Today the report "State of climate - Romania 2025" was launched. I have been in charge of 2 chapters: "Temperature and heat waves in Romania" and "Drought, aridification and precipitation in Romania". The report can be found here (only in Romanian): lnkd.in/eSG765zY or here: lnkd.in/eNJ8Hw6Q

An example of how fast things can go wrong. #Drought conditions evolution from January to March 2025. In the northern part of #Germany the situation is critical at the moment. UK seems to go through the same thing. I forgot how rain looks like :-(

I have complained about reviewers and their offensive tone a lot. Now I turn the page: "I thank the authors for addressing all of my comments. This is an excellent paper and I recommend that it is accepted. I congratulate the authors and apologise for delays on my side." This made my day :-)

First papers about record-breaking summer 2024 in Europe starting to come out. Ionita, M. and Nagavciuc, V. (2025), 2024: The year with too much summer in the eastern part of Europe. Weather. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @moniionita.bsky.social

The summer of #2024 was the #warmest ever, over vast areas globally, in terms of both average (TT) and daily #minimum (TN) and #maximum (TX) temperatures. Eastern #Europe was one of the #HOT centers, especially regarding the minimum #temperature.

Eastern European countries (including Romania) "HIT THE JACKPOT" this year. #Romania (+3°C), Ukraine (+3.3°C), Slovakia (+3.2°C), Lithuania (+3.4°C), Belarus (+3.4°C) are among the countries where 2024 surpassed any temperature record. Source: berkeleyearth.org/global-tempe...

"Mean" Santa. Instead of fifty shades of something..... I got physics for something 😀😀😀😀😀. I'm not sure what I should think about this present 🤔

New study revisits climate impacts of an #AMOC slowdown 🌍🌊. Freshwater hosing experiments reveal the Irminger Basin as the most sensitive site, causing the largest AMOC weakening. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Although we are in the middle of winter, I need to leave this here. The summer mean #temperature at #Bucharest (capital city of #Romania) was 6°C above the climatological mean. 6°C!!!!! 4 times more than the Paris agreement threshold. The future looks #HOT #hothouse

I have decided to move my "social media flat" here. The other side has become too creepy and disturbing. I have some difficulties figuring out this platform, but I hope I will find my peers, as I really miss the scientific life on social media.

My first news on this platform: Last PhD paper of Sigrid Bakke, together with Lena Tallaksen. A great piece of work analyzing how the recent European drying has been influenced by more intense and persistent anticyclonic circulation. Congrats Sigrid! www.nature.com/articles/s41...