The @wmo-global.bsky.social warns: prepare for El Niño.
A Warming Pacific Ocean is driving the development of El Niño, increasing the likelihood of higher global temperatures & extreme weather in the months ahead.
Forecasts provide a window to act. Time for preparedness is now bit.ly/4o6jByf
Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡
Breaking: National Weather Service declares El Nino is here and has a high chance to become very strong, ranking among the strongest on record.
More info: www.capitalweather.com/weather-serv...
Animated forecast from @ecmwf.int showing 500 hPa geopotential anomalies for the next 15 days. Very stable Ω blocking over central Europe with "cold feet" west and east of it. For large parts of Europe this means a strong heat wave over the next two weeks.
⚡⛈️ The opening whistle has blown on the North American football World Cup. But already play has been delayed by severe weather.
🎲 Climate heating is loading the dice and making this World Cup riskier - check out my full deep-dive here.
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🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money.
So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...
learn about our new #polarres climate change dataset for Antarctica from the best!
@drgilbz.bsky.social - you're very awesome! And we miss you...
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UN Environment Programme
There's a potentially record-breaking June heatwave unfolding in Europe, but there's some crazy heat in Antarctica too...
Sea ice in the Bellingshausen is missing, and winter temperatures on the peninsula were 20C above normal last few weeks.
What's going on?
Find out here: youtu.be/y9WKIRZwMWQ
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In the Mid-Atlantic, El Niños tend to boost winter precipitation.
