Scott Duncan
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Scottish meteorologist based in London | MMet @UniofReading | Former co-owner @wxcharts | opinions are my own
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Europe is insanely warm right now. It has never been this warm so late in the year for some.
Can't believe it is only 43 days until Christmas.
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Craziest thing you will see today...
Stunning upwards lightning above Acatenango Volcano in Guatemala 🇬🇹
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The extreme warmth in October really is quite shocking when you zoom out.
🔴 = warmer than average
🔵 = cooler than average
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Brace yourself.
One of the most brutal Arctic cold outbreaks on record is gathering momentum and moving through North America right now.
Wind chills are hitting extremely dangerous levels of -70°F (-57°C) in Wyoming.
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Italy 🇮🇹 simply stunning from space today.
The most distinct country shape in the world.
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We have not seen anything like it. We can't compare this looming heat emergency to summer 1976.
A warmer world, thanks to human induced climate change, makes it almost effortless to break extreme heat thresholds. We continue to see this across the planet - not just in Europe.
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I didn't think it was possible, not in my lifetime anyway.
+49.6°C in Canada 🇨🇦 That is 121°F!
This is the story of the Canadian heat record that was crushed on 3 consecutive days by an unfathomable margin of +4.6°C (+8°F).
This moment will be talked about for centuries.
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I can't believe I am writing this.
Canada 🇨🇦 has obliterated its national all-time heat record *for the second day in a row*.
Before yesterday, greater than 45°C had never been recorded. As far as climatology is concerned, this is deeply shocking.
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Spain, u ok?
Alicante 🇪🇸 just recorded +29.2 °C today. Not so long ago, some parts of Spain were sub -20 °C with deep snow cover. January has been one heck of a rollercoaster for our Spanish friends.
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i don't know what to do with this information
22°C at 2:22:22 on 22/2/22 in Andújar, Spain 🇪🇸
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We just observed the warmest January day on record for many countries in Europe.
Truly unprecedented in modern records.
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Ouch! Europe has just witnessed its highest temperature in recorded history.
+48.8°C at Siracusa, Sicily (IT) 🇮🇹
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Wait for it...
The atmosphere is a fluid by definition and sometimes it looks like a sea full of waves. The setting sun is the cherry on the top.
Outstanding timelapse from Tenerife, Spain 🇪🇸 by Tristan Heth
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Just in...
Hottest day on record for Rome, Italy with a staggering 42.9°C
Also hottest day on record for Catalonia with a searing 45.3°C.
A short thread on some of the most extreme temperatures on the planet right now...
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Wait for it...
You can really see how our planet is pulsing warmer and warmer. 2020 looks like it will be the hottest year on record.
Each bar of colour represents a month of global temperature as we loop through 140 years of data from 1880 to 2020.
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Unimaginable heat in China 🇨🇳
The longevity and intensity of the heatwave is hard to comprehend. Too many heat records to count, both day and night.
Beibei hit 45°C for two consecutive and some places not falling below 34°C at night.
The heat is ongoing...
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Scotland 🏴 from space today.
Images just in from
@NASA
and they are stunning!
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We have never observed warmth like this in Europe so late in the year.
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Pakistan 🇵🇰 flood disaster
National emergency declared. Some officials are comparing monsoonal rains this year to 2010 - the worst flood year on record where nearly 20% of the country became submerged. This is impacting over 30,000,000 people right now.
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The intensity and extent of warmth in Europe right now is hard to comprehend.
Warsaw in Poland 🇵🇱 just smashed its January record by over 5°C.
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BREAKING: Palermo in Sicily has just obliterated its all-time heat record by over 2°C. The previous record was +44.8°C in August 1999.
The observatory has weather data dating back to 1791. This is a very significant record to fall by such an enormous margin.
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BREAKING: Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷 falls into darkness as intense heat pushes infrastructure beyond limits.
This is one of the hottest temperatures in recorded history for the city. Unfortunately, this is only the beginning of a brutal & historic heatwave in South America.
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This is the hottest we have ever observed.
