» Fog clears but rain, wind and snow loom as 2025 approaches
29/12/24 12:26 from Latest weather news from netweather.tv
After a foggy period that has disrupted travel and sports fixtures, clearer conditions are developing across southern Britain. However, this improvement will be short-lived as Atlantic weather systems bring the potential for severe condi...
» West Coast Wind Blog: Low presure south of Cabo turbocharges the Sea of Cortez winter winds. Part 1.
28/12/24 20:27 from Blog.WeatherFlow.com
It is Baja meteorology 101 gospel that the strongest winter Sea of Cortez winds are created by high pressure in the USA’s 4-Corners region. You can see this high-pressure area in the circle of white isobar lines in this first image...
» ¡AI Caramba!
28/12/24 19:34 from RealClimate
Rapid progress in the use of machine learning for weather and climate models is evident almost everywhere, but can we distinguish between real advances and vaporware? First off, let’s define some terms to maximize clarity. Machine ...
» Boxing Day update: Festive mildness to slowly give way to fresher weather
26/12/24 10:35 from Latest weather news from netweather.tv
As high pressure continues to dominate across Britain, our notably mild festive period persists. However, a gradual change is on the horizon as we head towards the weekend, with fresher conditions developing from the north. Read full sto...
» Deck the halls with mild South-Westerlies: Unseasonable warmth for Christmas
24/12/24 19:34 from Latest weather news from netweather.tv
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; Read full story here
» West Coast Wind Blog: Faint winds as a sad Christmas story unfolds
23/12/24 15:05 from Blog.WeatherFlow.com
But be extra nice since there is a thread of hope! Bottom Line: Local easterly thermals sub to low-teens. Baja Sur Pacific side has faint winds but strong Punta San Carlos, Baja Norte winds. A Xmas story: Uh oh! Someone m...
» Dry and settled Christmas for many across Europe, but will it last into the New Year?
23/12/24 13:01 from Latest weather news from netweather.tv
The UK and large parts of Europe will have a dry and settled Christmas but will it hold until the New Year? Read full story here
» West Coast Wind Blog: A tale of the “Golden Triangle”, Huachinango and a mythic swell.
18/12/24 18:04 from Blog.WeatherFlow.com
Recently a customer asked: Long ago, windsurfers and a few kiters were the only boards on La Ventana waters. Looking at our iwindsurf.com sensor archives the average strength (since who would trust aging memories) it is clear that really...
» West Coast Wind Blog: Spicy El Norte winds for Baja continue for days.
16/12/24 15:40 from Blog.WeatherFlow.com
Today’s wind recipe: 1. Moderate swell hitting the beaches confirms the strong winds to the north reported by the most recent ASCAT pass. 2. Checking your retina, notice the dark blue line towards the horizon. You know what that m...
» West Coast Wind Blog: Anatomy of strong El Norte winds for Baja’s Sea of Cortez.
10/12/24 14:47 from Blog.WeatherFlow.com
Bottom line: GUSTY strong winds most reliably and strongest OUTSIDE once clouds clear. Punta Bufeo far to the north is already seeing 28g37. Watch our Rasta Beach sensor for early warning! Today’s wind recipe: 1. High-pressure in t...
» West Coast Wind Blog: A Baja wind killer!
09/12/24 20:50 from Blog.WeatherFlow.com
Today, race with the clock. Most models have wind-killing clouds clearing by noon, while some have them lingering. Bottom line: Mid to maybe weak upper-teens focused La Ventana IF clouds clear early. Today’s wind recipe: 1. Bull...
» Advancing Mesoscale Process Representation in Ocean Models with Machine Learning
09/12/24 03:31 from Weather and Climate @ Reading
By: Dr. Anna Denvil-Sommer Mesoscale eddies, which are swirling, whirlpool-like motions, play a critical role in ocean circulation and the global energy budget. At scales of 10 to 300 km, these dynamic features transfer hydrographic prop...
