“Heatwave hit Europe’s Arctic coast… Record temperature for May at Mehamn airport on Norway’s coast to the Barents Sea…
“…Nyrud in the Pasvik valley measured a peak at 25.3 degrees Celsius [77.5F], actually higher than the Mediterranean coast of Spain and Italy…
“In Teriberka north of Murmansk, the temperature reached 25.1°C [77.2F], beating the 69-year-old May record for the Russian Barents Sea coast.”
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2023/05/heatwave-hit-europes-arctic-coast
“Weather alert: ‘Extremely high risk’ of wildfires in parts of Sweden.
“Sweden’s weather agency warned of an “extreme” risk of forest fires in parts of the country, as helicopters were called in to water bomb a blaze south of Stockholm… Fire bans are currently in place in large parts of the Blekinge, Kronoberg, Gotland, Västmanland, Stockholm and Uppsala regions.”
https://www.thelocal.se/20230523/weather-alert-extremely-high-risk-of-wildfires-in-parts-of-sweden
“Geneva airport briefly closed as climate activists protest private jet fair.
“Geneva’s airport was briefly closed to flights on Tuesday as climate activists stormed a private jet fair on a nearby tarmac by ripping down or scaling fences, handcuffing themselves to landing gear and other material, and scuffling with police and security before being hauled away.”
“France bans short-haul flights in effort to fight climate change…
“The change, which came into effect on Tuesday, will mostly rule out air trips between Paris and regional hubs such as Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux, with connecting flights unaffected.”
“Southern Europe flooded as northern half bakes.
“The weather in Europe seems to have flipped around. Southern Europe had been baked in scorching temperatures during spring, and in Spain and Portugal record high temperatures were set in April… But now southern Europe has been hit by storms and drenched in torrential rain as low pressure dominates…”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/southern-europe-flooded-as-northern-half-bakes-sfnqkhsh9
“Schools shut as torrential rains hit southeastern Spain…
“…torrential rains swept over the coastal southeast on Tuesday following a long drought, leaving behind flooded basements, submerged cars and closed-off roads… Some locations in the Valencia region saw more rain in a few days than they had in the previous six months combined… The town of Ontinyent in Valencia broke the record for the highest accumulated rainfall in one day in May in the past 100 years…”
“Malaga needs a whole month of rain to alleviate current drought crisis.
“While recent downpours have been important, they have not been enough to make up for the serious water deficit accumulated over the past year. The heaviest rains that have fallen since last Thursday have also been on the coast, away from the main reservoirs.”
“Europe’s water war: Reality on the front lines of drought.
“Brussels, Madrid and Andalusia are embroiled in a fight over the drought-stricken Doñana National Park… The long-simmering conflict is boiling over ahead of Spanish municipal elections later this week, as regional conservative politicians seek to cast themselves as the farmers’ allies, promising water supplies that activists say are long gone.”
“Thousands of active landslides in Emilia Romagna – expert. Consequences of torrential rain and deadly floods continuing…
“Last week’s torrential rain and deadly floods in Emilia Romagna have led to thousands, not hundreds, of active landslides, Paride Antolini, the president of the region’s geologists’ guild, said on Wednesday.”
“Stifling heat also in Northern Africa: 47C [116.6F] again at Faya Largeau in Northern Chad ties the Chadian national record for May again.
“In Northern Niger 46.3C at Bilma, 1C from the May record. Agadez (500m asl) Tmin 33.1C Tmax 45.0C.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1661444486201835545
“Namibia in grips of drought.
“Large parts of Namibia are experiencing severe or extreme drought conditions following the end of the 2022/23 rainy season, the Namibia Meteorological Service is reporting in its latest monthly rainfall bulletin.”
https://namibian.com.na/country-in-grips-of-drought/
“Endless record heat in Southern Africa highlands; Today in Botswana 35.3C [95.5F] at Mababe (931m asl).
“South Africa: 33.3C Augrabies Falls (635m); 33.2C Twee Rivieren (879m); 32.6C Upington (839m); 31.6C Van Zylsrus (938m). This heat is unprecedented for this time of the year and won’t stop.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1661391013229871108
“Afghanistan’s denial of Iran’s water rights destroying agriculture, wetlands.
