Aug 1st, 2023: Unbelievable Temperature Anomaly in the South American

South America is living one of the extreme events the world has ever seen Unbelievable temperatures up to 38.9C in the Chilean Andine areas in mid winter ! Much more than what Southern Europe just had in mid summer at the same elevation: This event is rewriting all climatic books pic.twitter.com/QiiUKllWWP — Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) August 1, 2023 Pretty disturbing Andes between Chile endless enormous warm anomalies pic. Continue reading

July 2023 Hottest on Record

This month is on track to be the hottest month ever recorded 📈 ERA5 data from @CopernicusECMWF shows that the first 3 weeks of July shattered temperature records This chart shows the globally averaged surface air temperature for 1 - 23 July for each year from 1940 to 2023 pic.twitter.com/NgRykJjjJZ — Copernicus EU (@CopernicusEU) July 29, 2023 Latest observations of global temperature change shown as a 'climate spiral' using monthly averages from January 1850 to June 2023. Continue reading

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf: a thread in pictures about the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC

Twitter Threads https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1684903347118051328.html Academic Article Ditlevsen, P., Ditlevsen, S. Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Nat Commun 14, 4254 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39810-w

Media News: More multiyear La Nina events to occur under global warming, new research says

Media News More multiyear La Nina events to occur under global warming, new research says Long La Niña events could rise in frequency as the planet warms Academic Article Geng, T., Jia, F., Cai, W. et al. Increased occurrences of consecutive La Niña events under global warming. Nature 619, 774–781 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06236-9

New Study: A Record-Breaking Cyclone Over the Southern Ocean in 2022

Academic Article Lin, P., Zhong, R., Yang, Q., Clem, K. R., & Chen, D. (2023). A record-breaking cyclone over the southern ocean in 2022. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104012. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104012 Media WikiPedia: Very Intense Tropical Cyclone Freddy was an exceptionally long-lived, powerful, and deadly storm that traversed the southern Indian Ocean for more than five weeks in February and March 2023. Freddy is both the longest-lasting and highest-ACE-producing tropical cyclone ever recorded worldwide. Continue reading