Extreme Weather

A heatwave rarely leaves an obvious body count. There is no single moment, no wreckage to photograph. Most of the people it kills die at home or in hospital wards over a stretch of days, their deaths…

Think of the jet stream as a motorway for weather. Most days the traffic moves briskly west to east, and one system gives way to the next before either can do much damage. But every so often the flow…

A hailstone measured 16 centimetres across when it fell over northern Italy in 2023, roughly the width of a dinner plate. Eight years earlier, an F4 tornado tore through Mira and Dolo near Venice, at…

For most of the late summer of 2023, the North Sea sat under stubborn high pressure. Clear skies, weak winds, and a shallow mixed layer let heat pile up in the top few tens of meters of water and…