» Nature 2023: Part II
06/12/24 23:37 from RealClimate
This is a follow-on post to the previous summary of interesting work related to the temperatures in 2023/2024. I’ll have another post with a quick summary of the AGU session on the topic that we are running on Tuesday Dec 10th, hop...
» The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1st through November 30th.
02/12/24 11:31 from National Hurricane Center (Atlantic)
The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1st through November 30th.
» Unforced Variations: Dec 2024
01/12/24 00:50 from RealClimate
This month’s open thread on *climate* topics. Obviously, last month’s events lent themselves to broader discussions, but this month (and going forward), we remind you that comments have to be climate-related. Note too that th...
» Twenty years of blogging in hindsight
23/11/24 08:24 from RealClimate
It’s 20 years since we started blogging on climate here on RealClimate (December 10, 2004). We wanted to counter disinformation about climate change that was spreading through various campaigns. In those days it was an unusual move that ...
» West Coast Wind Blog: Why NW large scale winds in the Sea of Cortez makes some sites very gusty.
19/11/24 17:52 from Blog.WeatherFlow.com
Even if you are not a ikitesurf.com customer, you can use this link to see the free sensors in the Rasta Beach, La Ventana, and Los Barriles part of Baja’s East Cape: Go to ikitesurf.com and zoom to Baja’s East Cape For more ...
» Operationalizing Climate Science
17/11/24 22:27 from RealClimate
There is a need to make climate science more agile and more responsive, and that means moving (some of it) from research to operations. The post Operationalizing Climate Science first appeared on RealClimate .
» West Coast Wind Blog: Sharing wind knowledge.
12/11/24 16:01 from Blog.WeatherFlow.com
To me Facebook has only 2 uses. One is to communicate with friends is villages where they don’t have regular e-mail. The other use is to keep up with the windsurfing/kiting/winging communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and in B...
» West Coast Wind Blog: Another atypical El Norte wind event for the Sea of Cortez
07/11/24 18:25 from Blog.WeatherFlow.com
Typically, El Norte wind events, like the one building today and peaking Friday, are triggered by high pressure moving into the Great Basin 4-Corners region. Looking at this image, you can see that the high pressure today is actually pre...
» Climate Ambassadors and the future of Climate Education
03/11/24 21:28 from Weather and Climate @ Reading
By: Prof. Andrew Charlton-Perez As some of you may be aware, it’s been an exciting time recently for work on climate education and it’s something that the University has been increasingly involved in. I’ve taken the opportunity of writin...
» West Coast Wind Blog: Northerly winds aloft cause extreme gusts and lulls for San Francisco Bay Area,
03/11/24 17:35 from Blog.WeatherFlow.com
Forecast Jargon Decoder: November 3, 2024 UP AND DOWN very strong NW winds on the COAST. Bay has On and Off NORTH winds sub-teens to mid 20’s strongest Pt. Isabel, Coyote and 3rd. Ave. BAJA human forecasts have started! Note:...
» Unforced variations: Nov 2024
02/11/24 15:40 from RealClimate
This month’s open thread on climate change topics. How are we in November already? And why is it still so warm… ? Anyway, please stay on topic and avoid insulting other commenters. The post Unforced variations: Nov 2024 first...
» Science is not value free
19/10/24 03:13 from RealClimate
An interesting commentary addressing a rather odd prior commentary makes some very correct points. Back a few months there was a poorly argued and rather confusing commenary by Ulf Büntgen () that started: I am concerned by climate scien...
» Our blog is moving!
16/10/24 10:44 from Official blog of the Met Office news team
We’re in the process of moving the Official Met Office Blog over to our main website. We’re doing this to improve the experience of readers, allowing us to bring you more insight and discussion on the wide range of work … Continue ...
» Why should we keep working on theory and fluid dynamics in climate sciences?
