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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 25/09/2026

Everyday weather in a warmer world Imagine the weather patterns that happened in 1903 occurred again in a warmer world - how would that weather be experienced differently? Thomas et al. answer this question, highlighting the thermodynamic response of the climate: esd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

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Abstract. How would the weather of a year from history be experienced in a warmer world? We reconstruct the weather of 1903 using a reanalysis system that assimilates only surface pressure observation...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 13/05/2026

Imagine the same synoptic weather patterns occurred in a warmer world. How would our experience of the weather be different? Warmer? Yes Wetter? Only on the wettest 10% of days Everyday weather in a warmer world by Thomas et al.: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Changed temperature and rainfall in an example month in Central England

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 12/05/2026

Ever wondered whether there are more historical weather observations still sitting on paper for <insert country>? The answer is certainly yes. And, for observations taken by the British, many logbooks are now openly available thanks to UK Met Office: digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/SO_380c734a-...

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Doug McNeall @dougmcneall.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Can we make this a ceremonial position, like with a uniform and a sword or something? We could do the same for other long-running climate records.

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Jared Rennie @jjrennie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

TODAY IS THE DAY! Today I anger every member of the weather, water, and climate enterprise by telling them to jump on the AI train or get left behind. Get your tomatoes and "boos' ready!

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 08/12/2025

Exciting jobs & PhD studentship! 1) postdoc in historical windstorms: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... 2) postdoc in extreme event storylines: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... 3) PhD in redeveloping the Central England Temperature series (led by Tim Osborn): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Philip Brohan @brohan.org · 16/10/2025

AI is indeed the perfect tool for climate data rescue. The trick is to follow the same process you'd use for citizen science - except, instead of 1000s of human volunteers, you use a trio of fine-tuned baby robots. brohan.org/Robot_Rainfa...

Three baby robots, dressed up for graduation in hood and gown, leaping in the air in celebration.

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Peter Thorne @peterthorne.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Two job opportunities on new @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social contract until 30/06/28. Both looking at aspects of data rescue and preparation and provision of global historical land meteorological data. Looking to fill ASAP. First job is for a senior postdoctoral position: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This is a work of art.

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Amanda Whitmire @thalassalib.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I'm always looking for ways to make it faster to transcribe historical data, & structured handwritten text has been a real challenge. I just tested Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash model on some Monterey Bay temperature data from 1952. I'm pretty impressed! Not perfect, but better than a blank page. 🌊

A screenshot of two application windows open next to each other. On the left is a scanned page of handwritten ocean temperature data from March 1952, and on the right is a Google sheet with most of the data transcribed. There are missing values in places, but the digital data is very accurate.

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Tim Andrews @tim-andrews.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Delighted to announce I have taken on a joint position between the Met Office and the University of Leeds: Research Scientist | Met Office Hadley Centre Associate Professor | University of Leeds Looking forward to getting to work on this. See news article below 👇

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 12/02/2025

Want to do a PhD in climate, with a focus on using machine learning to recover millions of lost weather observations and so better reconstruct climatic changes over the past century? Open to students from UK and Ireland, funded through @climatecocentre.bsky.social. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Using machine learning to help reconstruct changes in extreme rainfall over British & Irish Isles at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Using machine learning to help reconstruct changes in extreme rainfall over British & Irish Isles at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

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National Oceanography Centre @noc.ac.uk · 12/02/2025

🔭 How accurate are historic sea surface temperatures? NOC's Dr Elizabeth Kent MBE (@lizk40.bsky.social) gives us a rundown and explores a particularly puzzling cold feature on #NOCIntoTheBlue. Watch, listen and subscribe NOW 🎧 linktr.ee/nocintotheblue

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 15/01/2025

In 2018, @blkahn.bsky.social said that the warming stripes graphic 'belongs in a damn museum', even suggesting that it was 'fit for the Museum of Modern Art' (see gizmodo.com/this-climate...). Well... Later this month, they will appear in the Museum of Modern Art: press.moma.org/exhibition/p...

This Climate Visualization Belongs in a Damn Museum

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Philip Brohan @brohan.org · 01/01/2025

Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea In honour of today's #ShippingForecast centenary, here's a weather map of December's #StormDarragh - made out of the associated shipping forecast.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 30/12/2024

Congratulations to Prof. Phil Jones (UEA) for receiving an OBE for services to climatology! Well deserved and long overdue recognition for his efforts over many decades to collate and analyse observational records of climatic changes. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/676a8b...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 30/12/2024

And, amazing to see @lizk40.bsky.social receive an MBE for services to tracking global temperatures. Richly deserved for all her efforts over decades!

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Berkeley Earth @berkeleyearth.org · 10/12/2024

Today at #AGU24: In a session co-chaired by BE's @hausfath.bsky.social, @rarohde.bsky.social will be diving into the factors, both well-defined and more unexpected, that contributed to 2023's record-setting ("gobsmackingly bananas") extreme heat. Find us at: 📍GC23K-02 / Salon A ⏰ 14:21 - 14:33

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Philip Brohan @brohan.org · 24/04/2024

A tribute to the genius of Albrecht Dürer and the power of matplotlib.

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Philip Brohan @brohan.org · 25/02/2024

Recorded history is not that many human lifetimes. (Also, ChatGPT is fun to play with).

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