Extreme heat and rain: thousands of weather stations show there's now more of both, for longer
- Written by Jim Salinger, Honorary Associate, Tasmanian Institute for Agriculture, University of Tasmania
ChameleonsEye/ShutterstockA major global update based on data from more than 36,000 weather stations around the world confirms that, as the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall are now more frequent, more intense, and longer.
The research is based on a dataset known as HadEX and analyses 29 indices...