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Translating forecasts into farming In East Africa, the rainy season dictates when farmers can sow, cultivate and harvest their crops. By making sure that farmers have access to accurate forecasts – and can understand them – WISER is helping to make farming more successful and more efficient across

needs can be. Ekoporus is a 52-year-old pastoral farmer living in Northern Kenya. He has six herds of livestock, including 200 goats and 50 cows. The unpredictable weather has made work very difficult for Ekoropus, as he can longer rely on the traditional wet season during February and March. Albert

years, however (Fung et al., 2018). Projected changes in future rainfall vary depending on which season you are looking at, with summers likely to become significantly drier while winters become wetter, along with an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme temperature and rainfall events

about contingency measures. At the same time it will help them develop definite strategies for dealing with the more likely outcome of flooding seasons. Providing this type of probabilistic climate information requires a good understanding of the drivers of Asian monsoon and how they will change

% wetter than the 1961–1990 baseline. Extreme rainfall events are becoming more common, contributing to record-breaking wet seasons like the winter of 2023–2024, which brought severe flooding to major river catchments. Sea levels around the UK have risen nearly 20 cm since 1900, with the pace accelerating

wet summers from 2007, with only that of 2013 drier than average for the UK and four of these summers exceeding 130% of average for the UK overall. Winter Spring Summer Autumn Rainfall anomaly (%) 20% 20% 400.0 300.0 200.0 100.0 0.0 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Year Season

regional forcing is a strong component of simulated biases in tropical-extratropical interaction frequency Hart, Washington, Stratton (2018) GRL Result 2: Reduction of wet bias in CP4 ● Reduced October to January rainfall bias in CP4 and improved maintenance of east-west rainfall gradient Hart

Oceans the majority of names used are not personal names. While there are a few male and female names, most are names of flowers, animals, birds, trees, foods or descriptive adjectives. The names are also not allocated in alphabetical order, but are arranged by the name of the Asian country which

. These changes initially warmed the land over much of the Tropics and south and central Asia (see Fig. 5 top panel). The stronger warming over much of the Arctic and the initial reduction in the AMOC over the first 20 years suggests these are more complicated responses to that initial warming. It is also

It will be a cloudy and wet Christmas for much of the UK, with any wintry showers confined to the far northwest.

some wet and windy weather at times and the chance of some snow in the north of the UK, as is often the case at this time of year.”  Stephen Basterfield, National Network Manager, at National Highways, said: “Even light or moderate rain can have an impact on visibility and vehicle performance, so