Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 21 Sep 2025: 🌀 Tropical cyclones MITAG & RAGAS affect Philippines, China 💨 storm not-Amy hit UK & France 🌧️ #floods across Gambia, India, Malaysia, Niger, Pakistan, Philippines, South Sudan, USA, Vietnam, Yemen www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Dry, warm conditions persisted over UK in August 2025 with low river flows, groundwater, reservoir levels & soil moisture leading to #drought impacts; wetter September is alleviating surface water deficit but more sustained rainfall needed to replenish deeper supplies: nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 12th September 2025: 🌧️ #flooding & landslides affect Gambia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan & Thailand 🌪️ storms hit Japan 🍞 food insecurity for Guatemala, Madagascar, Mozambique, Gaza 🔥 #wildfire in USA www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

None of geoengineering ideas to protect polar regions from climate warming are feasible in coming decades, are potentially dangerous to environment & present distraction from efforts to limit climate change by massively & rapidly cutting greenhouse gas emissions: www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 8th Sept 2025: 🌀 tropical cyclone TAPAH China, Philippines; 🌧️ #floods & landslides Vietnam, north India, Pakistan, Yemen, South Sudan, Sudan, Nigeria, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, USA; 🌩️storms Italy, Japan 🔥 #wildfire USA www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Calling all past Mets! As we celebrate 100 years of the University of Reading we invite you to take part in our Alumni Centenary Census. Your story is an important part of the University's legacy — and that's why we want to hear from you. Add your voice today: rdg.ac/censusln

The latest @ukhsa.bsky.social global hazards bulletin has been updated up to the 29th August 2025 with links to recent and ongoing #climate extremes: www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Foolish, reckless and politically desperate: www.bbc.com/news/article...

14 cleared Mill Green, Caversham, collecting 10 large/12 small bags of litter. Cigarette ends continue to disease the tarmac arteries of our streets. Thanks to our @dofe.org volunteers and to Gabi for leading. Find details of further missions on our website: www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/KCT/

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 15th Aug 2025: 🔥 #heatwave & #wildfires grip southern Europe 🌧️ #floods & landslides affect Pakistan, India, China, Japan, Mexico, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Nigeria 🌀 tropical cyclone PODUL hits Taiwan/China www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Rainfall below average in southwest UK July 2025 with mostly dry soils, declining groundwater/reservoir stocks & low river flows away from northwest + drought affecting East/West Midlands, North-West England & Yorkshire with low river flows expected to persist: nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Our tenacious ten (plus photo muggins) unlittered Lower Caversham, collecting 8 large/13 small bags, N2O canisters and reported flytipping. Thanks to our @dofe.org volunteer. Find out more about our group online! www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/KCT/

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social: 🌡️ heatwave multiple regions 🔥 wildfires Canada, USA, France, Portugal 🌧️ floods/landslides Australia, China, Taiwan, India,Laos,Myanmar,Vietnam,S Korea,Japan,USA ⛈️storms Ethiopia, Italy 💨duststorm Peru 🥀drought Somalia www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Nothing ever changes but the climate Some initial notes on the DOE Critical Review of Impact of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the US Climate And a 🧵 of other responses I'm aware of (let me know if you know of others) diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/n... 1/n

Nice to see @metoffice.gov.uk and BBC making friends again!

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...

Carbon uptake diminished in 2024 as decomposition in hot, wet conditions sped up, based on a preprint by Jiang et al. (www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...), leading to record annual growth rates in atmospheric CO2 as seen in the @climate.noaa.gov data: www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/co...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 25th July 2025: 🌧️ #floods across Pakistan, China, South Korea 🔥 #wildfires in Greece, Cyprus, Turkey 🥀 #drought over Iran ⛈️ storms hit Ethiopia, France, Romania, Thailand, Vietnam 🌀 typhoon Co-may hits Philippines www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Meteorology & Climate online courses @uniofreading.bsky.social suitable for professional meteorologists, consultants, STEM students, graduates & academics seeking to improve their range of skills and knowledge. Details & applications: www.reading.ac.uk/meteorology/...

As the hosepipe ban kicks in over parts of Reading we look at how this summer so far compares to the UK’s infamous hot, dry summer of 1976 in this week’s @unirdg-met.bsky.social blog: blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 18 Jul 2025: 🔥 #wildfires Canada, USA, Spain 🌧️ #floods & landslides China, Nepal, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Mexico, USA, Ecuador, Spain, Sudan 🌪️ tornado New Zealand ⚡ lightning eastern USA www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Researchers from @unirdg-met.bsky.social have analysed UK-wide trends for three major pollutants. theconversation.com/uk-air-quali...

