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Absolutely agree! The people I have - and continue to - meet along the way are what’s made this all so interesting and rewarding for the past (v v nearly) 25 years and why I don’t yet want to give any of it up

19.09.2025 12:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Welcome!

28.02.2025 08:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes - can really tell the difference, I always feel things start to look up again from late January onwards

26.01.2025 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wouldn’t want to be those Guinea pigs - if the xenon blend doesn’t work, taking a heli straight to base camp with no acclimatisation could be v unpleasant, let alone missing out on one of the most glorious trekking experiences in the world from Lukla

11.01.2025 16:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There’s also lots of factors, the influence (direction/strength) of the wind (wildfire events are wind events) embers, smoke damage, human ignition sources, big influence of neighbouring property characteristics on the risk to your home… would agree wildfire is one of the hardest perils to model

10.01.2025 16:10 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

With a GDP of around 3bn Euro, this could be one of the highest ratios ever witnessed. More like an earthquake than a weather event. Absolutely devastating.

19.12.2024 22:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Another terrible event away from the main focus areas of the industry, absolute devastation.

18.12.2024 21:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mayotte dévastée par le cyclone Chido : point de situation au 18 décembre 2024.

18.12.2024 21:00 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

For the cat modellers on here, the same discussion was often had about a certain cat modelling company’s “spring” model releases back in the day …

28.11.2024 22:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

While people differ on the exact timing of “spring”, the UK government’s Met Office says that for meteorologists it runs until May 31. When the Treasury has held a spring fiscal event, it has generally been in March. “You could write a piece looking at the historical precedence of the Whitehall use of ‘spring’, one minister joked.

Meteorological spring vs Whitehall spring
on.ft.com/419cv2G

28.11.2024 22:00 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 1

Floodwater reservoir becomes Poland's hero for preventing major flooding Grateful Poles are heaping praise to honor their silent hero that just saved them: a floodwater reservoir that spared the cities of Opole and Wroclaw from imminent flooding that ravaged parts of Centr...

Yes, shows the need for holistic flood management approach- with good forecasts, water in dams can be partially released prior to heavy rains, as recently in Central Europe, where they had been holding water due to the summer drought. Plus “dry dams” apnews.com/article/pola...

03.10.2024 07:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Heavy rains inflict an estimated Rs17 billion loss on Nepal Economists say the actual losses could be over three-fold the initial estimate, shaving 1 percent off the GDP.

Good discussion of the impact of the weekend floods on Nepal - much of which will be uninsured
kathmandupost.com/money/2024/1...

02.10.2024 09:08 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0