14/10/24 05:11 from Weather and Climate @ Reading
By: Prof. David Ferreira Recently, a colleague pointed out that, in the Northern Hemisphere subtropics, the winds blow eastward around 30-40N (the jet stream), and westward around 20-10N (the trade winds), and these winds make the ocean ...
» Cold extremes do in fact decrease under global warming
06/10/24 16:00 from RealClimate
The title of this post might seem like a truism, but for about a decade some people have claimed the opposite, and many people have spent much time and effort trying to understand why. Much of that effort was wasted. A decade ago, Nature...
» Unforced Variations: Oct 2024
01/10/24 21:24 from RealClimate
This month’s open thread for climate topics. Please stay vaguely on topic and do not abuse other commenters. The post Unforced Variations: Oct 2024 first appeared on RealClimate .
» The Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme: Driving Climate Science for a Resilient Future
30/09/24 12:16 from Official blog of the Met Office news team
As the climate we live in changes, there is an ever-growing need for climate information to aid resilience, adaptation, and mitigation planning both in the UK and globally. Established in 1990, the Met Office Hadley Centre fo...
» Land Surface water controls on Atmospheric CO2 growth
29/09/24 16:04 from Weather and Climate @ Reading
By: Prof. Keith Haines and Samantha Petch Atmospheric CO2 levels are rising every year, primarily due to human activities, Fig 1. However, the rate of this increase does vary significantly from year to year, not because of human emission...
» Socially inclusive and sustainable action to build resilience to climate change
25/09/24 10:24 from Official blog of the Met Office news team
This month, we have been looking more closely at the role of the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme and how its research meets UK government evidence needs, supporting the UK and global climate community to understand and respond...
» New portal improves air quality data accessibility
24/09/24 09:12 from Official blog of the Met Office news team
A new portal is providing free, public access to nearly two decades of air quality data across the UK. The Met Office Air Quality Data Portal is now live, making national data from January 2003 until December 2019 available in … Co...
» Navigating My First Weeks at the Met Office and Championing Climate Science
20/09/24 11:14 from Official blog of the Met Office news team
In this blog, Professor Rowan Sutton writes about his first month here at the Met Office as he takes up the role of Director of the Met Office Hadley Centre. I am writing this blog at the end of my … Continue reading →
» Phantastic Job!
20/09/24 03:18 from RealClimate
A truly impressive paper was published this week with a new reconstruction of global temperatures over the last ~500 million years. There is something tremendously satisfying about seeing a project start, and then many years later see th...
» Collaborating for energy network resilience
19/09/24 14:16 from Official blog of the Met Office news team
The UK Government’s plans to transition to clean energy are crucial to achieving Net Zero targets and are built on a foundation of renewable generation. Just as delivering clean energy is far more complex and wide reaching than just wind...
» The unbelievable May that had everyone talking
17/09/24 11:46 from Official blog of the Met Office news team
“I’m not sure anyone believes you, it was a very cold month”, “My heating was on all month”. Just two examples of the replies to our statistics release that May 2024 was the warmest on record for UK mean temperature … Continue read...
» A cool career studying the impacts of a warming planet
10/09/24 10:53 from Official blog of the Met Office news team
In this blog Professor Peter Stott MBE writes about his recent interview on the BBC programme ‘The Life Scientific’ and reflects on his career. I’ve been listening to The Life Scientific on Radio 4 for years. Hosted by physic...
» Exploring history and colonialism in my approach to climate science research
09/09/24 06:45 from Weather and Climate @ Reading
By: Prof. Joy Singarayer It is broadly acknowledged that colonialism and imperialism hold much responsibility in the causes of the climate crisis. The aggressive and unsustainable extraction of resources from colonized regions laid the g...
» Ten years of forecasting beyond the skies
06/09/24 09:43 from Official blog of the Met Office news team
The Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre (MOSWOC) celebrates ten years of operations this week, looking back on a decade of forecasting potential impacts from the Sun. Since becoming fully operational in 2014, MOSWOC has forecasted...
