Colin Raymond

A powerful El Niño is already influencing extreme weather around the planet. During the last strong El Niño, federal agencies ramped up research in the hope of improving weather forecasts. This year, they won't be matching that effort. trib.al/dkJLZ2X

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The more Stephen Witt learns about rogue A.I. systems, he writes, “the more I am reminded of the first two months of 2020, when a small group of epidemiologists was attempting to raise alarms about Covid. We have a short window, right now, to rein these systems in.”

I had the exciting opportunity to write a guest post for @carbonbrief.org about our new paper on the expansion of extreme heat seasons around the world. Take a read for a digestible summary of our approach and key results!

We may seem some genuinely extreme humidity levels along SoCal coastal plain Tue-Wed (yes, even worse than today). As Marie's tropical moisture lingers, temps of 90-100F will combine with dew points of 70F to nearly 80F (!), yielding heat index values as high as ~110F. #CAwx

Excited to share our new perspective on Usable Compound Event Research: nhess.copernicus.org/articles/26/... We provide principles to navigate the pressing needs for more granular climate risk information in times of increasingly complex extreme weather events. @iiasa.ac.at @riskkan.bsky.social

‘Understanding and predicting compound coastal flooding remains one of the most challenging problems in hydrologic and coastal sciences.’ Read the latest ‘State of Science’ blog on compound coastal flooding by Hamed Moftakhari: wp.me/p9wIOV-Xp @regclimo.bsky.social @cassro314.bsky.social

🌡️ 💧 This summer we kicked off the 'State of the Science' blog series with a piece on Heat and Humidity Extremes by Colin Raymond @regclimo.bsky.social : wp.me/p9wIOV-WU 📖 Follow along the blog series for a quick overview on the latest research in compound events, a new post is coming out soon! 👀

@compoundnet.bsky.social's new "State of the Science" mini-blog series: a fully human summary of recent advances & current frontiers for compound events, hopefully of special value for ECRs. The first edition, on heat & humidity extremes, is live at bit.ly/4buNAL6. Many thx @afsribeiro.bsky.social!

Multi-hazard researchers and practitioners: Check out the new magnum opus led by Timothy Tiggeloven at @ivm-vu-amsterdam.bsky.social, with reflections and recommendations that aim to focus energy & investment at this critical juncture. Valuable for the reference list alone! doi.org/10.5194/gc-9...

Incredibly, even *more* locations across U.S. are today experiencing their warmest March temperatures on record--many by a wide margin, with some even breaking April records. This includes most or all of: AZ, UT, CO, NM, WY, NE, KS, MO, IA, plus portions of many other states. 🫠

After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up. Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes. More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

The main ideas from our recent study, bite-sized!

Some reflections after returning back from a conference at which I and 20,000 colleagues learned that the Trump administration intends to dismantle #NCAR. This outrage should not happen. deepconvection.substack.com/p/save-ncar

The next @riskkan.bsky.social Compound Events webinar will be Tues 2 Dec at 11am UTC with a presentation from Xinyue Liu (NUS) on "Climate signals behind synchronized locust outbreak risks". For Zoom info: groups.google.com/u/1/g/riskka... or message @regclimo.bsky.social

I recently had the pleasure of appearing on @urgentfutures.bsky.social for a meticulous, wide-ranging conversation about heat hazards, risks, and potential actions. Many thanks to host Jesse Damiani for the invitation and adroit questions! www.realitystudies.co/p/understand...

We are very delighted to have @karinvdwiel.bsky.social and @regclimo.bsky.social as invited speakers in our #EGU26 session on NH11.2 Future Changes in Weather and Climate Hazards! Consider to present your fantastic work with us!! @nh.egu.eu @pik-potsdam.bsky.social

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨 They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏 This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

Multiple model ensembles are already suggesting a broad region of record mid-tropospheric ridging over the far NE Pacific and Washington/British Columbia, with possible record-breaking late-season warmth in the same region. That's a very strong signal ~1 week out. #WAwx #ORwx #BCwx

Summer heat across the Eastern U.S. is off the charts in a new "stickiness" measurement that combines heat and humidity—and it isn’t over yet. 🔗: on.wsj.com/3Uwf7D1

Engrossing meeting of the minds at the workshop this week. Nine creative yet plausible storylines were developed and a whole range of new cxns made. Thanks again to all who attended, and especially those who made it happen. We're excited to see what this format & these ideas can catalyze!

There is a new CLIVAR working group focused on climate risk (I'm one of the organizers). We are having our first public webinar tomorrow 7/10 at 1 pm ET. We have some FANTASTIC speakers including @kellyhereid.bsky.social, @climatefran.bsky.social, and Zong-Liang Yang.

Working on climate-related disasters or multi-hazard risks? Submit your abstract to NH012 – Compound, Consecutive, and Cascading Events: Challenges for Risk Assessment and Management at #AGU25! @regclimo.bsky.social @monahemmati.bsky.social @kyoungchoi.bsky.social @pravinm.bsky.social

@ajezeq.bsky.social will give the next @riskkan.bsky.social Compound Events webinar Tues Jul 1 at 14UTC, speaking about attribution of extremes with special focus on compounding interactions. Great chance to hear about & discuss a truly cutting-edge area! columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/9537980484...

The first 3 eps of TOTALLY COOKED have landed! Check it out for weather & climate in a factual, relatable & often humorous way. Available below, & where you get your podcasts. Like, follow & share. Let's tackle the climate crisis together. #totallycooked www.21centuryweather.org.au/engage/total...

I strongly encourage folks to check out the rest of the event, which will feature dozens of speakers over a 5 day period. The line-up is genuinely impressive--a veritable who's who of the American #weather and #climate world in 2025--so I'll be watching! wclivestream.com/schedule

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

One week left to sign up for this summer's compound-event storyline workshop @cccriskworkshop25.bsky.social in Portland, OR! See cccriskworkshop2025.org for more info including the latest agenda & confirmed speakers

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

The American Meteorological Society has issued this dire warning of "disastrous consequences" for America's ability to predict lethal weather: "The administration's 2026 budget... would close all of NOAA’s weather, climate, and ocean Laboratories." www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

There have been some reports of troubles connecting to our workshop website. We've created a read-only Google Doc mirror which lacks beauty but makes up for it with functionality: docs.google.com/document/d/1...