“As the long-running water dispute between Iran and Afghanistan drags on, experts warn that it is taking a heavy toll on agriculture and water bodies, especially the wetlands in southwestern Iran.”
“Locust invasion in Afghanistan’s breadbasket threatens wheat harvest.
“The northern “breadbasket” of Afghanistan is battling a potentially devastating outbreak of locusts that threaten to eat their way through up to a quarter of the country’s annual wheat harvest, the UN has warned.”
“There are fresh warnings about soaring heat in south and south-east Asia as a UN report warns global temperatures will very likely hit new records within the next five years.
“Parts of Pakistan nudged 50 degrees Celsius on Sunday, with Jacobabad hitting 49C [120.2F].”
“Sweltering heat wave hits Sri Lanka; climate change will likely bring more.
“As a heat wave sweeps across Asia, Sri Lanka continues to issue heat warnings to the public as the country experiences much higher than normal temperatures coupled with high humidity and threatening health impacts.”
“Not a single month in years has passed without record heat in China and this May is not an exception: after the records earlier this month.
“On 28-31 May Yunnan will experience days among its hottest in history. 42/43C likely and 35C+ above 1000 asl. Stay tuned.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1661351624428724224
“Heavy Rain Alert! Shenzhen Breaks Historic Rainfall Record…
“According to Shenzhen Weather on Weibo, the maximum one-hour rainfall in Bao’an District reached an astonishing 142.2 millimeters [6 inches], surpassing all previous records in the city’s history. Additionally, within a 30-minute period, an impressive 108.2 millimeters of rain poured down, further emphasizing the magnitude of this extraordinary event.”
“Typhoon Mawar – live: Storm ‘reintensifies’ as it heads to Philippines after slamming Guam with floods…
“Mawar made landfall at local time 9pm but the island was battered by heavy rains and powerful winds of up to 240 kph [149mph] for hours yesterday, that uprooted trees, blew away roofs, and brought the US territory to a standstill.”
“Record heat is near allover in the tropics and French Polynesia is not an exception:
“Exceptional high temperatures for late May in the territory these days with up to 33.6C [92.5F] at Atuonam, Hiva Oa Island,in the Marquesas Islands.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1661100448718241794
“Disaster for the Antarctic sea ice extent which is well at its all time low for May.
“And the abnormal warmth of this month seems never ending in the Peninsula and Islands.
“Today: 8.4C [47.1F] San Martin Base; 6.1C Esperanza; 4.8C; Palmer and Vernadsky; 4.3C Rothera Point; 4.2C Marambio.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1661166504111489025
“Uruguay is facing the worst drought in more than 70 years and Montevideo’s main reservoir has water for only ten days.
“The lack of rain led to the worst water deficit since 1949, affecting the supply of thousands of homes and causing poor water quality.”
“Cash-Strapped Argentina Needs Rain Now to Save Crops From Drought.
“Argentina’s farmers need precipitation to arrive within the next three weeks to stand any chance of emerging from a disastrous drought that has shriveled harvests and slashed agricultural exports… Farmers are struggling to recover from three consecutive years of drought.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cash-strapped-argentina-needs-rain-153049901.html
“Endless record heat in Costa Rica,an heat wave 2 months long. Today historic 40.0C [104F] at Cerro Huacalito, never 40C was recorded that late and it’s just 0.1C from national May record of 1998. 39.9C at Palo Verde.
“29.3C in the capital San Jose (1150m).”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1661521886914781185
“Unusual Ocean Anomalies are being detected in the North Atlantic, impacting the Atlantic storm systems as we head into the Summer season…
“As you can see, based on reconstructed data going back over 170 years, there has not been an ocean anomaly as strong as in April across the North Atlantic.”
“Climate change is moving hurricane risks farther inland.
“Researchers say climate change and rapid development are moving danger zones farther inland, putting more people in harm’s way. This is troubling news for the many North Carolinians still reeling from the impact from Hurricane Florence in 2018. That storm dropped over three feet of rain – the state’s wettest hurricane.”
https://www.wral.com/story/How-much-is-my-hurricane-flood-risk-Raleigh-NC/20878378/
“North Carolina just had its warmest start to the year on record.