» Violent storms hit southeast France, Marseille endures worst storm in 3 years
05/09/24 21:20 from The Watchers » Severe weather
Severe storms swept across southeastern France on the night of September 4, 2024, bringing heavy rainfall, flooding, and powerful winds that disrupted transportation and caused evacuations in parts of the Alpes-Maritimes. Marseille, in p...
» Record-breaking temperatures in the West, heavy rains with flash flooding along the Gulf Coast, U.S.
05/09/24 13:49 from The Watchers » Severe weather
A dangerous heatwave is set to intensify across the Southwest and Western Coast of the United States starting September 5, 2024, with forecasts predicting temperatures soaring as high as 48.9 °C (115 °F) in some areas. The National Weath...
» Yagi intensifies into a super typhoon as it heads toward south China and Vietnam
05/09/24 12:45 from The Watchers » Severe weather
Yagi intensified into a super typhoon on September 4, 2024, becoming the second-most powerful storm in 2024. The system has since weakened but it remains a very dangerous typhoon as it continues its track toward south China and Vietnam w...
» On the path to delivering next generation UK weather forecasts
05/09/24 10:00 from Official blog of the Met Office news team
Reporting on progress of the Met Office and Alan Turing Institute AI for Numerical Weather Prediction project. The UK’s weather is notoriously changeable, prompting everything from casual conversation amongst friends to vital deci...
» Death toll rises to 28 as heaviest rains in 50 years batter Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India
02/09/24 18:42 from The Watchers » Severe weather
At least 28 fatalities have been reported across the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, India, due to very heavy rains that have been battering the states since August 30, 2024. Floods and other rain-related incidents have claimed 1...
» Tropical Storm “Yagi” (Enteng) strikes Philippines, floods and landslides claim 11 lives
02/09/24 16:48 from The Watchers » Severe weather
Tropical Storm "Yagi" struck Luzon Island, Philippines on Monday, September 2, 2024. It brought heavy rainfall across the country that led to floods and landslides causing 11 casualties so far. Schools and government offices were shut do...
» Destructive wind storm causes mass power outages in Victoria and Tasmania, Australia
02/09/24 11:35 from The Watchers » Severe weather
A powerful cold front produced destructive winds across Victoria and Tasmania, Australia on September 1 and 2, 2024, causing widespread chaos and mass power outages. One fatality was reported. Source
» 6 months’ worth of rain hits the Black Sea coast of eastern Romania, causing severe flooding
02/09/24 10:50 from The Watchers » Severe weather
Torrential rains caused intense flooding in eastern Romania on Friday, August 30, 2024, and Saturday, August 31, causing significant property damage in multiple towns. Agigea, Tuzla, Costinesti, Eforie, Mangalia, and Vama Veche were the ...
» Intense hailstorm hits Mexico City, Mexico
02/09/24 07:30 from The Watchers » Severe weather
An intense hailstorm swept through the Alvaro Obregon Municipality in Mexico City on Friday, August 30, 2024, producing huge hail accumulations on the streets and stranding drivers. Source
» Cyclonic Storm “Asna” forms in the Arabian Sea; Gujarat reports 32 dead, more than 32 000 evacuated
30/08/24 15:22 from The Watchers » Severe weather
Gujarat's Saurashtra-Kachchh region has been battered by torrential rains produced by a deep depression that intensified into Cyclonic Storm "Asna" today. The resulting flooding has led to 32 deaths, and the evacuation of more than 32 00...
» Floods and landslides claim 33 lives in Yemen’s Al-Mahwit Province, bringing the death toll to 119
30/08/24 09:19 from The Watchers » Severe weather
Severe floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains have claimed at least 33 lives in Yemen's Al-Mahwit Province, as of Thursday, August 29, 2024. This brings the total number of fatalities since the start of the kharif rainy seas...