🚨🌡️🔥🌍🌤️🚨 New paper alert in J. Climate from the Climate Dynamics Lab @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social: Tropical temperature distributions over a wide range of climates: theory and idealized simulations journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Apparently Hurricane Melissa was "engineered" as part of a land-clearing plot to build smart cities in Jamaica 🤔 Here is my attempt, via BBC Verify, to douse this conspiracy nonsense with some science facts: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

Trends in October temperatures over land areas for the last 50 years... Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

Excited to be visiting @universityofleeds.bsky.social today! I will discuss our research on the physics of tropical land in a changing climate, including hot-off-the-server results suggesting a drier future than climate models predict @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @earthscista.bsky.social

Nice piece in @uk.theconversation.com by Nadir Jeevanjee about early models and their visionary predictions of climate change fingerprints (incl polar amp, land-ocean contrast, strato cooling). Also a timely homage to GFDL, driver of these early predictions 🌍 theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...

We had a fantastic research 'away day' at East Sands in St Andrews, where we discussed the future of extreme temperatures as part of GLOBAL-EX project. A lunchtime swim + cheese toasties on the beach was an added bonus! @erc.europa.eu @ukri.org @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

“Human health can be seriously affected by high heat and humidity. Such a dramatic increase in the occurrence of these humid-heat events is bringing more societies into challenging, potentially life-threatening, situations.” - Dr. Kate Willett @metoffice.gov.uk #ClimateEmergency 🥵

Scotland is under a wildfire warning 🔥🌡️, fuelled by a very dry spring. I talked to BBC World at One about wildfires in Scotland which involve humans behaving badly, grouse shooting, and more than a hint of climate change. From 27min 25sec: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @earthscista.bsky.social

Two new exciting job opportunities at @universityofleeds.bsky.social machine-learning forecasting for West Africa. ML is revolutionising forecasting, so this is a major opportunity. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Worth pointing out that thunderstorms and hail are very much not “unseasonal” in summer as reported here (hail isn’t wintry weather!) but quite dramatic scenes in Dundee and environs today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The Climate Change Committee, the government’s statutory adviser, has repeatedly highlighted a lack of urgent effort to adapt critical infrastructure, from water, transport and communication networks, to the fabric of our buildings" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Deeply honoured that our research has been cited in the new DOE climate report

Unprecedented continental drying since 2002 based on satellite data and dominated by high-latitude water losses, intense Central American/European #drought & groundwater depletion: doi.org/10.1126/scia... Consistent with earlier work: doi.org/10.1007/s107...

📣 New paper: 💧💧💧 In July 2021 record breaking rainfall hit western Europe, we use ensemble boosting to explore different plausible storylines. These show it could have rained for longer, or over a larger area, or in a different place. Are we prepared? doi.org/10.1038/s432...

The Western Mediterranean has been record warm recently, shown here for the June averages from ERA5. This much warmth in the Mediterranean may predict a brutally hot summer for Europe. 1/ 🧵🧪🌊

As the UK prepares for an extended heatwave over coming days, interesting new @natgeosci.nature.com research suggests longer heatwaves as climate warms #climate #heatwave www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1°C of global warming does NOT mean that heatwaves 'just' get hotter by 1°C. Over large parts of the UK, global warming means that heatwaves are 3-4°C warmer, with worse consequences for people and ecosystems.

Western Europe summer high temperatures have increased ~2.6 °C (4.7 °F) during just the last 50 years. That's in a world with only 1.4 °C of global warming.

Some forecast models are showing the potential for record-breaking heat in the UK later in June 🌡️ Ensemble forecasts can help us better understand the extremes of the current climate. @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social, Paul Davies and I wrote about this last year theconversation.com/the-climate-...

Not a bad backdrop for pondering science at the Simons Symposium for Multi-Scale Physics ⚛️ I will be talking today about "Large-scale and local-scale influences on tropical land climate" www.simonsfoundation.org/event/multi-...

Great to be visiting beautiful @ethz.ch for a few days of science! I will be presenting a seminar on elevation-dependent warming followed by examining a PhD on the water cycle in a changing climate 💦🌡️🌤️

New #FATESmodel postdoc in Oslo! Come and join our team :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Postdoctoral Research Fellow in terrestrial carbon cycle modelling (281332) | University of Oslo

Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.

My friend is in charge of the team that wrote the climate change adaptation plan for Switzerland and this is one of the things they expected.

