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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Aug 28

New paper and special issue celebrating 40 years of the @britishhydrosoc.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Hydrology in the 21st century: challenges in science, to policy and practice | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

To mark the 40th anniversary of the British Hydrological Society, a landmark Discussion Meeting was held at the Royal Society in June 2024, bringing together a transdisciplinary community, including h...

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am honoured to have been awarded a @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship. My EXTREME-FUTURES project will develop a new seamless framework to improve global predictions of hydroclimatic extremes @newcastleuni.bsky.social www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

Climate expert awarded Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship

Professor Hayley Fowler has been awarded a Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship to tackle extreme weather risks.

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢 Britain faces a climate & nature emergency.
On 27 Nov, eight leading experts will brief 800+ leaders from politics, business, culture, faith & media.

An unfiltered overview of the latest threats & solutions.
Only by facing it can we rise to the challenge.
www.nebriefing.org

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

The time for warnings is over. This is a briefing for the age of impacts. Please ask your MP to attend.

www.nebriefing.org

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Aug 22

Lol. Well I think I missed this in my (less than thorough) editing. Very amusing.

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Jul 7

New PhD - full funding for UK/Irish applicant - start Jan 26 - Design and evaluation of multi-functional Blue Green Infrastructure under climate change tinyurl.com/42s8rade: Clare Walsh, Vassilis Glenis & myself, Newcastle Uni. Part of Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water lnkd.in/e5g6nz6V

Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water | LinkedIn

Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water | 2,488 followers on LinkedIn. Solutions focused research into climate, biodiversity & water issues on the islands of Ireland & Great Britain | The...

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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · Jun 15

Hydrology Paper of the Day @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social @vikkithompson.bsky.social on linkages between convective rainfall events and global warming: mini-ensemble models; application of a hydrostatic regional climate model; and increases in extreme events with an increase in global temperatures.

Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Jun 10

This is a very nice new paper I was involved in. It is a very powerful new method for investigating the thermodynamic effects of climate change on rainfall extremes, with some quite sobering results showing very large increases in intensity.

Vikki Thompson @vikkithompson.bsky.social · Jun 10

🌧️🌍💧 Our new paper, led by Geert Lenderink, shows recent European extreme rainfall events have localised climate change responses beyond the expected Clausius-Clapeyron rate – potentially enhancing flash floods in a warmer climate.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.wa... @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Jun 13

yes - 40degC in June would truly be something in the UK!

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Jun 13

We are looking for new members of the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme: Science Review and Advisory Group, which I chair - deadline 13th August.

www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/app...

Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme: Science Review and Advisory Group Members

This advertisement is for the recruitment of up to four new members of the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme Science Advisory and Review Group. It is posted on behalf of The UK Department for...

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Jun 10

This is a very nice new paper I was involved in. It is a very powerful new method for investigating the thermodynamic effects of climate change on rainfall extremes, with some quite sobering results showing very large increases in intensity.

Vikki Thompson @vikkithompson.bsky.social · Jun 10

🌧️🌍💧 Our new paper, led by Geert Lenderink, shows recent European extreme rainfall events have localised climate change responses beyond the expected Clausius-Clapeyron rate – potentially enhancing flash floods in a warmer climate.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.wa... @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Jun 9

I'll be on the panel for this podcast with @briancoxtalks.bsky.social next week. We are talking about climate adaptation. You can be part of the audience (sign up in the link below) #ClimateCrisis

The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · Jun 5

Be part of the live studio audience for a new podcast hosted by Professor Brian Cox 🎙️

Our next episode will focus on climate change, with panellists @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, @kathryn-brown.bsky.social, @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social and Myles Allen.

🎟️ Book tickets 👇
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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · May 23

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University - Sign the Petition! chng.it/WsZ9GNKpDp via
@UKChange

Sign the Petition

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · May 23

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University - Sign the Petition! chng.it/WsZ9GNKpDp via
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Sign the Petition

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · May 14

Absolutely agree Ali. And we can expect flooding when it breaks down in late May/early June

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · May 13

I'm advertising an 18-month post-doc position to produce a sub-daily blended rainfall dataset over the UK and Ireland - 28176 Research Assistant / Associate Islands of Britain and Ireland. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl... Closing date 3 June 2025.

Research Assistant / Associate Islands of Britain and Ireland Climate Dataset

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Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water @climatecocentre.bsky.social · May 9

Many thanks to Prof @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social
and her team @newcastleuni.bsky.social for hosting us! Great to share our first-year wins and hear all about their incredible Climate+ research.

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A group of people stands in a lab looking at the equipment

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · May 2

Shame I didn't see this until now. I'd have come to see it. She looks delighted!

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Dann Mitchell @climatedann.bsky.social · Apr 28

Abstract submission now open for the UK National Climate Impacts meeting. Climate and health focus on one day, and a general impacts/risks focus on the other. We would love to see you. @eunicelo.bsky.social @richardabetts.bsky.social @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social www.climatebristol.org/projects/nci...

National Climate Impacts & Risk Meetings – Bristol Climate Dynamics Group

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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment @natrevearthenviron.nature.com · Apr 11

Green et al. outline 2024 rain extremes, finding:

- Many record-breaking events
- Several events were made more intense by warming
- Compound events were common

www.nature.com/articles/s43... (rdcu.be/ehm0B)

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Precipitation extremes in 2024 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

2024 was one of the wettest years on record, witnessing record-breaking extreme precipitation events across the globe, several of which were compound events. Extreme rainfalls were unprecedented in ar...

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · Apr 10

The video in this montage is extraordinary- and not in a good way. “Historic” life-changing flooding in so many spots. We have irreversibly changed our planet in ways that will compound and debilitate.
(On a lighter note, I apparently made a cameo)

Yellow Dot Studios @weareyellowdot.bsky.social · Apr 10

The Extreme Weather Report, April 10, 2025: This is your weather on fossil fuels.
#extremeweather #weathersky #wx #news

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Mar 31

Come and join us to work as a Climate Hub Project Manager for the northeast UK region on the Climate Ambassador project funded by the DfE - deadline to apply is 13 April jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Climate Hub Project Manager

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Mar 21

The situation at Heathrow today should make us think more about infrastructure resilience, dependencies and cascading risks. Especially with extreme weather risks increasing so rapidly from climate change. theconversation.com/heathrow-fir...

Heathrow fire shows just how vulnerable UK energy infrastructure is – we’ve simulated the major climate-related risks

The UK’s energy system is facing growing threats from unprecedented hazards.

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Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social · Jan 31

What's the energy mix for the UK's power right now? Last week? Last month? Since 2012?

Perhaps, like me, you're late to the party on these excellent visuals and resources from software dev Kate Morley:

grid.iamkate.com

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · Jan 24

The jet stream that helped dump a foot of snow on the Gulf Coast is now accelerating over the Atlantic, helping fuel the strongest storm on record over Ireland with 100 mph gusts and 50 ft waves! It is so strong NOAA sent a hurricane hunter to Ireland to collect data!
#Eowyn

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Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Jan 24

So why are they getting so far north? I saw that one is about to hit Alaska in the next few days too.

Hayley Fowler @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social · Jan 23

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Compound wind and rainfall extremes: Drivers and future changes over the UK and Ireland

The co-occurrence of wind and rainfall extremes can yield larger impacts than when either hazard occurs in isolation. This study assesses compound ext…

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