The Mediterranean is now completely outside all previous records. We have never measured this level of heat across the basin at any time of year.
It is only July. We usually see the annual maximum in August.
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I still haven't got over the fact that the Gulf of Mexico was on fire.
Now this in the Caspian Sea literally one day later...
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Enormous hail in Catalonia today. My goodness.
The size of the splashes as the ice hits the pool is insane.
📍 Bisbal d'Empordà,
🎥 Via
@MeteoGasso
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Catastrophic flooding unfolding in Chai Wan, Hong Kong 🇭🇰
158.1mm of rain fell in just one hour. This breaks the heaviest one hour rainfall record. Records date back to 1884.
🎥 via
@yangyubin1998
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Thailand 🇹🇭 just measured over 45°C for the first time on record. A new national heat record has been set.
A brutal heatwave tightens its grip across more than a dozen countries in Asia.
[THREAD]
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It reached +30°C (86.5°F) in the Arctic today. Hotter than pretty much all of Europe right now.
Truly exceptional for any time of the year but mind-boggling for May. More updates to follow.
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Mumbai, India is not in a good way after exceptional rainfall. Heaviest rain in 47 years. Far from ideal on top of the pandemic.
Mumbai has received 2,319mm of rain so far this year. The annual average is 2,260mm. It's only August.
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Exceptional warmth is surging into Europe to end 2022. What a year of extremes it has been and it is going out with a bang.
Likely hitting +20°C in Southern Germany with overnight lows in the widely in the mid-teens. Bonkers for this time of the year.
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Truly outlandish.
Some places in Europe didn't just record their warmest February on record.... They went on to beat their warmest MARCH temperature levels.
[THREAD]
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Stunning levanter cloud over the Rock of Gibraltar.
When moist air is blown up and over the Rock, the air cools and condenses to form a cloud. This cap cloud can be sculpted by the shape of he Rock if conditions are just right.
🎥 via
@MetOGibraltar
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Scorching hot across western Europe with profound records being shattered.
A thread...
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The intensity of the heat lifting north out of Spain & Portugal is simply staggering.
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Extreme heat ⚠️ building in South America is going to test infrastructure to the limit and threaten many all-time heat records.
Some areas are already under exceptional drought conditions. This incoming heatwave cannot be underestimated.
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We are in a relentless Arctic
#heatwave
- Siberia is literally on fire right now and it's set to continue.
Temperatures will comfortably exceed + 30 °C within the Arctic Circle over the next 10 days at least. It is a staggering + 20-25 °C warmer than it should be...
[THREAD]
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Just in...
France 🇫🇷 has just observed its earliest 40°C in recorded history.
This is just the beginning of one of the most profound heatwaves in French history. An immense number of records are about to fall.
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Dreadful heatwave in South America. Chile 🇨🇱 recording some of its hottest days on record with ferocious wildfires.
The vast smoke plumes from the fires are visible from space.
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Extremely hot in South America right now.
Some parts of Argentina are hitting more than 45°C (113°F).
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Extreme and prolonged hot and dry conditions in Canada are setting records and making it effortless for wildfires to rage.
Canada was at the epicenter of the most significant heat anomaly on the planet in May.
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BREAKING: Valencia 🇪🇸 has just scorched its previous heat record by a shocking +3.4°C
The new provisional record stands at 46.8°C (116.2°F). This is a huge record-break.
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Wait for it...
The 7 hottest summers in recorded history have all occurred in the last 7 years.
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The USA is not the only place suffering from intense wildfire.
Fires (often intentional) have scorched 10% of Brazil's Pantanal. This the largest tropical wetland area on Earth.
One of the most biologically diverse habitats we have on Earth is burning.
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Historic heat in Madrid, Spain🇪🇸
We just observed the warmest night on record. Temperatures did not drop below 26.2°C (79.2°F) and then daytime temperatures went on to equal the all-time (any month) heat record for the Spanish capital with 40.7°C (105.3°F).
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Disaster unfolding in Central America as extreme flooding issues continue to unravel.
We worry about the election but this is catastrophic for Honduras right now.
