Mainly focused on covering extreme weather events worldwide. Also interested in climate dynamics, geohazards and satellite remote sensing.
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Nahel Belgherze
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Can’t say I recall ever seeing this before. More than half of France’s 30+ year-old weather stations set/tied their monthly high-temperature record in May 2026. Some did so as many as 9 times. Unprecedented to witness this level of heat so early in the year.
Phoenix has already recorded 12 days with temperatures reaching at least 95°F (35°C) in 2026.
Today’s low temperature of 21.4°C in Camborne, Cornwall, was the highest May minimum temperature ever recorded in the UK and, in fact, the highest minimum temperature ever recorded at this station. This is a very significant record to fall by such an extraordinary margin.
Flagstaff, Arizona:
• March 19, 2026 high: 84°F
• Previous March all-time high: 73°F
• April all-time high: 80°F
That's just plain ridiculous.
As the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.
Before this heatwave, Phoenix, AZ had never recorded three consecutive days at 105°F (40.6°C) or above in March — The previous record was obliterated by more than 40 days. This is deeply shocking.
I can’t believe it’s not even June yet and we’re already looking at the very real possibility of France reaching +40°C later this week.
Literally hundreds of May records have already been set. Truly unprecedented to witness this level of heat so early in the year.
Hard to believe I’m even writing this.
Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C than its annual average.
40 years ago, at Chernobyl, the world’s largest known release of radioactivity was unfolding.
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The word “unprecedented” gets thrown around a lot these days to describe the ongoing heatwave across the Western U.S., and let’s be honest — it’s absolutely justified. Perhaps the most impressive multi-day event since the 2021 PNW heat dome.
