Newly available Maxar satellite imagery shows several hundred meters long surface rupture with horizontal displacements up to 4m near Nurdağı, Gaziantep province, Turkey.
State of Emergency: Iceland’s Department of Civil Protection has just ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city of Grindavík and the Svartsengi Power Station as a volcanic eruption appears imminent. Over 1,000 earthquakes reported over the past 24 hours.
NOAA's GOES-16 satellite is capturing the shadow of today's total solar eclipse as it traverses the continental United States.
Truly a once in a lifetime event.
Awful situation unfolding right now in Villa Carlos Paz, Argentina as a fast-moving wildfire is approaching the city. Multiple structures on fire. Urgent evacuations are underway.
JUST IN: First aerial footage captured just minutes ago of the newly opened volcanic fissure near Grindavík, Iceland.
It is estimated to be about 3 km long!
The earthquake that struck Japan’s Noto peninsula on Monday was so strong that the coastline has moved up to 250 meters offshore due to significant land uplift.
Wow! Gasteinerfall Waterfall in the city center of Bad Gastein (Salzburg), Austria, with huge volumes of water flowing down it due to the heavy rainfall over the last 24 hours.
Credit: Ronny Katsch
I can’t believe I’m actually writing this.
The North Atlantic sea surface temperature has been at record warm levels for an entire year now, setting daily record highs every day for 365 consecutive days and counting.
Yes, you read that right.
Acapulco, Mexico might have just become the first city of over a million inhabitants in the world to experience the eyewall of a Category 5 storm. Otis made history on so many levels. A storm we won't forget anytime soon.
BREAKING: A small asteroid is expected to impact Northeast Germany, near the capital Berlin, in just over half an hour [21 Jan 2024 0:32:33UTC]. It’ll create a brief fireball. Object size is around ~1 meter. Temporary designation of the object is Sar2736.
BREAKING: Vietnam 🇻🇳 and Laos 🇱🇦 have both set a new national heat record today. This comes just 3 weeks after Thailand 🇹🇭 measured over 45°C for the first time in its history, setting a new national heat record.
Absolutely brutal.
For the first time in recorded history, all seven official tropical cyclone basins have produced a Category 5 storm in the same year. *2023*
What a crazy year it has been so far…
We are watching a disaster unfolding in real-time as lava from newly opened volcanic fissure is now entering Grindavík, engulfing first houses in the northern part of the town.
From Record-Breaking Heat to Early Snow.
In a matter of four days, the municipality of Zermatt, Switzerland, at an elevation of 1,638 meters (5,374 feet), experienced its hottest August day on record with 31.2°C (88.2°F) and an unusual pre-season heavy snow event.
Hundreds of reports of Northern Lights coming in from multiple locations across Europe. A G2 geomagnetic storm is ongoing currently. This footage is from Stanča, southeastern Slovakia.
With today's clearing skies, the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite got a clear view of the extent of snow cover over the Alps and southern Germany. Simply stunning.
This is getting serious. Global models are starting to converge on a powerful hurricane-force bomb cyclone impacting parts of western Europe mid next week. Details will certainly change but definitely one to watch.
Brazil’s Amazonas state is currently facing one of its worst droughts in modern history, as an intense heatwave grips northern parts of South America. Over 500,000 people could be affected by food, water and medicine shortages in the coming weeks.
NOAA's GOES-East satellite is capturing the shadow of today's "ring of fire" solar eclipse as it traverses the Western United States.
Breathtaking imagery from space.
BREAKING: A damaging tornado has impacted densely populated portions of the Milan metro, specifically Cernusco sul Naviglio, Lombardy, NW Italy about 2 hours ago.
My goodness! Zagora, Greece recorded a jaw-dropping 528 mm (21 inches) of rain in just 10 hours - an additional 300-500 mm, locally up to 600 mm, of rain could fall by Thursday. A historic flooding event is underway!
As crazy as it may sound, Global sea surface temperatures have now been at all-time record warm levels for an entire year.
This is perhaps one of the most absurd and alarming graphs I have ever plotted.
It’s now official 🚨
Yesterday's average Sea Surface Temperature for the Mediterranean Sea reached 28.40°C, the highest in recorded history! This beats the previous record of 28.25ºC set during the European heatwave of August 2003.
According to satellite data collected yesterday, approximately 60% of continental Europe is currently covered in snow.
Meteorological winter begins tomorrow.