Clean up of particle pollution across East Asia caused more sunlight to reach the oceans as clouds became less reflective, combining with rising greenhouse gases to accelerate in warming of climate since around 2010: doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Unsettled start to June 2025 in UK then heatwaves with dry conditions in east & low river flows, very dry soils, declining groundwater/reservoir levels with drought in northern England and heightened risk of drought elsewhere: nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Risk of drought ending with once in a year heavy precipitation event doubles over Europe by mid centrury based on regional modelling, highlighting need to adapt to more of these compound extremes: doi.org/10.1038/s416...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 11th Jul 2025: 🌧️ floods China, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia, Colombia, Ecuador, USA, Nigeria 🌀 tropical cyclone DANAS China/Taiwan 🔥 wildfire France, Spain, Syria ⛈️ storms Italy, Romania, USA www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Strengthening global atmospheric circulation across latitudes since 2000 based on mid-latitude upper tropospheric cloud motion speed increases (up to 4 m/s/decade in southern hemisphere) from MISR satellite data with poleward movement of northern tropics & both polar fronts: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Freshening & stratification of Southern Ocean since the 1980s reversed around 2015 and has coincided with subsequent dramatic decline in Antarctic sea ice coverage: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 4th July 2025 ❄️Coldwave grips Argentina, Chile & Uruguay 🌡️Heatwave across Europe & Japan 🔥Wildfires France, Greece, Spain, Turkey & USA 🌧️Floods/Landslides Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, India, Nepal, France & Nigeria www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Surprisingly, when accounting for uncertainties in aviation's climate change effects, reducing contrails or nitrogen oxide emissions is more effective than reducing CO2 emissions (though tackling the rapid growth in aviation is presumably most effective): doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 🌧️floods/landslides Brazil, Colombia, South Africa, China, Pakistan, India, Indonesia 🔥wildfires Italy, Croatia, Greece 🌩️storms France 🌀Hurricane Erick Mexico ❄️Coldwave Uruguay 🌡️🌩️🔥🌪️heatwave/storms/tornado/wildfire USA www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Immensely proud to know this talented individual: Jolene Cook OBE talks about her vital role as Head of International Climate Science and UK IPCC Focal Point at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: fullcircleci.co.uk/episode-146-...

Tree-burning #Drax power station is UK’s largest single source of CO₂ emissions—and a major air polluter. Yet ludicrously, UK Gov pretends its emissions are zero. Reports on its impact on primary forests have been covered up. Ministers are being played. Again. Great article by @dalevince.com

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 20th Jun 2025: 🌀storms China, Vietnam, Armenia, Austria, Cameroon, Mexico ⛈️ #floods & landslides Brazil, Colombia, USA, DR Congo, South Africa, India, Indonesia 🌡️ #heatwave Japan 🥀 #drought Syria 🔥 #wildfire New Mexico www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Contraction of midlatitude & tropical storm regimes with warming could explain the 21st century increase in Earth's absorption of sunlight and overall heating rate: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Record warming in east then west North Atlantic during mid-2023 explained by weak winds that focused strong solar heating in shallower upper ocean layer (with possible minor effect of cleaner marine air) that contributed to record global surface temperatures: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A new paper updating key metrics from the IPCC is out: Human induced (HI) warming now between 1.1 and 1.7°C Rate of HI warming now at between 0.2 and 0.4°C/decade Remaining carbon budget only 130 GtCO2 for 50% chance of keeping warming below 1.5°C doi.org/10.5194/essd...

Simulations at the lower range of future warming projections may be unrealistic as they are unable to capture the large observed global increases in absorbed sunlight & infrared emission to space since 2000 based on @aaas.org study by @gunnarmy.bsky.social et al: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

More stuff already invented in Dune: www.newscientist.com/article/2483...

Mega congratulations on a hugely deserved OBEs to our very own Andrew Charlton-Perez for services to Climate Science and to Education plus to our alumni Jolene Cook for services to International Climate Science! www.gov.uk/government/p...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social: 🌀storm WUTIP Cambodia, China, Laos, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam 🌧️floods over Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Philippines, South Africa, Trinidad & Tobago, USA 🔥wildfires in Canada, USA, France www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

Extreme dry/sunny UK spring with dry soils, #wildfires, very low river flows, depleted reservoirs in north & exceptionally low groundwater in some north/west boreholes with #drought declared so heightened risk of further dry weather impacts @ukceh.bsky.social bulletin: nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Although the unlikely but dire possibility of a shut down in the North Atlantic overturning ocean circulation needs to be considered, using observations to constrain the future projections suggests only a moderate weakening by less than 50%: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Definitely seemed a bit smoky cycling back late Monday afternoon from @unirdg-met.bsky.social #wildfires

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 6 June 2025: 💦 #floods & landslides affect Bangladesh, India, west China, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, Nigeria ⛈️storms hit Egypt, southwest USA 🔥 #wildfires in Canada 💨duststorm engulfs Iran www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...

A warming #climate is making the atmosphere more thirsty, driving an increase in #drought severity and a 74% expansion of drought area in the 5 years up to the record-breaking 2022: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The changing #climate & growing population means England is facing a water crisis but more reservoirs are only part of the solution; a complete overhaul is needed including plugging leaks, cutting waste, capturing more water where it falls & recycling it: theconversation.com/englands-wat...

Hunga Tonga undersea volcanic eruption cooled Earth by −0.38 W/m2 due to scattering of sunlight by aerosol particle emission with negligible warming from injected water vapour based on simulations 15 January to 15 July 2022: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Global #climate hazards @ukhsa.bsky.social 30 May 2025: 🌧️floods Argentina, Australia, China, ElSalvador, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria,Philippines,Romania ⛈️storms Chile, Pakistan, Paraguay 🏔️landslide Switzerland 💨duststorm Australia 🔥wildfires Canada www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sgs02rpa/ex...