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and resulted in economic losses totalling $140 billion. Canada saw its second successive year of CO2 emissions over a billion tonnes, with wildfires in Jasper National Park alone causing over US $1 billion in damages. Bolivia had its highest CO2 emissions total this century (700 million tonnes), as did

, - ISEE Benchmarking Operational Flare Forecasts Workshop KD Leka, Kanya Kusano, Sung-Hong Park, et al. D2.3 poster o o o o o o Challenges: Forecast period? 12h – 4 day Probabilistic / deterministic Exceedance / non-exceedance forecasts Compare forecasts of same lead time & against same set of events

Yorkshire 18.2 °C 26/02/2019 17.6 °C 14/02/1998 136 Bradford (West Yorkshire) 18.4 °C 26/02/2019 16.7 °C 13/02/1998 110 Rothamsted (Herfordshire) 18.2 °C 26/02/2019 17.2 °C 13/02/1998 105 Morpeth, Cockle Park (Northumberland) 17.6 °C 26/02/2019 16.1 °C 29/02/1960 105 Wisley (Surrey) 18.9 °C 27/02/2019

affected the south-west coast, with one fatality. Areas of West Yorkshire were affected by flash flooding from the River Calder three times in two weeks during June and July. Evacuations of properties and caravan parks were necessary in Wales, Yorkshire and eastern Scotland. Leisure activities were

across Essex, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough were closed due to floodwater. On the 10th the River Nene in Northamptonshire overtopped forcing evacuation from the Billing Aquadrome Leisure Park in Northampton. In E/NE Scotland high tides caused damage to coastal sea defences at Golspie, north

the Western Isles and Shetland Isles) and in East Anglia, but well below normal in Northern Ireland and in central, western and south-western parts of Scotland. The UK monthly extremes were as follows: Maximum temperatures of 18.4 °C were recorded at Thornes Park (West Yorkshire) & Hawarden (Clwyd

across Essex, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough were closed due to floodwater. On the 10th the River Nene in Northamptonshire overtopped forcing evacuation from the Billing Aquadrome Leisure Park in Northampton. In E/NE Scotland high tides caused damage to coastal sea defences at Golspie, north

can increase already high background temperatures. Cities generally have less green and blue spaces, compared to more suburban and rural areas, such as parks, forests, ponds and wetlands that act to cool their surroundings. Heat emissions from transport and air conditioning units add excess heat

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