JUST IN: Hong Kong just recorded its heaviest hourly rainfall on record with 158.1 mm [6.2 inches] between 11 PM and midnight (HKT). Records date back to 1884 (139 years ago). A rare “Black Rainstorm Warning Signal” has been issued by the HKO observatory.
BREAKING: Rome, Italy just experienced its highest temperature in recorded history with 42.9°C (109.2°F). This beats the previous record from 2022 by 2 full degrees Celsius.
That is a huge margin.
The Iberian Peninsula is experiencing one of the most notable wildfire smoke events in its modern history with Aerosol Index (AI) values exceeding 4 in some locations (AOD values >1). The distance between Quebec, Canada and Spain is around 3,000 miles.
A truly horrifying sight in the Bay of Bengal right now. Cyclone Mocha making a run at Category 5 in remaining hours before landfall near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
Worst case-scenario event.
Canada’s worst fire season on record visualized using NASA’s GEOS-FP model and FIRMS fire data. Just unfathomable.
- 18.5 million hectares of forest scorched
- 5% of Canada's forest area burned
- Approx. 200,000 people evacuated
- A total of over 6,500 fires
Google Earth recently updated their satellite imagery for the Acapulco, Mexico area, laying bare the absolute devastation wrought by Category 5 Hurricane Otis. Truly shocking.
Some scary scenes coming out of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain as an out-of-control wildfire continues to grow. The fire is now exhibiting extreme fire behaviour due to very dry conditions. A mandatory evacuation is in effect for villages threatened by the wildfire.
Tenerife fire situation continues to worsen by the minute. Flames are now approaching dangerously close to the town of La Orotava.
It’s going to be another long night.
The Mediterranean Sea is heading into uncharted territory. The recent powerful “heat dome” over southern Europe has led to an extremely rapid warming of the waters in the western part of the bassin, with SSTs now exceeding 30°C off the coast of southern Italy.
A short thread.
Absolutely unreal. Latest ECMWF based Swiss 4x4 km HD model run remains off the charts with forecast rainfall across Thessaly, Greece over the next 48 hours. +2,000 mm in 48 hours is highly unlikely to occur but it shows the extreme rainfall potential of this event.
I can't…
All eyes are now on what could potentially be a Major flooding event for the Decentralized Administration of Thessaly and Central Greece. All models suggest very high rain totals through Thursday. Some areas could get up to 500 mm of rain in just 48 hours.
Very concerning.
Dubai International Airport 🇦🇪 has recorded nearly 160 mm (6.3 inches) of rain in the last 24 hours. For context, most of the Dubaï metro typically averages 3.5 inches per year.
This is truly a historic event for the area.
This is hands down one of the rarest volcano footage I’ve ever seen and possibly the first and only drone shot in the world showing a volcanic fissure opening up in real time. This was captured in Iceland two days ago by Jakob Vegerfors - shared with his permission.
Après différentes analyses et vérifications, l’épisode orageux qui a notamment endeuillé la
#Corse
ce 18/08/2022, peut être qualifié de "derecho". Il figure d’ores et déjà comme l’un des événements météorologique les plus marquants qu’ait connu l’Europe dans l’histoire moderne 🧵
JUST IN: Europe has just preliminarily set a new all-time January record high temperature with 30.7°C (87.3°F) in Gavarda, Spain. Incredible warmth for this time of year.
The sheer scale of the flooding in Central Greece from Storm Daniel is unfathomable.
The Thessalian plain is severely flooded.
Search and rescue operations are underway.
This Sunday, January 15, will mark one year since the eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcano shocked the world. I remember being awestruck by these images.
A short thread.
Australia’s Queensland state is experiencing some of its worst flooding in its history as remnants of Tropical Cyclone Jasper continue to dump phenomenal rainfall totals to the Cairns region of northern Qld. Two rain gauges have recorded over 660 mm (26 inches) of rain in just 12…
Happening now: Volcano erupts for the fourth time in less than three years on the Reykjanes peninsula near Iceland's capital, Reykjavik. This comes after the area recorded thousands of earthquakes over the past weeks.
Germany 🇩🇪 has just observed its earliest +30°C on record, with +30.1°C at Ohlsbach, beating the previous record by 9 days.
+33.9°C in southwest France 🇫🇷
+28.8°C in Switzerland 🇨🇭
It is only early April.
⚠️🇩🇪 Impressionnante image aérienne [avant/après] de la municipalité allemande d'
#Altenahr
située dans le land de Rhénanie-Palatinat à l'ouest du pays. La rivière
#Ahr
, qui est sortie de son lit au cours de la nuit, connait une crue historique !
