Richard Dixon
@catinsight.bsky.social
Catastrophe / climate risk / data viz at OAK Global (reinsurer)
Visiting Research Fellow & PhD @ University of Reading
Associate Editor RMetS Weather. FRMetS.
Otherwise eating noodle soup or watching cricket
Do we still have to put "own opinions" etc. ?
Visiting Research Fellow & PhD @ University of Reading
Associate Editor RMetS Weather. FRMetS.
Otherwise eating noodle soup or watching cricket
Do we still have to put "own opinions" etc. ?
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Richard Dixon
@catinsight.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I think I was supposed to introduce myself on Bluesky ages ago. So here's an introduction. Hello!
LinkedIn, courtesy of stellaandlarry on Instagram.
February 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
LinkedIn, courtesy of stellaandlarry on Instagram.
One like. One bloody like for essentially the most important thing I've ever posted on here. You guys need a good talking to.
When I'm not using AI to help my terrible coding and making charts it would take me weeks to do without it, I'm using it to answer all the really important questions in life.
February 5, 2026 at 8:03 PM
One like. One bloody like for essentially the most important thing I've ever posted on here. You guys need a good talking to.
When I'm not using AI to help my terrible coding and making charts it would take me weeks to do without it, I'm using it to answer all the really important questions in life.
February 2, 2026 at 9:09 PM
When I'm not using AI to help my terrible coding and making charts it would take me weeks to do without it, I'm using it to answer all the really important questions in life.
Mainly from people who've either not been to London or haven't been in years.
Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com/britain/2026...
January 31, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Mainly from people who've either not been to London or haven't been in years.
100% this: plus talks read out verbatim from a script never sound as impactful.
January 30, 2026 at 7:08 PM
100% this: plus talks read out verbatim from a script never sound as impactful.
Some more fun on US snow depth changes. Exposure-weighted snow depth trend from 1989 to 2025 winter by *state* in the US, ordered from north to south in the image.
Positive trends (all 4 of them) in red. Label shows 2nd half mean / 1st half mean delta of winter average snow depth.
Positive trends (all 4 of them) in red. Label shows 2nd half mean / 1st half mean delta of winter average snow depth.
January 29, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Some more fun on US snow depth changes. Exposure-weighted snow depth trend from 1989 to 2025 winter by *state* in the US, ordered from north to south in the image.
Positive trends (all 4 of them) in red. Label shows 2nd half mean / 1st half mean delta of winter average snow depth.
Positive trends (all 4 of them) in red. Label shows 2nd half mean / 1st half mean delta of winter average snow depth.
What, even plinth and ocelot?
January 29, 2026 at 4:34 PM
What, even plinth and ocelot?
As always a catastrophic event gets you thinking. This chart uses the Litpop dataset to exposure-weight US snowfall to see how it has changed in recent years. Plot shows the 25-75th percentile amount plus the mean the change in the mean on the secondary axis between 2002-13 and 2014-25.
January 29, 2026 at 12:06 PM
As always a catastrophic event gets you thinking. This chart uses the Litpop dataset to exposure-weight US snowfall to see how it has changed in recent years. Plot shows the 25-75th percentile amount plus the mean the change in the mean on the secondary axis between 2002-13 and 2014-25.
Would love to know if the T+>200 in the ECMWF IFS has a cold bias. 2nd half of winter appears to have had very regular threats of a cold blast: or it could just be that the die has fallen on the warm side each time and the risk genuinely is there.
January 29, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Would love to know if the T+>200 in the ECMWF IFS has a cold bias. 2nd half of winter appears to have had very regular threats of a cold blast: or it could just be that the die has fallen on the warm side each time and the risk genuinely is there.
Reposted by Richard Dixon
Synthetic TC models are powerful - but may be hard to use outside climate science.
We release global coastal wind hazard maps from CHAZ, translating TC tracks into exceedance intensities and return periods.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Data: datadryad.org/dataset/doi:...
We release global coastal wind hazard maps from CHAZ, translating TC tracks into exceedance intensities and return periods.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Data: datadryad.org/dataset/doi:...
Global coastal wind hazard maps from the CHAZ tropical cyclone model - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Global coastal wind hazard maps from the CHAZ tropical cyclone model
www.nature.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Synthetic TC models are powerful - but may be hard to use outside climate science.
We release global coastal wind hazard maps from CHAZ, translating TC tracks into exceedance intensities and return periods.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Data: datadryad.org/dataset/doi:...
We release global coastal wind hazard maps from CHAZ, translating TC tracks into exceedance intensities and return periods.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Data: datadryad.org/dataset/doi:...
Looks fun in Boston: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W12W...
Boston.com is live from State Street
YouTube video by Boston.com
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Looks fun in Boston: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W12W...
Snow is a great one to show up the curmudgeons easily.
January 25, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Snow is a great one to show up the curmudgeons easily.
