"Forecasting the weather is detailing the social impact of the atmosphere" #ASC23

The final #ASC23 talk is from my Met Office colleague Helen Roberts, our first socio-meteorologist. Here she talks about how she is driving social science at the Met Office

40,000 unique articles have appeared over 150 years, from hemispheric maps of pressure obs (5000 observers by 1935) to individual events such as the Galveston hurricane in 1900 to Wilson Bentley's photographs of snow, ice and frost #ASC23

Now it is David Schultz on the 150 years of Monthly Weather Review from its first 1 page issue produced by the US Army Signals Service in January 1873 to present (now published by the American Meteorological Society) #ASC23

Fascinating to see that insurance companies take a share price hit before events if the forecast has it hitting an expensive area! #ASC23

Final keynotes at #ASC23 now, first up James Cosgrove from Moody's RMS on catastrophe modelling around Hurricane Ian.

I have to slip away now for school run. But hopefully get the recordings (literally) later #ASC23

Pop music is mostly rain and sun, but cloud, cold and heat all feature a lot! Biases for emotion with sun is positive, rain is negative but some notable exceptions. Lots of Bob Dylan too! #ASC23

Pop music focuses on the Lyrics, whether a song focused on weather (baby it's cold outside) or used artistically (rain drops on roses). Classical music focuses on titles or the instruments used (like a percussion thunder sheet) #ASC23

Now it is Karen Aplin on weather and music #ASC23. Both classical and pop music covered here!

The Q&A on Muri's talk has gone places I've never been in a conference session before, such as was the artist in Oslo at the time to view these clouds! #ASC23

Muri shows some photos of recent Nacreous clouds and you really can see the link to the Scream, whereas the effects of volcanism another suggestion just don't bring the structure of clouds he captured in the painting #ASC23

A poem suggests that he observed a phenomenon and that a "scream of nature" went through him, which is where the painting comes from.... Munch told a friend that the coagulated blood red clouds wouldn't be seen as clouds by people, hence the suggestion he painted Nacreous clouds frkm his experience #ASC23,

Next at #ASC23 titled "Screaming Clouds" by Helene Muri, focusing on Munch's Scream, with a focus on the clouds in the background, Nacreous clouds (a.k.a Mother of Pearl clouds).

Fascinating talk from Franz Ossing about clouds and colours in Dutch painting. It is a whole new way of looking at the paintings, and the role of science in the art (and how the relationship changed over time) #ASC23

#ASC23 has a screen break then breakout sessions. I will be speaking on my work in the Outer Hebrides working with an artist to better communicate climate information to the community so they could inform on adaptation planning

@StottPeter finishes by highlighting how storytelling can have a really positive impact and needs to be given weighting along with the 'bread and butter' of research publications. #scicomm #ASC23

@StottPeter brought a variety of disciplines (writers, artists and musicians for example) along with #climate #Scientists to create the "Climate Stories" project #ASC23 with a paper on it here: https://gc.copernicus.org/articles/5/339/2022/

@StottPeter has written a book "Hot Air" which is a great read (and no I am not on a commission here), with some incredible almost incredulous stories including being in court and Putin's Russia. #ASC23

The final keynote is from @StottPeter on Communicating Climate Science: Misinformation. Storytelling and creativity. #ASC23

Peter argues that we need to develop both our #climate #science tools, techniques and technology but ALSO our #Storytelling skills.