Dr Marcia Zilli , Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Climate Dynamics , and Dr Neil Hart, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, School of Geography and the Environment , explore the likelihood of increases in intense rainfall events alongside heatwaves in Brazil It has been a little over one year since the devastating floods in Rio Grande do Sul . While Brazil has been spared a second flood of the same unprecedented scale, extreme rainfall events continue to hit. Our results show that while the frequency