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Marie Shaylor

@marieshaylor.bsky.social
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Hi, I’m a Climate Catastrophe Risk and Hazard Researcher, with a PhD in Atmospheric Physics! Also an avid cross-stitcher 🧵 Interested in all things drought, wildfire and tropical cyclone related 🏜️🌵🔥🌀

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/06/2025
Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him
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Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him
AUSTIN, TX—Stressing that the billionaire’s completely erratic behavior had strained the already fraught relationships, sources confirmed Thursday that a rift was widening between Elon Musk and anyone...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
Statement begins:
The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others).

Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....
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Marie Shaylor @marieshaylor.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Voicing my support for the Antepavillion Sharks ✊🏻 www.antepavilion.org/updates/2024...
Art installation of the controversial display of sharks on the Hoxton London Canal way
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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 12/02/2025
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️
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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A lack of rain in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions could delay the start of the April-to-September mid-crop, potentially leading to a shortage of beans, the main ingredient in chocolate, farmers said on Monday (1/2) www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Dry season in Ivory Coast triggers cocoa shortage fears, farmers say
A lack of rain in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa-growing regions could delay the start of the April-to-September mid-crop, potentially leading to a shortage of beans, the main ingredient in chocolate, farmers said on Monday.
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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
‘It won’t come back’: Argentina farmers battle drought and a shrinking harvest www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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‘It won’t come back’: Argentina farmers battle drought and a shrinking harvest
Standing in his fields among tall, dry corn plants, farmer Dario Sabini inspects the smaller-than-usual corn cobs before taking the yellowing leaves of the crop that should be green at this time of the season, to crinkle them between his fingers.
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Marie Shaylor @marieshaylor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Met Office forecasting a big old bit of weather coming over the whole of the UK on Friday! Storm warnings in place for those in the North 🚨⚠️
Shows a weather map still from the Met Offices online forecast, predicting lots of rain spread over the UK
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Major caveat: this imagery is tentative and informal; not all structures within the fire footprints have burned. But this imagery suggests that there are 10,000+ potentially affected structures within *each* fire footprint (which have expanded since yesterday). #LAfires #CAfire
Informal map showing overlap between Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire footprints (as of 1/8/24) and structures within said footprints. This is an informal and preliminary map intended for illustrative purposes; not all structures within the footprint were destroyed. Image source: David Marvin/Planet Labs.
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Profolus @profolus.com · 08/01/2025
The U.S. Drought Monitor, in its January 1st visual map, placed Southern California under "moderate" to "excessive" drought. AccuWeather meteorologists, in their January 6th report, warned of fast-spreading wildfires due to strong Santa Ana winds. /@konsyse.com
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What Is Causing The Pacific Palisades And Southern California Wildfires? — Konsyse
A wildfire spread and engulfed a huge portion of the LA neighborhood. Other wildfires have also been reported across South California.
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Marie Shaylor @marieshaylor.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Starting a biggie of a cross stitch project I have planned this weekend - a Geological Map of Britain 🌍🪡
Shows a cross stitch pattern of the UK, coloured by the different geological ground zones
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🚨Human-caused climate change intensified Tropical #CycloneChido’s destructive winds, elevating it from a category 3 to a category 4 storm when it struck Mayotte, a rapid study from Imperial College London has found. 🧵 ow.ly/B7qA50UsxMh
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Climate change attribution of Tropical Cyclone Chido
The IRIS model estimates that climate change uplifted the intensity of a Tropical Cyclone of the type “Chido\
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De Filmende Fietser @filmendefietser.eurosky.social · 15/12/2024
A Dutch study on the relationship between spending and visitors’ choice of transportation showed that, on a monthly basis, cyclists and pedestrians contribute about 25% more to total spending in centres than car users. dutchcycling.nl/knowledge/bl...
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Yikes, .8-3” of sinking, 2016-2023.“Globally, similar subsidence within such a large area has never been reported…this could be a sign that rising sea levels [are] accelerating the erosion of the limestone on which South Florida is built.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...
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Dozens of luxury condos, hotels in Miami sinking at ‘unexpected’ rates, new study reveals
First-ever observation of continuous subsidence shows as much as 70 percent of high-rises affected in some areas of Miami
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Marie Shaylor @marieshaylor.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A lovely crisp day in and around the canals and lakes of East London 🪷
