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Fri, 07 May 2021 07:08 UTC Following its coldest APRIL since 1922, England is now on for its coldest MAY since record-keeping began some 362 years ago -since the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715)! Back in 1659, England was still processing the death of Richard Cromwell, who, after the execution of King Charles I, had ruled the Commonwealth of England for 5 years. The year 1659 is also the start date of the Central England Temperature (CET) dataset, which has proved an invaluable resource for meteoro...

1981-2010 baseline, with its average minimum dropping a whopping 2.5C below the mean: Austria April Mean [zamg.ac.at].SWITZERLAND The national average in April across Switzerland sank to 2.9C — a full 1C below the 1981-2010 norm. The last time the country suffered an April this cold was back 2001. And across the Upper Engadin, the month actually finished up almost 2C below the baseline — you have to go back to the 1980s here to find a colder April, reports meteoschweiz.ch who calls conditi...

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 06:35 UTC The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for March, 2021 has come in at -0.01 deg. C below the 30-year baseline, down from the February, 2021 value of +0.20 deg. C, and down substantially (approx. 0.6C deg. C) from where we were around a year ago. A continuation of this downward plunge is highly probable over the coming months (with the odd bump along the way -climate is cyclic after all) as low solar activity and La Nina conditions p...

A swarm of drones might soon take the place of humans dangling on a rope to do routine close-up safety inspections of offshore wind turbines. When a...

12 March 2021, 10:42 am EST By Researchers involved in the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory were in for a surprise after the discovery that the cosmic rays bouncing towards Earth do not originate from a supernova. The observatory, based in Puebla, Mexico, uses huge metallic tanks containing water in the process.   The Contribution of the HAWC Observatory The common notion in science is that cosmic rays came from supernovas. They are the fast-moving, high-energy protons and at...

ARCTIC SEA ICE SEES EXPONENTIAL GAINS According to official data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Arctic Sea Ice Volume is now growing exponentially. After an admittedly low starting point, sea ice "volume" or "thickness" (which gives you a far better idea of an ice sheets health than the highly variable "extent") began building at record rates during the start of the season (Sept, 2020) and has now eclipsed recent years and also muscled its way into 2004-2013 average range, in w...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:35 UTC According to the satellites, the global lower troposphere cooled rapidly during the past two months (Dec + Jan). Mid-latitude cooling is only intensifying-further during February as record-breaking polar blasts are about to descend into North America, Europe, and Asia simultaneously: tight ZONAL flows to unusually wavy MERIDIONAL ones. This reduction in energy is effectively "buckling" those bands of fast-flowing air, with the upshot (in the NH) being the transporta...

Ironing Out Cosmic Rays Physics 14, s9 A spectrometer on the International Space Station has measured the energy spectrum of iron—the heaviest cosmic-ray element characterized to date. AMS Collaboration × The cosmic rays constantly bombarding Earth mostly consist of protons and helium nuclei, but they also include ions of heavier elements. By comparing the energy spectra of different cosmic-ray particles, researchers hope to garner information on the processes that forged and accelerated tho...

An unusually unsettled summer is being experienced in Middle Earth, particularly on New Zealands South Island where substantial snow has blanketed the mountains over recent days and weeks. Theres a fresh accumulation of pow-pow on the peaks around Queenstown this week, after conditions in the Lakes area allowed for flakes to settle. Frigid polar air left Antarctica on Sunday, and it has lingered over Australasia ever-since. As reported by odt.co.nz, Weatherwatch says temperatures will continu...

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:48 UTC The south of France has suffered exceptionally chilly temperatures this winter, with reports calling it "a winter like no other". Woolly hats, coats, scarves and gloves are a strange sight along the Côte dAzur (aka the French Riviera), reports monaco-tribune.com, even at this time of year. Normally, a light jacket is all that is needed to keep warm under the winter sun, but temperatures at the close of 2020 and the during the first third of January 2021 have held a b...