Lucy Palmer

@lucindapalmer.bsky.social

PhD Student in Climate Science at the University of St Andrews ☁️☀️

Warming temperatures + decreasing relative humidity = more water being sucked from soil / reservoirs = DROUGHT. Simple physics. Europe + UK are on the frontline because they are warming so rapidly – it will get worse until 'net zero' is reached. That's my TED talk 🌍 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

UK weather: More than two-thirds of England now in drought with conditions set to worsen

The National Drought Agency adds the East Midlands, Kent, East Sussex, and other parts of England to the areas officially in drought conditions.

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Looks like the UK heatwave will be killed by thunderstorms. Emerging research, from our group and others, suggests the threshold for triggering convection (i.e., thunderstorms) may increase in a warming climate, potentially enabling very hot days to warm more rapidly.

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It was great to attend my first EGU in Vienna last week! I presented my current research looking into the asymmetric response of land temperatures to increasing vs decreasing CO2 concentrations. Recent results have pointed to a connection with the land hydroclimate, which I’m further investigating 🔎

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🚨 NEW STUDY: As Australia prepares for another heatwave, our latest study found the early January heatwave which hit SE Australia was made 5x more likely due to climate change. What was once a relatively rare 1-in-25-year event is now expected about every 5 years. 🧵 1/6

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🚨 New paper alert! ☁️ We define a diagnostic of convective entrainment in GCMs and investigate how this diagnosed value is connected to CAPE extremes and moist heatwaves in the tropics. You can find our paper in WCD, co-written with Marty Singh. doi.org/10.5194/wcd-...

Entrainment and the tropical tropospheric thermal structure in global climate models

Abstract. The observed relationship between stability and humidity in the tropical troposphere has been argued to be strongly influenced by moist convective entrainment (Palmer and Singh, 2024). In th...

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The first 3 eps of TOTALLY COOKED have landed! Check it out for weather & climate in a factual, relatable & often humorous way. Available below, & where you get your podcasts. Like, follow & share. Let's tackle the climate crisis together. #totallycooked www.21centuryweather.org.au/engage/total...

Totally Cooked: The Weather & Climate Podcast

The climate is changing. So is the conversation. Totally Cooked is a podcast about weather, climate change, and what it all means for life on Earth.

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