A message from Tuna Acisu asking for help maintaining cherry blossom record in Kyoto Japan.
A figure showing the cherry tree record since 812 from world in data.
A 1200+ year climate record is at risk. Do you know know anyone in Japan who could help? See below.
4x2 timeseries plot of various humidity metrics and datasets. Coloured (red/blue) vertical bars indicate ENSO state. Left column - in situ data (HadISDH), Right column - reanalyses data (ERA5, MERRA-2, JRA-3Q). Top two rows - specificy humidity (land, then ocean), bottom two rows - relative humidity (land, then ocean).
Here's the BAMS SotC timeseries image I referred to. Asking Kate Willett (HadISDH developer & Humidity expert), that rise in RH is mostly driven by the marine RH which "went a bit wierd".
(Not a record land value in RH - I was looking at specific humidity by mistake)
That update isn't yet available to us on the Dashboard - so that data is only up to 2024, and so is still ISD based. hadisdh.blogspot.com has a full breakdown of that update.
BAMS SotC 2024 humidity section (2d1) suggests its driven by changes over ocean in 2023-4 (ENSO) plus record land value.
Research Assistant position closing 25th: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr... to work on the @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social contract on access to global land meteorological holdings.
⚠️⚠️🔴 Red weather warning issued 🔴⚠️⚠️
Wind across the Isles of Scilly and parts of Cornwall
Thursday 16:00 – 23:00
Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning
Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️
A request for weather interested volunteers!
Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue
Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...
Two job opportunities on new @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social contract until 30/06/28. Both looking at aspects of data rescue and preparation and provision of global historical land meteorological data. Looking to fill ASAP. First job is for a senior postdoctoral position: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
Any shares of this for algorithmical purposes much-appreciated. I'd love to get these books out of my spare room & into the world before my new novel comes out. I'll sign them all & I really am happy to let people choose what they pay.
(Postage to UK is £4.)
The background is a photo taken on September 29, 2024, two days after Hurricane Helene; the image shows the receding Swannanoa River along Highway 70 in Asheville, North Carolina. Overlaid text on the photo reads, “State of the Climate in 2024. Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 106, No. 8, August 2025”. Photo credit: Deborah J. Misch, former Graphics team member for the BAMS State of the Climate.
▶️ UPDATE: The 2024 #BulletinAMS State of the Climate Assessment is now available! Check out the highlights in our press release: bit.ly/45tFO0g
#StateoftheClimate #StateoftheClimate2024
A privilege to have helped in putting this report together, working alongside fantastic colleagues from around the world to measure, describe and place in context what the climate was like in 2024. #StateoftheClimate #StateoftheClimate2024
#StormFloris has been named
It is forecast to bring unseasonably strong winds to the UK on Monday along with heavy rain
Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️
I have a very immediate appointment need for a junior PD position as a chapter scientist on the @ipcc.bsky.social Special Report on Climate Change and Cities. Initial appointment will be 6 months so I can appoint immediately but extendable to the two years of the report cycle. (1/2)
Storm Éowyn will hit the UK on Friday morning and is set to bring damaging gusts. Red and amber warnings have been issued⚠️
Watch our latest update on Storm Éowyn 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYVc...
4 year senior postdoc opportunity working on event attribution with me on a new @epaireland.bsky.social project in collaboration with @frediotto.bsky.social and the good folks at @wwattribution.bsky.social ideally to start in March: universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
2024 has recorded the highest temperature in any year since 1850 🌡🌍
This is the 11th year in succession that has equalled or exceeded 1.0°C above the pre-industrial average period
A number of centres released their estimates today:
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Ciarán Cuffe has launched a Sail Rail Manifesto - based on the lessons he and I learned when testing all of this in September
www.ciarancuffe.com/a-sailrail-m...
This video is the summary of our trip and the political conclusions youtu.be/3ogU82MGBDk
#CrossBorderRail
METAR xkcd.com/3024
Hand written text says "Yes, I'm in!"
"Being on the Planning Response team's been empowering. The campaign's a respected voice so we influence better developments for 🚶🧑🦽🚴🛴 in Exeter"
Sam's had to step back from helping. We'd 💚 more volunteers to help.
Could that be you?
We've a great buddy-up system so anyone can easily join in...
#Metoffice red #wind warning issued for tomorrow morning
90+mph wind gusts possible in red area
#StormDarragh looking a very dangerous storm with significant damage potential
60-80mph gusts elsewhere UK
Stay #weatheraware
#StormDarragh has been named and is forecast to bring very strong winds and heavy rain to the UK later on Friday and through the weekend #WeatherAware ⚠️
Looking for a distraction today? Or just want to help climate scientists?
Immerse yourself in some ship voyages from the 1860s and help transcribe the weather observations taken so we can improve our understanding of how the climate has changed.
Monsoon Voyages: www.zooniverse.org/projects/p-t...
It's better in warmer weather, but lovely at any time
Moresque? (iirc 2:1 Ricard, Almond syrup, with a little water, and ice)
A complex graph. It shows temperature difference from the 1981-2010 average on the y axis and month on the x axis (January through December). The lines on the plot are the year-to-date averages from 1850-2024 so the leftmost point is the january average for that year and the rightmost point is the january to december average for that year. Most years (labelled other years) are shown in grey. 2023 and 2024 are shown in red and 2016 is a sort of pale teal. A green shaded area is titled (~1.5°C range).
The year to date averages in 2024 started high as you might expect from an El Niño year (e.g 2016), but the average hasn't fallen as far and the past couple of months look like the average might be increasing again (October number is ERA5 based on daily averages to the 25th)
Global and Regional Climate in 2023 – the latest instalment in an annual series of climate reports authored by the Met Office Hadley Centre, published in Weather every year since 1996 and serving as a clear record of our changing climate.
Open link: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/RFQNW5...
Screenshot of many climate variables and their observational time series from the State of the Climate 2023 Report.
Monitoring climate variables through 2023 - what long-term trends and variability do you see? 📈📉
#SOTC2023 #StateOfClimate Page S8: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
2023 was a year of climate records: global temperature, ocean heat content, global sea level, antarctic sea ice, amongst many others all set records.
Highlights of the whole report are available from www.climate.gov/news-feature...
The BAMS State of the Climate 2023 is now published online. A privilege to be part of the 34th report in this series, and huge thanks to all authors, editors and others involved in the process.
#StateofClimate2023
www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/am...
