Majority correct again. Still El Niño alert and positive IOD likely for Spring

That time of the month again: Will BoM declare El Niño today?
SSTs ✅
SOI ✔ (yes but trending positive..)
Trade Winds ➖✔ small negative anom but is it a shift or just noise?
OLR ❌

Scientific journal retracts article that claimed no evidence of climate crisis dlvr.it/Sv9K7J

1/6📢out in nature today: from me and my brilliant co-authors Dr. Bronwen Konecky Sam Stevenson Sloan Coats, a new 800-year reconstruction of my favourite big air circle: the Pacific Walker circulation. Link to code and data in the paper ⬇️

nature.com/articles/s4158…

From me - Scientists lament Southern Ocean ‘data desert’, just as #climate crisis brings frightening changes theguardian.com/world/2023/aug…

What a goal #AUSENG

Shiny new project.
Do you have the time?
No: --> Don't do it.
Yes: --> No you don't.

The majority was correct! Still no El Niño declared

Two Research Fellow positions are available at The University of Melbourne to study Precipitation Dynamics & Processes and Tropical Rainfall. Further details here:
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/913788/…
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/913768/…
Please pass on to anyone who might be interested!

Place your bets: Will BoM call an El Niño tomorrow?
SSTs ✅
SOI ✅
Trade winds ❌
OLR ➖

A little Melbourne reunion

A dangerous Atmospheric River will hit the Eastern Alps, Slovenia, northern Croatia and northern Dynaric Alps in the next 12-24 hours.

Major floods will keep interesting thise place already stressed by last 24 hours of heavy precipitation.

My milk was due to expire on the 6th so I rushed to make muffins before midnight. That's how use-by dates work, right...

The GBR is in danger if we keep burning fossil fuels even if it's not 'in danger'

ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes Monash Science
cnn.com/travel/article…

'Extreme Rain From Atmospheric Rivers and Ice-Heating Micro-Cracks Are Ominous New Threats to the Greenland Ice Sheet' by Bob Berwyn (Bob Berwyn) for @InsideClimate News: insideclimatenews.org/news/31072023/…

The Spanish version of my Conversation article from a few week ago