Simon Noone

Simon Noone

@simonj1967.bsky.social

Senior climate researcher, ICARUS, Maynooth University

55 Followers 45 Following 4 Posts Joined Nov 2023
2 months ago
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It is likely that 2025 will be the warmest year on record for the UK.

Why does this matter?

Burning fossil fuels is warming the planet, including the UK, causing heatwaves to get hotter. For Central England this is happening 2x faster than the mean change.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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2 months ago
An infographic titled "Key Messages for Friday Dec 19 Fire Weather" from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center, updated Dec 19, 2025, at 9:11 AM MST. It warns of "Extremely Critical Fire Weather Conditions for portions of the Colorado Front Range into far southeast Wyoming."

Overview: A damaging windstorm today will contribute to Extremely Critical fire weather conditions. Wind gusts up to around 100 mph, temperatures near 70F, and relative humidity near 10% will yield high-end fire weather environment along/near the Front Range.

Timing: Wind gusts of 40-70 mph and relative humidity of 15-30% are already occurring this morning. Critical and Extremely Critical fire weather conditions will continue through the evening with strong winds likely continuing overnight.

Safety Actions: Use caution with any potential ignition sources. Stay aware and follow instructions from emergency officials.

A damaging windstorm today will contribute to Extremely Critical fire weather conditions. Wind gusts up to 100mph, temperatures near 70F, and relative humidity near 10% will yield high-end fire weather environment along/near the Front Range. Stay aware& follow instructions from emergency officials.

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2 months ago
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Wildfires can spread quickly — by the time one is nearby, you may not have much time. Have an evacuation plan, and prepare an emergency supply kit ahead of time. Listen to local officials for emergency information and any evacuation orders.

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2 months ago
A National Weather Service heat map showing estimated maximum wind gusts (mph) across the U.S. for the 24 hours ending at 8 PM CST on December 18, 2025. The map features a color scale ranging from 5 mph (white/blue) to 140 mph (pink). A large, intense area of dark red and purple indicates gusts between 80–120 mph concentrated over Wyoming, western South Dakota, and northern Colorado. Smaller pockets of high winds (60–80 mph) are visible in the Pacific Northwest and the Northeast. The National Weather Service logo is in the bottom left corner.

Here is the latest storm summary for the Western U.S. and northern Plains high wind/blizzard event. Wind gusts exceeding 100 mph were reported in Colorado and Wyoming: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/...

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2 months ago

Friends at NCAR, we're with you.

@ncar-ucar.bsky.social is a trailblazer in community modelling driven not by idealogy, but by open science. We share all our code, thoughts, ideas. These can't be shut down.

We'll fight and find every mechanism to support the ongoing CESM community.

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3 months ago
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Entire country now on Orange warning for #StormBram as he tracks a little further East. 7:20am Tuesday

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3 months ago
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Surface air temperature for November 2025 November 2025 was the third-warmest November globally, with an average surface air temperature of 14.02°C, 0.65°C above the 1991-2020 average for November, according to the ERA5 dataset.

Explore all the insights 👉 climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...

Find additional data visuals in our press release 👉 climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2...

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3 months ago
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2025 is on course to be joint-second warmest year.
The #C3S Climate Bulletin reports that November was 1.54°C above pre-industrial levels, making it the third-warmest November on record. The 2023–2025 average is likely to be the first three-year average exceeding 1.5°C.

Find more info ⬇️

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3 months ago
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From Archives to Insights: Extreme Weather Events and Socio‐Economic Impacts in Madagascar From Newly Digitised Historical Climate Records (1949–1966) The CliDaR-Africa project engages undergraduates in digitising historical African weather records, rescuing over 300,000 observations from Madagascar and the Central African Republic (1949–1966). Ana...

New paper by @simonj1967.bsky.social @healionk.bsky.social on the second year data rescue activities in @maynoothuniversity.ie Geography methods class rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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4 months ago
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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.

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4 months ago

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.

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

#BreakingNews #Breaking #News #Hurricane #Weather #Jamaica #Melissa #Alert www.youtube.com/live/9Ydcgmt...

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4 months ago
MU launches citizen science project to rescue African weather data Researchers at ICARUS, Maynooth University’s (MU) climate research centre, have launched a new citizen science project, seeking help to rescue African weather data that is vital for research about a

www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

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!!
@peterthorne.bsky.social @simonj1967.bsky.social

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4 months ago
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The monster eye at the center of a still strengthening Hurricane Melissa.

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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

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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.

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4 months ago
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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.

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4 months ago
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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...

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5 months ago
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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.
@maynoothuniversity.ie
@ucc.ie @universityofgalway.bsky.social

#ipcc #icca

open.spotify.com/episode/4PWP...

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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...

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5 months ago
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/

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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...

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

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5 months ago

Safe trip!

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5 months ago
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Salthill Thursday morning. Video by Marianne McGrath

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5 months ago
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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...

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5 months ago
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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!

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5 months ago
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

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5 months ago
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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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RTÉ News: One O'Clock 2025-09-24 The latest national and international headlines. Watch RTÉ News: One O'Clock 2025-09-24 on RTÉ Player for free

📺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.

www.rte.ie/player/serie...

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