Simon Noone

It's hard to get a more symmetric and well-defined hurricane structure than the latest satellite images of Melissa.

One of the most intense storms the Atlantic has ever seen and unfortunately, just at the landfall.

892 mb and 185 mph. Very few places in the world in modern history have ever experienced what Jamaica is experiencing right now. Hurricanes of this magnitude directly hitting a major land mass are exceptionally rare.

LIVE: Jamaican officials hold Hurricane Melissa briefing YouTube video by Reuters

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We are 1 week into this project and we are overblown by the amount of data rescued by the volunteers who've taken a few minutes each to contribute. Thanks to @maynoothuniversity.ie for the great promotion!!
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The monster eye at the center of a still strengthening Hurricane Melissa.

5pm EDT Oct 27th Key Messages for Category 5 #Hurricane #Melissa:
#Jamaica: Remain in your safe shelter & do not venture outside. Catastrophic, life-threatening flash flooding & numerous landslides through Tuesday as Melissa's core moves ashore. hurricanes.gov

Hurricane #Melissa is a category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday. Forecast shows over 40 inches or 1016mm of rainfall is possible in 4 days. The same as a full year’s rainfall in Ireland. Thoughts with those in her path.

Rainfall warning upgraded to Orange now for Cork with over 60mm for parts of West Cork. Sadly over 140mm is possible on the Cork/Kerry border over high ground so areas like Glengarriff that flooded recently could be hit again.

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...

Episode 1: IPCC Scientist Professor Peter Thorne

🌍 First episode now live!

With the inspirational @peterthorne.bsky.social

🎧 Climate Change: Off the Record — with @roisinmoriarty.com and myself.
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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...

A digitized image taken from Dublin Magazine (1820) showing a meteorological table containing observations for barometeric pressure, precipitation, max and min temperature, and wind direction. The observations were taken by a J. Pim at 55 City Quay, Dublin.

I’ve recently begun a PhD, part of which is to discover missing historical meteorological observations recorded across Ireland. Meteorological tables contained within the short-lived Dublin Magazine of 1820 were recently found. The observations were taken by a J. Pim at 55 City Quay, Dublin 1/

Out now! Version 2.0.0 of the Global land surface meteorological observations dataset (1755–present) is available in the #C3S Climate Data Store (CDS). Updated in situ coverage thru 2024 plus enhanced and consolidated data from worldwide sources. 🔗 cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/ins...

Weather warnings for wind upgraded to Orange tomorrow for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo. #StormAmy

Safe trip!

Salthill Thursday morning. Video by Marianne McGrath

The Irish Times view on storm preparation: weather won’t wait Ireland must stop pretending it is too complicated to prepare

The irish times certainly got our memo here @ccacireland.bsky.social … www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

First of the high resolution weather models to cover the possible storm Friday keeps the strongest winds out to the Northwest of Ireland. Hopefully this becomes a trend. A lot of rain to come though!

pressure and wind gust field from the ECMWF model for Friday 18Z showing very strong winds for northern half of Ireland

Met Eireann warnings will presumably drop any time now. Still a way off and this is more uncertain than the usual being a post-tropical cyclone but if this ECMWF forecast verifies the norther half of the country is in for a rough old Friday afternoon and evening

The Council’s Annual Review of Adaptation has been published today with key observations and policy recommendations published to help Ireland deal with the impacts of future climate change.
Read the full report here: shorturl.at/LogZL

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📺Watch back: Dr Claire Bergin of ICARUS, along with Met Éireann climatologist Paul Moore, featured in a piece by George Lee on RTÉ News: One'Clock discussing the findings of the report focusing on high-temperature seasonal climate change attribution for Ireland.

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Record temperatures linked to human-caused climate change New research by climate scientists at Maynooth University in conjunction with Met Éireann has found Ireland's record summer night time temperatures this year were made 40 times more likely by human-ca...

Great to see coverage of our first full @wasitusie.bsky.social study on RTE (and elsewhere). Kudos @clairebergin.bsky.social and Lionel swan as well as met Éireann colleagues and thanks as ever to @wwattribution.bsky.social for the hugely valuable collaboration www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

I thought my back pain and tiredness was menopause – it was ovarian cancer Everybody experiences back pain at some point or other, so when Maggie Noone felt a twinge in her back and her right side while out walking with a friend on holiday in March 2023, she put it down to h...

It is World Gynaecological Cancer Day today . Can you please share to get more awareness about the symptoms of ovarian cancer. Early detection means a better prognosis . eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Floods force 100,000 out of their homes – and the water in this city is still rising People fleeing the rising waters around Lake Tanganyika in Burundi are fighting for space and humanitarian care with refugees escaping civil war. Donald Trump’s slashing of international aid money…

Floods force 100,000 out of their homes – and the water in this African city is still rising

Well done Becca!

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Met Éireann confirm summer 2025 was warmest summer on record. Note this is average temperature with cloudy nights playing a big part.

Southern Europe is sweltering under life-threatening heat that could last through Monday, fueling wildfires that have left at least two people dead. In Spain, soldiers have been deployed to battle the fires and hundreds of people have evacuated. nyti.ms/46STog7

Russian volcano erupts for first time in centuries The eruption of a volcano in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula may be linked to a massive earthquake last week, experts say.

Russian volcano erupts for first time in more than 500 years. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Met Éireann have now issued a weather advisory for #StormFloris that will bring wet and very windy weather Sunday night into Monday. As Met Éireann don’t issue warnings more than 3 days in advance the warnings will be issued tomorrow.