Slides in a lecture room for “175th Anniversary: Overview of the history of the Royal Meteorological Society”
Annual Weather & Climate conference in full swing now with a keynote talk from @rmets.org Chief Executive @proflizbentley.bsky.social introduced by RMetS President Brian Golding
Liz Bentley smiles at the camera, ready to give her opening speech!
A photo of Liz and Brian Golding at the front of a lecture theatre, viewed from the audience. The slide says "175th Anniversary: Overview of the history of the royal meteorological society"
Liz Opening the conference. View of her at the front of the lecture theatre from the back of the seats. The slide says "Annual Weather and Climate Conference" with the RMetS logo.
The #RMetS Annual Weather and Climate Conference is now open!
Thank you to @proflizbentley.bsky.social for her comprehensive keynote opening speech on the "175 Years of the Royal Meteorological Society", including past lessons, present potential, and future horizons.
@rmets.org 🧪🌥️🌞
New report: The #climatecrisis is already destroying €28bn a year of the EU's agricultural production
www.fi-compass.eu/library/mark...
175 years ago today, the Royal Meteorological Society. From the very start, RMetS played a key role in advancing weather and climate science – publishing research that has shaped our understanding of meteorology ever since. www.rmets.org/history
Today marks the 175th Anniversary of the Royal Meteorological Society, founded on 3rd April 1850.
If you were wondering what the weather was like on 3rd April 1850, thanks to the 20th century reanalysis the chart below shows the pressure pattern at 12Z on that day.
The Royal Meteorological Society celebrates its 175th anniversary today. And Carol Kirkwood and BBC Weather is at Hartwell House where the very first meeting took on this day in 1850.
Today marks the 175th Anniversary of the Royal Meteorological Society, founded on 3rd April 1850.
Originally founded as the British Meteorological Society, it became the Royal Meteorological Society in 1883 when Queen Victoria granted it a Royal Charter.
Thanks for arranging a fascinating meeting @matcollins.bsky.social and @rmets.bsky.social! It was huge a bonus to catch up with old friends and mentors!
Next up Richard Wood on physical modelling
Liz Bentley kicking off the @rmets.bsky.social meeting on the History of Climate Model
What is the difference between weather and climate. This #dataviz shows the "Central England" average temperature for periods ranging from 1 day (weather) to 30 years (climate). This shows the climate signal emerging. Note the varying y axis that covers the range of the data.
Using up the carbon budget for 1.5°C
Cover from The Economist from two years ago "Say goodbye to 1.5°C; why climate policy is off target". It has a graphic of the Earth with an apple on its head, and a arrow shot through the Earth.
A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.
Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.
Tomorrow (Wed pm) I'll be joining @proflizbentley.bsky.social & speakers from the Met Office, Woodland Trust & UK Health Security Agency to talk about some of the UK weather events of 2023, their impact and climate context. Free to attend, register for a zoom link: www.rmets.org/event/unders...
Two polar stereographic maps side-by-side showing Antarctic sea ice concentration and its anomalies relative to 1981-2010 for September 2024. Red shading is shown for less ice, and blue shading is shown for more ice. More areas are below average than above. Antarctica is masked out in grey shading.
Now looking at the #Antarctic in September 2024, which is near their annual maximum ice extent, we once again see large areas of low/no sea ice concentration around the Indian Ocean sector and Ross Sea.
Data available from nsidc.org/data/g02202/...
You can see the full range of variables here. With the high rainfall in England I thought at first that Neil had made a mistake and some green bars were missing….but of course he hadn’t. Balanced by the dry north.
A colour coded map of UK showing central England with extraordinary high rainfall in purple and western Scotland very dry in brown
Extraordinary rainfall distribution in UK in September. Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire saw their wettest month in our 188 year series. But only 25% wetter than average overall despite many areas having 3x average rainfall. More details in Met Office press release www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
This graphic from @insideclimatenews is wrong. It doesn’t show the Greenland Ice Sheet in 500, but in almost 1,000 years instead. See the figure from the original paper below, which you can check out here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@bberwyn.bsky.social Any chance to correct this?
So, how do we rescue millions of historical weather observations that are not currently available to science, such as those in this table?
Surely, ML can do this by now... 🧵
Upper Vénéon Valley from Temple Ecrins
30 Sept. 2024
Empty valley... 😢
Pilatte hut (center left) has closed 3 years ago.
Mountain desertification in Anthropocene Era 🌊
Now closing a mountain hut (Temple Ecrins) that has barely opened... bittersweet feeling!
Pic Marie Gardent
It was so great to be able to discuss Saving Ourselves with Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson at the Nest during Climate Week NYC last week. As we watch the destruction from Hurricane Helene, the conversation is all the more important.
Tune in here: www.wedonthavetime.org/events/clima...
