Tom's Weather

One of the most anomalous locations today was in Cornwall - Camborne broke its previous May record temperature by OVER 5ºC, its June record by OVER 2ºC and just missed out on breaking its all-time maximum temperature record of 30.4ºC from July 2022 by 0.3ºC. Unbelievable.

@Houyami_Yaritsu @discord_support I'm also on 3 weeks without a response to my hacked account 😄😄

@discord_support It's funny, I made a different ticket outlining the possible solutions on the ticket I gave and yet all I'm getting is "We can't help you even though the situation is out fault". Right now I have almost no faith that this issue will be resolved.

@discord_support I had a ticket get escalated and it has been over a week, what is actually going on?

You may be old, but are you this old?

Bring back quality Saturday night television.

To the cretins on this app telling me #StormGoretti was "overhyped" or "just a bit of wind" or a "normal winters day", watch this video from St Austell yesterday evening 🏠💨

A recent gust of 98 mph has been recorded at St Mary's Airport on the Isles of Scilly, making it a new record for the site 🌬️

Small taste of #Hurricane #MELISSA on SW coast of #Jamaica, just as we started getting raked by violent right eyewall. Belive it or not, this was before the peak conditions, when everything turned white, the screaming sound became unbearable, & we needed to bolt the door shut.

Man. #Hurricane #MELISSA. Incredible power. Perhaps the mightiest hurricane of the 83 I've witnessed. My location (Crawford, a tiny beach town in St. Elizabeth Parish #Jamaica) took the full force of the inner right eyewall and may have seen the peak winds in this historic, record-smashing hurricane. First pic: as it started to get scary. Bone-rattling gusts were making roofs explode into clouds of lethal confetti. The grand palm tree out front was starting to bend obscenely—in a way I found unnatural. Second pic: after we bolted the door shut because it was getting too dangerous even to watch the storm. (I'd randomly ended up in the hotel's kitchen with a local family.) The hurricane's inner eyewall was a screaming white void. All I could see through the cracks in the shutters was the color white—accompanied by a constant, ear-splitting scream that actually caused pain. (Notice the woman in the pic holding her ears.) The scream occasionally got higher and angrier, and those extra-screechy screams made my eardrums pulse. Meanwhile, water was forcing in through every crack—under the floor and between the window slats. I remember shuddering at the thought of what was happening to the town—what this screaming white void was doing to people, homes, communities. My fears were well-founded. The impact in this part of coastal St. Elizabeth Parish is catastrophic. Wooden structures were completely mowed down and in some cases swept from their foundations. Some concrete structures collapsed. The well-built ones—like my hotel—survived, but even they had major roof, window, and door damage. The landscape has been stripped bare—the trees just sticks. The roads are blocked with rubble and utility poles. Nearby Black River—a unique old historical town right on the water—was smashed beyond recognition: historical sites destroyed, main streets filled with rubble, the town market twisted like a pretzel, even the regional hospital destroyed. It's a good thing I wasn't in my hotel room during the storm because one of the windows blew out, showering the bed with glass and wood. The hotel lost most of its roof, and several third-story rooms were smashed open. But in the lower flooors, those grand old concrete walls protected us. And so far I'm aware of only two deaths in Crawford—a fellow who had a heart attack at the school next door (his body was still in his car and unclaimed the next morning, a sad and disturbing sight), and a woman who drowned in the storm surge in Gallon Beach. While walking down the devastated streets of Black River, I ran into the Jamaican Member of Parliament for this region, @floydgreenja. He's a great dude and I appreciate that he already has a gameplan for turning this catastrophe into an opportunity—to build this region back better. And I vowed on the spot that I'm going to make it my mission to spread awareness of this catastrophe and get that aid flowing in. I'll be talking about MELISSA a lot over the coming months—because it is both a fascinating meteorological event and a human disaster that demands an international response. (And I swear an epic video is coming out of this.)

10:25 am. Frightening power. Whiteout. Roofs teaing off. Gusts like bombs going off. Painful ears. Praise the lord for solid concrete. 962 mb

9:15 am. Punishing gusts in Crawford. Wind whistling through the cracks in the shutters. Door thundering against the frame. Unpleasant pressure in the ears. Trees outside waving wildly-- like they're insane. Cuban radar shows #Hurricane #MELISSA's violent core is almost here. 982 mb & falling. #Jamaica

We've only had one named storm so far this season, with it being Amy, named on 1st October, bringing October's named storm total to 7. Here are some of the UK named storm statistics. You will notice that the average date of A-G does not follow a clear sequence. Even though the storms are named A, B, C, and so on, their average dates don't follow that nice, neat order. The G storms were all named tightly during the winter, keeping their average to January 29th. But the E and F averages got dragged way out into March because a couple of their storms were named right at the end of the season in August, which statistically pulls the entire group's average much later. The averages are correct, but they just show us where the naming of storms actually happened to cluster over several years, not what the naming rules are.

Jay Wynne, former BBC weather presenter, dies aged 56 bbc.in/3IhAk10

HAPPENING TODAY 📢 At 3PM, we will be testing Emergency Alerts on mobile phones across the UK. Find out more: gov.uk/alerts

Very hot August day 33.3°C

32.6°C max today.

Already up to 30.3°C at 11:20!

Who did this?

@west_weather I got the exact same one a few weeks ago lol

Heatwave ready lol

Following verification, temperatures peaked at 35.8 °C at Faversham on 1 July, making this the highest temperature reached so far this year. This surpasses the previous figure of 34.7 °C recorded at St James's Park, which was reported on the same day.

@JoeBloggs400 Incredible!!

@TomsWeather1 Y'know somethin'..?!I can't fuckin' wait!

When are the prodigy on at glasto for fucks sakes?girls is a good track by them,'imagine how it would be all the girls across the world intergalactically.',or something then the beat then all their beats awesome.