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Charles Powell by the sea

A perfect storm for hurricanes

Why was the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season different from previous seasons? Early career researcher Charles Powell analysed the data, helping insurance company Inigo in the process.

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Image of the globe with no land, covered in clouds

Maths in a minute: Aquaplanet

The Earth's climate is a complex system. To make things easier scientists sometimes imagine a planet entirely covered in water. Watch some beautiful simulations of clouds and rain on the Aquaplanet!

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Predicting the weather with artificial intelligence

Predicting the weather is hard. It requires a lot of physics, a lot of maths, and a huge amount of computing power. Can AI help?

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Catching clouds with artificial intelligence

Clouds make the weather, yet their detail isn't taken into account in weather forecasts. Artificial intelligence might be able to help.

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Can artificial intelligence help predict the weather?

Predicting the weather is hard. But with more data and computing power becoming available, artificial intelligence may be able to help.

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Maths in a minute: Numerical weather prediction

How does your phone know what the weather's going to be like?

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Maths in a minute: Ensemble forecasting

How does your weather app know the percentage chance of rain? It's down to ensemble forecasting!

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El Niño: What on Earth will happen next?

El Niño is a climate event without equal, causing droughts, floods, hurricanes and typhoons around the globe. How can we understand and predict it?

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Why the Met Office needs a £97m supercomputer

The complex maths of weather and climate.

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Met Office in for another roasting?

Not if their predictions are made clearer...

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Catching terrorists with maths

A multi-disciplinary approach to complexity

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And now, the weather...

Umbrella or no umbrella? New advances in weather forecasting will help us dodge hurricanes and protect against floods.