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📢The peer-reviewed CHIRPS3 paper is now published in Nature Scientific Data!

CHIRPS2 operational updates will cease after December 31, 2026.

🔗 Article: https://t.co/A4s6JM8HQq
🔗FEWS NET Press Release: https://t.co/72uj44T0TI
🔗UCSB news: https://t.co/m5uuyhC9IG

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

A recent blog, in collaboration with @umdgeography, @Eth_Meteorology and @IGAD_CPAC highlights potential impacts of the forecast 2026 #ElNiño on Ethiopia’s June to September Kiremt rainy season and the associated risks to food security.

Read more ➡️: https://t.co/1NPknpcjP8

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

High-elevation weather stations installed by the African Mountain Research Foundation across southern Africa provide critical data integrated into #CHIRPS.

African Mountain Research Foundation has shared a short film, featuring a special narrator (Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex).

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The Climate Hazards Center Research Director and Climate Scientist, Dr Chris Funk, was featured in the latest issue of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Magazine #lookKIT 2026/1.

Dr. Funk highlights ongoing collaboration between the CHC and KIT.

https://t.co/PKFgrb9q0A

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

This week the Climate Hazards Center met with colleagues from @MetMalawi for a workshop training on using Geotools for drought monitoring and forecasting.

Visit https://t.co/Gt4AEmrGhf to explore and download the Geotools add-ons for QGIS.

#drought

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Join us on October 16 for a webinar on Public Health Strategies for Droughts and Food & Water Security hosted by @ColumbiaMSPH.

9:00 - 10:30 AM ET

Learn more: https://t.co/qHmZ3VUhfX
Register: https://t.co/iaZJpclwzx

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

Weather station reporting has been declining over the past 4 decades. The CHC and UCAR @COMETMetEd are deploying 3D-printed stations to fill climate data gaps.
Read more about this joint effort with @MeteoKenya @MSDZIM @FEWSNET here: https://t.co/OeSUyUkUcd

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🔔 A new article by the Ethiopian Meteorological Institute @Eth_Meteorology and co-authored by the CHC highlights EMI’s remarkable progress in advancing climate services.

Read more: https://t.co/AAkw1FK5ok
Article: https://t.co/GVwIPBBlDT

#Ethiopia

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📢Dr. Chris Funk from @ClimateHazards will join a global panel of experts on June 11, at the Cell Press Forum: Drought and Water In(security) in a Changing World. Don’t miss this discussion!

Register: https://t.co/wS8PH3T6AL
@CellPressNews @UCSBgeog

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

🔔The atmosphere’s growing thirst is making droughts worse, even where it rains.

CHC has co-authored a paper that explored the extent to which Atmospheric Evaporative Demand has influenced the severity of drought.

News: https://t.co/8QUn1zBA7v
Paper: https://t.co/v0rGnR2lNT

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How can satellite data help us improve food security?

CHC has developed a crop area mapping approach using Spectral Mixture Analysis that works well in smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa.

Read more: https://t.co/eOCNXdgTVe
#foodsecurity #remotesensing

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Scientists at the Climate Hazards Center and the University of California are studying heat exposure among elementary students in California to help develop heat action plans.

Learn more about this work here: https://t.co/cNTUYGAjoG

@UCSBgeog

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

📢Join CHC's Chris Funk on May 14, 2025 as he presents at the KIT International Excellence Talks.

Read more: https://t.co/bB7Q8vkdeg

Zoom: https://t.co/Q5qKNwb0iL

2024 International Excellence Award Video: https://t.co/SVddJEI43s

@UCSBgeog

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

CHC is excited to welcome @AfricanMt as our newest data provider! In March, @AfricanMt provided valuable station data from mountainous areas of #Malawi, #Zimbabwe, & #SouthAfrica into #CHIRPS.

👉 https://t.co/U6kBWupeV8 for the latest rainfall updates.

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

ENSO neutral conditions are currently present.

East Africa March rainfall totals were above average across most of #Kenya, #Tanzania, southwestern #Ethiopia, and southern Somalia.

🌧️are forecast to continue.

Latest update: https://t.co/1NPknpcjP8
#CHIRPS

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

The March #Afghanistan Agro-climate Special Report is out!
Rainfall conditions improved in March, but the seasonal (October 2024 - April 2025) cumulative rainfall remains below-average.
Full report➡️: https://t.co/SMokCN2KnW

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

⭐️Welcome back Capstone Students!
The undergraduate statistics team @ucsbpstat is back from spring break and diving into data! They’re applying their statistical skills to evaluate model performance in predicting rainfall. Excited to see their insights unfold

[GEOGLAM Crop Monitor @GEOCropMonitor]

Released today! #CM4EW March report covering concern for cereals in much of #Ethiopia & main season cereals in eastern #EastAfrica, poor prospects in #NorthAfrica & the #MiddleEast, rainfall improvements in #SouthernAfrica & more. https://t.co/8NjLa4b76x @climatehazardscenter

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

We are pleased to release the first 2025 #Ethiopia and #EastAfrica Agroclimate Special Report.

Dry conditions are forecast to continue across southeastern Ethiopia, central and southern Somalia, and parts of eastern Kenya.

https://t.co/OXifl3llpe
@Eth_Meteorology

[Climate Hazards Center @climatehazards]

📢
CHC’s Communications Specialist has contributed to a recent study investigating the uptake of tornado warning information in select counties of #Alabama and #Mississippi .

Check out the Paper: https://t.co/sp90ptNcht

#hazards #earlywarning