This is awesome

Lowest temperature of the winter through February 3rd using ERA5-Land reanalysis (~9km resolution). Don't @ me saying your local station was different. This is a ballpark estimate.

The Lower 48 is now 2.9F above normal for the month-to-date. A departure of +2.9F would be the 12th warmest February on record if it ended today. 🔥

oh No.

Tropical Cyclone Mitchell gradually weakening as it tracks along WA's Gascoyne coastline. 🟨 High cloud 🟩 Low cloud

this might possibly be the first instance of someone mistaking gold for fools gold instead of the other way around 😂

CRAZY WINTER HEAT MINIMUMS up to 28.8C in the Sahel (Kenieba,Mali). Min 23.6 Sedom 21.7 Eilat HOTTEST FEBRUARY NIGHT IN ISRAEL HISTORY Same for JORDAN with Min 23C at Ghor el Safi. Hundreds of records will fall every day until the end of the month. An absurdly hot February.

Sunday 9:57 am: Snow pellets briefly mixed in with rain showers in Bermuda, temperatures entirely below freezing in the clouds which were in the saturated air between 5,000’ and 10,000’ altitude. Winds gusting as high as 71 mph, reached 43.9F, just above the record low of 43.3F

Cool clouds over Bald Hill Beach on Saturday morning.

All is well with her world - #Wally got a new ball today

Vale to one of Australia's greatest cartoonists and artists - Jon Kudelka

Stunning afternoon at #KingstonBeach #Tasmania for the Regatta Day public holiday.

Death Valley desert gold now!

Tropical Cyclone Mitchell tracking along WA's Pilbara/Gascoyne coastline.

Winter Olympic athletes juggle the mental load of large carbon footprints that contribute to a warmer world & loss of snow, with a love of their sport, mountains & representing their nation. Hence more are speaking out on the need to move away from fossil fuels. #POW www.nbcmiami.com/olympics/202...

HISTORIC MIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE Records of Hottest February day in history pulverized: 33.6C Sedom ISRAEL 33.4C Ghor El Safi JORDAN Records also at Jericho PALESTINE The exceptional heat will spread allover Asia and last the whole of February. Expect hundreds of records

Another cold spell in the CARIBBEAN Exceptional low minimum at Wade Int. AP BERMUDA with 6.6C. This would be a new all time low for the Airport (previous: 6.7C in 1950), since a 6.3C in Feb 1993 is likely a wrong data.

Today 8 February election day in Japan,Thailand and Portugal is characterized by quite extreme weather: -Snow and cold in Japan 🇯🇵 -Winter heat wave in Thailand, another 37C+ day 🇹🇭 -Heavy rainfalls in Portugal 🇵🇹

World's larger BEV container ship begins sea trials. "The vessel measures nearly 128 meters (420 feet) in length. It has a capacity of 740 TEU. It is reported to have a maximum speed of 11.5 knots." H/T to Electrify This 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 a 🧵 maritime-executive.com/article/chin...

Finally, some good news.

golden hour with rainbow

Some stunning trees around #Maydena #Tasmania including this #Eucalyptus #Regnans #MountainAsh

The first 6 days of February are 1.9F above normal for the Contiguous U.S.

SOUTH AMERICA HEAT WAVE An exceptionally long heat wave kicked off between Paraguay and parts of Brazil,Argentina and Bolivia. In PARAGUAY 40.0C Quyquyhat ties its Hottest February day on record The heat wave will last weeks with no end in sight: More records on the way

Great article on the climate threats to both winter and summer Olympics theconversation.com/climate-chan...

glorious summer in glorious southern tasmania and the oyster shell hunter is Locked In 👀

a sea cow?! in southern tasmania?! no it’s a fat labrador hunting for oyster shells 🦪🫡

Great day out at #Maydena for the Red Bull Hardliner

6th February 2026 Remember the Australian movie/series “Picnic at Hanging Rock”? I climbed it today with our US visitor.

100 years of changing February sea ice... Total data set available from 1850 through 2017. Summary of methods: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-p.... More sea ice reconstructions at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

26 days in a row with rain in Reading. Longest such sequence on record in observations at the University going back to 1908.

A new all-electric double-decker Climate Stripes bus has started taking passengers around Reading today. The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers. #ShowYourStripes

“A few days ago, sunspot 4366 didn't exist. Now it is a behemoth almost half the size of the great Carrington sunspot. Rapid growth is making the sunspot unstable. It has unleashed dozens of solar flares in past 24 hours, including a powerful X8-class flare” www.spaceweather.com

I spoke about heat records, NCRA, Antarctica and the arts on Einstein-a-Go-Go (3RRR) this morning. Listen at: www.rrr.org.au/shared/broad...

#Melbourne is so parched. 3mm of rain in the past six weeks and repeated heatwaves. Example of an intense flash drought coming on top of an ordinary rainfall year.

These are being historic days in The Caribbean: Heat Records and cold records are being broken at the same time. Stay tuned: In a couple of hours i will start posting There is a lot to talk about here... Below: Nassau,Bahamas yesterday Photo:Torrell Glinton

Major X8.11 flare from sunspot region 4366 Follow live on https://www.spaceweather.live/l/flare

Major X1.65 flare from sunspot region 4366 Follow live on https://www.spaceweather.live/l/flare

Phil has spoken. More winter!

This is something you don't see every day... Actually, hardly ever... Last night was a record cold night in Guantanamo Bay US Military station and a record hot night in US Virgin Islands (St Thomas AP).

There’s no tipping point beyond which ocean acidification kills corals, new research shows. With every creeping bit of acidification, corals just continue to die off. 🧪🌊 eos.org/articles/cor...

How cold has this winter been so far? The first 2/3 of winter 2025-26 is the 7th warmest on record for the Contiguous U.S.

Measles has one of the highest basic reproduction numbers (R₀) of any disease (12 to 18), meaning one infected person can spread it to 12 to 18 others in a fully susceptible population, making it extremely contagious. Need 95% vaccination status to achieve herd immunity. Get vaccinated!!

February has just started and heat records are falling in all Continents. In South America heat waves are one after another and yesterday 1 February a new monthly record of highest Temperature was set in Rio Grande do Norte State with 40.0C in Caicò. More records on the way...