“World has lost battle to stop glaciers melting and sea level rising, UN meteorological chief says.
“The British Antarctic Survey has released its new maps and they are a stark visual depiction of the retreat of ice at our poles.
“Just as stark is the warning from the secretary general of the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organisation, Professor Petteri Taalas..”
“Through today, the water level in the Miami area has spent a record 892.6 hours above the mean high tide level this year, more than any other year on record (114 minutes more than this time in 2022).
“Things are changing, and they’re changing quickly.”
https://twitter.com/BMcNoldy/status/1667138717436477440
“Banff [Alberta, Canada] records hottest May ever, Athabasca Glacier melts over winter.
““It was the fastest snow melt I’ve ever seen…I’ve never seen anything like this,” said John Pomeroy, director of the University of Saskatchewan’s Centre for Hydrology in Canmore and the Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change.”
“Yesterday was the 34th day without rain > 1 mm in Vancouver YVR [0.5 mm on May 22]. That ties the record for May-June since records began (1937).
“If YVR doesn’t get more than 1 mm of rain by 11 pm [which is unlikely] it will break the record for this time of year.”
https://twitter.com/ThierryGooseBC/status/1667194828441145346
“Relentless heat in Canada, now returned to British Columbia with 38.5C [101.3F] at Lytton.
“In the United States the highest temperature yesterday was only 102F/38.9C at Rio Grande ,TX near the Mexican border. It means Lytton. Canada was hotter than 99%+ of USA yesterday. VERY rare.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1667160953316679680
“People evacuated as ‘intense and volatile’ wildfires spread across British Columbia.
“Fire activity is expected to increase across parts of British Columbia with Canada set to experience its worst year on record. Video shared by British Columbia Wildfire Service shows a fire ripping its way through the forests of Tumbler Ridge.”
“Smoke from Canadian wildfires hits Norway and flows to southern Europe…
“The smoke has moved over Greenland and Iceland since 1 June, and observations in southern Norway have recorded increasing concentrations of aerosolized particles, the independent research institution said.”
“An area of the Highlands has been placed under the highest level of water scarcity alert as dry weather continues.
“The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said the area around Loch Maree is at “significant risk” as water levels drop. It said it is “extremely concerning” the risk of water scarcity has reached a significant level so early in the summer.”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23578974.water-scarcity-highlands-highest-level-areas-risk/
“Wildfires: UK to set up new Mediterranean-style specialist units…
“This year has already seen hundreds of grass fires and one of the UK’s largest ever has been burning near Cannich in Scotland for the past two weeks. More fire crews are now training in skills from southern Europe and the US.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65848872
“Flash floods hits Kety in Tolna, tornado in Budapest.
“Severe storms brought heavy rainfall and flash floods to various parts of Hungary on Tuesday. The downpour caused extensive flooding in basements, cellars, and houseyards, with some areas experiencing a month’s worth of rainfall within a few hours.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gb8x3iXzvI
“24 cities on ‘yellow alert’ after fatal floods [Turkey].
“In the aftermath of persistent rainstorms that claimed the lives of three individuals in the northern part of the country, the Turkish State Meteorological Service has issued a “yellow” alert for 24 provinces across Türkiye, primarily in the interior and western regions.”
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/24-cities-on-yellow-alert-after-fatal-floods-183823
“At least seven people were killed and 59 others injured in storms and flash floods in five Iranian provinces over the past two days, IRIB news agency reported Friday.
“Among the four people killed in Isfahan were three by flooding in Nohuj village in Ardestan County on Thursday and a driver on an intercity road, whose car was washed away by the deluge…”
https://english.news.cn/20230609/9d2b5f3f6c5a4f509d0c0a970734a684/c.html
“Kyrgyzstan: Capital city’s water crisis nears critical point.
“tap water severely rationed. Public baths and swimming pools have closed their doors, as have car washes. There is nothing new about this, but the crisis this year feels particularly intense.”
https://eurasianet.org/kyrgyzstan-capital-citys-water-crisis-nears-critical-point
“Siberia swelters in record-breaking temperatures amid its ‘worst heat wave in history’…
“Siberia tends to see large monthly and yearly temperature fluctuations, but the last few decades have seen a strong warming trend. “Siberia is one of the fastest warming regions on the planet with hot extremes increasing in intensity,” Omar Baddour, chief of climate monitoring and policy services at the World Meteorological Organization, told CNN.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/08/asia/heat-wave-siberia-climate-intl/index.html
“Yet another brutally hot day in Asia with 47C [116.6F] in China and 39C in Siberia where more records fell:
“All time: 38.0 Zdvinsk; 35.6 Tomsk tie… monthly: 38.2 Kupino; 36.7 Kolyvan; 36.3 Ermakovskoe; 35.3 Tastyp; In India Highlands: 29.9C Cherrapunji new monthly record.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1666805141893427204
“Record heat wave in Nepal, with 2 stations recording their hottest days in climatic history:
“42.5C [108.5F] Janakpur (prev. 42.4C June 1998); 32.5C Okhaldhunga (1720m asl) (prev. 31.2C June 2015). Many others are close.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1667208948246560780
“China braces for yet another ‘furnace’ summer…
“The unseasonably hot weather in China comes on the heels of record-breaking temperatures in Southeast Asia during April and May, as RFA reported. In Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos, the heat led to deaths and hospitalizations, closed schools and caused losses to farmers and business-owners.”
