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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 7d

The Rainfall Observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British & Irish Isles have recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Here we recognise some of the individuals who made particularly important contributions.

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The rainfall observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British and Irish Isles have regularly recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Their efforts allow us to reconstruct long-term tr...

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Steve Turner @steveturner.bsky.social · 7d

Heading to IAHS 2025 in Roorkee 🇮🇳? 🌏

I’m co-hosting a side event + giving a talk with the ROBIN Network!

Let’s talk reference hydrological networks, drought indicators & climate change detection!

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 15d

Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Climate change: evidence and causes | Royal Society

Supplementary information for the project 'Climate Change: Evidence and causes'.

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Steve Turner @steveturner.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to host a hands-on #IAHS2025 workshop with @sayaliuk.bsky.social & @wilsonchan.bsky.social

🗓️ 6 Oct, 18:00 IST | 📍 Roorkee, India

Explore the ROBIN dataset, drought indicators & FlowScreen.

More info: iahs2025.com/SEROBIN

Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#ROBINHydro #Hydrology

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Wilson Chan @wilsonchan.bsky.social · 29d

📢 New paper! Events like the winter 2023/24 floods are wetter with higher river flows due to climate change.

A worst-case “storyline” shows flows could be even higher - anticipating UNSEEN extremes is vital for adaptation.

🔗: doi.org/10.1088/1748...

@ukceh.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social

River flow amplification under climate change: attribution and climate-driven storylines of the winter 2023/24 UK floods - IOPscience

River flow amplification under climate change: attribution and climate-driven storylines of the winter 2023/24 UK floods, Chan, Wilson C H, Barker, Lucy J, Faranda, Davide, Hannaford, Jamie

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 29d

🌊 Latest UK Hydrological Outlook: Normal to below normal river flows likely in southern & eastern areas over the next 3 months, with low flows for the time of year persisting in some catchments.

River flows in northwestern areas likely shifting towards normal to above normal by November.

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Map of UK with shaded areas showing principal aquifers annotated with information from the September 2025 UK Hydrological Outlook as outlined in the accompanying post.

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Wilson Chan @wilsonchan.bsky.social · 29d

📢 New paper! Events like the winter 2023/24 floods are wetter with higher river flows due to climate change.

A worst-case “storyline” shows flows could be even higher - anticipating UNSEEN extremes is vital for adaptation.

🔗: doi.org/10.1088/1748...

@ukceh.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social

River flow amplification under climate change: attribution and climate-driven storylines of the winter 2023/24 UK floods - IOPscience

River flow amplification under climate change: attribution and climate-driven storylines of the winter 2023/24 UK floods, Chan, Wilson C H, Barker, Lucy J, Faranda, Davide, Hannaford, Jamie

doi.org

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Aug 27

With exceptionally dry conditions in many parts of the UK this year, hydrologists at UKCEH address the question of whether #globalwarming is increasing severity of #droughts in a guest post for @carbonbrief.org

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Aug 26

NEW – Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse?

✍️ Jamie Hannaford, @wilsonchan.bsky.social, Lucy Barker, Stephen Turner

➡️ Read here: buff.ly/boBB8nU

Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse? - Carbon Brief

The year 2025 has seen exceptionally dry conditions in many parts of the UK. At...

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Aug 26

NEW – Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse?

✍️ Jamie Hannaford, @wilsonchan.bsky.social, Lucy Barker, Stephen Turner

➡️ Read here: buff.ly/boBB8nU

Guest post: Is climate change making UK droughts worse? - Carbon Brief

The year 2025 has seen exceptionally dry conditions in many parts of the UK. At...

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · Aug 26

Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer on record for the UK.

It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884.
👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Photograph of bright sun in a clear blue sky with clouds at the bottom. Text reads: 'Met Office NEWS RELEASE 26 August 2025 – This summer will ‘almost certainly’ be warmest on record for the UK.'

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jul 30

🌊🏜️🌍 New job opportunity @ukceh.bsky.social for a Hydroclimate Scientist to work on the @climatecocentre.bsky.social and @canari-science.bsky.social projects to advance understanding of hydroclimatic extremes in the face of climate change!

Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...

Hydroclimate Scientist

Salary - £38,939 to £41,321 Hybrid Working Based at Wallingford, Oxfordshire Permanent, full-time We will be closing this advert on 26/08/2025.. Are you a dedicated scientist eager to advance our unde...

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jul 14

The UK Hydrological Summary confirms heightened risk of drought impacts this summer — especially in eastern Britain.

