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La Niña is over.
Are any of us really ready for what comes next?
Monday and Tuesday are going to be miserable, and even dangerous, for many people living the UK and France.
All-time records are likely to fall as a heat wave – enhanced by global warming – pushes the UK beyond all of their previous experience.
Stay safe everyone.
A severe, record-breaking heatwave is forecast for early next week in Europe.
Many homes here lack air conditioning, and these forecast temperatures are potentially life threatening, especially for vulnerable populations.
Stay safe everyone.
The USA is in the midst of an historic cold snap as an air mass from near the North Pole decided to go wandering.
Stay safe everyone.
After a winter that featured an unusually strong and cold polar vortex, a record-breaking ozone depletion has been seen in the Arctic.
https://t.co/kuG9RTjltO
In relative terms, that's a 30 C (54 F) temperature anomaly at the North Pole.
This is associated with a warm air intrusion from the Atlantic and displacement of cold air onto Asia following large scale disturbances to the polar jet stream.
Map of tropical cyclone distribution and peak intensity that I made a decade ago.
The warm West Pacific has the most and strongest storms.