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-heat-wave-06092023100249.html
“‘Dragon boat water’ lashes southwest China, shatters local rainfall record…
“Beihai in the Guangxi region logged 614.7 millimetres (24.2 inches) of precipitation over 24 hours as of 5 a.m. (2100 GMT) on Friday, according to the region’s weather bureau. That was more than a third of the rainfall seen in a typical year by the port city, and surpassed the devastating 552.5 mm that submerged subway tunnels in Zhengzhou and paralysed the central city of Henan for days in 2021.”
“Smoke in the air as Australia’s fire crews prepare for the return of El Niño…
““It’s uncharted territory if we get a big El Niño,” says Greg Mullins, the former New South Wales fire commissioner. The three years of wet weather has also meant three years of reduced hazard reduction burning, he says.”
“Records every day in Oceania:
“Yesterday Tuvalu broke again its national record of the highest temperature in June with 34.2C [93.6F] at Funafuti, its capital after tying it few days earlier this month.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1667112377307766785
“May 2023 in Fiji was record warm and had a temperature anomaly of +1.68C above average.
“It was mostly wetter than average except for the southern islands. See rainfall anomalies map by Fiji Met. Service.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1666730804226015233
“Heavy rain in Samoa causes flooding, infrastructure damage.
“Flooding has hit parts of Samoa today as a heavy downpour damaged homes and infrastructure. The island of Savaii is the most affected with roads submerged by overflows, reports of damaged roads and bridges, power outages and school closures.”
“El Nino rains intensify record dengue outbreak in Peru.
“Peru’s worst dengue outbreak on record could intensify further as an El Nino climate phenomenon brings torrential rains and mosquitoes, driving the death toll this year past 200 with over 130,000 recorded cases, the health ministry said on Thursday.”
“Uruguay is suffering an unprecedented water crisis as a record drought threatens supplies of piped drinking water used by more than half of its 3.5 million people…
“The authorities are providing extra welfare payments and bottled water to the poor in Montevideo and warning high-risk groups such as pregnant women to avoid drinking the sodium-laced tap water. It’s a stark reminder that even a wealthy developing country with a reputation for good governance can be caught off guard by extreme weather events.”
“Exceptional warmth in Argentina winter:
Temperatures well above 25C in Patagonia and above 30C [84F] in Central/Northern areas in the core of June: 33.0C Jachal altitude 1200m… Warmest June day on records at 27.5 San antonio Oeste; 26.4 Viedma; 28.2 Rosario Aero. More records coming.”
https://twitter.com/extremetemps/status/1666969440217341953
“37.3°C [99.1F] in San Jorge, in the canton of Los Chiles (Alajuela Province), in north-central Costa Rica.
“According to @extremetemps, this is a new June national record. The heat has been relentless for weeks in Central America.”
https://twitter.com/ThierryGooseBC/status/1666607563578949633
“I hope someone is completely messing up the data [global sea surface temperatures].
“But hoping NOAA & NASA are wrong is not a strategy…
“The whole North Atlantic Ocean surface of about 40 million km² isn’t really 0.5°C warmer than ever for this date, is it?”
https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1667236559169396753
“WHAT THE F*CK?
“Normally I don’t swear, but this is totally crazy. Global temperature is 0.9°C higher than normal.
“This is the highest anomaly ever and we are about 1.5 month away from the annual global peak surface air temperature.”
https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1667446937379799040
“El Nino is back, and it’s brought the threat of extreme weather with it.
“The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared on Thursday that the El Nino climate pattern is now underway, bringing the threat of more frequent tropical cyclones in the Pacific, increased rainfall and flooding in parts of the Americas and rising temperatures across the globe.”
“Climate change is increasing turbulence during flights, and the trend is set to worsen, according to the first global study of its kind.
“…”clear-air turbulence” is unpredictable and almost invisible, hard to detect with current equipment, and can occur so suddenly – it doesn’t give flight crews a chance to warn passengers to buckle-up.”
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