Meteorologist and journalist. I cover wacky weather, changing climate, and how we live, love, work, get around, and dream.
Bob Henson
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From the CEO of AAAS:
“If this rule becomes final, Americans' hopes for future cures, national security and economic strength will rely on the scientific sensibilities of the nation's chief bureaucrat. Alzheimer's disease will not be cured by a budget analyst from either political party.”
All but a handful of U.S. states just had one of their five warmest springs on record. Our look at the numbers for spring 2026 and May 2026, per NOAA/NCEI: @climateconnections.bsky.social
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Spring (Mar-May) temperature departure from the 1991-2020 normal. Seems warm.
OK so is it safe to say that "something is happening" ?!
Sea surface temperatures are already surging to record high levels for this time of year in key El Niño monitoring areas.
➡️ Sign up for our next monthly state of the climate webinar to learn more: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... We'll also be talking about the hurricane season outlook.
We're psyched to have @irenesans.bsky.social joining the @climateconnections.bsky.social team! More on Irene here:
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Record-low snowpack and historic late-March heat were among the standout events.
The new ENSO Euro Plumes were released this morning. Hard to believe, but they are even stronger! Some members are even above 4°C! Remarkable.
To be helpful I added color bars to distinguish between strong vs historic events. Almost all members are historical!
Now here’s the relative… 1/2
Impressive! NOAA has modeled the recent CMEs, and impact could be in just over 24 hr from now! Tomorrow night (Thursday) we could see G3 / Kp 7 conditions and widespread auroral displays. Impact slated for 18 UT / 1 pm CDT June 4. Charge those batteries!
More urban artifacts! @drshepherd2013.bsky.social
As a follow up to yesterday’s post. This graph uses a different index (rONI) which accounts for the warming climate baseline and the tropical ocean mean outside the El Niño region during each time period. Here we see the 2026 dynamical model forecast is still the highest, but much less so… 1/
Bob Henson
Bob Henson
Bob Henson
Help us welcome Irene Sans to the Eye on the Storm team.
I have often been critical of the leadership @aaas.org but they just took action on the new OMB rules that will politicize science, speaking out and notifying members. I hope all take the time to follow their advice, contact Congress, and most important, post a comment
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Zack Labe
Vincent Ledvina
Spring 2026 was the 2nd warmest on record for the Contiguous U.S. (2012). A majority of locations had a top 5 warmest spring compared to all springs since 1895 and many places had their warmest. Only a small area of the northern Plains had a cool spring compared to the full period-of-record. 🔥
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
This is something I have never seen before on satellite.
Clouds perfectly outlining roads.
Just incredibly neat imagery of Houston, Texas this morning.
Massive shoutout to Ethan Mok who discovered it (on Twitter).
The forecast strength of this El Niño is astonishing! Plotted below are all the strongest El Nino’s on record vs the 2026 forecast (thick white line). Look at how deviant this event has the “potential” to be! Forget “Super”, if this verifies it deserves “Supercalifragilistic expialidocious!”… 1/
With the beginning of the 2026 hurricane season comes a new face at the helm of Yale Climate Connections' hurricane season coverage: Irene Sans, who will be anchoring our coverage this year! Bob Henson and I will also continue to contribute.
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But "It only takes one storm to make for a very bad season," said NOAA National Weather Service director Ken Graham.
