You spoke about how important historical data is for measuring the interaction between the climate crisis and extreme weather events. Is there a push to try and get more and better data from some of the places that you've mentioned? Yes, there s. The w m o, of the world meterological organization, have announced that they would urge all their member states, and that most states of the world, to make the data available. So we knew exactly when the storm would happen and that it would be very dangerous. And so the warning was very good.
Over the past week, the UK has been hit with three storms: Dudley, Eunice and Franklin. With high winds and heavy rain, they have brought death and injury, caused extensive damage to trees and infrastructure and stopped transport across the country. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Fredi Otto about how rare these weather events are, and whether the climate crisis could bring us more frequent and intense storms in the future. Help support our independent journalism at
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