The Balkans have been pounded by storms, while wildfires broke out in Türkiye, Spain and France in the last week.

Home insurance companies are fleeing high-risk fire zones across North America at an alarming rate, leaving over 150,000 ...

The phenomenon, dubbed "hydroclimate whiplash," has become more frequent and intense, according to recent research, with Canada particularly susceptible.

This dramatic swing between weather extremes, known as “hydroclimate whiplash,” is becoming increasingly common worldwide – and new research suggests it’s getting worse due to climate change.

The rapid and devastating spread of the Los Angeles fires was fueled in part by greater extremes of wet and dry weather, a pattern called “hydroclimate whiplash” or “hydroclimate volatility” that is ...

Let’s talk a little bit about the idea of “hydroclimate whiplash” — sudden large or frequent swings between very dry and very wet conditions — which you wrote about recently in the ...

Worsening Climate "Whiplash" Helps Explain Why California's Wildfires Were so Ferocious A confluence of factors is making wildfires worse. Among them: increasingly dramatic swings between wet and dry ...

In a recent review of some 200 climate papers, he and his coauthors dubbed such swings from excessive rain to drought as hydroclimate whiplash.

Many areas are forecast to see increases in hydroclimate whiplash, which will probably increase the most in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific, north Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and northern ...

“Hydroclimate whiplash” – or rapid swings between intensely dry and extremely wet periods of weather – is happening more often worldwide, according to a new study.

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the phenomenon is on the rise worldwide.

Rapid swings from intensely wet conditions to extreme dryness are becoming more common, according to a new study. Scientists call it ‘hydroclimate whiplash,’ and it can lead to devastating ...