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Matt Priestley

@mattpriestley.bsky.social
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Weather/Climate Scientist at the University of Exeter focussing on EU Windstorms Insurance Science Engagement Fellow at RMetS

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Matt Priestley @mattpriestley.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Alongside @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social, we've written an insight as to why the insurance industry is impacted by, and requires an understanding of, weather and climate. Check it out in the post below👇👇
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Matt Priestley @mattpriestley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
If you work in the intersection between physical climate risk and the insurance/financial sectors please consider submitting/attending our session at next year's #EGU26 Details below 👇 Session link: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
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Session ITS4.36/NH13.11
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 02/07/2025
1°C of global warming does NOT mean that heatwaves 'just' get hotter by 1°C. Over large parts of the UK, global warming means that heatwaves are 3-4°C warmer, with worse consequences for people and ecosystems.
UK maps showing changes in temperatures for typical summer days and hot summer days.
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Matt Priestley @mattpriestley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
It's the final day of #EGU25 but that doesn't mean all the fun is over. Our session "Weather and Climate Science Insights for the Insurance and Financial Sectors" is this afternoon! Posters,14.00-15.45,X3.49-60 Orals,16.15-18.00,1.31/32 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
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Session NH11.4
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Matt Priestley @mattpriestley.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Great new insight into the dynamics of clustering events for western Europe!
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 31/01/2025
What better way to spend three days in July than by coming to Manchester for this year's @rmets.org Annual Weather and Climate Conference? 😁 Please consider submitting an abstract – deadline 14 February. We look forward to seeing you there! More details: www.rmets.org/annualconfer...
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Matt Priestley @mattpriestley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Want to flag (and credit) the original version of this (www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...). With this figure (that I created w/ Dan Bannister@WTW) we wanted to contextualise the potential severity of Éowyn in the ERA5 historical record. Follow the link to read more about this Exeter/WTW research.
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Matt Priestley @mattpriestley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The UK windstorm season 2024/25 has seen a fairly active start (Bert, Darragh). In the future we expect these storms to be more frequent and intense, but by how much? Well in a new paper, we've tried to answer this... rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Forced trends and internal variability in climate change projections of extreme European windstorm frequency and severity
This study provides an assessment of changes to European windstorm severity and frequency in a warming climate. The results show increases in storm average and aggregate severity for western Europe, ....
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James Salter @jsalter90.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Fully-funded PhD positions @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social as part of new NERC CDT 'UNRISK'. Projects at intersection of climate/data/decision science, all info and list of projects + supervisors found at unrisk-cdt.ac.uk Deadline to apply 13th January
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Understanding Uncertainty to Reduce Climate Risks – NERC Centre for Doctoral Training
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Matt Priestley @mattpriestley.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Great read and agree with the message entirely. Especially when you consider that for some regions the highest EffCS models offer the most realistic representation of the historical climate (esd.copernicus.org/articles/14/... @tammy-minnie.bsky.social )
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Performance-based sub-selection of CMIP6 models for impact assessments in Europe
Abstract. We have created a performance-based assessment of CMIP6 models for Europe that can be used to inform the sub-selection of models for this region. Our assessment covers criteria indicative of...
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US. Across all US counties, those in the top fifth for climate-driven disaster risk saw home premiums leap by 22% in just three years to 2023, compared to an overall average of a 13% rise in real terms. buff.ly/49vomdl
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Matt Priestley @mattpriestley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Please consider submitting to our session on "Weather and Climate Science Insights for the Insurance and Financial Sectors" for #EGU25 Details in here 👇👇
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Jan Null, CCM @ggweather.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Meteorological eye-candy. Close-up view of the 955mb low deepening this afternoon off the PacNW coast.
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Ruari Rhodes @ruarirhodes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Natural hazards friends! Ever thought about working in insurance but no idea where to start? I’ve put together a beginners guide to the insurance industry with the Royal Meteorological Society: www.rmets.org/news/atmosph...
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Atmospheric Science in the Insurance Industry
By Ruari Rhodes, Senior Climate Change Analyst at Liberty Mutual Insurance.
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