Total lunar eclipse as seen from near Christchurch, NZ, about an hour ago. #photography #PhotoHour #LunarEclipse

Blue hour at Fox Glacier, New Zealand with Te Horokōau / Mount Tasman and Aoraki / Mount Cook #landscapephotography #PhotoHour

Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days. Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.

Bizarre scenes in eastern Germany after days of mixed precipitation. A layer of black ice and frozen snow several centimeters thick is causing chaotic conditions on the roads. Images via WarnWetter-App @dwdderwetterdienst.bsky.social #Winter #Weather #Snow #Ice

New all-time minimum sea level in the Baltic Sea! The Föglö tide gauge measured just -71.6 cm below the mean level which is the lowest value ever recorded there. Records have been kept over 100 years, since 1924 (!). The sea level is still decreasing. (1/3)

A photo from a recent colourful evening across the plains of western Victoria, #Australia, near Horsham, as a cool change moved through, accompanied by some high-based convection and virga #stormhour

Massive smoke plumes from a large bushfire near Gellibrand, Victoria, yesterday which prompted emergency warnings in the area. The fire even produced a towering pyrocumulus and pileus cloud as the hot updraft pushed through stable layers in the mid-levels. #fireweather #stormhour

A spell of extreme heat and fire danger is on the cards across SE Australia. We’ve been through 48C heat in the W Pilbara on 5 January, wasn’t fun 😅 Sth I noticed here: the visibility of information on natural hazards on many platforms, whether it’s cyclones, floods or fires. #weatherawareness

Landed in London. There was a CRAZY aurora outside on the flight over, I've never seen anything like it! Absolutely surreal...

As the climate data for 2025 continues to be released, it's time to update various data visualisations. First - the global climate stripes for 1850-2025. A third darkest red stripe is added. The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record. A sequence that is unlikely to be broken soon.

Is damaging hail getting worse? An ESSL-led study published in Nature Geoscience finds that very large hail is modelled to occur most frequently in South America, the United States, and South Africa, but Europe shows the strongest increase in very large hail frequency. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Dust devils and a possible landspout in brutal 47C heat SW of Karratha, Western Australia, yesterday afternoon. #photography #stormhour

Little Lagoon Creek and Beach, Shark Bay, Australia #PhotoHour

#Uluru, Northern Territory, with its famous evening glow a few days ago. There was quite a bit of high-based convective cloud that afternoon in 38C heat, so chances for a decent sunset didn’t seem that high at first. But skies cleared enough just in time. #stormhour

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

Colourful and hazy sunset earlier near Bowen, QLD, Australia after a hot and fairly windy Tuesday. There were some smoke plumes in the air from nearby (small) bushfires. #stormhour

Beautiful halo with a nicely positioned cloud above Airlie Beach, QLD, Australia earlier today. #stormhour #atmosphericoptics

Evening view of the #Brisbane skyline, seen from Mount Coot-tha lookout earlier this month.

Expert comment about more destructive tropical cyclones as the world warms: theconversation.com/hurricane-me...

This is amazing footage.

Wow. This is easily the most ridiculous dropsonde I’ve ever seen. 188 knot mean winds in the low-levels with gusts over 250 mph Absolutely scary and historic hurricane headed into SW Jamaica this morning

With a central pressure down to 896mb as of 9am EDT, #Melissa has joined the elite sub-900mb group of Atlantic hurricanes... it is now one of just seven: Wilma 2005: 882mb Gilbert 1988: 888mb Labor Day 1935: 892mb Rita 2005: 895mb Milton 2024: 895mb Melissa 2025: 896mb Allen 1980: 899mb

A true catastrophe is likely to unfold in Jamaica, as multiple days of rain followed by a direct hit from a top-end hurricane push the limits of what the country has seen historically. Details on the forecast, which aren’t much changed today below and at theeyewall.com.

NHC now explicitly calls for Melissa to reach category 5 intensity before striking Jamaica. The addition of Google DeepMind’s FNV3 ensemble this year bolstered forecast confidence in extreme intensification — it’s doubtful the NHC forecast would’ve been this aggressive without FNV3.

This could become a catastrophic flood and wind event for Jamaica in particular.

