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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

#Germany, the last 2 days. Everything is going according to plan—more than 18°C daily maximum temperature ANOMALIES across large parts of the country on Saturday. Daily maximum temperatures over 40°C in June. We’re not getting any better ...en contraire... we are destroying what's left of our planet

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My thoughts about our "Atlas der Klimaextreme"

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

After ~1 year in the making, I’m happy to announce the official release of the Atlas der Klimaextreme” (or Climate extremes atlas) for Germany. Atlas webpage: www.reklim.de/wissenstrans...

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Inhalt Atlas der Klimaextreme

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Eight centuries of climate history — written in oak tree rings. “Natural variability dominates precipitation variability over the past 800 years in Eastern Europe” Paper here: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Even though it’s just a PREPRINT, this winter was a total mind-bender for me. I saw the most ridiculous and apocalyptic headlines, especially when it snowed for just one day in the capital city of Romania (i.e., hashtag#Bucharest). More can be found here: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

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The Cold Spell That Never Happened: Climatological Assessment of the Winter 2025/26 Cold and Snowfall Episodes in Bucharest and Their Disproportionate Media Representation

Abstract. The winter of 2025/26 in Romania generated intense media coverage characterizing cold and snowfall episodes in Bucharest and south-eastern Romania as historically exceptional. Here, we evalu...

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Today the report "State of climate - Romania 2025" was launched. I have been in charge of 2 chapters: "Temperature and heat waves in Romania" and "Drought, aridification and precipitation in Romania". The report can be found here (only in Romanian): lnkd.in/eSG765zY or here: lnkd.in/eNJ8Hw6Q

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

An example of how fast things can go wrong. #Drought conditions evolution from January to March 2025. In the northern part of #Germany the situation is critical at the moment. UK seems to go through the same thing. I forgot how rain looks like :-(

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I have complained about reviewers and their offensive tone a lot. Now I turn the page: "I thank the authors for addressing all of my comments. This is an excellent paper and I recommend that it is accepted. I congratulate the authors and apologise for delays on my side." This made my day :-)

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Mika Rantanen @mikarantane.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

First papers about record-breaking summer 2024 in Europe starting to come out. Ionita, M. and Nagavciuc, V. (2025), 2024: The year with too much summer in the eastern part of Europe. Weather. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @moniionita.bsky.social

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2024: The year with too much summer in the eastern part of Europe

The summer of 2024 brought record-breaking heatwaves to Eastern Europe, with Romania experiencing the brunt. Analysis of 140 years of data from Bucharest shows a significant increase in heatwave freq....

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The summer of #2024 was the #warmest ever, over vast areas globally, in terms of both average (TT) and daily #minimum (TN) and #maximum (TX) temperatures. Eastern #Europe was one of the #HOT centers, especially regarding the minimum #temperature.

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Eastern European countries (including Romania) "HIT THE JACKPOT" this year. #Romania (+3°C), Ukraine (+3.3°C), Slovakia (+3.2°C), Lithuania (+3.4°C), Belarus (+3.4°C) are among the countries where 2024 surpassed any temperature record. Source: berkeleyearth.org/global-tempe...

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

"Mean" Santa. Instead of fifty shades of something..... I got physics for something 😀😀😀😀😀. I'm not sure what I should think about this present 🤔

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

New study revisits climate impacts of an #AMOC slowdown 🌍🌊. Freshwater hosing experiments reveal the Irminger Basin as the most sensitive site, causing the largest AMOC weakening. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Revisiting climate impacts of an AMOC slowdown: dependence on freshwater locations in the North Atlantic

Freshwater input location strongly influences AMOC slowdown, with the Irminger basin having the greatest effect.

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Although we are in the middle of winter, I need to leave this here. The summer mean #temperature at #Bucharest (capital city of #Romania) was 6°C above the climatological mean. 6°C!!!!! 4 times more than the Paris agreement threshold. The future looks #HOT #hothouse

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I have decided to move my "social media flat" here. The other side has become too creepy and disturbing. I have some difficulties figuring out this platform, but I hope I will find my peers, as I really miss the scientific life on social media.

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Moni Ionita @moniionita.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

My first news on this platform: Last PhD paper of Sigrid Bakke, together with Lena Tallaksen. A great piece of work analyzing how the recent European drying has been influenced by more intense and persistent anticyclonic circulation. Congrats Sigrid! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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