Matt Priestley

Alongside @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social, we've written an insight as to why the insurance industry is impacted by, and requires an understanding of, weather and climate.

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If you work in the intersection between physical climate risk and the insurance/financial sectors please consider submitting/attending our session at next year's #EGU26

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Session link: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

Thanks Mika! Been great to meet you and be in Helsinki for the week!

UK maps showing changes in temperatures for typical summer days and hot summer days.

1°C of global warming does NOT mean that heatwaves 'just' get hotter by 1°C.

Over large parts of the UK, global warming means that heatwaves are 3-4°C warmer, with worse consequences for people and ecosystems.

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It's the final day of #EGU25 but that doesn't mean all the fun is over.

Our session "Weather and Climate Science Insights for the Insurance and Financial Sectors" is this afternoon!

Posters,14.00-15.45,X3.49-60

Orals,16.15-18.00,1.31/32

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Great new insight into the dynamics of clustering events for western Europe!

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What better way to spend three days in July than by coming to Manchester for this year's @rmets.org Annual Weather and Climate Conference? 😁

Please consider submitting an abstract – deadline 14 February.

We look forward to seeing you there! More details: www.rmets.org/annualconfer...

I'm a big proponent of open science and sharing information. However, taking the work of others, sharing without acknowledgement, and then editing to appear as your own is not how it should be done.

Want to flag (and credit) the original version of this (www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...). With this figure (that I created w/ Dan Bannister@WTW) we wanted to contextualise the potential severity of Éowyn in the ERA5 historical record.

Follow the link to read more about this Exeter/WTW research.

This is my first "proper" Bluesky post - so hello!

I hope to be able to provide (somewhat) interesting insights on EU windstorms, high impact weather, and risk in a changing climate.

Finally, internal variability is smaller than model variability.

BUT...

Individual member trends can vary massively in both magnitude and importantly in sign.

Read all the findings here: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

We looked at forced trends in a multi-model ensemble, the magnitude of internal variability, and assigned confidence (high, med, low) in all changes.

1. ⬇️ Frequency for NW Europe (low)
2. ⬆️⬆️ Storm Intensity and aggregate severity for w.Europe (high)
3. ⬇️Frequency and severity for s.Europe (high)

Forced trends and internal variability in climate change projections of extreme European windstorm frequency and severity This study provides an assessment of changes to European windstorm severity and frequency in a warming climate. The results show increases in storm average and aggregate severity for western Europe, ....

The UK windstorm season 2024/25 has seen a fairly active start (Bert, Darragh).

In the future we expect these storms to be more frequent and intense, but by how much?

Well in a new paper, we've tried to answer this...

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fully-funded PhD positions @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social as part of new NERC CDT 'UNRISK'. Projects at intersection of climate/data/decision science, all info and list of projects + supervisors found at unrisk-cdt.ac.uk Deadline to apply 13th January

Great read and agree with the message entirely. Especially when you consider that for some regions the highest EffCS models offer the most realistic representation of the historical climate (esd.copernicus.org/articles/14/... @tammy-minnie.bsky.social )

Do you have anything similar for period of time with gusts above a threshold? Would be interesting to compare as in the SW today we've been gusting to ~60mph for nearly 18 hours now

How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US.

Across all US counties, those in the top fifth for climate-driven disaster risk saw home premiums leap by 22% in just three years to 2023, compared to an overall average of a 13% rise in real terms. https://buff.ly/49vomdl

Congratulations Eunice!

Please consider submitting to our session on "Weather and Climate Science Insights for the Insurance and Financial Sectors" for #EGU25

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Meteorological eye-candy. Close-up view of the 955mb low deepening this afternoon off the PacNW coast.

Natural hazards friends! Ever thought about working in insurance but no idea where to start? I’ve put together a beginners guide to the insurance industry with the Royal Meteorological Society: www.rmets.org/news/atmosph...