Not sure where to put this but its pretty extreme, warming for Ireland visualised, you can choose any country globally at the link below, here's Ireland, hard to argue with such a visualisation to be honest -
Indian Met Office have cast doubts over this recording: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/delhi-hits-52-3-degrees-highest-ever-recorded-temperature-5771382
Also - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/52-9c-as-delhi-station-logs-highest-temperature-ever-in-india-imd-says-will-probe/articleshow/110548238.cms
Did I see reports of snow in Scotland in the last 24 hours?
Extremely hot in Death Valley, California where last night it was 121°F (49.4°C) at 10 pm.
Christ what must that feel like? I think 35c in Perth at night was the hottest I've experienced, and it just feels so weird.
I’ve experienced 43°C at around midnight in Dubai. It was like a non-stop slow-moving wall of heat pushing in from the desert. Freaky.
I experienced over 42°C in Melbourne on NYE in 2005. It was hellish. And the idiocy of a 21yo, I decided to try and experience what it was like to cycle around Albert Park in it. That's as hot as I've experienced thus far. And I don't want to again.
Snow at Lake Tahoe in California in August.
First time in 20 years apparently.
I remember being there in late October one year and there hadn't been any snow
I experienced 38° in Perth in early January over twenty years ago when walking from the shopping centre to my relatives house around lunchtime however the humidity was barely into the teens so I didn't even break a sweat and it actually felt so pleasant. What was noteworthy was that the UV index that day was a staggering (by Irish standards) 14 and I was out around solar noon so was getting the full whack of it but I had sunscreen on so was grand.
I still recall how tiny my shadow was as the sun was at about an 80° angle. I also disliked the times of daylight. The sun would rise not long after 05:00 but would be back below the horizon well before 19:30 and unlike Ireland, the time it takes to go from pre sunset sunshine to fully dark is weirdly short.
Great place though, good nice to Perth in a heartbeat.
Severe weather hit Central Europe. They expect 300 to 400mm of rain throughout the weekend in regions near Czech-Polish border.
^^ Even though still a bit less than one day left until the end of the weekend, there are already places that reported 400mm of rain. Scary videos here:
Up to a metre of snow from storm Boris in the Austrian Alps.
https://planetski.eu/2024/09/15/austrian-alps-hammered-by-huge-autumn-snowfall/
One of local hospitals is currently being evacuated. Here's video showing A&E earlier on:
How quickly water rose:
A great thread by Scott Duncan on X explaining how the event unfolded and putting together all the parameters that created the enormous rainfall.
Hurricane Debbie. September 16th, 1961:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=936172708554272&set=a.315098283995054
Don't speak polish but can hear the urgency over the loud hailer, the flood potential was well tracked.
Cant help but think that we have been living a charmed life weather wise here in Ireland this year avoiding anything too extreme.
Huge rainfall totals in France over this past 2 days. Some places with more rain in 2 days than Dublin airport has had so far this year 556mm. Croix de Bauzon it’s +1200m altitude.
It reached almost 23°C in the middle of the night in northern Iceland last night due to our high pressure pumping up southerlies there, resulting in a very strong Foehn effect over the Central Highlands. A good few other stations exceeded 20°C too. For context, the highest daytime temperature I experienced when I was living there last year was just under 21°C in August! I recall this day last year, I was on a trip in the east of the country and it was sunny with a few flurries and a max temperature of -3°C, so a huge contrast to this year.
a new world record for above 60° latitude
In contrast. My wife sent me this of near her home in Slovakia at 2100m asl.
Washington State and British Columbia got hit pretty hard by a storm a couple of days ago:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bomb-cyclone-nov-19-1.7386924
Seattle Times: How a powerful bomb cyclone ravaged the Northwest:
Pressure dropped 27 millibars in six hours, about four times faster than the rate meteorologists use to label storms as bomb cyclones. It dropped so far and so fast that, under one method of analysis, it landed in a category reserved for the strongest of its kind: A" super explosive cyclone".
Interesting spectrum of coverage of Cyclone Chido's direct hit on the French territory of Mayotte, down near Madagascar:
You cant be expecting actual news coverage on a Sunday on RTE? Have you no shame? S
Getting picked up by the Journal:
https://www.thejournal.ie/mayotte-cyclone-6572824-Dec2024/
Not sure this fits the thread title but didn't know where else to put. I can't grasp just how exceptional Tuesday's snow event at the Gulf coast was. New Orleans has had a snowier meteorological winter to date than Anchorage in Alaska.
Anthropogenic snowfall reported in Centre-Val de Loire, France this morning caused by pollution.
Southeast England had similar in January 2023.
120cm of snow in Obihiro Japan in 12 hrs …
(was on deep dive from met office today)
That's from Hokkaido, a northern Japanese island in a mountainous areaRecord-breaking snowfall hits Hokkaido as cold front sweeps Japan
Heavy snowfall has persisted since Monday night, with Obihiro recording 120 centimeters in the 12 hours through noon on Tuesday, the highest on record for the city. Snow depth in the city has now surpassed 120 centimeters, a level last seen in 1972, according to private weather forecaster Weathernews.
Its snowing so thick and heavy it is increadible. Looks nearly suffocating. What a way to go! ; )"
One of the most extreme things i've seen..
New low temperature recorded in Poland.
https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/02/17/new-record-low-temperature-of-41-1c-observed-in-poland/
^^ The page says, however, that it happened in "glacial cirque located around 1,800m" amsl, in Southern Tatra mountains, hence not really very representative to Polish climate as a whole. :-)
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