Category: Droughts, Floods & Storm Intensification

A plain-English guide to the main causes of extreme weather, from heat and moisture to oceans, terrain, land use, climate change, exposure, and compound disasters.

Droughts, floods, and storms are intensifying through shared climate drivers: hotter air, drier soils, warmer oceans, blocked weather patterns, heavier rain, and growing exposure.

A beginner-friendly guide to extreme weather: what it is, common types, warning basics, and why risks are changing.

Droughts, floods, and storms are linked by water, heat, pressure, and motion. This explainer looks at how scientists measure the mechanisms behind these hazards.

Climate change does not single-handedly cause every extreme event. It changes the odds, intensity, duration, moisture, heat, drought, fire weather, coastal flooding, and attribution picture.

Storm power comes from heat, moisture, pressure differences, instability, wind structure, and the places storms strike. Here is how tropical cyclones and thunderstorms become more damaging.