“Seven eastern states, including North Carolina, this year experienced the warmest Jan.-April on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports… North Carolina also experienced one of the wettest starts to the year we’ve had, according to NOAA’s May report.”
https://www.axios.com/local/raleigh/2023/05/24/north-carolinas-spring-breaks-heat-records
“Cold snap may have wiped out Upper Valley apple crop [New Hampshire]…
“Following New Hampshire’s dry April, which was one of the hottest on record (the second hottest in Vermont), cooler-than-usual temperatures settled in this month… On May 27th a federal weather station at the Lebanon Municipal Airport registered a low of 23 degrees [-5C], an all-time record not just for that date, but for any day within the month of May in the last half-century.”
https://www.nhpr.org/environment/2023-05-24/cold-snap-may-have-wiped-out-upper-valley-apple-crop
“Maritime farmers holding breath as record-dry spring wrings region.
“Right now, conditions are not ideal. Parts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia experienced the driest April on record, according to a report from Environment and Climate Change Canada. “Below to much below normal” snowfall levels this winter only made things worse.”
“Great Plains Drought Hits Hay Crops…
“Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas are typically among the top 10 hay-producing states, according to U.S. Agriculture Department data, and swaths of each state are experiencing extreme drought…”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/great-plains-drought-hits-hay-crops-c31ade47
“Half of Phoenix, Arizona, would end up in the ER if the city has a blackout during a heat wave, study finds.
“The research, published today, estimated that around 800,000 residents would need emergency care for heat-related conditions like heat stroke. That would overwhelm the city’s 3,000 emergency department beds, the study said. And with Arizona’s strained healthcare system, about 13,000 people would die…”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/half-phoenix-arizona-end-er-172301309.html
“Despite deal, Colorado River’s long-term water crisis remains unsolved.
“Experts say much larger reductions will be needed in the coming years to close the gap between water supply and demand, and to adapt to diminishing flows due to climate change. The agreement, which has yet to be approved, offers a stopgap solution…”
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-05-24/colorado-river-deal-offers-short-term-band-aid
“Heavy rains in Canada offer relief from wildfires but could lead to flooding.
“Heavy rains have brought relief to western Canada, in what crews hope could be a “turning point” in a protracted fight against wildfires, but officials also warned the much-needed downpour could lead to catastrophic flooding – and fresh blazes from lightning strikes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/23/canada-heavy-rain-wildfire-relief-flooding
“A Tumultuous Spring Breakup [Yukon]…
““Although ice jams happen every year, this year was much worse than average,” said Brader. Flooding to this extent may occur every 10 to 20 years in some locations, he said, but preliminary data indicate that the flood at Circle was near the record level of 1945.”
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/151379/a-tumultuous-spring-breakup
“U.S. Military Sees Growing Threat in Thawing Permafrost.
“Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks visited Alaska this week to see how climate change is undermining infrastructure at Arctic military bases. Fox, Alaska, is a tiny town, but on Monday it hosted one of the Pentagon’s senior officials for a unique tour.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-military-sees-growing-threat-in-thawing-permafrost/
“CEO of biggest carbon credit certifier to resign after claims offsets worthless…
“It comes amid concerns that Verra, a Washington-based nonprofit, approved tens of millions of worthless offsets that are used by major companies for climate and biodiversity commitments, according to a joint Guardian investigation earlier this year.”
“Current climate path will lead to collapse of life on Earth, say scientists…
“Opening the Innovation Zero Congress in London, Professors Johan Rockstrom and David King said our current path will lead us to certain disaster, destroying rainforests and marine life while making vast areas around the tropics uninhabitable for humans.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/current-climate-path-lead-collapse-103729759.html
“Has this ever happened before? Record high Sea Surface Temperatures; Record high global air temperatures; Record low global sea-ice extent…
“All happening for the same day, May 23rd 2023. Normally heat flows around the planet and not all records break at once.”
https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1661637706189791232
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I heard this on my local radio this morning, about the sudden drop in Antarctic sea-ice.
https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/am/-gobsmacking-antarctic-sea-ice-shrinks/102384896
Meanwhile, my local city has been refreshingly “normal” since January. We had a true chilly autumn and winter is just about here.
With the El Nino expected by September/October…(our southern spring)
we are thinking this may be our last “true” winter for several years.
