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From The Conversation: How weather ‘blocks’ have triggered more extreme heatwaves and floods across Europe

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Professor Tim Woollings from the Department of Physics discusses the 'blocking events' that have resulted in Europe’s weather getting stuck in long periods of hot, wet or cool weather this summer.

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