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Safe to say that the European (ECMWF) seasonal ENSO forecast model has an opinion...

This would be quite the El Niño from June into peak Atlantic hurricane season.

REMINDER: This is simply one model ensemble projection. Far from a guarantee, but helpful to try to identify early signals.

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Northwest Bay and Bruny Island looking picture perfect for Friday morning.

Six trillion ways to solve climate change » Yale Climate Connections New research shows that mixing and matching manageable climate policy 'wedges' can add up to real solutions.

A new paper on the "stabilization wedge" idea was published in the journal Science today. The authors provide 36 wedge strategies that together can be mixed and matched into more than 6 trillion combinations able to limit global warming to 1.5°C. @bhensonweather.bsky.social has a detailed analysis:

Come March, the buds on the tree's begin to burst, this #dataviz shows the timing of bud burst for different tree species across the UK. The black lines show the timing in the Spring for the years 2000 to 2025 and the blue line is the average day for that species.

That’s great EC. Opening operational systems to the research and academic community is so important for training future scientists.

A weather chart showing pressure systems and rainfall over the North Atlantic and Western Europe, with coloured precipitation areas and labelled storm tracks.

📣 OpenIFS is now open source!

The move will make it easier to collaborate and generate new ideas.

➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

Doesn’t seem proportionate to the crime :(

Hundreds of moon jellyfish wash ashore at Sandy Bay’s Long Beach Beachgoers at Long Beach were unable to walk on the sand…

They are going gangbusters in #Tasmania riding warming oceans. Trying to convince the kids we should try cooking them just in case that’s their future 😁 pulsetasmania.com.au/news/hundred...

Jellyfish have survived all 5 mass extinctions which goes to show the best way to succeed in this world is to not have a brain or heart

Let's check in and see how much winters have warmed over the last 50 years. 🔥🔥🔥

China just had their warmest winter on record. 🔥🔥🔥

A black and white lop-eared bunny sits on a gray floor against a light wall.

RECORD HEAT WAVE IN SOUTH ASIA
A heat never seen been before this time of the year in India,Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Temperatures already close to 40C in Rajastan north of 30N, 2C/3C above the early March records.
The heat will just get worse:a March which will be like an April.

When AI Meets Weather Forecasting, Trust Comes First Discover the journey of AI forecast implementation at the Met Office and its impact on weather forecasting accuracy.

Today, our Chief AI Officer Kirstine Dale gives the keynote at Tech Show London, sharing insights on Embedding AI in the UK’s weather service.

We’re excited to highlight how AI is transforming the way we predict weather and help people stay safe.

More: www.techerati.com/features-hub...

New monthly record also at Patthalung in Southern Thailand yesterday with 37.2C, 3 days of March all above the previous record.

Records have been falling in Thailand every day of February and so far of March.
And it will get in few days much hotter:expect dozens of records.

Great shots Jane.

3rd March 2026

Tonight's total lunar eclipse. Had to battle the cloud as totality arrived but pretty happy with handlheld shots at 400mm and then cropped. Trentham, Victoria

Thailand is boiling
Minimum temperatures up to 29C,extreme moisture and max. temperatures up to 40C
Nearly half of the stations in the Central-South are at record hot levels
Monthly records keep falling:
Today The Suvannaphum Int. AP tied its March highest temperature with 37.0C.

A big storm over Northern Africa launching Saharan #dust and hazy skies into #Europe this week!

Bus on campus

Explanation of the stripes inside the bus.

This bus is electric!

Stripes made in Reading.

The new Reading 'warming stripes' double-decker electric bus came to campus today.

The bus is painted in the local warming stripes to start climate conversations throughout the town.

NORTH AMERICA with extreme contrasts.
Another extraordinary warm week ahead in mainland USA (almost everywhere) with some more 100s in Texas

Canada and ALASKA with harsh cold:
Fairbanks dropped to -49F on Sunday,lowest March temperature (=1956) since 1911 ! (-56F on 12th/13rd)

Provisional Met Office stats show:

Winter rainfall was among wettest on record (since 1836)

- England = 8th wettest
- Northern Ireland = 9th wettest
- Southern England = 4th wettest
- West Midlands, Cornwall & Leicestershire = wettest on record

Details: www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Looks like our local Kunanyi / Mt Wellington had about ten times more snow over summer than Salt Lake City, including about four inches in total on Christmas Day (photo from early that day as the blizzard ramped up).

This is a map of total winter snowfall, so far. It’s crazy that Augusta GA and Myrtle Beach South Carolina have had more snow than Salt Lake City! Legend on bottom.

ENDLESS RECORD HEAT IN INDONESIA
Another crazy heat wave with all eastern provinces pulverizing in pieces the March heat records (they were set in 2025, previously in 2024, previously in 2023,etc,all the way back to 2011)

Today extraordinary record at Biak with a Minimum of 27.8

Strikes on Iran show why quitting fossil fuels is more important than ever Reducing oil dependence and boosting renewables and electric transport is often framed as climate policy. But it is also vital to energy security and national security.

Reducing #oil dependence and boosting renewables and electric transport is often framed as climate policy. But it is also vital to #energy security and national security.

Update: According to Prism via @climatologist49.bsky.social the US had its 2nd warmest meteorological winter (Dec-Feb)! Folks in the East much really be shocked at this. But the entire West has been baking!

Summer heat continues in Northern Mexico and parts of The SW and the Gulf.
Records of March warmest nights in Mexico with Minimums of 21C at San Felipe and 26C at Santa Rosalia which is warmer than any March AND APRIL night: absolutely mental.

Next:NO COMMENT (right pic)

Much of central Australia was bone dry (0mm) in January, but had over a years worth of rain in the last 4 weeks.
Green = more than annual rainfall, Blue = at least double annual rainfall.
www.bom.gov.au/climate/maps...

Carp is a prized table fish in Europe but despised in Australia. How did we get here?

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/austral...