Da ble det offisielt snøfritt i Tromsø 💧

@met.no
#iTromsø (www.itromso.no/nyheter/n/pB...)

It’s mid-April. It’s spring.
And still almost no Krykkja has arrived.
It’s so silent. It’s too silent.
What happened?

Here’s a moment of peace and love ❤️
A protecting mother and her son 💕

What Happened After Denmark Adopted a Ruined City in Ukraine The Danish government has contributed more than $250 million to Mykolaiv, as the Trump administration pushes a more business-focused plan.

The Danish government has contributed more than $250 million to the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, testing a country-to-country aid program that contrasts with a Trump administration plan that would focus on for-profit ventures in rebuilding Ukraine. nyti.ms/427mjsZ

even better yes 😍

This cloud-free satellite image, acquired on 11 April 2026 by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellites, shows widespread snow cover across Norway’s mountainous spine, northern Sweden, and Finland. The Norwegian fjords appear as dark, narrow inlets cutting through bright snow-covered terrain, while the Gulf of Bothnia and the broader Baltic Sea display deep blue waters, with residual ice visible along the northern shores. Southern Sweden and Finland show more exposed land, with muted brown and green tones indicating early snowmelt.

What a beauty 😍 - A cloud-free Scandinavia! My home 💙

Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery

💧The March 2026 #C3S Climate Bulletin reports drier-than-average conditions across much of Europe, while Iceland, the northern UK, much of Scandinavia, & several Mediterranean & Caucasus regions were wetter than average, with storms causing flooding & damage in multiple areas.
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#CopernicusClimate

Map showing which month has the largest warming trend over the last 75 years. It's June for the southwestern portion of Europe, March for most areas east of 20E, and February for the rest of Europe.

Two polar stereographic maps side-by-side showing actual air temperatures in March 2026 on the left and the temperature anomaly on the right for March 2026. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. All data uses ERA5 reanalysis. Most areas are warmer than average.

There was a strong temperature anomaly gradient across the Arctic in March, with anomalous warmth over the northernmost areas and much colder conditions relative to average over land areas (more than 5°C departures for both areas)

Download at zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Nothing. Bring your normal shoes (sandals?)

Spring came early this year in Northern Norway. Suddenly it is gardening instead of skiing. Weeks eaelier than normal
⛷️—> 🌱

Borage plant blue flowers, fine hairs on the flower boats and leaves stands silhouette and evening light. A vision

Most gardens are designed to look right.

This one wasn’t.

We left space — not for decoration, but for life.

It looked messy.
That’s where everything was living.

If you leave space, things arrive.

Look at the women at NASA.

They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.

And they are doing it all with joy.👇

The magic of an Irish rainforest.
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The increasing sea surface temperature is one of the scariest observations we have, I think ... 😰

❄ The March 2026 #C3S Climate Bulletin reports the lowest Arctic March sea ice extent in the 48-year satellite record at 5.7% below average, and tied lowest maximum winter extent. Antarctic sea ice extent was 10% below average.

🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/sea-ice-cove...

@osi-saf.eumetsat.int

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us.

If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

I'm deep down the rabbit hole on FROGFISH, 60 species of anglerfish in family Antennariidae.

They are deeply, utterly WEIRD & MARVELOUS.

Most walk on modified fins.
Others use jet propulsion.
Some are capable of air-breathing.
Some are "hairy", others blend perfectly in sargassum.

Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers

Our burning of fossil fuels is melting sea ice and drowning emperor penguin chicks, putting them in danger of extinction. 😱

Screenshot of text that says: "Important Notice (3/24/2026): NOAA NWS/NCEP has terminated the NCEP/NCAR R1 reanalysis as of March 18th, 2026. NCEP/NCAR R1 has been used as the atmospheric forcing data in the PIOMAS reanalysis . We had not been aware of this change in service which was apparently formally announced Feb 13. 2026. This means that we will have to find alternatives and generate a replacement. It will take considerable effort and time to update data streams, re-calibrate the model and generate updated time series. We don’t yet have a good sense if that’s possible with available funds and if so, when we will be able to resume production of a new PIOMAS time series. While a replacement of the NCAR/NCEP R1 as the forcing product makes ultimate sense, we would have wished for a longer time period to facilitate the transition. We are sorry what this means to our many users. PIOMAS has been in production since March 2010 and we rarely missed updates by more than a couple of weeks (except for government shutdowns). This will be longer. Check back here for updates! "

I had a feeling this was going to happen. Sad news, especially given the poor state of sea ice after this winter.

Looks like we won't be getting any more data for Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume for a while from PIOMAS. See: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...

Polar stereographic map showing 2-m air temperature trends over the Arctic for Aprils from 1979 to 2025. There is widespread warming over nearly all locations.

Trend in April temperatures across the #Arctic over the last 47 years...

The greatest warming is along the Siberian coast and in the Barents Sea, especially near Novaya Zemlya and Severnaya Zemlya.

Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5. For more info: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

OFFICIAL from @noaa.gov today: March blew the cover off the record books here in the U.S.

❗️Average temperature: 9.4° ABOVE the 20th century normal
❗️First time ANY month exceeded 9°F above average
❗️This was the ALL-TIME WARMEST March in the 132-year record

A quick 🧵

One dataset, two ways of looking at it. At Visualising Climate 2026, we will explore how design choices like these change what people see & understand about our climate. Join us to experiment and co-create better ways of seeing climate data.

🗓 4–6 November 2026📍 Bologna, Italy

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Grafen viser temperaturavvik for mars måned (1991-2020 normalen). Den røde stolpen er mars 2026.

Klimatologisk månedoversikt som viser lufttemperatur.

Mars ble rekordvarm 🌡️

📍3,9 grader over normalen.
📍Over 100 stasjonsrekorder for varmeste mars.
📍Ny regionsrekord for varmeste mars for Vestlandet, Trøndelag og Nord-Norge.

Les nettsaken her: www.met.no/nyhetsarkiv/...

Det var rekordlite sjøis i Arktis i mars 🧊

– I europeisk sektor er det særlig nord for Svalbard og det nordlige Barentshavet som har mindre is enn normalt, sier forsker @signeaaboe.bsky.social

Les mer om sjøisen i Arktis i månedsrapporten 🔗 shorturl.at/s0QD0

Small crescent Earth setting behind the Moon in foreground.

This is probably one of my favourite Artemis II images. Tiny Earth setting behind the Moon as taken from the far side. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotogtaphy #ArtemisII

Moon in between the camera and the Earth, dark side visible.

Wow.

“NASA's EPIC camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth. This view shows the fully illuminated ‘dark side’ of the moon never visible from Earth.” www.planetary.org/space-images...

Food for thought the next time someone says we can’t transition quickly from fossil fuels to renewable energy

Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat

Some climate change facts:

2015–2025 = hottest decade observed

🌊 ~90% of excess heat stored in the oceans

Heat gain ≈ 18× global energy use

Rate is accelerating, not stabilizing

This isn’t just warming; it’s a system moving further out of equilibrium

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Anna's hummingbird hovering. Facing to the right. With a small ant on the tip of its bill.

Sometimes you just get that shot. Anna's hummingbird with a little friend, in my yard. Davis, CA. #birds #ants