More on the HadSST v4.1 to v4.2 changes: Improvements to the Engine Room Intake biases during World War 2 and addressing the digitasation truncation bias in the Japanese Kobe SST collection identified by Chan et al. (2019). Sandford & Rayner (2026) doi.org/10.1002/joc....

Addressing the World War 2 Warm Anomaly in HadSST.4.2.0.0

We present an update to the Hadley Centre Sea-Surface Temperature dataset (HadSST.4.2.0.0) that addresses residual warm bias during the Second World War (WW2). Using a quantitative definition of the ....

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Will the U.S. megadrought ever end? Spoiler: perhaps not A great explanation of why...and why this may be more than just a drought. www.sciencenews.org/article/unit...

Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?

For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.

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D-day era floating roadway saved by preservation work #Hampshire #BBCNews

World War Two Southampton Mulberry Harbour saved by preservation work

The structure had been partially submerged for decades before being recovered in Southampton.

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August 2026 was the warmest August ever recorded globally and the warmest month on record El Niño is pushing temperatures higher, but these records are occurring in a climate that has already been fundamentally altered by decades of burning fossil fuels heating our planet #Climate 🧪⚒️🌊

Our Berkeley Earth high resolution dataset paper is now available for open review over at ESSD! Thanks to @rarohde.bsky.social and Bruce Calvert for all the hard work to get it released: essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature – High-Resolution (BEST-HR): a 0.25° Global Gridded Temperature Data Set for Climate Monitoring

Abstract. We present version 2 of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature dataset, a global observational temperature record that now features enhanced spatial resolution (0.25° × 0.25°) and a new regr...

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This summer was the hottest on record in the UK The summer of 1976 that some folks my age keep banging on about is now only the SEVENTH hottest on record The top five hottest summers all happened since 2003 We're heating the planet by burning fossil fuels www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Summer 2026 provisionally hottest on record for the UK

The season’s mean temperature was made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change.

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Ben Santer et al. show another claim in the Trump Admin's 2025 DOE climate report does not withstand scrutiny. Using the correct observational data, they find that observed tropical atmospheric temperature changes are consistent with the expected human fingerprint on climate. (my annotations)

I am recruiting a PhD student in physical oceanography to work on the observations and dynamics of the #AMOC! Come join us at @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social in Miami! Details and application at the link👇. DM me for details. 📸 Claudia Campi & Cedric Guigand graduate.earth.miami.edu/admissions/p...

Eclipse, Southampton, 2026. The first is filtered through the glasses that my partner brilliantly sourced late in the day. The second is filtered through a welder's filter that a fellow eclipse-watcher was kind enough to share.

Fire apparently burning out of control in Mincinglake Valley Park in Exeter with smoke visible from our house and 16 fire engines in attendance. After this hot dry summer climate change from burning fossil fuels and its effects have come uncomfortably close to home. www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

Huge fire at popular Exeter park as 16 fire engines battle blaze

Smoke can be seen from across the city

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As part of the State of the Climate 2025 just published in BAMS (www.ametsoc.org/ams/publicat...) we updated the CRU sdPDSI global drought analysis to December 2025.

State of the Climate

An international, peer-reviewed publication released each summer, the State of the Climate is the authoritative annual summary of the global climate published as a supplement to the Bulletin of the Am...

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Happy to have contributed to Chapter 5 "The Arctic" in a section led by @drahbutler.bsky.social – featuring some discussion of an unusually early final stratospheric warming for winter 2024/25 and an unusually early sudden stratospheric warming for winter 2025/26! doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

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🚨 The 2025 #BulletinAMS State of the Climate report is here, and the findings are critical. Earth’s greenhouse gas concentrations were the highest on record and record temperatures were observed across the globe. Read here: ametsoc.org/soc #StateoftheClimate2025

I always thought it would take climate changes impacts to be felt before we take action. So here it is…when we making changes people? www.lbc.co.uk/article/new-...

Drivers told to flee cars ‘if you want to stay alive’ as New Forest fire spreads - with 120 firefighters battling blaze | LBC

An area the size of 140 football pitches has reportedly been destroyed

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🌡️ The State of the Global Climate 2025 report is published: doi.org/10.1175/2026... ☁️ 🧊 🔥 This charts continued melting of ice & near record global temperatures last year but also identifies reduced cloud coverage & dry soils plus highlights extremes such as the Canadian and Iberian wildfires.

Choosing the Right Sea Surface Temperature Datasets: Benchmarking and Guidance for Climate Applications An important and useful paper led by Duo Chan. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

On this day in 1415, Richard of Conisbrough, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, and Lord Henry Scrope were beheaded outside the Bargate for their supposed role in the ‘Southampton Plot’ against King Henry V. 1/4

For unknown reasons the Number 10 media team still doesn't have anything official on Bluesky so I spent 15 mins vibe-coding up this which automatically shares @andyburnham.bsky.social 's Instagram and TikTok posts. @unofficialandy.bsky.social #AndyBurnham Please share - thanks!

The Floating Bridge service had been carrying people across the River Itchen since 1836. Its days are numbered in this photo as the Itchen Bridge is built alongside it. The Floating Bridge service came to an end when the Itchen Bridge opened in 1977.

I'm really pleased to be taking on the role of Co-Chair of the @soosocean.bsky.social Observing System Design capability working group. 😃 🇦🇶 ⭐ We're looking for a new ECR and members of the leadership team, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague and share widely! soos.aq/opportunitie...

'Everett F. Wells', Swan Hunter shipyard, Leslie Street, Wallsend, 1977, photo by Graham Smith.

HadCRUT5 global temperature now updated to May 2026 crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/tem...

The extreme weather we have now is not the new normal. It’s going to keep getting worse as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels.

‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says

Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record

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Two very different views from the same place on top of Southampton’s medieval walls.

Framing the causes of hotter heatwaves The recent reductions in aerosol emissions have acted to unmask the warming that was already caused by past greenhouse gas emissions climatelabbook.substack.com/p/framing-th...

Framing the causes of hotter heatwaves

Fossil fuels or human-induced climate change?

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Folks skeptical of human-driven warming like to point to a period of somewhat less rapid warming from 1900-1945. In a new analysis at TCB, I dig into the different factors driving it, and find that humans, natural factors, and variability all played an important role: www.theclimatebrink....

Castle Hall was a two-storey stone-built house situated in the south-west corner of the Southampton Castle grounds. It was originally built in the late eleventh or early-to-mid twelfth century at the base of low natural cliff on the shoreline. 1/5

The global surface temperature record is one of the most iconic figures in climate science. We now have 12 different groups of researchers from the US, UK, EU, Japan, and China (among others) that have calculated it and found nearly identical results:

Women making Spitfire parts at the Supermarine works in Woolston, early 1939. This factory in Southampton, where the Spitfire was originally designed and first built, would be targeted by the Luftwaffe during two daylight air raids in September 1940. 1/2

The Arcades, part of Southampton’s fourteenth century defensive wall, photographed in the early 1900s.

One thing I've learned about paradoxes: often the answer to the riddle of "how can this one thing have such a contradictory set of features and effects?" is "it's not one thing, it's *two* things*." 1/