Clouds: How to Identify Nature’s Most Fleeting Forms
On Thursday 30th April, Dr Eddy Graham (atmospheric scientist at the University of the Highlands and Islands) gave the third IMS talk of 2026. In “Clouds: How to Identify Nature’s Most Fleeting Form”, Eddy draws on his new book of the same title, as he shares the meteorological techniques of nephology (the study of clouds and cloud formation) that offer skyward-gazers insights into these elusive and transmutable shapes.
Re-Investigating Ireland’s Minimum Air Temperature Record
On Thursday 19th March, Dr John O’Sullivan (a former postdoctoral researcher at Met Éireann) gave the second IMS talk of 2026.
In “Re-Investigating Ireland’s Minimum Air Temperature Record”, John spoke about the recently published analysis completed by a team of researchers in Met Éireann’s Climate Services Division on the historical record from Markree Castle, 16th January 1881.
Changing Weather Extremes: Are Humans to Blame?
On Thursday 19th February, Dr Claire Bergin (a postdoctoral researcher at the Irish Climate Analysis Research Units (ICARUS) at Maynooth University) gave the first IMS talk of 2026.
In “Changing weather extremes: are humans to blame?”, Claire spoke about the newly formed WASITUS project, which focuses on finding out if extreme weather events in Ireland have changed in likelihood and severity due to human-caused climate change.
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