Society is vulnerable to extreme weather events and, by extension, to the human impact on future events. As climate changes weather patterns will change. The search is on for more effective methodologies to aid decision-makers both in mitigation to avoid climate change and in adaptation to changes. The traditional approach employs ensembles of climate model simulations, statistical bias correction, downscaling to the spatial and temporal scales relevant to decision-makers, and then translation into quantities of interest. The veracity of this approach cannot be tested, and it faces in-principle challenges. Alternatively, numerical weather prediction models in an altered climate setting can provide tailored naritives of high-resolution simulations of high-impact weather in a future climate. This Tales of Future Weather approach will aid in the interpretation of lower resolution simulations. Arguably, it potentially provides a complementary and more realistic and more physically consistent pictures of what future weather might look like.
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