‼️That's CRAZY :50c again in AUSTRALIA and on the Southern coast The mother of all heat waves of the Southern Hemisphere is just getting wilder with these insane records: 50.0 Port Augusta 49.7 Tarcoola 49.6 Woomera 48.3 Coober Pedy 🌡️5 consecutive days >49C! and more tomorrow

The whole "sandgate" thing that happened yesterday on Bluesky was pretty fun. I wrote a blog post with some deeper thoughts on this, and why it is important for scientists to have humility. raisedbeaches.net/2026/01/29/s...

Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh broke a 100 year old record. 63.6mm rainfall was recorded there on Jan 28 which beats 52.6mm of Jan 8, 1926. Rainfall records have been kept there since 1891.

Thank you Greenland www.reuters.com/business/aut...

♨️Heatwave warnings across Australia: Tuesday brought sweltering 110–115°F+ (43–46°C) highs, ~17°C (30°F) above average for this time of year. Attribution science of the Climate Shift Index shows heat this extreme would be rare, if not nearly impossible, without human-caused climate change.

Snakes on trains - new research from India "we propose that snakes, king cobras included, may inadvertently expand their ranges by accidental transport on trains" HT @mikeshanahan.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

quite astonishing landslide in Niscemi, Sicily

Holy crap. This is the most damning video yet. It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face. Murder.

Update: The streak broke.

Update: Whether the next one happens on 24th Jan is still a coin toss.

Note to self: Avoid low hanging branches.

Pic de Neige Cordier 1950 | 2025 Only 7 decades and this south-facing tributary of Glacier Blanc flowing from Neige Cordier (3614 m) has entirely gone! 🧊🔥✝️ (A red dot indicates a similar location on both images). 📷 RTM & @PnEcrins

M6 or greater earthquakes occuring in a 3 day interval. Whether the next one happens on 21st Jan is still a coin toss. (Time is in IST).

Dr Douglas Kelly was right. USSR, Cambodia & Rwanda are all examples. The world is never going to learn :(

INCREDIBLY massive avalanche struck the Elbrus resort (Kabardino-Balkaria, Caucasus, RU) today on the SE face of Ebrus, down to ~2300 m asl! ❄️🌊 Via @WeatherMonitors

For the first time, #Copernicus Sentinel-2A has captured night‑time images of Earth, spotting gas flares in the Middle East, wildfires in India and even fishing boats in South Korea. The results from these tests are being used to prepare for Sentinel‑2 Next Generation.

Most 2025 global temperatures are now out (degrees C above 1850-1900 baseline) 1.41 HadCRUT5 1.44 Berkeley 1.46 JRA-3Q 1.47 Copernicus 1.53 DCENT-I NOAA and NASA GISS values will be public at 2pm UK time and but based on already public Jan-Nov data they will likely be between 1.3 and 1.4 degC.

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Global mean temperature 2025: 1.44 ± 0.13 °C above the 1850-1900 average, based on a synthesis of eight international datasets. 2025 was the second or third warmest year on record. 2024 remains the warmest. That makes the past 3 years are the 3 warmest years on record. wmo.int/news/media-c...

According to HURDAT2 (since 1949 but more reliable since the 1970s), only TWO tropical cyclones have formed between 180° and North America in January. Both Ekeka (1992) and Pali (2016) formed in the central Pacific. If a TC develops near Mexico this month, there is no match in the modern record.

🌍 Berkeley Earth’s 2025 Global Temperature Report is out. 2025 was the 3rd warmest year on record. Annual global temperature reached 1.44 ± 0.09°C above the pre-industrial baseline; 770 million people experienced locally record-warm annual conditions. Full report: berkeleyearth.org/global-tempe...

Sailing Rigs xkcd.com/3193/

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

www.mumbaitracker.in/home Information on candidates, manifestos and wards in general.

I added captions to this video of people heckling Greg Bovino leaving a Target in Minneapolis, and there's so many people yelling things at him it's like a comedy skit

"For all the technology, and spin accompanying that technology, there would be no Zomato, Blinkit and Swiggy, without the desperation of India’s gig workers."

One person has been killed and 38 more are missing after the #garbage #landslide at Binaliw in Cebu in the Philippines. Rescue operations are ongoing but the likelihood of survival is not high. cebudailynews.inquirer.net/686329/binal...

this might be one of the cutest things i have ever seen

TIL about placeholder texts in newspaper publishing.

