It doesn't help that most undergraduate physics courses in the UK treat classical physics as an aside. By my third year the entirety of mandatory lecture/exam modules were quantum/particle/cosmology focused and I first learnt fluid dynamics from an optional module in the maths department.

Annual updates to ‘climate forcing’ data sets would allow simulations to keep pace as global warming accelerates. go.nature.com/45N9aXt

It was great to give an overview of my research so far at the RMetS Early Career conference earlier today! And great to hear about the variety of other research from early career scientists in the field.

Very pleased to have won the Malcolm Walker Award for New Environmental Researchers! It is an honour to stand in the company of previous winners and it was great to attend the awards ceremony on Wednesday alongside the winners of other RMetS awards. www.rmets.org/news/royal-m...

I have good memories of cycling to here as a teen. It's a shame if future generations won't be able to do the same.

THE RISE OF MACHINE LEARNING IN CLIMATE MODELLING Very pleased to report the first published output from the @metoffice.bsky.social new team Data Driven Climate Modelling team. A short commentary from my esteemed colleague George Jordan rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

💧Latest Hydrological Summary shows: -Below-average March rainfall in all areas of UK after dry winter -Many rivers in N & W have exceptionally low flows -Record low March groundwater levels in N Ireland, Scotland, Wales 🔎https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2025-04/HS_202503.pdf

"Why are you so bent out of shape, polar vortex?" Beautiful view via earth.nullschool.net (using NOAA's free GFS model data) of the current stratospheric warming event – likely to be the final stratospheric warming (FSW) – featuring one of the largest stratospheric wave-1 disturbances on record.

Yesterday was my last day at MPI-M, this morning I left Hamburg. It has been a great experience to live and work abroad and there's a lot I'll miss, but I'm also looking forward to what's next!

I really cannot believe my childhood career dream might end like this. Feeling so small and lost.

Reposting this report, which has a message which I suspect holds true in many other countries. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

A data availability statement I wrote yesterday is no longer valid...

What better way to spend three days in July than by coming to Manchester for this year's @rmets.org Annual Weather and Climate Conference? 😁 Please consider submitting an abstract – deadline 14 February. We look forward to seeing you there! More details: www.rmets.org/annualconfer...

Visited Sylt at the very northern end of Germany yesterday. Only accessible from mainland Germany by train, with lots of unique landscapes and nice to see the sea!

Excited to say that I'll be starting a Scientist role in the Monthly-to-Decadal team at the Met Office in March! I will miss Hamburg and it's been a great experience to live and work in Germany, but I'm also looking forward to being back in Exeter/Devon.

I worry that the concept of geoengineering is increasingly going to enter public discussion, not through climate scientists who want to make the nuances and ethics clear, but through the large audience tech sector who want to be seen as having solutions.

Built Hamburg's highest* snowman earlier. *in terms of altitude

At some point the NWP world has to address that 'we run a statistical model based on what happened in the past to estimate the future' became the futuristic tech-y solution instead of 'we use the world's most powerful computers to represent the earth based on physics and then run it forward in time'

Dartmoor visitor centre to close as National Park Authority cannot afford to renew lease from Duchy National Parks are facing 12% budget cuts - not a great way for Labour to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their creation & why is Duchy charging at all? www.tavistock-today.co.uk/news/nationa...

ASPECT project is now on Bluesky!! Join our network to keep in touch with the latest project news! @aspect-project.bsky.social

A little over a week to enter nominations for the 2024 Royal Meteorological Society Awards. A wide range of awards which recognise (among others) early-career scientists, educators, communicators and world-leading scientists in meteorology and climate science. www.rmets.org/nominations-...

Pleased to have played a role in this work: the 1 year-lagged impact of ENSO in the extratropics far exceeds the expected effect due to ENSO autocorrelation, and we propose large-scale atmospheric angular momentum anomalies propagating polewards as a mechanism. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Extraordinary rainfall distribution in UK in September. Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire saw their wettest month in our 188 year series. But only 25% wetter than average overall despite many areas having 3x average rainfall. More details in Met Office press release www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

New paper, led by Yingfei Fang during her visit to the University of Exeter: ENSO teleconnections to the South Pacific are underestimated in CMIP6 models, and are generally too far west although the position improves with increased ocean resolution. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

It was nice to be at the Met Office (and University of Exeter) last week, with lots of useful discussions on climate prediction research. Featuring some grey sky for bluesky, to prove once and for all that the Met Office aren't choosing their weather.

🚨 Here to share a new paper on the future of the #HornofAfrica March-May long rains and the "East African Paradox", which just dropped as Early Online Release in the Journal of Climate. t.co/TpIY616dqt

Spotted in a hotel in Köln: a classic unit conversion error

Now that Twitter is dead and done, I've been convinced that here might be the best alternative for science.