Interesting to see the UK’s record- crushing heat extreme today at a similar latitude to last year’s Canadian heat extreme (50N Lytton BC, 51N London Heathrow), and both near the western margin of the continent. Both very extreme statistical outliers.

🌡️ Charterhall in the Scottish Borders has provisionally set a new maximum temperature record for #Scotland today 📈 The temperature rose to 34.8°C earlier this afternoon, exceeding the previous record of 32.9°C recorded in Greycrook on 9th August 2003 #heatwave #heatwave2022

BREAKING: more than 100,000kg of plastic removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). Thank you to our determined offshore crew and supporters worldwide; together, we have now officially cleaned up 1/1000th of the GPGP.

UK weather: Driest start to year in England since 1976 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-623033…

The Jan-Jun 2022 period has seen a high pressure anomaly over mainland Europe & this ranks as the strongest or one of the strongest high pressure anomalies since 1962 (map credit World Climate Service)

UK heatwave: Weather forecasters report unprecedented trolling bbc.co.uk/news/uk-623230…

Another day, another plastic extraction in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; sometimes System 002 retention zone needs a little hand to get emptied, but another 6319kg of plastic is out of the ocean for good.

Maybe there are more hot, dry plumes from N Africa & Iberia impacting France, Germany & SE England in recent summers ?

July 2022 was the sunniest in #France since at least 1962. This map compares July 2022 with all other Julys since 1962, and July 2022 ranks top sunniest (map credit World Climate Service)

Soil moistures are well below average over large parts of Europe, a significant aspect of our summer in 2022. The map shows the monthly soil moisture anomaly (%) for July. The anomalies are expressed as a % of the July average for the 1991–2020 reference period. Source: ERA5/C3S

France wildfires - France records the highest carbon emissions from June to August since 2003 in the Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) dataset atmosphere.copernicus.eu/intense-wildfi…

We have seen a quiet Atlantic #HurricaneSeason so far... In the past 70 years, only 1997 & 1961 have had no Atlantic storms in August It is also the first time since 1982 that we have gone from early July to late August without any storms

July + August 2022 is the hottest at London Heathrow on record (records began in 1949). The Cone chart shows the cumulative mean temperature - black line is 2022, blue line is 2021, grey shading is the historical range (1949-2021). The black line is outside the historical range.

And looking at the year so far (Jan-Aug 2022), it's the hottest on record at London Heathrow. Black line is the cumulative mean temperature for 2022, blue line is last year for comparison, grey shading is the historical range (1949-2021).

a new GB peak wind power record was observed yesterday evening, 16.25GW, beating the previous GB record of 15.79GW on 25 May 2022 (wind power generation from onshore and offshore wind farms with transmission system metering installed and visible to the National Grid)

October was the warmest in at least 60 years for large parts of western/southwestern Europe and both western and eastern Canada, according to Copernicus ECMWF ERA5 data. In contrast, cool areas did not generally break into the coldest 10 for the 60-year history. Remarkable warmth

The year to date (Jan-Oct 2022) has been remarkably warm across large parts of Europe. This map ranks Jan-Oct 2022 by comparing it with all Jan-Oct in the period 1962-2021 (using Copernicus ECMWF ERA5 data, via World Climate Service).

Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning #weather #London #Thames

This graph from Met Office shows the number of days in each calendar year from 1960 when the UK-wide mean temperature was below 2°C (blue) and 0°C (red), with the hatched lines showing a downward trend. Striking declines. #climatechange

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