Weather warnings for wind upgraded to Orange tomorrow for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo. #StormAmy

Salthill Thursday morning. Video by Marianne McGrath

The irish times certainly got our memo here @ccacireland.bsky.social … www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

First of the high resolution weather models to cover the possible storm Friday keeps the strongest winds out to the Northwest of Ireland. Hopefully this becomes a trend. A lot of rain to come though!

Met Eireann warnings will presumably drop any time now. Still a way off and this is more uncertain than the usual being a post-tropical cyclone but if this ECMWF forecast verifies the norther half of the country is in for a rough old Friday afternoon and evening

The Council’s Annual Review of Adaptation has been published today with key observations and policy recommendations published to help Ireland deal with the impacts of future climate change. Read the full report here: shorturl.at/LogZL

📺Watch back: Dr Claire Bergin of ICARUS, along with Met Éireann climatologist Paul Moore, featured in a piece by George Lee on RTÉ News: One'Clock discussing the findings of the report focusing on high-temperature seasonal climate change attribution for Ireland. www.rte.ie/player/serie...

Great to see coverage of our first full @wasitusie.bsky.social study on RTE (and elsewhere). Kudos @clairebergin.bsky.social and Lionel swan as well as met Éireann colleagues and thanks as ever to @wwattribution.bsky.social for the hugely valuable collaboration www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

It is World Gynaecological Cancer Day today . Can you please share to get more awareness about the symptoms of ovarian cancer. Early detection means a better prognosis . eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Floods force 100,000 out of their homes – and the water in this African city is still rising

Met Éireann confirm summer 2025 was warmest summer on record. Note this is average temperature with cloudy nights playing a big part.

Southern Europe is sweltering under life-threatening heat that could last through Monday, fueling wildfires that have left at least two people dead. In Spain, soldiers have been deployed to battle the fires and hundreds of people have evacuated. nyti.ms/46STog7

Russian volcano erupts for first time in more than 500 years. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Met Éireann have now issued a weather advisory for #StormFloris that will bring wet and very windy weather Sunday night into Monday. As Met Éireann don’t issue warnings more than 3 days in advance the warnings will be issued tomorrow.

This is so freakin' cool! It's things like this that make me in awe of our atmosphere!

426.98 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 22-Jul-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Red warning issued for parts of Northeast Spain today Wednesday with risk of over 120mm in twelve hours.

Ex-CEO of cement giant CRH takes over as chair of…BP, with a specific mandate to accelerate its ecocidal business model. Yes, this is indeed the very same CRH who sponsor the ‘CRH Chair of Climate Science’ in TCD. 🤢🤮 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

An MU-led project to rescue African climate data has taken a major step forward in its mission to recover vital historical weather data from data-sparse regions of the continent. @climate.noaa.gov ‪@copernicusecmwf maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Midday and already up to 29c in Carlow with Ireland warmer than many parts of Spain today.

The Texas flash flood is terrible, and also all too familiar. 10" (25 cm) of rain fell, and the river rose 26 ft (8 m) in only 45 minutes. We need to get better at evacuating vulnerable areas in advance of heavy rain, because these events will increase. apnews.com/article/texa...

Just embarrassing TBH.

EXCEPTIONAL HEAT IN EUROPE 38.1 Pruniers FRANCE Monthly record:32.5 Rocroi 34.7C in GERMANY Next night will be HISTORIC HUNDREDS of stations in France,Germany,Switzerland and Benelux will have their pre-solstice warmest night in history,for many the earliest tropical night ever

Sometimes you just have to call a spade a spade instead of describing it as a manual digging implement made of metal and wood powered by human power etc etc. www.thejournal.ie/michael-heal...

🌡️EXTRAORDINARY EVENT We are witnessing something unbelievable,BY FAR the most extreme event in world climatic history. Several thousands of records are being brutalized from North Africa allover Asia with margins never seen before. Middle East is approaching 50C tbc

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences. Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

RECORD HEAT IN AFRICA FROM NORTH TO SOUTH! HISTORIC heat wave in Algeria ,Tunisia and Libya with records pulverized Crazy Minimum 27.5C at Touggourt,April record April Record in MADAGASCAR 35.5 Nosy Be Island Also records in Seychelles,Glorieuses Island etc.. Many more records to come next days

Anyone looking to rescue important historical data from scanned documents? AI is finally ready to help. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/data-rescu...