#Schuld
#Allemagne
#Floods
My goodness. Dangerous situation unfolding in Volos, Greece, one of the cities worst hit by Daniel just a few weeks ago, with numerous reports of flash flooding. An almost stationary severe thunderstorm associated with Storm Elias is currently sitting over the area.
November 17th, 2023 will go down in history as the first day on which planet Earth experienced a +2°C anomaly relative to the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.
A very alarming milestone.
European countries that had their hottest September on record this year.
🇵🇱 Poland, +4.0°C
🇨🇭 Switzerland, +3.8°C
🇱🇹 Lithuania, +3.7°C
🇫🇷 France, +3.6°C
🇧🇪 Belgium, +3.6°C
🇱🇺 Luxembourg, +3.6°C
🇨🇿 Czech Republic, +3.6°C
🇭🇺 Hungary, +3.6°C
🇦🇹 Austria, +3.6°C
🇱🇻 Latvia,…
One of the most severe winter heatwave in Europe’s modern history visualized over the last 2 days. Hundreds of monthly warm temperature records were broken all over the continent. This is exactly the kind of very abnormal event that is progressively rewriting global climatology.
🇬🇱 Smoke from the seemingly never-ending wildfires in Canada has reached Greenland's capital Nuuk today. This is what the sky looked like at 9 am this morning — Sobering. Scary.
September 2023 will easily go down as the warmest September ever recorded in Europe.
The national-average temperatures are greater than 3°C above 1991-2020 "normals" in at least 10 countries. This is absolute insanity.
The United Kingdom's longest-lasting patch of snow, located in a remote mountain range in the Scottish Highlands, has fully melted for what’s thought to be just the tenth time in the last 300 years. 7 of these occasions have occurred in my lifetime (I was born in 2000).
This is madness.
Yesterday’s low temperature of +22.5°C (+72.5°F) in Biarritz was the highest minimum temperature ever recorded in France 🇫🇷 for the month of April. In fact, +22.5°C was one of the highest minimum temperatures ever measured at this station (for any month).
Extreme rainfall associated with Storm Daniel that wreaked havoc across Central Greece earlier this month has been estimated by
@WWAttribution
as a 1-in-200+ year event. The highest rainfall total observed was at Makrinitsa, Thessaly with a staggering 49 inches (1235 mm) in 4…
It's now official: Yesterday was the hottest October day on record in France. High temperatures soared as high as 35.8°C - Which is now the hottest temperature ever recorded in October in France. Crazy.
Just awful. Before/after images of the catastrophic damage to a neighborhood in Little Rock, Arkansas, from yesterday’s violent tornado. Survey is ongoing.
#ARwx
- Photos courtesy of
@googleearth
and
@brianemfinger
Here we go again!
A volcano is erupting for the 3rd year in a row on the Reykjanes Peninsula, near Iceland's capital Reykjavik. Today marks 323 days since the 2022 eruption ended. The interval between the eruptions of 2021 and 2022 was 319 days...
#Fagradalsfjall
#Keilir
Incredible 3-hour timelapse of the McDougall Creek Fire in West Kelowna, BC, spreading at an extreme rate on August 17, 2023. The fire is now estimated to be 11,000 acres in size.
Credit: Michael Holzhey/MGH Photography
From an innocuous looking low over the Northeast U.S. to a powerful "bomb-cyclone" menacing Northwest Europe in less than 48 hours. Thanks to a powerhouse 200+ mph jet stream, Storm Ciarán’s 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic will be quick and explosive.
🌊 Vision surréaliste et hypnotisante d’une mer de nuage très agitée capturée depuis le sommet du Plomb du Cantal - Le Lioran.
@cantalauvergne
Credit : Jean-Philippe Bosse
France just had its hottest September since records began in 1900, with the country an insane 3.6°C above normal. And as if it wasn't bad enough, the nation could tie or break its record for the hottest October day on Monday.
This is not normal.
It’s looking increasingly probable that Red wind warnings will be issued by Météo-France for Brittany, NW France given the potential for gusts in excess of 160 km/h (100 mph) along the coast early Thursday morning. Storm surge is also a concern. Storm Ciarán is shaping up to be a…
There has been a mind-boggling 83°C (149°F) range between today’s lowest minimum and highest maximum temperatures in China.
This is one of the largest temperature contrasts ever recorded for a single country.
We may have just witnessed the largest temperature contrast ever recorded for a single country. There was a staggering 90.3°C difference between today’s lowest minimum and highest maximum temperatures in China.