Wonderful to be back (at a very soggy) @harvard.edu for the Continental Climate Workshop, where I gave a talk about elevation-dependent warming over land. It has been a bittersweet visit, given the unsettling and escalating situation at Harvard. Thinking about all those affected 🌍

Attending the amazing 'Philosophy of Climate Science' workshop @uniofstandrews.bsky.social this week! Today I gave a talk on 'Theory and the future of (land-)climate science'. Want to know more? Checkout the paper: rdcu.be/dWEZI @earthscista.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social

⚒️ Article: Super-Clausius-Clapeyron scaling of extreme precipitation explained by shift from stratiform to convective rain type @leibniz-zmt.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing 🌡️ Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/

Wet-bulb temperature extremes (WTEs) are a growing and serious threat to human & animal health. In agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... we show WTEs occur preferentially over wet soils, often after rain. Mesoscale circulations concentrate moist warm air in a shallower boundary layer.

Exciting @egu.eu for the Climate Dynamics Lab next week! Four talks to check out: Mon, 8.35-8.45: Josh Duffield – Tropical temperature distributions over a range of climates Tue, 8.55-9.05: Anna Mackie – Circulation and cloud responses to patterned SST warming [1/2]

Hot off the press! New GRL paper from our group, led by Anna Mackie: Circulation and Cloud Responses to Patterned SST Warming @agu.org @uniofstandrews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Super fun to be part of this study with Tim and @corentinherbert.bsky.social on the climate response to forced atmospheric superrotation. Climate warms for interesting reasons, with potential implications for understanding feedbacks between climate and superrotation through Earth's history

Hey climate folks! For fun, my group is exploring using XAI methods to advance understanding of the climate system. We're at a very very early stage with this, so asking for recommendations of insightful papers to help us develop our ideas. What XAI climate papers have impressed you? Cheers! 🌍🤖💻

Fresh off the press: Our new review article on the water cycle in a changing climate, led by the indefatigable (but bluesky-less) Hugo Lambert. Enjoy! @uniofstandrews.bsky.social wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Great to be visiting @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social in glorious sunshine! Today I will be giving the Global Change seminar in the School of GeoSciences where I will discuss dynamical constraints on tropical climate change over land 🌡️☀️

I'm on the Scientific Organising Committee. Should be some great science and some early CMIP7 results to discuss. It's community driven - so we need you to put forward session proposals that you would like to convene. Looking forward to seeing folk in Japan. Should be a good one. 👇

Banger of a quote from Chris Bretherton... "... No amount of clever technology can cover the gap that is forming. “Artificial intelligence,” he says, “cannot compensate for a lack of human intelligence.”..." www.science.org/content/arti...

Delighted to be in stunning Monte Verita for an @ethzurich.bsky.social workshop on drought! In a keynote talk today, I will discuss current our current understanding of land temperature and humidity in a changing climate

2024 was the warmest year in about one third (32%) of the planet on the dataset record (since 1979), and the warmest year for all continental regions except Australasia and Antarctica. Read the Global Climate Highlights 2024 report: bit.ly/40kQpcz #C3S

Just under 3 weeks left to apply to this exciting cross-disciplinary fully-funded PhD project on the dynamics of Southern Ocean atmosphere-ocean interactions, with @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social, @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social and myself @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧪 www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Wildfires drive record leap in global level of climate-heating CO2 - Data for 2024 shows humanity is moving yet deeper into a dangerous world of supercharged extreme weather #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 5 fully-funded PhDs across climate, oceans, atmosphere @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 🚨 Join the dynamic and growing COASt (Climate, Oceans, and Atmosphere @ St Andrews) research group to explore a wide range of problems in #Climate Project titles and links below!

Where has it warmed the most and the least? Observed warming has not been uniform and matches well the pattern that climate models predict 1. Warming has been greatest over the northern polar regions 2. Warming is generally greater over land than over the oceans

Here's my visual explanation of why we have not yet reached 1.5°C even though 2024 was likely warmer than 1.5°C. 2024 shows us how close we are, but the underlying warming is still under 1.5°C.

"Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth" by @weatherwest.bsky.social, @climate-guy.bsky.social, @manuelaibrunner.bsky.social, @climatechirper.bsky.social et al. nature.com/articles/s43... Global-averaged subseasonal & interannual whiplash have increased 31–66% & 8–31% since the mid-20thC

Climate change is one of the forces driving California’s wildfires, say government scientists. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Horrific scenes in LA. Wildfires are escalating due to climate change, in part because land relative humidity is decreasing and is expected to further decrease over coming decades www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Lots of exciting, fully-funded PhDs available @uniofstandrews.bsky.social! Please share and get in touch of interested

Fully-funded PhD @uniofstandrews.bsky.social to work on clouds, circulation, and climate. Come join us! Application deadline 24 Jan