Former UK Met Office chief scientist Dame Julia Slingo, who headed up Network Rail’s Weather Action Task Force initiated following the fatal derailment at Carmont in August 2020, is to deliver the keynote speech at NCE’s Future of Floods virtual event on 24 June.
Delegates at Future of Floods will be able to put questions to speakers including Dame Slingo
The Network Rail convened the task force after initial investigations into the derailment suggested localised heavy rainfall triggered a landslide was the root cause of the incident and aimed to create action plans to predict and respond to future weather events. In her speech at Future of Floods, Dame Slingo will draw on the understanding gained by the task force’s work around predicting heavy rainfall events and the impact this has on infrastructure, as well as looking at how to mitigate and futureproof assets from flooding risk.
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Following its coldest APRIL since 1922, England is now on for its coldest MAY since record-keeping began some 362 years ago
-since the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715)!
Back in 1659, England was still processing the death of Richard Cromwell, who, after the execution of King Charles I, had ruled the Commonwealth of England for 5 years. The year 1659 is also the start date of the
Central England Temperature (CET) dataset, which has proved an invaluable resource for meteorologists and climate scientists alike. Astonishingly, what the dataset reveals in 2021, in this time of supposed catastrophic global heating, is that England is on for its coldest May in more than three and a half centuries
By JASON SAMENOW, WILLIAM BOOTH AND LOVEDAY MORRIS | The Washington Post | Published: May 6, 2021 A frigid April weather pattern deprived much of Europe of springtime and the cold, stormy weather has yet to fully retreat. In the wake of a powerhouse storm that swept across northern Europe early this week, temperatures remain below average to start May, following siege after siege of winterlike weather in April. The unusual chill brought the coldest average low temperature to the United Kingdom since 1922 and devastating frosts to France s famed vineyards, while many European countries endured their coldest April in decades. Beguiling weather in Britain