“Change in the autumn (Sep-Nov) average temperature 1971-2020 in and around the Arctic, from ERA5 [pictured here]
“Let that sink in: a huge area with a 4ºC to 8ºC increase in the 3-month average in just 50 years.”
https://twitter.com/AlaskaWx/status/1440126776189931526
“Russia’s Forest Fire Damage Worst Since Accurate Recording Began, Greenpeace Says.
“Fires have destroyed 18.13 million hectares (45 million acres) of Russian forestry so far this year through September 16, surpassing the previous record of 18.1 million recorded in 2012…”
https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-forest-fires-greenpeace/31467967.html
“Fish farmers on the east coast of Iceland are keeping a close watch on a potentially devastating large algae bloom close to the shore.
“A similar bloom killed most of the farmed fish in the area over 20 years ago. Algae also cost Norwegian fish farmers at least £170m in 2019 and was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of salmon in Chile earlier this year.”
https://www.fishfarmermagazine.com/news/east-iceland-farms-on-alert-over-algae-bloom/
“London river ‘stinks and is full of dead fish’ as toxic blue substance found…
“The pollution was found at the Chaffinch Brook in Catford. It flowed north into the Pool River, killing a number of fish and possibly killing a number of eels.”
https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/london-river-stinks-full-dead-21619737
“Farmers will grow crops to be burned for energy by Drax at its north Yorkshire power plant under a new deal.
“The company that owns the plant in Selby will work with the National Farmers Union on cultivating crops that can be turned into biomass pellets or fuel.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/09/20/drax-pays-farmers-grow-energy-crops/
“The Region of Murcia [Spain] decrees the pre-emergency before the risk of floods.
“The regional government has decreed the pre-emergency phase of the Special Plan for Civil Protection against Flood Risk in the Region of Murcia, due to the warnings of adverse meteorological phenomena due to storms and rain…”
https://www.larazon.es/murcia/20210920/kxbm6tvo3ng3hlbspo3gd7s7aq.html
“Wildfire threatens resort town near Athens prompting evacuations…
“Over 110 firefighters have been struggling through the night to contain the blaze, assisted by fire trucks and volunteers. There was however no waterbombing aircraft assistance, as the fire broke out after dark.”
https://www.euronews.com/2021/09/21/wildfire-threatens-resort-town-near-athens-prompting-evacuations
“Greek wildfires devastated land. They also took away livelihoods.
“On the island of Evia, many who depended on the fire-ravaged forest for their livelihoods are now facing destitution.”
“Plastic pollution threatens Turkey’s Black Sea coastline…
“The studies across the Black Sea show plastics make up 80% of the waste. Along with waste directly discarded at sea, streams crisscrossing the Black Sea highlands located far from the coast also serve as a source of pollution.”
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/plastic-pollution-threatens-turkeys-black-sea-coastline/news
“Turkey’s Mumcular Dam recedes to worrying levels amid drought…
“The water level has hit rock bottom at the dam…
“dwindling to 9% capacity as experts warned that drought is here to stay for the upcoming years.”
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/turkeys-mumcular-dam-recedes-to-worrying-levels-amid-drought/news
“August 2021 in Tunisia had an average temperature of 31.5C [88.7F] and an anomaly of 2.99C above average and was the hottest August on record.
“Precipitations were -67% below norm. Summer as a whole was the hottest summer on records with a tremendous anomaly of +2.7C.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1439994274037313536
“Burundi floods: Lake Tanganyika’s water levels rise.
“Natural disasters have forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes in Burundi in recent years… Most of them had lived on the shores of Lake Tanganyika where water levels had risen because of heavy storms, causing floods and landslides.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/burundi-floods-lake-tanganyikas-water-015545764.html
“Study reveals South Africa’s weather is becoming more extreme.
“South Africa is experiencing more maximum temperature records than expected – a trend which appears to be accelerating, a study by a University of Pretoria (UP) Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology…”
“Methane Plumes in Pakistan Put Landfills in the Spotlight.
