting Associate Prof, ICARUS Maynooth, Ireland

Hydrological variability (floods and droughts) past, present and future!

Environmental science 71%
Geography 18%

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#EGU26 abstract deadline fast approaching: 15 Jan 2026 (13:00 CET)
Please submit to session on Understanding & Predicting the Impact of Climate Variability on Hydrological Regimes and Extremes 💧 (H2.4.12)

🔗 More info: www.egu26.eu/session/55947

#Hydrology #ClimateVariability #Extremes
What would the hottest UK day of 1976 look like today?

35.9°C back in 1976 would be 38-39°C now.

The hot extremes are warming faster than the average for the UK.

climatelabbook.substack.com/p/the-summer...

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Daily COSMOS-UK soil wetness status for the month of December 2025

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When did hydrologists become historians? #FDRI has released 35 years of hi-res data from the Plynlimon Research Catchments!

Read about our process of unearthing 35 years of measurements and what it means for understanding river processes: https://f.mtr.cool/grqzmwiqsd 🧪
Although its very cold at the moment in the UK, 2025 was both the warmest (with a mean temperature of 10.09°C) and sunniest (1648.5 hours) on record. Here is a climate and weather #dataviz summary for the last year. #climatechange #globalwarming.
2025 was the warmest year on record for Central England in a dataset that starts in 1659.

(Daily data available since 1772.)

www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadce...
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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hydrological research observatories & helping to incorporate user priorities early in the design: recent collaborative paper from work since 2024 within the UK Flood & Drought Research Infrastructure project hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/... @ukceh.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social et al
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@rarakihydro.bsky.social leads an exiting new preprint that maps dominant hydrologic processes across >14k US watersheds using streamflow signatures + ML. It’s been such fun following Ryoko and Hilary’s leadership alongside Admin, Anne and Gemma.

egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Thanks for highlighting Richard! It was a challenging one to write in the allotted space… the flood-drought continuum in one month. Meanwhile some colleagues in the team are working on quantifying changing hydrological transitions (water whiplash…) now and in the future.

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In northern Scotland and the chalk aquifers of the south-east, river flows and groundwater levels are likely to be normal to below normal over the winter months.

See the full Outlook: hydoutuk.net/latest-outlook

Visualise river flow changes via the Hydrological Outlook Portal ukho.ceh.ac.uk

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💧 Winter is key for replenishment of our rivers, aquifers and reservoirs — what happens in the next three months will strongly influence whether we see drought conditions again next year.

📹 Dr Katie Facer-Childs discusses the latest UK Hydrological Outlook

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The National Emergency Briefing
chaired by Prof @mikebernerslee.bsky.social saw nine leading experts brief MPs and others on every aspect of the climate & nature crisis.

Please follow our YouTube channel where the talks will be published soon.
www.youtube.com/@nebriefing #NEB2025

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🌍 CANARI scientists @ukceh.bsky.social briefed the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Environment & Climate Change Committee on drought preparedness

🏜️ @jamiehannahydro.bsky.social shared expert evidence on advances in drought monitoring and changing risks of future droughts

🔗 canari.ac.uk/2025/12/04/c...

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“Our study shows that global warming causes and accelerates Day Zero Drought conditions worldwide.

Even if we meet the 1.5°C target, hundreds of millions of people will still face unprecedented water shortages"
750 Million at Risk: New Study Warns Extreme Water Scarcity Is Closer Than We Think
Climate simulations reveal that Day Zero Drought conditions are approaching rapidly worldwide, putting vast populations at risk of severe water scarcity. A new study in Nature Communications from rese...
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Sounds like a great idea, I have seen it come up now on my home page. Good thinking!

Thanks John!

Also! I don’t know what starter pack means or how it works, but they are all words that interest me, hydrology, processes, extreme… good words. I’m in!

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Latest Hydrological Outlook: November river flows likely normal to above normal in northern and western UK; normal to below normal in central, southern & eastern England, plus eastern Scotland.

Groundwater levels mostly normal to below normal across the UK. This pattern likely to persist Nov-Jan.

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🌍 Excited to announce our #EGU26 session: Understanding & Predicting the Impact of Climate Variability on Hydrological Regimes and Extremes 💧 (H2.4.12)

🗓️ Abstract deadline: 15 Jan 2026 (13:00 CET)
🔗 More info: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

#Hydrology #ClimateVariability #EGU26

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🌊 🛰️ Measuring river water flow speed using satellite video imagery - Exciting to see this research from the #FluViSat project featured in a new paper led by @nickeverard.bsky.social 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-22413-4 🧪

@natureportfolio.nature.com
Measuring the world’s rivers with videos from Space - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Measuring the world’s rivers with videos from Space
www.nature.com

This is a BIG DEAL!

(excuse the Trumpian capitalisation but I've been a producer & consumer of hydrological datasets over a quarter of a century....how things have come along!)

Both will be great assets to the community. Huge congratulations to the teams involved!
📣 Great news for UK hydrology!

The UK Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) has announced release of two new datasets: UK-Flow15 and CAMELS-GB v2. They provide access to sub-daily river flow and hydrometeorological data across 100s of UK catchments

🔗 fdri.org.uk/news/new-hyd...

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📣 Great news for UK hydrology!

The UK Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) has announced release of two new datasets: UK-Flow15 and CAMELS-GB v2. They provide access to sub-daily river flow and hydrometeorological data across 100s of UK catchments

🔗 fdri.org.uk/news/new-hyd...

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Most river monitoring focuses on fixed points, missing how pollution moves downstream 🌊

UKCEH’s Alex O’Brien describes an approach combining multiple survey methods to reveal how pollutants mix and travel, which is key for better water quality management.

🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪
Tracking river pollution: a novel approach to sampling
River pollution is a major threat to water quality and ecosystems, and understanding pollution sources and how they mix is vital to creating effective pollution management. Alex O’Brien from UKCEH des...
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Lunchtime webinar with #FDRI: Large-sample hydrology datasets

🗓️ Wed 22 Oct | 🕐 13:00–14:00

Join UKCEH, Bristol Uni & Environment Agency for updates on new high-res hydrology datasets UKFlows15 & CAMELS-GB v2.

Includes examples of use and a Q&A!

🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/HoDLfyS

#hydrology #data

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A team from UKCEH, @metoffice.gov.uk, @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social and @ecmwf.int used satellite observations & advanced modelling to identify and investigate the causes of wildfires from Mar24-Feb25 fire season and the role played by climate & land use change.

🎥 Co-lead Dr Doug Kelley

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Ahead of #COP30, a new report outlines:

⚠️ Rapidly approaching Earth system #TippingPoints

💡 Priority interventions via #PositiveTippingPoints

Chapter co-authors include UKCEH's Bryan Spears (2.2) and Chris Huntingford (2.3)

Read the report: global-tipping-points.org/resources-gt...

🧪#GTPR2025
Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact
Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.
global-tipping-points.org
Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Visualising historical changes in air pollution with the Air Quality Stripes

Website: airqualitystripes.info

And paper led by @kirstypringle.bsky.social and @jimmcquaid.bsky.social now published which visualises trends in air quality across many global cities: gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/2...
Visualising historical changes in air pollution with the Air Quality Stripes
Abstract. This paper introduces the Air Quality Stripes, a data visualisation project which presents historical changes in outdoor particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) concentrations across major ...
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