🎥 Villanueva (Cortés), Honduras 🇭🇳
Nicaragua 🇳🇮 and Guatemala 🇬🇹 have also been hit hard.
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The temperature contrast across Europe this morning was simply outrageous.
67°C difference between southern Greece 🇬🇷 and northern Sweden 🇸🇪
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Certainly one way to start 2022...
Summer & winter separated only by a few States.
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Hottest October day in history for Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷 Ferocious Spring heatwave.
Records go back to 1906 and beats the record of 35.6°C from 2014.
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2022...
The hottest year in recorded history for hundreds of millions of Europeans.
Zooming out reveals the bigger picture though.
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Parts of the Arctic averaged up to +14 °C above normal for the entire month of November.
Preliminary data suggesting we witnessed the hottest November globally on record.
2020 is on track to be the hottest year on record.
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Harsh heat will build in Southern Asia (again) in the coming days.
Pakistan will break 50°C (122°F) in places. This follows a very hot March and hottest April on record.
The heat really is relentless. Very hot also for large parts of India.
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One extreme to another in less than one week!
Beauvais, France 🇫🇷 broke its monthly heat record on March 31 with a baking +24.8°C and then went on to beat its monthly cold record on April 6 with a chilling -6.9°C.
This violent season flip is brutal for flora and fauna.
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Scorching and it is only April. Heatwave in North Africa and Iberia is shattering records by large margins.
Córdoba airport in Spain 🇪🇸 just recorded 38.7°C, pulverizing previous monthly record by nearly 5°C. This provisionally breaks the European hottest temperature in April.
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Onslaught of heat record in Southeast Asia. There are far too many to count.
National heat records are tumbling...
[THREAD on some of the extreme temperatures on Planet Earth lately]
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We just observed Earth's 6th warmest January on record.
This is what it looks like when we stack all the Januarys since 1880 next to each other.
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More severe thunderstorms racing through Germany 🇩🇪 today.
Significant flash flooding reported widely across the south of the country.
🎥
@flomster1
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'Beyond extreme' by definition.
Ireland and the British Isles are at the epicentre of a major marine heatwave. We have not seen the North Atlantic look like this in modern records.
Marine heatwaves are categorised from 1 to 5. There are hotspots hitting category 5.
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Hottest month ever recorded for Planet Earth was July 2021.
This is what July 2021 looks like compared to the 1951-1980 climate average.
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Lapland under extreme heat right now. 34.3°C at Banak, Norway 🇳🇴 This level of heat has never been observed above 70 degrees north in Europe before.
Scandinavia has been in the oven for a while. A very hot June followed by a hot start to July. Widely 10-15°C hotter than average.
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Brutal temperature crash in Europe ⚠️
Two huge records only one week apart. Horrific for flora and fauna at this delicate time of year.
We are looking at the hottest March day (+25.3°C) followed by coldest April night (-20.6°C) in Slovenia 🇸🇮
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Arctic blast incoming ⚠️ A huge temperature shock is on the way for Europe.
From record heat at the end of March, temperatures are going to tumble well below normal early next week. Yes, there will also be snow for some ❄️
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Another historic day of heat in Europe. I can't believe it is only the 19th of June. Unprecedented to witness this level of heat so early in the year.
Many June records broken by large margins. Some June national records equaled or broken.
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Ferocious and record-breaking heat in Death Valley ⚠️
Death Valley has broken the reliable world heat record with 54.4°C (130°F) and then went on to record the hottest night in North American history. The mercury did not fall below a sweltering 42.0°C (107.7°F).
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Horrifically warm for New Year...
Many heat records continue to fall.
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Historic day...
We just observed the hottest December day for Spain 🇪🇸 on record with +29.9°C in Málaga.
This heat is hard to comprehend in the middle of December, so near the solstice.
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The volcanic footage coming out of La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands is just jaw dropping right now 🌋
Previous eruption was 1971 and 1949 before that.
🎥 Via
@Armeteo
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Mesmerizing... Watch how the jet stream buckles over Western Europe.
