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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
YouTube video by Met Office - UK Weather
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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
YouTube video by Met Office - UK Weather
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Yes, they do!
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Plenty about Barry and from Barry in the June 1992 edition of Met Mag - digital.nmla.metoffice.gov.uk/IO_f46be8da-...
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MM_06_1992 | Met Office UA
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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
As seen by satellite bsky.app/profile/weat...
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
and the final forecast track map
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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 · 27/03/2026
"Download data" link here: www.bom.gov.au/climate/mjo/...
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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 · 24/02/2026
@fluidsguru.bsky.social
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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 · 13/12/2025
and Michael E McIntyre's classical version youtu.be/g2-RpvGGQU4?..., score in comments
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The PV (Potential Vorticity) song by Prof. Michael E. McIntyre of Univ. of Cambridge
YouTube video by 27knakajima
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
It's great, but it's definitely not the only one we'll ever need... youtu.be/P_LDF9IQJbg?...
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PV Song - 25th Anniversary
YouTube video by Nick Hall
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Nice trajectories 😉
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Frédéric Suffert @wheatpath.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Global research network gains time in the race against #wheat #rust doi.org/10.1111/ppa....
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Global Research Network Gains Time in the Race Against Wheat Rust
The Disease Early Warning Advisory System (DEWAS) network is a unique model to prevent wheat rust outbreaks, safeguarding harvests worldwide. This letter shares the approach and importance of DEWAS, ...
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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 · 29/10/2025
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Fantastic news, congratulations!!
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
... Exodus 10:19 -- "And the Lord changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up the locusts and carried them into the Red Sea. Not a locust was left anywhere in Egypt"
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Windborne migration of locusts in the Old Testament. Exodus 10:13 -- "So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the Lord made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts" ...
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
At least an area the size of Wales!! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Not quite the question you are asking, but related nonetheless rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Improving vertical detail in simulated temperature and humidity data using machine learning
There are atmospheric phenomena that occur on scales smaller than the thickness of model layers. The formation of low-level clouds due to temperature inversions is an example. Using radiosonde observ....
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Of course the ECMWF isn't an "EU operation", and has UK, Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Turkey as Member States (whereas Poland *isn't* an ECMWF Member State, and several other EU countries are only Co-operating States of the ECMWF)
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Can compare notes with my "hotpot and carrots" a couple of weeks ago. Couldn't face photographing the chicken accompanied by sprouts the following evening, which may well have been cooked by the same chef that did your broccoli...
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Quite the tease... 😆 Do you have anything up on the arXiv yet??
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Colliding, or leaning in for a kiss?
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
NAME dispersion-model predictions of the spread of fungal spores are a key part of this multi-agency early warning and advisory system for diseases of wheat www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/26/1...
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This international surveillance project aims to protect wheat from deadly diseases
Backed by the Gates Foundation, the Wheat Disease Early Warning Advisory System is on the front lines, looking for early signals of crop-killing rust infections.
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
By using concepts from epidemiological modelling, we (@camplantsci.bsky.social, @metoffice.bsky.social and @fao.org) have developed an integrated modelling framework for doing just this! Paper (open access): journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... Press release: phys.org/news/2024-12...
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A framework for modelling desert locust population dynamics and large-scale dispersal
Author summary There is a critical need for tools that can help manage and predict the spread of transboundary pests, especially the desert locust, one of the most destructive pests for smallholder fa...
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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 · 01/12/2024
"Miso-scale" convection
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Good timing - bsky.app/profile/eloq...
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thanks for sharing, mind blown! I had no idea about that, despite being a CASE student at POL many, err, moons ago!!
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Will Thurston @imthursty.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Not for planet Earth, but this does paper does it for Proxima Centauri B, but using the Unified Model as used by @metoffice.bsky.social for NWP and climate modelling! www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
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Exploring the climate of Proxima B with the Met Office Unified Model | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)Mendeley
Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) is an international journal which publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics
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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
This is unsurprising given the proximity to the east coast (≈ 10 km), the huge increase in BTV-3 cases on the near-continent over the past month, and the recent warnings issued over the risk of airborne incursions into Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent and East Sussex www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Chief Vet reminds farmers of bluetongue risk
Farmers urged to take up free testing and source livestock responsibly as case numbers increasing in Europe
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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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