In using the term ‘Extreme Weather’ we refer to severe and unusual weather conditions that significantly deviate from expected climate patterns or are of a higher intensity. These events, including heatwaves, extreme cold, storms, extreme rainfall and floods, droughts, and wildfires. Such events can be highly destructive, posing risks to human life, infrastructure, and ecosystems.
While, extreme weather is influenced by natural climate variability, human-caused climate change is making many of these events more frequent and intense, although changes are not uniform across the world, and not all extreme events are becoming more likely.
The impact of extreme weather include economic disruption, loss of life, and destruction of property. We have increasingly become used in the aftermath of such events to focus on whether climate change played a role in their occurrence and magnitude. In this context the importance of Weather Attribution Studies are vitally important.
Extreme Weather Tracker sets out with the mission to record and analyse extreme weather conditions around the world at any given time while also providing a sense of the frequency and magnitude of such extreme events.
We also write and document evidence of the climate crisis we face while hopefully providing useful and accessible resources for students seeking to gain a better understanding of the increasing complexity of our climate and the weather we experience around the globe.
