My books will be on my shelves where they belong. A few friends used to laugh at me for keeping what they called obsolete things like vinyl records and old books. They all agree it was a good idea now.
Martin Stendel
@martinstendel.bsky.social
Senior Researcher, Danish Meteorological Institute Coordinator of PolarPortal (lots of up-to-date Arctic data) and ROPEWALK (huge Danish logbook digitization project) Conveying science to the public. Born @317 ppm. Mastodon @MartinStendel@fediscience.org
Time series of daily values of subsurface temperature in the eastern tropical Pacific, starting on 1 May 2026. It shows that the thermocline has lowered by ~50 m, creating an enormous heat source which we can't (yet) see at the surface. Subsurface T anomalies are up to 9°C,...
Left: "traditional" Niño 3.4 SST anomalies since 1 January - much larger than in any other year. Right: "relative Niño index", made by subtracting the mean tropical SST anomaly shows that 2026 is similar to 1997. The coming record temperatures are thus due to global warming. Source: cyclonicwx.com.
Arguably, the strongest heatwave ever observed in Europe. The map shows maximum temperatures in Denmark on Saturday, 27 June 2026. New all-time records in Ødum and Odense (37.0°C), shattering the old June record (35.5°C, 1947) as well as the old all-time record (36.4°C, 1975). Map: meteorolog.dk.
A tropical night (minimum temperature above 20°C) rarely occurs at low altitude stations in central Europe, but for Sněžka / Śnieżka (Schneekoppe), at 1603 m the highest mountain in the Sudetes on the border between Poland and the Czech Republic, it is truly extreme! Forecast by the German model.
Animated forecast from @ecmwf.int showing 500 hPa geopotential anomalies for the next 15 days. Very stable Ω blocking over central Europe with "cold feet" west and east of it. For large parts of Europe this means a strong heat wave over the next two weeks.
Yeah he sure does spew a whole lotta nasty, hateful, disgusting crap each and every day. 🙄🤮🤬 Artist: Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The onset of the melting season in Greenland is defined as the first of at least three days in a row with melting over more than 5% of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The median over the period 1981-2026 is on 27 May. This year, the melting onset was 9 days late, on 5 June, which is the fifth latest.
Today 177 years ago Denmark got a democratic constitution. Please, all, remember that we have something worth to defend! Now more than ever. Side note: arguably, Germans don't have many things to be proud of. I NEVER understood why Constitution Day is not a public holiday in Germany.
There's an easy way to find out if this is blasphemy or not. Crucify him and have a look on the third day.
A heart-breaking moment captured in an SS photograph of a group of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz II-Birkenau in or around May 1944. A child found a flower & is giving or showing it to an older boy. All the people in the picture were murdered in a gas chamber moments later. #YomHaShoah
And the second strongest typhoon so early in the year.
Dr. Jeff Masters@drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 4mo agoTyphoon #Sinlaku topped out with 155 kt winds, very close to its Maximum Potential Intensity (MPI), based on the existing ocean temperatures and atmospheric profiles of temperature and humidity. Rare to see a storm reach its MPI. Graphic from tropic.ssec.wisc.edu
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From the coming weekend, winter is over in central Europe.
Well, I've seen the aurora in Greenland, Svalbard and Alaska, but never before in Copenhagen (even though I tried at least 30 times). But tonight, I was lucky. Between 22.15 and 22.30 not to the north, but rather almost above me.
These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.
Kalaallit Nunaat Kalaallit pigaat (Greenland is the property of the Greenlanders)
The #PolarPortal seasonal report for 2024/2025 can now be downloaded. As always, in English, Danish and Greenlandic! See polarportal.dk/en/news/tran.... (Photo credit: @ruthmottram.bsky.social, DMI)
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
Cold winter weather in Europe is coming to an end on Monday.
New podcast: Why does America want Greenland? Resources, strategy and network cities with @ruthmottram.bsky.social, @martinstendel.bsky.social, and Greenlander Anne Merrild open.spotify.com/episode/66gW...
Why does America want Greenland?; Mystery of dark DNA; Ozempic weight rebound
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Den grønlandske regering har ikke brug for rådgivning, heller ikke fra mig. Men ville man spørge mig alligevel, ville jeg anbefale at parkere en tankvogn fyldt med kerosin midt på runway i Nuuk hver nat. En flyver med marines, og det hele er forbi, før vi kan sige "f*ck, hvad er det?".
To cite the president whose name I cannot remember, closing down NCAR will be yet another step towards the United Sh*tholes of America.
Gavin Schmidt@climateofgavin.bsky.social · 8mo agoNCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.
Finally, here it is. Also this year, I have together with @ruthmottram.bsky.social commented on the fate of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Thanks for your patience, @carbonbrief.org. One of the highlights: 2024/25 was the 29th year in a row with net mass loss. See www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...
Guest post: How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2025 - Carbon Brief
Guest authors explore how Greenland’s ice sheets fared over the 12 months, including the evidence that the territory’s summer melting season is lengthening.
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