JUST IN: March 2025 was the nation's 6th-warmest on record. The month was marked by deadly tornadoes and wildfires. Find out more in our latest U.S. Climate Report: ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202503 @climate.noaa.gov

The Spanish Met Service have now issued RED warning for East of La Palma in Canary Islands: ⚠️ Storm Nuria will leave hurricane-force wind gusts, exceeding 130 km/h, between 5 a.m. and 5 p.m. (Canary Islands time) on Thursday, April 3. Probability 40-70%.

I decided lighthearted was the approach to take when invited for reflections on being an IPCC author by WGII as the first in (hopefully so I don't look like a complete egomaniac - ed) a series on SR Cities authors ... ipcc-ar7-wg2.kit.com/posts/our-fi...

I have a very immediate appointment need for a junior PD position as a chapter scientist on the @ipcc.bsky.social Special Report on Climate Change and Cities. Initial appointment will be 6 months so I can appoint immediately but extendable to the two years of the report cycle. (1/2)

A damaging M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar today - shallow, large and very close to major population centres. About 4 million people experienced violent shaking. USGS: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/... This ground shaking record is from Victoria, Canada (not felt here at a distance of 11,000 km). ⚒️🧪

It's World Glacier Day. Global warming means they are melting. We know this from historical photos comparing their extent to now. We know this from detailed measurements of their length & thickness over the past few decades. We know this from measuring their mass from space in the past decade.

Mapping changes in temperature: every decade from the 1850s to 2020s

"Trump obtained record donations from the fossil fuel industry in his 2024 campaign. In April, he ... reportedly asked more than 20 executives, from companies including Chevron, Exxon and Occidental, for $1bn and promised, if elected, to slash climate policies."

Interested in volunteering to be an author for the IPCC AR7 Working Groups? Nomination process open until 17th April: apps.ipcc.ch/nominations/...

We're seeking a Post-doctoral Research Fellow to join our team at University College Dublin The successful person will develop monitoring strategies & rapid response indicators to support ecological restoration in rivers & streams. 📅 Deadline: 14/03/25 🔗 Apply: ucd.ie/workatucd/jo... 🔎 Ref: 018231

Flooding on Gran Canaria today in the Canary Islands

An updated image of some recent work, with me for scale!

40% off all land and seascapes on my website for this weekend. DM or message me for more details. artachart.com

Delighted to announce that @edhawkins.org has been approved for an adjunct Prof position in the ICARUS climate research centre @maynoothuni.bsky.social (I really must set up an ICARUS account here ...) which will formalise and strengthen our existing collaborations. Welcome Ed!

Great to see our climate paper featured in this month’s issue of Weather! 😊🌎 @rmets.org @peterthorne.bsky.social @simonj1967.bsky.social @maynoothuni.bsky.social @universityofgalway.bsky.social

Did you know we now have an hourly dataset called GHCNh? Did you know we have data in parquet format? Did you know I have a repo for folks to get the data if they need to for... reasons? github.com/jjrennie/ghc... Click on the binder button on the bottom to launch a notebook!

Elon Musk has declared war on US government waste, but critics say he's out of control. Is Musk operating outside his brief and should the world be worried? This is how we got here: #Newsnight

New record alert on the #StateOfClimate front: Our colleagues at @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social confirm that January 2025 was the warmest January globally on record. This comes despite the onset of #LaNiña, a phenomenon that typically brings temporary cooling. climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-j...

My exhibition 'Shadow and Light' is up and running in Edenderry Library until February 26th. Paintings by me, with poems by the very wonderful Lemn Sissay. If you're in the area and have half an hour to spare, it would be great to see you! #artexhibition #painting #poetry #Irishart

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