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Edward Hawkins is a British climate scientist who is Professor of climate science at the University of Reading, principal research scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), editor of Climate Lab Book blog and lead scientist for the Weather Rescue citizen science project. He is known for his data visualizations of climate change for the general public such as warming stripes and climate spirals. .. more
To (almost) no-one’s surprise, multiple sources of data agree on the long-term trends in UK temperatures.
climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...
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Well, I say it’s the ISS. Could be Santa heading home…
Exact timings for where you are at www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary....
Why does this matter?
Burning fossil fuels is warming the planet, including the UK, causing heatwaves to get hotter. For Central England this is happening 2x faster than the mean change.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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For the December update -- and release of the 2025 annual temperature data -- put 14 January in your diary.
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Paper by Arnell et al.: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Article: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The Climate Shift Index signal ramps up in spring, then flickers on and off in waves into early September. Notice how it shows up again throughout November.
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🕰️🌡️🌎 New research provides the first global record from near-surface air temperature measurements, peering back in time to the late-18th century.
Read more about it here: brnw.ch/21wYn3Z
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The data set paper is accompanied by a second study presenting new simulations of early industrial climate from 1750.
Blog: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/new-estima...
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edition.cnn.com/2025/12/15/c...
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Paper by Morice et al.: essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
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Given the forecast, it looks likely that 2025 will end up being the warmest calendar year for this region since records began in 1659.
The top 3 warmest will be 2022, 2023 & 2025.
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Yes, it is very warm!
Track temperatures every hour: istheukhotrightnow.com