“Lahore, the country’s second-largest city, is a global hot spot for emissions of the super-potent greenhouse gas… The cloud… seen over Lahore… had an emissions rate of about 126 metric tons of methane an hour.”
“The Heat Wave in NW China is reaching its peak 20th September with 38.8C [101.8F] at Toksun, Xinjang, at 43N of latitude, at record levels for this time of the year.
“While the heat in the north will ease, Southern China will experience terribly hot and humid conditions in the next days.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1439904060497346563
“Koalas are going extinct with as few as 30,000 left in the Australian wild when the country was once home to eight million…
“New figures from the Australian Koala Foundation – which has been monitoring koala numbers for about a decade – reveal populations have plunged by 30 per cent in just three years.”
“Update on the South America brutal heat wave: On 20 September the town of Corumbà in Brazil had its hottest day ever with 43.9C [111F], beating the record set in November 1962.
“Record also at Tres Lagoas with 43.1C,Valparaiso (tied) 42.0C and yesterday at Puerto Casado, Paraguay with 43.0C.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1440043464184401929
“Record rainfall: 5-plus inches drench Sanford, these other Central Florida cities… Large hole opens near Fort Mellon Park…
“Sanford received 5.17 inches of rain, shattering its daily record, which was 2.03 inches. The official rainfall amount may be adjusted Monday to an even higher amount.”
“Amid Drought, Billionaires Control A Critical California Water Bank.
“Water prices are soaring in California’s Central Valley, where a quarter of the nation’s food is grown. As the West Coast’s megadrought worsens, one farming company has long been scrutinized for its outsized role in the arid region’s water supply.”
“Drought tests centuries-old water traditions in New Mexico…
“Once an acequia commissioner and now a U.S. congresswoman, Leger Fernández knows how hard it is to tell farmers they won’t get all the water they need — or maybe none at all.”
https://www.heraldsun.com/news/nation-world/national/article254345783.html
“2021 a record-breaking drought year in parts of Washington… 16 Washington counties, including 13 in Eastern Washington, are drier than they’ve ever been since record-keeping began in 1895…”
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/20/2021-a-record-breaking-drought-year-in-parts-of-washington/
“‘A lot of salmon died’: Ahousaht Guardians look to watershed restoration amid B.C.’s dangerously dry summer. The province’s prolonged drought is exacerbating the damage done to Bedwell River by decades of forestry around Tofino…
“Hutchinson fears this summer, marked as it was by heat, fire and drought, is “an indicator of what’s to come” as climate change intensifies.”
https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-drought-ahousaht-salmon/
“A different kind of heat wave is coming to the Oregon Coast…
“Many remember the record-breaking heat wave that Oregon had over the summer. Now the state will be seeing more high temperatures, but this time in the water. A marine heat wave is projected to hit the state within the next month…”
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/20/a-different-kind-of-heat-wave-is-coming-to-the-oregon-coast/
“Biden to clamp down on 80-plus degree workplaces after record heat causes hundreds of deaths.
“The Biden administration is to tackle how workplaces respond to extreme temperatures as part of new initiatives in the wake of hundreds of US deaths this summer from record-breaking heatwaves driven by the climate crisis.”
“Hurricanes, Floods, Wildfires And Extreme Heat: A Timeline Of Devastating Weather Events In The U.S. This Summer—The Hottest On Record.
“This summer, the United States was ravaged by an alarming number of climate-related catastrophes, which affected millions of Americans…”
“Scientists still don’t know how far melting in Antarctica will go – or the sea level rise it will unleash…
“Projected sea level rise will have widespread effects… around the world. But current projections of ice sheet melt are so wide that developing ways for societies to adapt will be incredibly expensive and difficult.”
“Weatherwatch: the slow death of tall trees by lightning strikes.
“Lightning is a leading cause of the huge wildfires that have caused so much damage in the US, Turkey and elsewhere recently. But it also has a slower and more insidious destructive effect, especially in rainforests.”
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