Climate change will increase forest disturbances in Europe throughout the 21st century Wildfires, insect outbreaks, and storms cause large pulses of tree mortality. Climate change amplifies these forest disturbances, yet their future magnitude and extent remain uncertain. Here, we simul...

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#CO2
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#FossilFuelPollution
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Nonlinear increase of compound drought-heatwave events since the early 2000s Amplified land-atmosphere coupling has triggered a nonlinear increase in compound drought-heatwave events led by heatwaves.

CAUSED AND/OR AMPLIFIED/INTENSIFIED BY HUMANS BURNING FOSSIL FUELS

#Oil
#Coal
#Gas
#FossilFuelPollution

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#Fire
#Ecosystems
#FossilFuelPollution
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

‘Flash droughts’ driven by heatwaves are on the rise, study finds Heatwaves, drought, wildfire risk and El Niño are compounding to create a dangerous cocktail of climate change.

CAUSED AND/OR AMPLIFIED/INTENSIFIED BY HUMANS BURNING FOSSIL FUELS

#Oil
#Coal
#Gas
#FossilFuelPollution

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#Ecosystems
#FossilFuelPollution
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

☀️ 'Beyond one-size-fits-all: a path toward region-specific flash drought monitoring and management' 🌊

🔗 Check out this recently published article in #ERW: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

#Environment #Water #Drought #Hydrology #Hydroclimates #flashdrought #watermanagement #Climate #agriculture

🌾 Winner #3: Emily Black examines global change in agricultural flash drought over the 21st century vital insights for food security planning. doi.org/10.1007/s003...

#Agriculture #FlashDrought #FoodSecurity #Science

Global Change in Agricultural Flash Drought over the 21st Century - Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Agricultural flash droughts are high-impact phenomena, characterized by rapid soil moisture dry down. The ensuing dry conditions can persist for weeks to months, with detrimental effects on natural ec...

🌾 Winner #3: Emily Black examines global change in agricultural flash drought over the 21st century vital insights for food security planning. doi.org/10.1007/s003...

#Agriculture #FlashDrought #FoodSecurity #AcademicSky

Rain one minute, heatwave the next. How climate ‘whiplash’ drives unpredictable fire weather We’re not going to be able to stop climate instability and associated dangerous wildfire weather, so we need to adapt.

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#PolarVortex
#Jetstream
#ClimateWhiplash
#PrecipitationWhiplash
#WeatherWhiplash
#FlashDrought
#BurnScars
#FlashFloods
#SuddenStratosphericWarming
#HeatDomes
#OmegaBlockingPatterns
#AtmosphericRivers
#FossilFuelPollution
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Rain one minute, heatwave the next. How climate ‘whiplash’ drives unpredictable fire weather We’re not going to be able to stop climate instability and associated dangerous wildfire weather, so we need to adapt.

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#Jetstream
#ClimateWhiplash
#PrecipitationWhiplash
#WeatherWhiplash
#FlashDrought
#ExtremeFire
#BurnScars
#FlashFloods
#SuddenStratosphericWarming
#HeatDomes
#OmegaBlockingPatterns
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#FossilFuelPollution
#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

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#FlashFloods
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#Drought
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#AnthropogenicGlobalWarming

Heat wave events in Milwaukee showing the duration and magnitude.

Heat waves in Milwaukee since 1981 using the 95th percentile threshold. The year 2012, when there was widespread drought in central US, was really exceptional. #flashdrought

The Days 8-14 U.S. Hazards Outlook shows areas where rapid onset drought risk exists in the next 8 to 14 days.

The U.S. Hazards Outlook indicates a risk of rapid onset drought in parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas from Oct. 17 - 23.

#RapidOnsetDrought #drought #FlashDrought 🧪

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The U.S. Hazards Outlook map shows areas where rapid onset drought risk, heavy precipitation and flooding may occur.

The 8-14 day U.S. Hazards Outlook for October 11-17 shows an area of rapid onset drought risk for southeastern Texas across Louisiana to Mississippi.

#drought #flashdrought #RapidOnsetDroughtRisk 🧪

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The Days 8-14 U.S. Hazards Outlook shows areas of rapid onset drought risk for parts of Texas and Louisiana.

The Days 8-14 U.S. Hazards Outlook indicates rapid onset drought risk for parts of Texas and Louisiana.

#drought #flashdrought 🧪

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The map of the U.S. shows areas of rapid onset drought risk for parts of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia from Sept 25 through October 1.

The U.S. hazards outlook shows a rapid onset drought risk for parts of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia from September 25 through October 1.

#drought #FlashDrought 🧪

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The U.S. Hazards Outlook shows areas where rapid onset drought risk exists, where ongoing drought may persist or worsen, and where flooding may occur.

The U.S. Hazards Outlook shows a rapid onset drought risk for parts of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia in the September 20-26 time frame.

#drought #FlashDrought 🧪

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The Days 8-14 U.S. Hazards Outlook, valid September 16-22, shows where drought risk exists and where current drought may persist or worsen.

The updated U.S. hazards outlook shows much more drought risk than the previous outlook.
Rapid onset drought risk exists from Missouri east to Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia and south to Mississippi and Alabama.

#FlashDrought #drought 🧪

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The Days 8-14 U.S. Hazards Outlook map, valid September 15-21, shows that drought may develop rapidly over northern Mississippi, western Alabama and a narrow band of southwest Tennessee.

The U.S. hazards outlook shows a rapid onset drought risk for northern Mississippi, western Alabama and a sliver of southwest Tennessee from September 15-21.

#FlashDrought #drought 🧪

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The five week change map shows areas of intensifying drought in shades of yellow and oranges and regions of drought improvement in shades of green.

Drought conditions have developed rapidly over the past month in parts of the Northeast and lower Midwest where shades of orange indicate that drought has worsened by two or three categories.

#drought #flashdrought #DroughtMonitor 🧪

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How flash droughts driven by climate change sparked record wildfires in Spain ⚰️ #ClimateEmergency #flashdrought #spain #wildfire www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

The four week change map for the U.S. Drought Monitor shows areas where drought status has intensified significantly in yellow and orange and improved in shades of green.

Notice the rapid drought development and expansion in the Northeast, lower Mississippi River Valley and, to a lesser degree, in parts of the West over the past four weeks.

#FlashDrought #DroughtMonitor 🧪

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A map of northwestern Spain showing multiple fires.

Nothing to see here, just multiple severe fires in northwestern Spain, where there is a maritime climate and annual rainfall of between 100 and 200cm.. #flashdrought #climateemergency

I learned a new thing today: flash drought.
I wondered why climate apocalypse was visiting northwestern Spain - a region with a maritime climate and annual rainfall between 1 and 2 metres.
The reason is flash drought. 😱
#flashdrought #climateemergency

Water Year 2025 Snow Drought Current Conditions Summary and Impacts in the West | June 12, 2025 | Drought.gov NIDIS and its partners release these snow drought updates for the western U.S. every 4 weeks from December through June.

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#tgs

“We used to look forward to summer. Now it terrifies us.”
#FlashDrought

'Thirstwaves' are growing more common across the United States As the climate warms, the atmosphere is getting thirstier. Scientists define this atmospheric thirst, or evaporative demand, as the amount of water that could potentially evaporate from Earth's surfac...

Call it #FlashDrought..

'Thirstwaves' are growing more common ☀️

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Ditto here in Atlanta for the #flashdrought. When meteorologists have to invent an ever-expanding lexicon of "freak weather" terms, maybe it's time to start taking #climatechange seriously!? Asking for a species.