June was the warmest on record for England and 2nd warmest for the UK overall. Rainfall showed stark regional contrasts, with some areas seeing less than half of average.

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Map of UK showing river flows as percentage of average

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jul 9

What is the hydrological outlook for the UK in the weeks and months ahead? Steve Turner talks us through the likely situation for river flows and groundwater levels.

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

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Vikki Thompson @vikkithompson.bsky.social · Jul 8

📣 New paper:
💧💧💧 In July 2021 record breaking rainfall hit western Europe, we use ensemble boosting to explore different plausible storylines. These show it could have rained for longer, or over a larger area, or in a different place. Are we prepared?

doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Showing the rainfall of 14th July 2021 (upper left) and 5 alternative scenarios derived from a climate model, conditioned to the atmospheric circulation patterns of the observed event.
Similar to fig.6 of https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02386-y

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Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water @climatecocentre.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our @ukceh.bsky.social team have written about how studying North Atlantic Ocean patterns can predict UK droughts a year in advance.

Read more here: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

Studying North Atlantic Ocean patterns can predict UK droughts a year in advance

Dr Amulya Chevuturi, a hydroclimate data scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, discusses an exciting research finding that could help the UK better prepare for droughts.

www.ceh.ac.uk

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Amulya Chevuturi @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social · Jun 20

🌊 Streamflow Stripes are here!!! 🌊
Just in time for #ShowYourStripes Day – 21st June 🌍

Our team at @ukceh.bsky.social has created UK river flow stripes to visualise how these have changed over time.

📖 Read more: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/visualisin...

#ClimateChange #Hydrology #DataViz

Visualising climate impacts on UK river flows

Introducing streamflow stripes #ShowYourStripes

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jun 20

CANARI scientists from @ukceh.bsky.social have created UK river flow stripes.

High flows are rising in the north/west and drought risk growing in parts of the south/east. Adaptation is needed to reduce impacts from swings between wet/dry.

🔗 climatelabbook.substack.com/p/visualisin...

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Visualising climate impacts on UK river flows

Introducing streamflow stripes #ShowYourStripes

climatelabbook.substack.com

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jun 20

🔊21st June is #showyourstripes day 🌍

2024 was the warmest year on record globally. The stripes help start a conversation about climate change and climate action🥵

Download your warming stripes here:
showyourstripes.info

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Jun 18

As we seem to, yet again, be talking about the hot UK summer of 1976, a reminder that the UK is not the world.

Yes, it was hot that summer over our small region, but the bigger picture tells a different story.

And, we've had hotter UK summers since.

Comparing temperature anomalies in summer 1976 and summer 2024

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · Jun 13

UK Hydrological Summary for May: Recent rainfall brought some respite but summer began with depleted river flows, groundwater levels & reservoir stocks.

Increases risk of further dry weather impacts, with climbing evaporation rates limiting rainfall effectiveness

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Two maps of UK indicating river flows for May 2025 and March to May 2025

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CANARI @canari-science.bsky.social · Jun 6

New CANARI research reveals predictability for UK summer droughts up to 1.5 years in advance 🏜️

Find out more in the paper published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, led by @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Oceanic drivers of UK summer droughts - Communications Earth & Environment

North Atlantic sea surface temperature influences hydrology in the United Kingdom up to 1.5 years in advance via a teleconnection with the position of the North Atlantic Current, which can help with d...

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Amulya Chevuturi @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social · Jun 5

North Atlantic Ocean patterns can signal UK summer droughts up to 1.5 years in advance; offering major potential for early drought forecasting.

📢 Published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment! Read it here doi.org/10.1038/s432....

#UKDroughts #Teleconnections #Forecasting

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · Jun 2

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.

These are the ones published since Labour won the election.

"We are happy to correct the record."

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · May 27

Thread on new paper by @wilsonchan.bsky.social et al: Climate variability conceals emerging hydrological trends across Great Britain ⬇️

Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water @climatecocentre.bsky.social · May 26

📢 Excited to share our new paper on how climate variability impacts river flows and drought extremes in the UK!

Short hydrological records and strong variability makes it hard to detect long-term trends. This study using large ensemble climate models shows... (1/3)

Redirecting

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · May 14

UK Hydrological Outlook for May-July ☀️🌈

River flows likely to be below normal across most of UK, with potential for current low to exceptionally low flows persisting in some catchments.

Flows in western Scotland and Northern Ireland are likely to be in normal range.

🔗 hydoutuk.net

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Map of UK with shaded areas showing principal aquifers. map annotated with notes from the UK Hydrological Outlook

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