Although energy prices are set to rise around 25% in another month. The government is subsidising those on the lowest incomes, by paying a portion to their power providers directly, those of us only a few rungs above those poorest, are going to be scrounging to get through winter.
More contraction in discretionary income 🙁
hello Rain
to put everything in perspective, what are the expected ‘ energy more’ costs for an average Australian household in let’s say NSW and more south Melbourne during your winter.
Sorry Zip, Missed this first time around.
The best I can tell you, is that it varies a lot.
The below may give you some idea, based on average quarterly bills (balanced across the year) – just add 20% for the new prices coming in.
https://www.finder.com.au/average-energy-bill-australia
Personally, I am on annual plan contracts, that renew on January 1, but price changes occur on July 1. I also prefer a Set-and-Forget payment plan, where I pay fortnightly direct-debit on payday. During summer I get bills saying “DO NOT PAY” with $100’s in Credit balance, LOL but I know that credit will be ‘burned away’ during the winter months 🙂
The story you posted on NH’s frost killing the fruit crops is in the state I live in and it has been an unusually COLD month. It is supposed to heat up to mid to upper 80’s next week. I hate to admit that I’ve enjoyed the cool temps and lack of humidity because typically by now it is HHH. We have also had a severe rain event that dropped 4 inches o rain in 12 hours causing washouts. So yes climate change isn’t always about the heatwaves. But it has allowed me to pretend its not happening for a minute.
To get an apple crop where I live, a high mountain desert, I had to build a “temperate green house”. Temperatures typically are very warm for several weeks in April and that is always followed by lows in the low 20s for several days usually when the trees are in full bloom. So to get apples I have to close up the building every evening and use misters to keep the temp up.
Well, not this year! We have a great apple crop, and I didn’t do anything except keep the trees well watered.
(Dunno why I wrote any of that. What I meant to say is that I am sorry for your apple crop. Better luck next year.)
Sad to see that all of the heatwave records this spring/summer are already starting to blur together in my mind. And it’s not even peak El Nino heatwave season yet. Can’t wait!
If we hit 3C of warming we’re gone along with everything else. And we’re doing nothing to avoid it in any practical manner. I have no hope or trust in our species of being able to do anything but continue down the path to Extinction.
As record after record falls, as the “Defense” dept warns that climate change is the biggest threat to US National Security, the “Climate Change is a hoax” candidate for the US Presidency can announce his candidacy for the 2024 election without a whisper of protest by the Democrats against his atavistic agenda of stoking the destruction. Meanwhile, this month’s record 424 ppm’s of co2, indicating the farce that 350.org represents (450.org would be more accurate, as mankind will Never see a 350ppm world again) has received not one word of coverage in the MSM. In other words, that mankind is doing ANYthing that will help alleviate the caos it has engendered is exactly Zero. I. E., that we are doing anything about climate change is the hoax, not its existence.
Yves Smith has a good one in case Rob Lowrey didn’t make his point strongly enough. 🙂
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/05/ice-melt-in-the-pipeline.html
From Hansons article:
“Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change implies that fastfeedback equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is 1.2 ± 0.3°C (2σ) per W/m2. Consistent analysis of temperature over the full Cenozoic era – including “slow” feedbacks by ice sheets and trace gases – supports this ECS and implies that CO2 was about 300 ppm in the Pliocene and 400 ppm at transition to a nearly ice-free planet …
but there is more:
“[T]he human-made climate forcing exceeds the forcing at transition from a largely ice-free planet to glaciated Antarctica, even with inclusion of a large, negative, aerosol climate forcing [“aerosols,” i.e., air pollution, are a climate cooling agent; without them, earth would be hotter by several degrees]. Equilibrium global warming for today’s GHG level is 10°C for our central estimate … including the amplifications from disappearing ice sheets and non-CO2 GHGs (Sec. 4.4). Aerosols reduce equilibrium warming to about 8°C. Equilibrium sea level change is + 60 m (about 200 feet).”
So, obviously at 425ppm (not counting the CH4 at ~2000ppb) it is too late to do anything about AGW. It is coming and (burning a bunch more FFs) to build wind mills and solar farms is counter productive.
And of course, we all know that Hanson is very conservative with his statements and science. Bottom line, the earth will be ice free soon and sea level rise will become obvious and deadly within a decade or two. I still think we’ll nuke ourselves first though so not to worry.