Moni Ionita

With 49 days of heatwave in the summer of 2024 and a drought that lasted for 41 months, Romania is going through a new climate reality, in which extremes are becoming the norm.

Based on scientific data, the report documents an increase in the average annual temperature by more than 3°C compared to the period 1971–2000 – an accelerated warming, which made 2023 and 2024 the warmest years in the history of meteorological observations.

Today the report "State of climate - Romania 2025" was launched. I have been in charge of 2 chapters: "Temperature and heat waves in Romania" and "Drought, aridification and precipitation in Romania". The report can be found here (only in Romanian):
lnkd.in/eSG765zY

or here:

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An example of how fast things can go wrong. #Drought conditions evolution from January to March 2025. In the northern part of #Germany the situation is critical at the moment. UK seems to go through the same thing. I forgot how rain looks like :-(

I have complained about reviewers and their offensive tone a lot. Now I turn the page: "I thank the authors for addressing all of my comments. This is an excellent paper and I recommend that it is accepted. I congratulate the authors and apologise for delays on my side." This made my day :-)

2024: The year with too much summer in the eastern part of Europe The summer of 2024 brought record-breaking heatwaves to Eastern Europe, with Romania experiencing the brunt. Analysis of 140 years of data from Bucharest shows a significant increase in heatwave freq....

First papers about record-breaking summer 2024 in Europe starting to come out.

Ionita, M. and Nagavciuc, V. (2025), 2024: The year with too much summer in the eastern part of Europe. Weather. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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The red color indicates that summer 2024 was the warmest summer, the orange color indicates that summer 2024 was the second warmest summer and the yellow color indicates that summer 2024 was the third warmest summer. period analyzed: 1950 - 2024.

The summer of #2024 was the #warmest ever, over vast areas globally, in terms of both average (TT) and daily #minimum (TN) and #maximum (TX) temperatures. Eastern #Europe was one of the #HOT centers, especially regarding the minimum #temperature.

Eastern European countries (including Romania) "HIT THE JACKPOT" this year. #Romania (+3°C), Ukraine (+3.3°C), Slovakia (+3.2°C), Lithuania (+3.4°C), Belarus (+3.4°C) are among the countries where 2024 surpassed any temperature record. Source: berkeleyearth.org/global-tempe...

Good luck with the new endeavor :-) and enjoy the snow!

"Mean" Santa. Instead of fifty shades of something..... I got physics for something 😀😀😀😀😀. I'm not sure what I should think about this present 🤔

Revisiting climate impacts of an AMOC slowdown: dependence on freshwater locations in the North Atlantic Freshwater input location strongly influences AMOC slowdown, with the Irminger basin having the greatest effect.

New study revisits climate impacts of an #AMOC slowdown 🌍🌊. Freshwater hosing experiments reveal the Irminger Basin as the most sensitive site, causing the largest AMOC weakening.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Although we are in the middle of winter, I need to leave this here. The summer mean #temperature at #Bucharest (capital city of #Romania) was 6°C above the climatological mean. 6°C!!!!! 4 times more than the Paris agreement threshold. The future looks #HOT #hothouse

I have decided to move my "social media flat" here. The other side has become too creepy and disturbing. I have some difficulties figuring out this platform, but I hope I will find my peers, as I really miss the scientific life on social media.

Congrats Ingrid! 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾

My first news on this platform: Last PhD paper of Sigrid Bakke, together with Lena Tallaksen. A great piece of work analyzing how the recent European drying has been influenced by more intense and persistent anticyclonic circulation. Congrats Sigrid!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...