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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Category 5 Hurricane Polo. Simply incredible.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/09/2026

I have a new piece out in Nature today on the record-breaking 2026/2027 El Niño, what impacts we should expect, and how governments can prepare. The Niño3.4 region is currently running more than 1C hotter than any prior event on record, and we remain months away from the peak www.nature.com/artic...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 09/09/2026

Honestly, it's already getting hard to keep up with all of the new climate data records. And I only expect this to amplify later this year. Climate change is still the key story. You just experienced the warmest summer on record across the contiguous United States. Data at doi.org/10.7289/V5SX...

Line graph showing average temperatures for each June-August in the contiguous U.S. (CONUS) from 1895 to 2026. There is a long-term increasing trend. Data is from NClimGrid. The average for 2026 was 74.4°F.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 24/07/2026

2026 is on track to be the warmest (~35% chance) or second warmest (~63%) year on record, while 2027 is very likely (92% chance) to be the warmest on record on the back of a growing super El Niño event. For more, check out my new Carbon Brief State of the Climate Q2 update: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 13/07/2026

With all the July model runs now in, it is very likely that 2026 will see the largest El Niño event since records began in the late 1800s – and potentially by a truly mind-blowing margin. The median estimate is now 3.6C, roughly 0.8C hotter than the prior record (2.75C). www.theclimatebrink....

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Noctilucent clouds shimmer high above the Arctic.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The last 6 months, Nov-Apr, represent the driest Nov-Apr period since 1980-81 for the Contiguous U.S. and the 7th driest since 1895-96. There are large areas that experienced the driest Nov-Apr on record (red colors). Much of the Great Lakes region had their wettest Nov-Apr on record. 🌵

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 08/04/2026

Business uptake of biodiversity disclosure is limited. While biodiversity and nature underpin the 🌍 global economy, the latest IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment reveals that less than 1 per cent of publicly reporting companies mention their impacts on biodiversity. 🧪🏡 bit.ly/IPBES12Media

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Philippe Papin @pppapin.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Okay sharing one more loop, this one from @cyclonicwx.bsky.social zoomed in visible 1-min meso over Category 5 #Hurricane #Erin. Thanks to the 500 meter resolution of GOES-19 channel 2, you can still see features like the stadium effect & mesovortices rotating around the tiny eye. 🌀 🤯

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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Yep, re: "won't catch up". cw3e.ucsd.edu/odds-of-norm...

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The planet Earth as seen from GOES-19’s first full day as GOES-East.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

To be clear: this would mean the *increment* of the increase in 2024 is itself the largest on record (in addition the value being the highest on record, which unfortunately happens essentially every year in our rapid warming era). That's...not great (as Glen discusses downthread).

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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Thinking of the many hard-working and skilled federal employees fired today from the NWS. Your contributions over the years have helped the NWS and its ability to fulfill its mission of protecting life & property. This is a loss for the NWS and for the nation.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Zack is a top-tier climate scientist and data visualization wizard. This did not need to happen.

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Chris Macpherson @cmacpherson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I’m so sorry, please let me know if we can do anything. It was your Twitter account that I came across almost 10 years ago that inspired me to go back to school and study climate science.

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Chris Macpherson @cmacpherson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I can’t wait until these Santa Ana winds are over. Let’s get to the weekend and get some rain in SoCal.

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Chris Macpherson @cmacpherson.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Do you have 70mph + <10% relative humidity + no rain in 8 months at your house?

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING. I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

False colour JWST NIRCam image of a nearby star forming region in front of a deep back ground of colorful galaxies. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 17/01/2025

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

$A computer screen with a display showing output from an xray diffraction spectrometer.$ $Close up view showing fraction of metals. Fun stuff.$

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Chris Macpherson @cmacpherson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

UGH. "Our weather pattern for next week features a deep trough of low pressure covering most of the nation`s interior with high pressure over the Pacific. That puts SoCal in northerly offshore flow seemingly forever." forecast.weather.gov/product.php?...

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

physics of climate impacts 101: - Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves) - Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall) - Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk) - Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms) - Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

All surface temperature products for 2024 are now live. All show 2024 is the warmest year (very clearly). The estimates of the change since the pre-industrial (1850-1900) are more uncertain but range from 1.46 to 1.62ºC. It is therefore *likely* this was the first year that exceeded 1.5ºC.

five time series of global mean surface temperature changes starting low and noisy in the 1850s - rising clearly since the 1960s - and showing 2024 was clearly the warmest.

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Al Chen @icancallubetty.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Although first responders were successful in keeping the fire from JPL, over 150 JPLers have lost their homes. Here’s link to the Caltech/JPL disaster relief fund if you’re so inclined: caltech.imodules.com/controls/ema... Thanks for your support of our JPL family.

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Satellite imagery captured by MAXAR showing the extent of the Eaton Fire in North Pasadena and Altadena.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Here's a schematic I published in this 2021 piece to illustrate how even a modest delay in onset of rainy season in Southern California can dramatically amplify wildfire risk by lengthening seasonal overlap between dry vegetation and strong offshore winds during Oct-Jan. #CAfire

Schematic from Swain 2021 depicting how even a modest (1-month) delay in the Southern California rainy season can greatly amplify wildfire risk by increasing the temporal/seasonal overlap between critically dry vegetation and the occurrence of strong, dry offshore (downsloping) winds.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Today is the date where the Contiguous U.S. has reached the midpoint of winter. Of course this is an average and varies quite a bit from west to east. 🥳

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Every state in the contiguous U.S. is touched by drought now. Some entire states are in some degree of drought, including Florida.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 05/12/2024

As a reminder, land areas (where we live) are warming around twice as fast as the oceans. Subsequently, most of us are 'experiencing' temperatures rising faster than the global mean record. Data from NASA GISTEMPv4: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ ⚒️🧪