The lobe leaving the main flow becomes trapped and is responsible for the severe flooding in Spain right now.
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26.2°C in Slovenia 🇸🇮 today. It is November.
This is the warmest November day ever recorded in Slovenia.
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On the frozen edges of Hudson Bay, something remarkable just happened.
A weather station smashed its monthly heat record by nearly 7°C. Even in a warming world, this magnitude of record-break is enormous.
A short THREAD...
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Unprecedented warmth and melt in Greenland this September. Some places average more than +8°C above seasonal average for the month.
Meanwhile, Planet Earth records its 4th warmest September on record.
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The global temperature anomaly for every single month since 1880 updated to end of 2021.
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A lot of heat going on both sides of the Atlantic right now...
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Extreme heat to start October with 3 national records.
🇹🇷 Turkey +41.2°C
🇨🇾 Cyprus +41.2°C
🇨🇳 China +40.9°C
The Chinese October heat record has been broken numerous times in the last few days and breaks a record set last year!
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We just observed Morocco's 🇲🇦 hottest day in May in reliable recorded history: 45.7°C (114°F).
Extremely hot widely across Europe with many notable station records in several countries.
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Astonishing intensity of cold smashing through Canada and Northeast USA right now.
Mt. Washington in New Hampshire just recorded a windchill value of -109°F (-78°C), which sets the lowest windchill value ever observed in the USA (including Alaska).
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Extreme heat again on the fringe of Arctic.
We are looking at temperatures 15-20 °C warmer than normal in Northern Siberia for consecutive days.
Wildfires continue to rage and sea ice continues to deplete.
[1/5]
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All-time heat records getting smashed before noon.
Hotter tomorrow. Hotter the day after... I can't believe what I am seeing.
The US Pacific Northwest and BC Canada is at the epicentre of one of the most outrageous heatwaves in history.
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This is how the sea surface temperatures look right now.
🟥 = Warmer than average
🟦 = Cooler than average
Records are being broken every day.
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Holy smokes! Beijing, China 🇨🇳 just hit +25.6°C today.
This is a full +5.8° hotter than the record from 1996 and about +20°C warmer than normal for this time of year!
North and South Korea also recorded their hottest February day ever.
This winter heatwave is truly immense.
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BREAKING 🌡️
Intense and dangerous levels of heat in France 🇫🇷 smashes the all-time record in Biarritz by over 2°C.
The level of heat for this early in summer is unprecedented nationally, but is now beating all-time records in places.
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Severe thunderstorms ripping through Central London today ⚡
This is Embankment Station. Very impressive storm intensity for this late in the year especially.
🎥
@Adam2502
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We have just witnessed Turkey's 🇹🇷 hottest day in recorded history.
+49.1°C (120.4°F) was observed in Cizre (Şırnak province).
Notice that it isn't just Turkey that is suffering intense heat right now...
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Extreme heat is now breaking long-standing all-time records in Germany 🇩🇪
Cottbus station in the northeast of the country about 100 km from Berlin has set a new all-time heat record (for any month). The new record is 39.2°C (102.6°F).
Observations here began in 1888.
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We have just observed the hottest (or joint hottest) October days in recorded history for 4 countries.
🇮🇷 Iran 46.0°C (new record)
🇲🇦 Morocco 43.5°C (new record)
🇨🇳 China 38.9°C (tied record)
🇰🇷 South Korea 32.3°C (new record)
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Incredible warmth in the Arctic and across pretty much all of Canada through first half of January 2021.
Large areas more than +10°C warmer than normal. Also widespread warmth across North Africa and Tibetan Plateau.
Brutal cold in central and eastern Asia. Chilly W and N EU.
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Scorching & dangerous heat on the way for India & Pakistan.
Temperatures will approach April record levels. The high 40s Celsius are expected, parts of Pakistan close to 50°C.
It has been hot here for a very long time now... since early March.
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Heatwave insanity continues in South America.
These are profound records and could get beaten on consecutive days.
Some parts of these countries are facing blackout, water shortage and wildfire.
This is an emergency.
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