@thestranger007.bsky.social sorry to bother you here.. I wrote a FB message to you re: potential booking as I don’t have your number… sorry! grateful if you could get back to me there or here! Thanks

Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...

I have a new piece out in Nature today on the record-breaking 2026/2027 El Niño, what impacts we should expect, and how governments can prepare. The Niño3.4 region is currently running more than 1C hotter than any prior event on record, and we remain months away from the peak www.nature.com/artic...

More drought - even when there's rain - latest analysis from @wasitusie.bsky.social @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social warns of difficult summers to come www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Irish summers likely to feature ‘extreme evaporation’ due to climate change, say scientists

Even in wetter summers, drought set to be a perennial problem

irishtimes.com

The latest UK Hydrological Summary reports an exceptionally hot, dry August, with rainfall at 81% of average. River flows and reservoir stocks remained low, while groundwater declined more slowly and soil moisture showed some recovery. https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2026-09/HS_202608.pdf

At #UNCCDCOP17, UKCEH joined the global community to tackle drought and land degradation. Melissa Allan reflects on making the Rio Synergies Agenda work across land, biodiversity, and climate. Blog: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... Paper: www.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul... #UNCCDCOP17 #ClimateAction

As could be expected, the extremely warm waters of the Mediterranean - due to the record hot summer of 2026 - now lead to unprecedented rainfall, with flooding as a result. 70 mm is more than a month's worth of rain in Valencia, now delivered in 30 minutes. Try adapting to that. #climatechange

HydrologyNL@hydrology.nl · 4w ago

Avamet (Associació Valenciana de Meteorologia, Spain) clocked unprecedented torrential downpours of over 70 mm of rain in just 30 minutes. www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds

Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August

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Water scarcity across much of UK by August 2026 after record summer of #heatwave + #drought with depleted groundwater & river flows and restrictions on usage; prolonged wet weather needed to alleviate moisture deficits based on @ukceh.bsky.social hydrological summary: nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Global drought shows no detectable recent acceleration under climate warming ->Nature | More on "Global drought trends and climate change" at BigEarthData.ai | #Climate #Drought #Water

Global drought shows no detectable recent acceleration under climate warming

Drought is a major constraint on freshwater availability, ecosystem functioning, and food security1,2,3,4, and its evolution under global warming remains a central concern in climate impact assessments5,6,7. Numerous studies have reported increasing drought severity and expanding drought-affected areas over recent decades8,9,10,11,12, drawing on converging evidence from multivariate atmospheric drought indices, which combine precipitation with atmospheric evaporative demand (potential evapotranspiration (PET), calculated from near-surface atmospheric variables) to infer surface drought conditions5,11,13, together with independent, hydrological evidence such as observation-calibrated soil moisture reconstructions14, remotely sensed terrestrial water storage15, and observed streamflow declines16. However, substantial quantitative uncertainties remain specifically in the magnitude of drought trends inferred from PET-based drought indices, as such inferences depend critically on how atmospheric evaporative demand is estimated17,18,19,20. Given that PET-based indices remain among the most widely used tools for characterizing large-scale, long-term drought variability owing to their global data coverage and standardized formulation, these uncertainties arguably affect our ability to anticipate future hydroclimatic impacts and complicate downstream adaptation decision-making. Beyond the qualitative consensus of drought intensification, whether hydroclimatic extremes are accelerating (i.e., intensifying at an increasing rate) has recently emerged as a pertinent scientific question, motivated by two related lines of evidence: recent reports that global surface warming...

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A dark blizzard of disinformation is warping the public’s perception of our great city. But we know the truth: our homicide rate is lower than every major US city, neighbourhood crimes are down and we’ve been ranked #1 city in the world 11 years in a row. My piece for The Times.

We must fight back against troll army’s lies about London

There is a dark blizzard of disinformation online, where our capital is described as a lawless dystopia in decline — this couldn’t be further from the truth

thetimes.com

Spot on!!

Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · last mo.

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

UK Hydrological Outlook: A wetter-than-average autumn expected but a regional contrast likely for river flows 💧 Above normal flows in northern and western areas; Groundwater levels and river flows likely to stay below normal to notably low in south of England; More normal conditions elsewhere. 1/

We haven’t just changed our weather. We’ve changed the climate in which our weather happens. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/learning-f...

