An old photo of a quiet country road and some nice clouds. This is at Beaufort, South Australia. North of Port Wakefield. Bluebonnet parrot territory.

Congrats to Fairbanks for having their coldest Dec-Mar on record. 🥳 @alaskawx.bsky.social

On The Climate Brink, I am posting draft chapters from my climate risk textbook. This post is the chapter that explains what "climate risk" means.

A massive Saharan dust storm was seen sweeping south across north-west Africa towards the Canary Islands, visible from space. 🛰️ Meteosat-12 tracked the plume between 30-31 March from 36,000km, revealing the extraordinary scale of this large-scale dust transport event.

Western US drought worsening in its 27th year. "It's really grim. It's horrific…The impacts are going to be everywhere, throughout the economy and personally.” apple.news/A9saBIN0AQRy...

Extreme weather can disrupt food production, threaten livelihoods, damage ecosystems, drive displacement, and accelerate the spread of pests and animal diseases. Read the Global #StateOfClimate 2025: bit.ly/StateOfClimate2025

29C to finish #March down in our pocket of southern #Tasmania. At one point that would have been a record high temperature for so late in March, but it got to 30C here in early April a few years back. Global warming can make for some nice weather, I guess ☹️

The Nino index (Nino3.4) has just reached neutral, but global SST has matched the highest level for this date, which was achieved during the last El Nino. Super warming is clear. U of Maine Climate Change Institute has a spectacular interactive graphic that they update daily. tinyurl.com/2kj82pwa

MARCH 2026 MOST ANOMALOUS MONTH IN US HISTORY PREVIOUS RECORD WAS MARCH 1910 8.5F above 1881 1910 baseline That considring EACH OWN previous 30yrs baseline for every month. So GW is already discounted here. March 2026 wins anyway.

An 800+ mile long haboob sweeping across northwest Africa. My oh my...

Anchorage and Fairbanks will both have their coldest March on record here in 2026. Most of the globe is on fire, but our little corner of the world has had persistent northerly flow for the entire month. @alaskawx.bsky.social

While here, at the same latitude but on the other side of the globe, March will be the warmest on record due to a persistent southwesterly flow.

Tuesday looking towards Bruny Island #Tasmania viewed from the local Pied Shags (Cormorants) favourite vantage point.

Witness the stunning moment as ISS transits across the sky at 120x magnification. A breathtaking view captured this morning. Don't miss it!

Refraction and defraction patterns showing nicely in the waters around Seven Mile Beach #Tasmania. The beaches top to bottom are Seven Mile, Carlton and Primrose. The defraction pattern in the middle is the just submerged Whale Rock.

Day 19: more sticks and dirt than snow. Probably calling it a season

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should

RECORD WARM IN JAPAN Another record day in Japan from North to South 10 stations had their warmest March day in history: 25.6 Kurume 25.4 Kurogi 25.0 Kumatori 24.4 Kudamatsu 23.5 Shigaraki 23.4 Tsugawa 23.1 Muroto 22.8 Nishiaizu 21.3 Nagai 19.7 Takamine More records tomorrow !

Glassy calm to start Monday over #NorthWestBay #Tasmania

Meanwhile, in the Lower 48, the March temperature departure from normal is pretty brutal. It'll be close on whether March 2026 will eclipse March 2012 for the warmest on record. My gut feeling is that 2012 will remain the record; but Nov-Mar and Dec-Mar will be new records.

This morning was the 59th, and probably last sub-zero day of the season at the house. It was a good run.

When we should be approaching the peak accumulation in snowpack across the West, conditions have instead further rapidly deteriorated. Another way to look at it: Colorado’s snow water equivalent has already reached a level that wasn’t seen until about a MONTH later in the previous worst record.

A timeline of rapid change in the #Arctic from 1950 through all of 2025... [*Click to open*] Download high-resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe.... (ECMWF ERA5 temperature data)

From Geneva to Antarctica & across the ocean, this year’s #WorldMetDay brought the theme 'Observing Today, Protecting Tomorrow' to life through voices from around the 🌍. The event also featured the launch of #StateOfClimate 2025. 📽️ Rewatch the session: bit.ly/4svibP3

Record-warm March after an unusually dry and snow-poor winter has pushed nationwide snow amounts to unprecedentedly low levels. Snowmelt is occurring more than a month earlier than usual. Normally, these snow depths would be present around May Day.

