@unirdg-met
Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. Undergraduate, MSc and PhD courses in Weather, Climate and more plus internationally top notch research: https://research.reading.ac.uk/meteorology/
Poet Laureate checks out the Met observations site
Poet Laureate discusses weather
The Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, achieved a longstanding ambition by becoming the latest @uniofreading.bsky.social weather observer after admitting he didn’t get on our @unirdg-met.bsky.social degree course while on BBC Radio 4’s PM programme!
www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...
Bus on campus
Explanation of the stripes inside the bus.
This bus is electric!
Stripes made in Reading.
The new Reading 'warming stripes' double-decker electric bus came to campus today.
The bus is painted in the local warming stripes to start climate conversations throughout the town.
2026 Centenary Community Festival at University of Reading with people enjoying outdoor activities and a red and white striped tent.
Book now for the University of Reading's FREE Centenary Community Festival 2026!
Join us for a two-day extravaganza this May to celebrate 100 years of UoR, featuring research talks, live music and the return of our historic RAG Parade.
Visit rdg.ac/centenaryfestival to register now.
#UoR100
Interested in mathematical, statistical, and modelling techniques? Want to better understand the risk of crossing climate tipping points? Join our team!
Closing date: Friday 27 March 2026
Full PhD project details and application info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
This time, at the 2026 University of Reading Department of #Meteorology's Research Away-Day, we had a larger auditorium in the #PalmerBuilding (and hence more space) than during the same event in 2024. (click on thumbnail to see the composite photo). #ResearchAwayDay @uniofreading.bsky.social
Figure 6 of Black et al. showing emerging drought hotspots in historical simulations and observations estimates and future projections
Emerging #drought hotspots across Europe, southern Africa, northern South America + western North America based on new approach considering growing season soil moisture available to plants - @natureportfolio.nature.com study by Emily Black @unirdg-met.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
The @uniofreading.bsky.social has been a leading advocate for #climate education to better prepare young people for changing careers & society, as explained by our head of school Andrew Charlton-Perez OBE in this @uk.theconversation.com article:
theconversation.com/climate-educ...
In recent years, China has managed to clean up its air pollution. However, Prof. Laura Wilcox of Reading Meteorology explained in July how these local efforts have actually accelerated climate change on a global level.
The Conversation UK
🔗 rdg.ac/3L39Q4L
Work from @uniofreading.bsky.social on plausible future UK #climate extreme scenarios: doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Met singers gather in the stairwell
Festive tunes have arrived @unirdg-met.bsky.social following our last weather & climate discussion!
University of Reading authors Andrea Dittus, Benoit Mayer & Richard Allan talk about the journey ahead
All 3 working groups, the physical science basis, impacts/adaptation and mitigation joined in person for the first time
The @uniofreading.bsky.social authors of @ipcc.bsky.social 7th assessment met in Paris with 2 @unirdg-met.bsky.social covering physical processes & climate stabilisation pathways + 1 @unirdg-law.bsky.social on #climate law aspects of mitigation:
www.ipcc.ch/assessment-r...
Monsoons set to become wetter but weaker, pushing further inland than previous storms.
A team of climate scientists headed by Dr Kieran Hunt of @unirdg-met.bsky.social used 13 models to predict how rising temperatures will influence future rainy seasons
🔗 rdg.ac/3XoBZpH
#climatesky
New @uk.theconversation.com podcast from @ncas-uk.bsky.social with Laura Wilcox on aerosol and #climate
With #COP30 delegates today discussing energy, researchers from @ncas-uk.bsky.social and @unirdg-met.bsky.social examine how Britain's national grid could be made more resilient to our notoriously changeable weather!
#climatesky
🔗 rdg.ac/3L0mDoh
New insights into slow progression of #flooding from Lakes Victoria, Kyoga & Albert + expansion of Sudd Wetlands in East Africa 2019-2024 enable better forecasting – new blog by Douglas Mulangwa: socialmetwork.blog/2025/10/28/w...
Interested in revealing how moisture-driven surface cyclones can develop into hazardous windstorms, now and in the future? You could do it at @unirdg-met.bsky.social @ncas-uk.bsky.social, working with @benharvey.bsky.social, @jriboldi.bsky.social, Sue gray and me!
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Including how a major hurricane that hit Jamaica in 1903 would have dropped more rain in today’s warmer world: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...
Expert comment about more destructive tropical cyclones as the world warms:
theconversation.com/hurricane-me...
Forecasting renewable energy droughts (and floods) is increasingly crucial in developing a flexible grid and stable electricity prices:
theconversation.com/how-a-more-f...
The @esa.int WIVERN satellite mission to transform forecasts of hurricanes, thunderstorms & heavy rainfall makes our Prof Anthony Illingworth the 1st scientist with 2 Earth Explorer missions adopted, following launch of EarthCARE satellite in 2024:
www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Re...
Dorothy Heinrich's Highlights article entitled: Black swans or sitting ducks: Enhancing humanitarian imagination and preparedness to unprecedented extreme weather
PhD researcher @dorothyclimate.bsky.social is exploring how the humanitarian sector can better imagine and prepare for unprecedented extreme weather. Discover more at bit.ly/drhighlights24
#PhD #extremeweather #humanitarianwork
PICO sessions at @egu.eu - a snapshot of what dust scientists think. Are they better or worse than orals and posters? Are they more popular with junior scientists?
New @unirdg-met.bsky.social Meteorology Department blog:
Who's up for a PICO?
blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-...
Calling all past Mets!
As we celebrate 100 years of the University of Reading we invite you to take part in our Alumni Centenary Census. Your story is an important part of the University's legacy — and that's why we want to hear from you.
Add your voice today: rdg.ac/censusln
Join us for International Observe The Moon Night in-person (registration required) or online!🔭
Held and organized by the @uniofreading.bsky.social alongside Reading Astronomical Society, @royalastrosoc.bsky.social, Troodos Observatory (Cyprus) and supported by STFC
www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Un...
Why weather apps promise more local precision than they can deliver, particularly in showery conditions: www.newscientist.com/article/2494...
Here I quietly place my first post here. Delighted to note that I am going to join as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the @unirdg-met.bsky.social Space Physics group with @mathewjowens.bsky.social
Visa just arrived, ticket is booked! Count down starts...
It's about time that I wrote this:
theconversation.com/why-on-earth...
Stratospheric Impacts on Weather Regimes Following the 2018 and 2019 Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
New paper from @robertwlee.bsky.social, Andrew Charlton-Perez @unirdg-met.bsky.social and me, published today in @agu.org GRL
doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Meteorology & Climate online courses @uniofreading.bsky.social suitable for professional meteorologists, consultants, STEM students, graduates & academics seeking to improve their range of skills and knowledge. Details & applications:
www.reading.ac.uk/meteorology/...
As the hosepipe ban kicks in over parts of Reading we look at how this summer so far compares to the UK’s infamous hot, dry summer of 1976 in this week’s @unirdg-met.bsky.social blog:
blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-...