Learning from the summers of 1976 and 2026

We have changed the climate in which our weather happens

climatelabbook.substack.com

Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK’s warmest summer on record with the season’s mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change. Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵

The FDRI Digital Platform is live! 💻 Access and analyse open source, whole water cycle data from across the UK. 📈 We’re making hydrological measurements more accessible and quicker to use by bringing together datasets and analytical tools. 1/

A striking finding from global drought experiments: Trees show little evidence of physiological acclimation to drought. The inner hydraulic machinery stays the same. The safety margin shrinks. That’s a very different, more vulnerable picture of forest resilience. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Declining hydraulic safety in a drier world | PNAS

Forests worldwide are increasingly exposed to soil drought under climate change, with their fates depending on the ability to maintain essential fu...

pnas.org

Projection has become reality 22 years ago, Christoph Schär et al. published a landmark paper in Nature explaining that the 2003 heatwave was a harbinger of things to come. The study featured an iconic figure - shown in countless lectures - illustrating how outlandish the event was at the time

We'll be launching an early version of our FDRI Digital Platform at the @britishhydrosoc.bsky.social Symposium in Leeds at the beginning of September. If you can't make it keep an eye on the FDRI website (fdri.org.uk), sign up for our newsletter, and join this webinar.

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)@ukceh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The FDRI Digital Platform launches on 1 September, providing access to open-source whole water cycle data at catchment and UK scales, helping researchers, regulators and industry build resilience to extremes 🌊 📈 Join our webinar on 15 Sep for a live demo and Q&A! fdri.org.uk/events/FDRI-...

The UK Hydrological Summary for July looks back at an unprecedented month. It was the driest July in both England and Wales, and third driest of any month for England (in records from 1890). Low flows in many catchments, reservoir stocks decline, dry soils... Full summary tinyurl.com/53ejhrpd

UKCEH is attending #UNCCDCOP17 this month, discussing science that strengthens land, soil and drought resilience 🌏. If you're at COP17, we'd love to connect! Speak with us about our work helping to advance practical solutions for healthy, resilient ecosystems. www.unccd.int/cop17/progra...

Exceptional southern UK aridity July 2026 @ukceh.bsky.social - record low rainall in England & Wales, heatwaves & wildfires, exceptionally dry soils & low river flows + declining reservoir/groundwater reserves resulting in flash #drought set to persist into Autumn: nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Nope, it’s the weeks of hot, dry weather made more severe by global heating due to fossil fuel burning that has increased the risk of wildfires. The landscape is so dry that any ignition can start a fire that becomes uncontrollable. Fields of crops and grasses are not “rewilded” but have burned

After record low July rainfall, what's next for UK river flows? Below normal to exceptionally low flows across England, Wales & NE Scotland will continue with record lows anticipated for August & drought impacts into the autumn. 🎥 Dr Katie Facer-Childs with the latest UK Hydrological Outlook.

I thought I'd repost this piece quoting the first sentence. Then I thought, no, the first paragraph. No, the first three. And I went on doing that until the final word. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

theguardian.com

☀️ The hot, dry summer is having major impacts on people, nature & water resources. 🚜 Farmers harvesting crops early 🔥 Wildfire and algal bloom risks increasing 💧 Millions of people facing restrictions on water use 📉 Low river flows in many rivers UK Water Resources Portal: ukwrp.ceh.ac.uk

Prof Hayley Fowler, at the #NationalEmergencyBriefing last November, explaining why wildfires are a growing problem - and why extreme weather is worsening faster than climate models predicted. #TimeToStepUp

Through the National Capability for Global Challenges programme, UKCEH is supporting the people, skills and partnerships needed to tackle climate and environmental challenges worldwide. Find out how we're helping build scientific capacity around the world: www.ceh.ac.uk/case-studies... 🌍🧪

Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

bbc.co.uk

➡️ Climate change is driving drought in Europe - but not how you might expect. While there isn't a clear signal for climate change impacting the dry weather, extreme heat is sucking more moisture out of the landscape. (1/3)