This page lists selected articles where I have provided direct quotes to journalists. Articles which only reference my tweets, website, or content from press releases are not included.
2024
2024-02-22: How the polar vortex could deliver one last blast of wintry weather. The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/02/22/polar-vortex-winter-spring-forecast/
2024-02-02: What IS going on with Britain’s weather forecasts? MailOnline, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13034083/UK-weather-Met-Office-names-ten-storms-five-months.html
2023
2023-07-13: ‘Things Don’t Always Change in a Nice, Gradual Way’. The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/heat-climate-crises-natural-disasters/674700/
2023-07-04: El Niño 2023: How climate heating will affect global temperatures and if it will change UK weather this summer. The i, https://inews.co.uk/news/science/el-nino-2023-climate-heating-global-temperatures-uk-weather-summer-2454113
2023-03-08: Disturbed polar vortex bringing delayed dose of winter to eastern U.S. The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/03/08/polar-vortex-wintry-weather-eastern/
2023-02-17: A polar vortex disruption is underway. What it means is up in the air. The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/02/17/polar-vortex-stratospheric-warming-weather/
2023-02-14: Polar Vortex Set To Be Disrupted: How Will It Impact Our Weather? WOAY-TV, https://woay.com/polar-vortex-set-to-be-disrupted-how-will-it-impact-our-weather/
2023-02-10: An event high above the Arctic may turn winter sharply colder in U.S., Europe. Axios, https://www.axios.com/2023/02/10/sudden-stratospheric-warming-event-polar-vortex.
2023-02-09: How a predicted polar-vortex disruption could spur winter’s revenge. The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/02/09/polar-vortex-sudden-stratospheric-warming/
2023-01-06: Warm weather pushes Northern Hemisphere snow cover to near record lows. The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/01/06/low-snow-cover-northern-hemisphere/
2022
2022-07-23: London hit 104 degrees. What is that like for your city? The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2022/london-104-degrees-your-city/.
2022-07-22: Climate modellers say a second 40C peak is a possibility in an extreme August heatwave. The i, https://inews.co.uk/news/science/uk-weather-forecast-august-heatwave-climate-modellers-peak-1757494
2022-07-19: The World Is Burning Once Again. The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/07/extreme-heat-uk-heatwave-record-temperatures/670574/
2022-07-19: Analysis: How the UK’s ‘insane’ 40C heat was forecast ‘weeks in advance’. Carbon Brief, https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-the-uks-insane-40c-heat-was-forecast-weeks-in-advance/
2022-07-19: UK heatwave: Temperature crosses 40°C. Down to Earth, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/uk-heatwave-temperature-crosses-40-c-83792
2022-07-09: Britain could reach 40C by mid-July, forecast computer models predict for first time. Sky News, https://news.sky.com/story/britain-could-reach-40c-by-mid-july-forecast-computer-models-predict-for-first-time-12648278
2021
2021-01-07: The polar vortex has just been disrupted. What does this bode? Mashable, https://mashable.com/article/polar-vortex-explained
2020
2020-09-11: Orange skies across UK caused by California wildfires burning 5,000 miles away. The Telegraph, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/11/california-wildfires-cause-orange-glow-uk-sky/
2020-06-20: UK summers to regularly reach 40C by end of the century, Met Office says. The Telegraph, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/30/uk-summers-regularly-reach-40c-end-century-met-office-says/
2020-02-16: The link between climate change and Britain’s winter storms. The Sunday Times, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-link-between-climate-change-and-britains-winter-storms-v3k99nh7s
2019
2019-08-11: Extreme weather in the UK: what have we done to deserve it? The Times, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/extreme-weather-in-the-uk-what-have-we-done-to-deserve-it-q06c75r95
2018
2018-08-03: As Britain braces for more scorching temperatures this weekend: Why the 2018 heatwave could be on course to beat the infamous summer of 1976. MailOnline, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6022487/Will-2018-finally-famous-heatwave-1976.html
2018-07-27: Can we expect lots more heatwaves in the future, and is this the new normal? The Independent, https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/uk-weather-heatwave-climate-change-prediction-future-hot-temperature-a8463391.html
2018-05-24: Why has Britain had such extreme weather? Scientists reveal how it’s down to the ‘North Atlantic Oscillation’. MailOnline, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/fb-5766625/Why-Britain-extreme-weather.html