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Marie Shaylor @marieshaylor.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Treated myself to a little after work tour yesterday around the city of London christmas tree displays (many thanks to www.thecityofldn.com/event/christmas-trees-lights-installations/ for the google maps layer) 🎄🎅🏻 Highly recommended ✨
Brightly lit christmas tree in the cityThree decorated christmas trees with St. Paul’s Cathedral in the background A large christmas tree in front of a historical building in BankThe google maps layer showing locations of trees and other displays around the city
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Nico @nicobruneau.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It's always fascinating to see how sparse our historical records of Major #Hurricane US landfalls are ! This is why we need stochastic event sets to fill these gaps, and get a better picture of the risk ( #NaturalDisaster #climaterisk ).
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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Yesterday in DC, less than a mile from my house, there was a brush fire in Rock Creek Park. In December. Not normal. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024...
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It’s almost winter, but much of the U.S. is still unusually dry
Moderate drought covers parts of all but one state. That’s odd, given how late in the year it is.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/12/2024
flicked over to this post from Microsoft Excel, where instead of inserting a new row I accidentally clicked on the fucking Copilot button for 43920432th time The pushy desperation with which AI prompts and buttons are being crammed into once-useful software is a sign of their problems
the copilot button in the menu
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Marie Shaylor @marieshaylor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
de stressing by thinking about the (many, gorgeous) street cats i saw in greece this summer
A calico coloured cat relaxing on a paving slab in greece
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Zoom Earth @zoom.earth · 06/12/2024
#StormDarragh is set to bring damaging winds, heavy rain, and some snow to parts of the UK and Ireland this weekend. Coastal gusts could reach 90mph, with 60-70mph gusts expected inland.
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Nico @nicobruneau.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Couple of exhibits from our seasonal forecast view of NA TC risk (what we released back in May 2024) with observations superimposed. - Hurricane level % differences to long-term - Same but zoomed on the Gulf of Mexico with the NHC 5-day cones about 36h before each landfall - quite some overlaps...
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Twitter is extremely creepy these days because 90% of the responses are bots and it’s not exactly clear why. Usually it’s not even political, it’s not selling anything, it’s just bots pretending to be people. The vibe is like boarding a city bus and realizing none of the passengers have faces
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
So glad there's a new series of Black Mirror next year. We really need something like that to lighten the mood.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"Reflections on the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season" | My latest on the michaelmann blog: michaelmann.net/content/refl...
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Reflections on the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Now that the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season seems to be coming to a close, it is worth reflecting on what transpired and what we might learn from it. By most measures, it was an active, destructive an...
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Marie Shaylor @marieshaylor.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Having todays lunch with a view into the city of london 🏙️ 🥪
A photograph showing the view from one section of the city of london with blue and cloudy skies, which is heavily occupied by tall buildings including the gherkin and the cheesegrater
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Marie Shaylor @marieshaylor.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Some great climate and cat risk accounts on here! 🔥🔥
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Marie Shaylor @marieshaylor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I've co-written my first ever blog - Check it out! Some of our thoughts on Drought, Data & the Housing Market 🏚️ reask.earth/2024/11/20/u...
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Unveiling the Cracks in the Housing Market - Reask
Marie Shaylor, Climate Catastrophe Developer, Reask Mathis Joffrain, Natural Hazards Impacts Modeller, AXA With climate change trends continuing to show increasing temperatures worldwide and with ever...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“bluesky is an echo chamber” the echo is sanity.
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Marie Shaylor @marieshaylor.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Have one of my fave sunset photos - over Rhossili Bay, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
A photo pink and cloudy sunset looking out over Rhossili Bay beach
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Pia @cecallihelper.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The MAGA list - Subscribe to block bsky.app/profile/skyw...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/11/2024
It may sound counterintuitive, but this year’s hyperactive hurricane season may have helped fuel the drought across the United States.
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Why the U.S. has gotten so dry, so fast — and what could reverse it
It may sound counterintuitive, but this year’s hyperactive hurricane season may have helped fuel the drought across the United States.
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Marie Shaylor @marieshaylor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hi, I'm Marie and I'm new to bluesky! I'd love to follow/connect with people interested in climate research and catastrophic weather events (floods/drought/wildfire/TC)! ☀️❄️⛈️🌪️🏜️🔥 I'll also be using this platform to post updates on my climate research, blogs, and weather events 📖🖋️ #drought #natcat
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