Tropical Storm #Melissa has not yet strengthened. But this actually bad news, since a weaker storm is more likely to linger in the Caribbean and become a major hurricane, as @bhensonweather.bsky.social and I explain: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/trop...

Tornadoes in France today. At least one death and 9 injuries, unfortunate but somewhat inevitable when a significant tornado (seems to be at least an IF2 to me) strikes such a populated area. Europe has a severe lack of tornado awareness and when a violent one will strike a highly populated area...

Further (extreme) heavy rainfall and floods for parts of #Spain due to #DANA (=Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos) #Alice. After #Tarragona was affected yesterday, this time it is the region south of #Valencia and #Amposta. The satellite image shows a two huge, stationary storm systems.

Widespread power cuts affecting western and central Scotland just now as a result of damaging winds from #StormAmy (source: ssen.co.uk)

The rapid deepening of Storm Amy has begun. Over the next hours, the storm will travel across the jet stream and move to the left exit region of the jet stream where the most explosive deepening will take place.

#StormAmy means business Rapid cyclogenesis 978 to 946hpa, a drop of 32hpa in central pressure in just 18hrs..and perhaps dipping to less than 946hpa for a time during the period

#StormAmy probably being named very soon as models are in better agreement this morning. It could be a record-breaker in terms of low pressure for the time of year as well. W + N Scotland in particular is likely to see some intense winds with this one.

The possible outcomes for the weather later this week..

Quite worrying solutions recently in the global weather models regarding Humberto's post-tropical intensification. The system is forecast to deepen explosively while arriving Europe. The northern British Isles might be hit hard. 👀

While the Azores have seen some tropical storms and a few hurricanes in the past, #Gabrielle will be at the upper end of the climatological range in terms of intensity. People on the central islands in particular should take this storm seriously and prepare for it

Remarkable to see what hurricanes can do when they traverse exceptionally warm water. Gabrielle rapidly strengthening to a Category 4 hurricane today right as it passed over record warm sea surface temperatures for the time of year.

Very heavy rain across SE France last night in association with an area of strong thunderstorms. This is the season for intense convective events (often augmented by topographic features) around the Mediterranean Sea

UPDATE: Official 12-hourly precipitation data, 09/09/25, 6 UTC. Highest amounts: Bedburg (Germany) 134 mm Luxembourg Airport 122 mm Mönchengladbach (Germany) 122 mm

This one will happen very close to home...heavy (locally thundery) rain in far W Germany and surrounding areas. A few locations could see up to 100 mm in under 24 hours, enough to cause some flooding issues despite rather dry antecedent conditions. #weather

#lunareclipse2025 as seen in the Siebengebirge hills near Bonn earlier today.

High-shear/low CAPE setup in W Europe this afternoon/evening. Non-zero chance of a strong tornado event, too.

September 2nd, 1935: The infamous Labor Day hurricane slammed Florida. The Category 5 remains the most intense storm to have struck the US directly. Parts of the Florida Keys were completely devastated, with estimates putting the death toll over 400.

Tomorrow evening there is a slightly enhanced risk of a #tornado or two over Benelux and north-eastern France! Very prominent low-level shear and veering overlapping with weak/moderate instability. Strong forcing is possible just ahead of the approaching cold front. Sounding: @kachelmannwetter.com

20 years already. 😯 I'll never forget reading the NWS Baton Rouge bulletin on that day...chilling stuff.

Here’s a 48-hour water vapor loop of Ex-Hurricane Erin spinning on its final approach to Europe. Truly mesmerizing.

A peaceful scene near the High Fens in eastern Belgium on a recent chilly August morning, with a whiff of autumn already in the air. #landscapephotography

On this day 20 years ago: Tropical Depression Twelve forms over the central Bahamas from the merger of a tropical wave and the remnant mid-level circulation of TD Ten, assisted by an upper-tropospheric trough. The beginning of a generation-defining tropical cyclone, one named #Katrina. #wxhistory

The BAMS State of the Global Climate report 2024 reveals the year was record-breaking for both atmospheric water vapour levels and global temperature. Find out more in our press release: www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

After an extremely hot start to the week especially over parts of Spain and France, the heat goes on across large parts of western Europe, with 850hpa temperatures at the upper end of climatology for the time of year today and on Thursday. #heatwave #canicule