Will Thurston

A southern oscillation

@TomChivers You may joke... #7-days#sevenDayForecast" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bom.gov.au/location/austr…

This breaking story will come as sad news for Australians and Brazilians

@RobMayeda @mn_storm Great to see the term pyrometeors still in use @nplareau - although with my pedants' hat on, I did try to convince Nick McCarthy it should be "pyrometeoroids", or even better "pyrometeorites" because they reach the ground 😆

Long range spotting behavior occurred / near peak plume development & fire intensity (Dixie Fire shown) enabling spot fires 15-20km away from column plume updraft, about 18 minutes later #CAwx #OSSTahoe

@WeatherPeens a dong from Down Under x.com/BOM_au/status/…

@NakedScientists sorry to hear your 5 Live Science program has been discontinued, it has been a fascinating source of early Sunday morning pleasure

@andrewmiskelly Should have listened to Blair Trewin and Warnie... archive.ph/rUHuG

The 2024 Brisbane Test.

@Saunders_Lab Congratulations!!

Deeply humbled and honoured to have received my OBE this week at the Investiture Ceremony at Windsor Castle. Thank you to all our incredible lab members (past & present), as well as our fantastic collaborators, supporters and colleagues who make our science possible!

Joined the 𝕏-odus, same username

@CFDonia @jacobjivanov I'm sure you've already seen this? nature.com/articles/s4146…

one more latte …ahem, excuse me, buoyant convection simulation, for all coffee lovers out there ☕️ as in the previous post, code, simulation and visualization by our student @jacobjivanov ☕️☕️☕️

This is unsurprising given the proximity to the east coast (≈ 10 km), the huge increase in BTV-3 cases on the near-continent over the past month, and the recent warnings issued over the risk of airborne incursions into East Anglia, Kent and East Sussex gov.uk/government/new…

@RoostWeather Snap

Almost unique to #Suffolk, this cool example of a "crinkle-crankle" wall has been specially designed to look like a Rossby wavenumber-9 pattern* *possibly made up.

Bluetongue, a viral disease that sickens cattle and kills sheep, is spreading rapidly across northwestern Europe after it resurfaced in the Netherlands last year—and three newly developed vaccines appear unable to stop it. scim.ag/86f

@kieranmrhunt Interesting to wonder whether Nansen would have also done this double, had the Winter Olympics been in existence during his younger years

Only one(!) person has ever won both an Olympic medal and a Nobel Prize. Philip Noel-Baker won silver in the 1500m in Antwerp in 1920, then the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on nuclear disarmament in 1959. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_No…

@mrtnrey What is the smallest size of insect do you think the radar can see?

Kijk eens aan! Wekenlang niets dan regen op de radar, maar op dagen als deze zien we iets heel anders: insecten! Met dit weer zijn er overdag zoveel dat ze een signaal geven op de beelden. Hier ongefilterde beelden van radar Herwijnen (KNMI) vanaf 6u vanochtend 26/06. #InsectWeek

Great work using the @metoffice NAME atmospheric dispersion model, led by @JacobwwwSmith with @imthursty @TJKrupnik @CIMMYT @cam_plantepi @MetOffice_Sci and Nepal Agriculture Research Council co-authors, under the ARRCC programme cimmyt.org/projects/asia-…

How can you forecast the arrival of devastating crop diseases spread by fungal spores, blown 1000s of km on the wind and from countries in which you don't have knowledge of crop disease surveys? Use automated media scraping to generate proxy observations! rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Also worth noting that not shown above is the 2020 impact factor of 3.7 for QJRMS, which was before Dee et al. (2020) would have been included in the calculation and was similar to the recent 2023 IF

Great example of the care needed when considering Journal Imapct Factors: Massive drop in Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., from 8.9 in 2022 to 3.0 in 2023. Is it mostly due to the Dee et al. (2020) ERA5 reanalysis paper, cited > 10k times, dropping out of the 2-year citation window?

The atmosphere shows its stripes #ShowYourStripes showyourstripes.info @ed_hawkins

Yesterday in Exeter the temperature hovered around a chilly 12 °C all afternoon - despite us being in summer and the wind being southerly. However, this southerly wasn't bringing us air from Iberia or Africa - back trajectories suggest an air mass origin in Iceland or Greenland!

How do we at the @metoffice use NAME atmospheric dispersion model outputs to help @APHAgovuk and @Pirbright_Inst conduct surveillance and control of bluetongue disease? 👇