Third World Police State. Anyone on here in the US help me understand why no Republicans in congress have a backbone to stand up and say "this is plainly wrong"? I'm not poking with a stick here as I fear the UK is next if (when) Reform and Farage with his Trump-parroting lines get into power.
January 24, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Third World Police State. Anyone on here in the US help me understand why no Republicans in congress have a backbone to stand up and say "this is plainly wrong"? I'm not poking with a stick here as I fear the UK is next if (when) Reform and Farage with his Trump-parroting lines get into power.
Reposted by Richard Dixon
It turns out that having experienced emergency management staff is important during emergencies: www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
FEMA halts terminations of disaster workers as agency prepares for massive winter storm | CNN Politics
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has abruptly halted ongoing terminations of hundreds of disaster workers as the agency prepares for an enormous winter storm expected to pound a large swath of ...
www.cnn.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:27 PM
It turns out that having experienced emergency management staff is important during emergencies: www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...
I mean the biggest tragedy / horror about all this is the fact that he's boasting about himself in the 3rd person.
NATO didn’t need a savior. It needed a president who understood alliances instead of threatening them.
January 21, 2026 at 7:22 PM
I mean the biggest tragedy / horror about all this is the fact that he's boasting about himself in the 3rd person.
Given how Trump is a master of the quick friend-to-foe turnaround with people, I wonder
a) How long it'll be before these fall out?
b) What nickname Trump will give Farage?
a) How long it'll be before these fall out?
b) What nickname Trump will give Farage?
January 18, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Given how Trump is a master of the quick friend-to-foe turnaround with people, I wonder
a) How long it'll be before these fall out?
b) What nickname Trump will give Farage?
a) How long it'll be before these fall out?
b) What nickname Trump will give Farage?
Election predictions since last general election in the UK scraped using the Internet Archive from the Electoral Calculus website. Reform have drifted from having an out-and-out majority in the last couple of months. Maybe these Tory defec(a)tions are making them less popular? I hope so.
January 17, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Election predictions since last general election in the UK scraped using the Internet Archive from the Electoral Calculus website. Reform have drifted from having an out-and-out majority in the last couple of months. Maybe these Tory defec(a)tions are making them less popular? I hope so.
Proper spoilt child in playground antics. Every day gets more and more removed from sensible, rational behaviour. Think I might do early retirement to enjoy life before the World falls to pieces, although not sure how long I'd have to enjoy it...
January 16, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Proper spoilt child in playground antics. Every day gets more and more removed from sensible, rational behaviour. Think I might do early retirement to enjoy life before the World falls to pieces, although not sure how long I'd have to enjoy it...
Today's speculative email to my CatInsight inbox (I've not worked as a sole trader in 4+ years now).
1) Maybe when sending out emails you can also explain what agentic automation is? Not everyone lives in your techbro world.
2) How do you know I've got a team(s)?
1) Maybe when sending out emails you can also explain what agentic automation is? Not everyone lives in your techbro world.
2) How do you know I've got a team(s)?
January 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Today's speculative email to my CatInsight inbox (I've not worked as a sole trader in 4+ years now).
1) Maybe when sending out emails you can also explain what agentic automation is? Not everyone lives in your techbro world.
2) How do you know I've got a team(s)?
1) Maybe when sending out emails you can also explain what agentic automation is? Not everyone lives in your techbro world.
2) How do you know I've got a team(s)?
Lovely hook winding up over S England in the radar imagery (and sharp cold front?) associated with the mesoscale low pressure moving across England today...
January 15, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Lovely hook winding up over S England in the radar imagery (and sharp cold front?) associated with the mesoscale low pressure moving across England today...
Never a good look when authoritarian regimes start lecturing democracies on how to do things.
January 15, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Never a good look when authoritarian regimes start lecturing democracies on how to do things.
GFS' turn to churn out the Dailyexpressbait
January 14, 2026 at 11:33 PM
GFS' turn to churn out the Dailyexpressbait
Seven forecasts from 10 Jan 00Z to 13 Jan 12Z showing the forecast verifying at 25 Jan 12Z: % of ensembles with 850mb temperatures < -10c. More than enough time for the forecast to make an absolute nonsense of this, but the trend is quite interesting.
January 13, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Seven forecasts from 10 Jan 00Z to 13 Jan 12Z showing the forecast verifying at 25 Jan 12Z: % of ensembles with 850mb temperatures < -10c. More than enough time for the forecast to make an absolute nonsense of this, but the trend is quite interesting.
Something good in a world slowly going to pieces: a brilliant demonstration of "Love Thy Neighbour" through food as two guys eat out in every nation around the world in New York (and ably demonstrating why New York the best food city in the world). www.instagram.com/tastebuds_ne...
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January 9, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Something good in a world slowly going to pieces: a brilliant demonstration of "Love Thy Neighbour" through food as two guys eat out in every nation around the world in New York (and ably demonstrating why New York the best food city in the world). www.instagram.com/tastebuds_ne...