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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Kalpana Hamal

Kalpana Hamal is a PhD candidate at Freie Universität Berlin studying how temperatures and precipitation can change dramatically from one day to the next. She is particularly interested in understanding the physical processes behind these rapid changes and how they may evolve in a warming climate.

Sudden Temperature Change in a Warming World: Why Future Temperature Swings Are a Global Tug-of-War?

July 10, 2026
Sudden Temperature Change in a Warming World: Why Future Temperature Swings Are a Global Tug-of-War?

Berlin just went through a brutal heatwave, and then out of nowhere, the temperature crashed between June 28 and 29. The daily mean temperature dropped from nearly 33°C to 25°C—a dramatic drop of about 8°C in just 24 hours (based on ERA5 reanalysis data structure accessed via Open-Meteo). Scientists call these abrupt shifts temperature volatility: rapid …[Read More]