'Our river, our future' Henley-on-Thames is a stunning riverside town, but flooding is on the rise. Professor Chris Merchant will be giving a talk and Q&A at GreenerHenley for #GreatBigGreenWeek 2025. 🗓️11 June, 7-9pm 📍Leander Club, Henley 🔗rdg.ac/42W0FJC

The #monsoon has now covered nearly all parts of Sri Lanka & is at the doorstep of peninsular & northeastern #India. It is set to advance into #Kerala & northeastern India during 24-25 May. Over subsequent days, it will continue to rapidly advance over southern India.

Congratulations to Sue Grimmond @BlueSky on being elected as a prestigious Fellow of the The Royal Society for pioneering work on the #climate of cities! royalsociety.org/people/sue-gri…

Finally, the research of my student Reading Meteorology linkedin.com/in/jasmine-geo… is published in JPO American Meteorological Society, a collaboration with Ivana Stiperski. RDT inspires a physical parametrization of mixing due to ocean waves and stratification in the ocean mixed layer. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/…

Myself and Andrew Charlton-Perez (Andrew Charlton-Perez) talk to Annalee Newitz (Annalee Newitz is @[email protected]) for the New Scientist about AI, weather and climate - involving some of our/our groups recent (and upcoming) research. News article out today: newscientist.com/article/mg2663… New Scientist #ai #ml

Is the UK hot right now? YES - it's warm! See the data live, hour-by-hour: istheukhotrightnow.com Click on each location to show all the details.

Is ozone heating the planet more than we realised? New research from Reading Meteorology reveals that ozone levels maybe weakening one of the Earth’s most important cooling systems, the ocean. Read up: rdg.ac/4mPOJ3O

Mega congratulations on hugely deserved OBEs to our very own Andrew Charlton-Perez for services to Climate Science and to Education plus to our alumni Jolene Cook for services to International Climate Science! gov.uk/government/pub…

We’d like to congratulate Professor Andrew Andrew Charlton-Perez , who has just been appointed OBE in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours List for his achievements in spearheading climate science education! 🔗rdg.ac/45UlcQA

A new PlayStation and #PSVR2 experience puts gamers face-to-face with our changing planet using research from Uni of Reading climate scientists. #ClimateStation allows players to explore the impact of our warming world. What a way to #ShowYourStripes 👉 rdg.ac/3HJPiw9

The climate stripes for more than 800 cities and 150 countries worldwide have been updated with temperature data from 2024 - and all are available to be downloaded for FREE for #ShowYourStripesDay Help us make a difference rdg.ac/3xPtlH2 #ShowYourStripes

Immensely proud to know this talented individual: JoleneCook_Climate OBE talks about her vital role as Head of International Climate Science and UK IPCC Focal Point Department for Energy Security and Net Zero fullcircleci.co.uk/episode-146-li…

Before the #heatwave set in, there was areturn of the Met department staff v student cricket! Although they won, the staff predictably cheated, inflicted painful injuries and engaged in embarrasing below the belt tactics: socialmetwork.blog/2025/06/20/mat…

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.

Coverage about the new ECMWF headquarters under construction on our Uni of Reading campus next door to us in Met that combined with our other centres will form the world’s largest cluster of weather & climate research and operational forecasting: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The BBC Radio 4 show The Infinite Monkey Cage just celebrated its 201st birthday episode. Nish Kumar wanted to know: so, climate change, are we screwed? My answer: we are not screwed, yet. Listen to the whole episode: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Our air quality has improved since 2015, but action is still needed if the UK is to hit #airpollution targets writes Reading Meteorology James Weber for The Conversation 🔗 rdg.ac/3IB1n7p

As a hosepipe ban kicks in over parts of Reading we look at how this summer so far compares to the UK’s infamous hot, dry summer of 1976 in this week’s Reading Meteorology blog: blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-cl…

Congratulations to my PhD student Isabel Smith, who officially became Dr Smith today!

Meteorology & Climate premium online courses Uni of Reading suitable for professional meteorologists, consultants, STEM students, graduates & academics seeking to improve their range of skills and knowledge. Details & applications: reading.ac.uk/meteorology/on…