Tornado chasers are insane

Hell of Buzz
though

8C here today meanwhile in Spain....

this doesnt bode well for the summer

i fear drought will be a major word for Europe this summer

The first images from Europe's new weather satellite, Meteosat-12, have just been released.

The spacecraft, which sits 36,000km above the equator, was launched in December and is currently in a testing phase that will last most of this year.

When Meteosat-12's data is finally released to meteorological agencies, it's expected to bring about a step-change in forecasting skill.

Warnings of imminent, hazardous conditions should improve greatly.

This is something called "nowcasting" - the ability to say with greater confidence that violent winds, lightning, hail or heavy downpours are about to strike a particular area.

art of this advance will come from the increased resolution of Meteosat-12. For previous generation satellites, a feature in a storm had to be at least 1km across to be detected. The new spacecraft will track features as small as 500m in diameter.

"We can now see very fine structures," said Jochen Grandell from Eumetsat, the intergovernmental agency that manages Europe's weather satellites.

"You may have heard the term 'overshooting top', for example, which is a part of a thunderstorm's cloud development where you might see very strong updrafts and downdrafts. These are very rapidly changing, and they are very small as well. But they are also very powerful," he told BBC News.


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Still cloudy here in London, but no rain.

incorrect

if you are going to tweet stuff like this then show your workings

not some random model run

Beautiful day here in London.

So what is next weekend, then?

it's getting darker here by the minute

London Rain Coming onto You

inside a tornado
 

:shocked:

just to cheer everyone up .......



Our overheating world is likely to break a key temperature limit for the first time over the next few years, scientists predict.

Researchers say there's now a 66% chance we will pass the 1.5C global warming threshold between now and 2027.

The chances are rising due to emissions from human activities and a change in weather patterns expected this summer.

If the world passes the limit, scientists stress the breach, while worrying, will likely be temporary.

Hitting the threshold would mean the world is 1.5C warmer than it was during the second half of the 19th Century, before fossil fuel emissions from industrialisation really began to ramp up.

And breaking the limit even for just one year is a worrying sign that warming is accelerating and not slowing down.

The 1.5C figure has become a symbol of global climate change negotiations. Countries agreed to "pursue efforts" to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C under the 2015 Paris agreement.

Going over 1.5C every year for a decade or two would see far greater impacts of warming, such as longer heatwaves, more intense storms and wildfires.

But passing the level in one of the next few years would not mean that the Paris limit had been broken. Scientists say there is still time to restrict global warming by cutting emissions sharply.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65602293

"Scientists say there is still time to restrict global warming by cutting emissions sharply in China, Russia, India, Pakistan and Africa and stopping all aircraft travel for leisure reasons"

did they miss that full quote out in the article?

yeah, those countries are definitely going to cut their emissions :laugh:

Summer drought
 

Potential for quite a few stations to record 0.0mm rain for the month of May

A summer drought is a real worry. We already have had quite a few wildfires in Scotland

https://www.firescotland.gov.uk/medi...t=445&mode=max

Today is the start of summer 2023

It's still good here in London. No sun today, but still a nice day.