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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Fantastic use of Lagrangian back trajectories, examining the mechanisms behind the current record-breaking heat, how they change as the heat develops throughout this week and how the situation compares to the 40.3 ⁰C record set at Coningsby on 19th July 2022 m.youtube.com/watch?v=YZM1...

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Record breaking temperatures - 22/06/2026 - Met Office Weather UK Forecast

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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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Record breaking temperatures - 22/06/2026 - Met Office Weather UK Forecast

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 22/04/2026

Sunday marks the anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. While it happened far beyond the UK, it transformed how scientists understand & model how hazardous material moves through the atmosphere - shaping tools like our NAME dispersion model, which is still used www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/ch...

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How the Chernobyl disaster advanced dispersion science

Sunday 26 April marks the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, one of the most significant environmental events of the 20th century.

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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

12 days of forecast track maps issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for Tropical Cyclone Narelle, on its journey around 3 states and with multiple land crossings

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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Operational convection-permitting NWP forecast of tropical cyclone landfall followed by seafall 🤩

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Dan Harris @roostweather.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

❤️Numberphile❤️

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Neil Lareau @neillareau.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Extreme wildfire spread isn’t just wind-driven. We show the Camp Fire’s explosive growth came from plume-coupled spotting: embers lofted, transported, and deposited in organized zones 5–10+ km ahead, igniting new fire fronts. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Exe estuary stunning this evening

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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Probabilistic quantitative volcanic ash concentration forecast system, underpinned by NAME atmospheric dispersion modelling driven by MOGREPS-G ensemble NWP forecasts, now live!

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Frédéric Suffert @wheatpath.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The book "Biological Highways in the Sky" about the aerial dispersion of microbes and small insects is available free of charge in ebook form via the #ÉditionsQuae platform: www.quae-open.com/produit/346/... @dbszane.bsky.social

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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

How do you combine simple atmospheric dispersion modelling trajectories like this with environmental data and population biology knowledge to make short- and long-term predictions of desert locust swarm migration?

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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Back from 2 days at the UK vector-borne disease @ukvbd.bsky.social conference in Liverpool, where I discovered i) how little I understand about biology, but ii) how keen everyone else was to learn about atmospheric dispersion modelling. Thanks @baylism.bsky.social et al for bringing us all together!

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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

How do you forecast the arrival of devastating crop diseases spread by fungal spores, blown 1000s of km on the wind and from countries in which you don't have knowledge of crop disease surveys? Use automated media scraping to generate proxy observations! rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Maps of deposition of stripe rust spores from NAME simulations using sources generated from crop disease surveys within Nepal (top) and sources generated from automated media scraping in India and Pakistan (bottom)

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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Today the first UK bluetongue virus serotype 3 (BTV-3) case of the summer was confirmed, in a single symptomatic sheep on a farm near Haddiscoe, South Norfolk. A 20-km Temporary Control Zone (TCZ) has been declared around the premises www.gov.uk/animal-disea...

20-km Temporary Control Zone in South Norfolk and high-risk counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent and East Sussex

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