HISTORIC HEAT IN SE ASIA/OCEANIA Record heat from Thailand to Australia MARCH MONTHLY RECORDS THAILAND already >42C 39.5 Satun 38.4 Phuket AP min 27.2 Ayutthaya LAOS 40.5 Saravane INDONESIA 35.0 Maumere AUSTRALIA (Cold in the East,record heat in the West) Min 30.4 Carnarvon

Last night, the ISS captured a stunning aurora between Antarctica and Australia. Check out the incredible timelapse created by our astronaut photographer!

AUSTRALIA WINTRY SPELL After the historic record heat in the West, a harsh wintry spell affected the East with some March records of low maxes yesterday including in Sydney areas followed by some record minimums todayin Queenland and New South Wales.

28th March 2026 Walking home and I was stopped by this local. No fear from the local magpies.

Good times

March heat wave is “particularly alarming,” but not our new normal, yet - www.aspenpublicradio.org/environment/...

Did a little fun math today. Turns out my last gas car cost 11.6 times more to fuel than charging my EV. Every time I charge I am effectively saving $70 right now. Something to think about. #ev

March 27: Here are three graphics that highlight why there is rising concern regarding the prospect of difficult wildfire activity in the months to come. - Widespread drought - Very dry soils - Well below normal Western US snowpack (water equivalent) This is on top of continued anomalous heat.

The big lap. Severe TC Narelle. www.bom.gov.au/warning/trop...

Great to now have a car powered off my solar panels and #Tasmanian wind and hydro power rather than imported overpriced oil.

Great afternoon for a hike up #Kunanyi / #MtWellington .

Seems we just keep collecting ducks. Something like 10 extras today 😁(half were behind me).

The beautiful preservstion of trilobite compound eyes will never cease to amaze me. On this little 400ish million year old Phacops you can see all the little lenses - each one a rigid calcite mineral crystal! Together they had excellent 360° vision, perfect for finding lunch on the seafloor.

We interrupt your record heat dome to note that Alaska has issued a state disaster declaration in response to widespread utility disruption caused by extreme cold across the Northwest Arctic Borough. 🥶 @alaskawx.bsky.social

Experts are warning that the unprecedented heat wave that has roasted the West during the past two weeks has also set the stage for a potentially perilous wildfire season. https://cnn.it/4bRp0TY

Bit slow to report but that’s our second snowfall for March on #Kunanyi / #MtWellington . Unfortunately start to April looks warm and dry, more typical of February than mid autumn.

Australia urged to swap diesel for electric buses as fuel costs soar www.theguardian.com/environment/...

16 STATES WITH THE MARCH HOTTEST DAY IN HISTORY 112 California 112 Arizona 108 Texas 106 Nevada 106 Oklahoma 104 Kansas 103 New Mexico 99 Nebraska 99 Colorado 97 Iowa 97 Utah 97 Missouri 97 South Dakota 90 Wyoming 88 Minnesota 86 Idaho

Tropical Cyclone Narelle wreaking havoc along WA's North West Cape on Friday morning.

Rutile included quartz. Only a dozen found in a pocket Tanzania. We sold this natural beauty. www.goldenhourminerals.com/shop

Just over a foot of additional sea level above the tide height as TC Narelle passed Cape Cuvier, NW of Carnarvon, around high tide. With waves on top of that, expect some coastal damage. www.bom.gov.au/cosppac/rtdd...

anyway excuse my moment of earnestness the doodle just brought me her buzzies

Tropical Cyclone Narelle over north west Australia; extratropical cyclone affecting the south east.

‼️EXTRAORDINARY EVENT Thousands of records from Scandinavia to Hokkaido 35C in Central Asia,29C at 50N latitude Next days MUCH WORSE: Dozens of thousands of records allover Asia,locally broken by 10C+ margin. it s BY FAR THE MOST EXTREME HEAT EVENT IN WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY