Where has the rain gone? You may have noticed that for the last 3 weeks, rainfall in France has been a rare sight and mostly in the most southern parts of the country. So, where has the rain gone this winter? The lack of rainfall and snowfall is attributed to a large anticyclone that extends […]
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Extreme heat waves in April 2023 in Asia and Europe It has never been so hot in April in areas of Asia and Europe like in 2023. Hundreds of weather stations in China with long timeseries have recorded new temperature records with values higher than 42ºC. On 15 April, Thailand had its warmest April on
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Quantifying the geotechnical drought risk for buildings Recently, a new tool has been developed by Data4Risk, for the D4Home platform, aiming at informing the insurance companies on the potential impact of the complex phenomenon of drought and nature of soil (geotechnical drought). Depending on the presence of clay in the soil, the variations in water
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Early hail season start in 2023 After the record-breaking hail season in France in 2022 and one of the most severe droughts that western Europe has ever experienced, it is the turn of March to remind us how fragile our climate has become. On 9th and 13th March 2023, thunderstorms crossed the largest part of
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Trying to understand Medicane dynamics The European Geophysical Union Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Risks was held in Frascati, Italy between 18 and 21 October 2022. Stavros Dafis from our R&D team presented his work on the dynamics of Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones, aka Medicanes. Medicanes are destructive cyclones that tend to become stronger under the influence
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The return of the heatwaves in mid-July in France? More and more numerical model ensemble members have started showing a much warmer trend for mid-July in France. The following chart shows the temperature forecasts of 52 global and regional model runs for Paris every 6 hours between 13 and 19 July 2022. The comfortable temperatures
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An unprecedented number of extremely severe storms in France May and June 2022 have entered the pantheon of months with the most severe storms in France ever recorded. Meteorage, a company that specializes in the detection of lightning activity, has just published that in June 2022 alone, it has detected more than 180.000 lightning strikes
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Once in a generation extreme weather events or the new future? Storm Elliott in North America between 21 and 26 December 2022 was characterized as a “once in a generation storm” due to the adverse weather conditions and most importantly, the extremely cold arctic air masses that reached the subtropics. A week later and the
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