A sensational guest post by Derek Cronmiller, Theron Finley Panya Lipovsky and Jan Dettmer of the Yukon Geological Survey: Photos and Preliminary Observations from an Overview Flight of the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake, Yukon Territory, Canada. eos.org/thelandslide...

Among the dozens all time records smashed,those are the most important Heat even in the tiny Chloe Island 42.4 La Union LOS RIOS PROVINCE ALL TIME RECORD 41.4 Rio Bueno 40.0 Osorno AP LOS LAGOS PROVINCE ALL TIME RECORD 38.5 Rio Negro 36.4 Puerto Varas 34.4 Ancud Chloe Island

HISTORIC HEAT IN CANADA While not a single cold record is falling in the NW,heat records fall no-stop in NE Canada Crazy +8.1C Pangnirtung NUNAVUT HOTTEST JANUARY DAY EVER tied >170 countries+dozens of thousands of stations are breaking records Never happened anything like this

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

Here’s a thread on how easy it is to attack oil infrastructure. I’ve spent a lot of time traveling in Colombia since 2001 & had the opportunity to document insurgent attacks on Colombian oil targets. They blew so many holes into the pipeline that locals call it a flute. See my photos in this thread:

Happy Perihelion! ☀️ Today is a big day for our little planet: it makes its closest approach to the sun of the entire year! This point in the orbit is called #perihelion. Then, on July 6, it will be at its most distant point in its orbit, which is called aphelion.

Coonoor PTO, Tamil Nadu broke the 82 year old record for highest rainfall in 24 hours in January. Old record: 196.6mm on Jan 4, 1943.

Hmmm

There we have it, 2025 was indeed a record breaking (warm) year for mean Central England Temperature (CET), this daily dataset going back nearly 300 years to 1772.

Surprise rains in Mumbai on New Years Day! Santacruz: 6.7mm (3rd highest in Jan beating 4.7mm of Jan 26, 1962). Colaba: 9.2mm (4th highest in Jan beating 7.4mm of Jan 8, 1989). Records kept since 1951 at Santacruz & 1917 at Colaba. Data: IMD

The 2025 total rainfall at Mumbai (Santacruz) was 3,598.4mm which is 1,096.1mm above the 1991-2020 average. Of the total, 86.5% fell during the monsoon months (June-Sep) & 13.5% in the remaining months. The 1991-2020 average is 95.53% & 4.47% respectively. Data: IMD

The 2025 mean temperature at Mumbai (Santacruz) was 27.75C which is 0.22C above the 1991-2020 average. Max: 39.2C (Mar 11) Min: 14.6C (Dec 20) Low Max: 25.5C (Sep 28) High Min: 28.9C (May 6) Data: IMD

Mumbai (Santacruz) recorded a mean temperature of 25.21C this month which is 0.3C below 1991-2020 climatological average. Warm days and cool/chilly nights during most of the month. Max: 34.1C (Dec 10) Min: 14.6C (Dec 20) Low Max: 29.5C (Dec 31) High Min: 22.9C (Dec 6) Data: IMD

This is a photo of the surface of an asteroid It was taken from the *surface*I of that asteroid By a *bouncing rover* the size of a lunchbox (1/2)

Flying 400 km above Earth at hypersonic speed, NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps captured a gigantic spark lighting up the atmosphere ✨ Here's the video of this rare and powerful electrical phenomenon from the International Space Station.

Cool/Cold/Freezing in DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 15.8C on the coast at Punta Cana 12.5C in the lowlands at La Romana -7.2C in the Valle Nuevo on the mountains where freezing temperatures lasted up to 12 hours. Quite strong irradiation: Daytime temperatures remained warm to mild.

EXTRAORDINARY HISTORIC Record pulverized allover Africa 40.6 Garoua CAMEROON HOTTEST DECEMBER DAY IN HISTORY 40C in Ghana,Chad,Niger,Nigeria All days of the month records smashed allover the region. It's BY FAR the most extreme event ever seen in the tropics and will get worse

Mars’s mysterious slope streaks aren’t signs of water after all! 🧪🔭 A study using machine learning and decades of orbital data revealed they are the result of dust sliding down steep terrain. 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/05/Streaks_on_Mars

Amazed at how much of the lyrics I still remember!

Colombo Port City Project- Dec 2008 to Feb 2025