Dr Rebecca Emerton
@rebeccalize.bsky.social
Weather & climate scientist at @ecmwf.int 🌍coordinator of the C3S-WMO European State of the Climate report📈 - 2024 report out now: climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024
Also evaluate forecasts, from tropical weather🌀to flooding💧to heat 🥵
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Also evaluate forecasts, from tropical weather🌀to flooding💧to heat 🥵
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Excited to share our new app Thermal Trace!
🔗 thermaltrace.climate.copernicus.eu
Thermal stress = health impacts of exposure to extreme thermal conditions (heatwaves, cold spells) Use Thermal Trace to monitor heat & cold stress globally (five days behind real time) & explore changes over time 🥵🥶
🔗 thermaltrace.climate.copernicus.eu
Thermal stress = health impacts of exposure to extreme thermal conditions (heatwaves, cold spells) Use Thermal Trace to monitor heat & cold stress globally (five days behind real time) & explore changes over time 🥵🥶
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
SSHWS category is assigned using ONE value: the maximum wind 10 meters above the ocean surface averaged over 1 minute. A hurricane is not a point. Its size (extent of its wind *field*), forward speed, rainfall, potential storm surge, and the landscape it traverses all factor into its impacts. [3/5]
October 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
SSHWS category is assigned using ONE value: the maximum wind 10 meters above the ocean surface averaged over 1 minute. A hurricane is not a point. Its size (extent of its wind *field*), forward speed, rainfall, potential storm surge, and the landscape it traverses all factor into its impacts. [3/5]
As a meteorologist with a 20-year obsession with hurricanes (thanks to Charley in 2004), who has done research and diagnostics on tropical cyclone forecasting and now works in climate science / learning about attribution, this is a very interesting thread about Hurricane Melissa ⬇️🧵🌀
So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right
October 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
As a meteorologist with a 20-year obsession with hurricanes (thanks to Charley in 2004), who has done research and diagnostics on tropical cyclone forecasting and now works in climate science / learning about attribution, this is a very interesting thread about Hurricane Melissa ⬇️🧵🌀
I was lucky enough to spend some time recently learning how to make fused glass art - and was so excited to use @annalombardi.bsky.social’s beautiful data viz from the cover of #ESOTC2024 as inspiration for a glass creation! Grateful to work with someone so wonderful, supportive and inspiring ☺️ ☁️☀️
She did it again!! After an amazing embroidery last year 🪡 here another amazing data-art-take of the #ESOTC cover, this time made out of glass 😍
I wish one day everyone could have a colleague as wonderful, caring and lovely as @rebeccalize.bsky.social
#dataviz #climatecrisis #data4climate
I wish one day everyone could have a colleague as wonderful, caring and lovely as @rebeccalize.bsky.social
#dataviz #climatecrisis #data4climate
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I was lucky enough to spend some time recently learning how to make fused glass art - and was so excited to use @annalombardi.bsky.social’s beautiful data viz from the cover of #ESOTC2024 as inspiration for a glass creation! Grateful to work with someone so wonderful, supportive and inspiring ☺️ ☁️☀️
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
NWS Norman just issued their 1,112th Severe Thunderstorm Warning this year, which is now ~12% higher than their previous year's max of 988. (Glad VTEC implemented 4 digit tracking event numbers!)
Was computing some stats and realized NWS Norman has issued over 1,000 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings this year! Here's the top 10 yearly counts
2025 OUN 1003
2024 OUN 988
2019 OUN 942
2017 OUN 923
2016 OUN 907
2011 LZK 901
2023 OUN 894
2008 OUN 871
2008 JAN 823
2003 JAN 796
2025 OUN 1003
2024 OUN 988
2019 OUN 942
2017 OUN 923
2016 OUN 907
2011 LZK 901
2023 OUN 894
2008 OUN 871
2008 JAN 823
2003 JAN 796
September 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
NWS Norman just issued their 1,112th Severe Thunderstorm Warning this year, which is now ~12% higher than their previous year's max of 988. (Glad VTEC implemented 4 digit tracking event numbers!)
A decade of C3S monthly climate bulletins with updates monitoring temperature, hydro variables & sea ice 🌡️💧🧊
I joined the team 3 years ago & I’m grateful to work with such an inspiring + dedicated team!
Curious who’s behind the C3S climate info you might’ve spotted in the news? “Meet” our team ⬇️
I joined the team 3 years ago & I’m grateful to work with such an inspiring + dedicated team!
Curious who’s behind the C3S climate info you might’ve spotted in the news? “Meet” our team ⬇️
Meet the team behind a decade of global climate updates, from scientists to analysts and technical experts. These are the people transforming climate data into actionable insight in the monthly #C3S Climate Bulletin.
Read the article climate.copernicus.eu/ten-years-c3...
Read the article climate.copernicus.eu/ten-years-c3...
September 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A decade of C3S monthly climate bulletins with updates monitoring temperature, hydro variables & sea ice 🌡️💧🧊
I joined the team 3 years ago & I’m grateful to work with such an inspiring + dedicated team!
Curious who’s behind the C3S climate info you might’ve spotted in the news? “Meet” our team ⬇️
I joined the team 3 years ago & I’m grateful to work with such an inspiring + dedicated team!
Curious who’s behind the C3S climate info you might’ve spotted in the news? “Meet” our team ⬇️
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
Celebrating 10 years of monthly climate updates! Since 2015, the #C3S Climate Bulletin has delivered timely and concise information about our climate to a global audience.
Read the story behind the data: climate.copernicus.eu/celebrating-...
#CopernicusClimate
Read the story behind the data: climate.copernicus.eu/celebrating-...
#CopernicusClimate
September 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Celebrating 10 years of monthly climate updates! Since 2015, the #C3S Climate Bulletin has delivered timely and concise information about our climate to a global audience.
Read the story behind the data: climate.copernicus.eu/celebrating-...
#CopernicusClimate
Read the story behind the data: climate.copernicus.eu/celebrating-...
#CopernicusClimate
During the heatwave in western Europe in August, maximum feels-like temperatures reached up to 45°C in France, 47°C in Portugal, and 49°C in Spain – the threshold for ‘extreme heat stress’ is 46°C 🥵
Based on insights from Thermal Trace, our new app for monitoring heat and cold stress worldwide 🔗⬇️
Based on insights from Thermal Trace, our new app for monitoring heat and cold stress worldwide 🔗⬇️
🌡 Third-warmest August globally, 1.29°C above pre-industrial level, 0.49°C above the 1991–2020 average for the month. Western Europe saw major heatwaves, mostly in the Iberian Peninsula and southwest France. Third-highest sea surface temperatures on record at 20.82°C.
September 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
During the heatwave in western Europe in August, maximum feels-like temperatures reached up to 45°C in France, 47°C in Portugal, and 49°C in Spain – the threshold for ‘extreme heat stress’ is 46°C 🥵
Based on insights from Thermal Trace, our new app for monitoring heat and cold stress worldwide 🔗⬇️
Based on insights from Thermal Trace, our new app for monitoring heat and cold stress worldwide 🔗⬇️
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power
✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson
Read here: buff.ly/47kIjiZ
✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson
Read here: buff.ly/47kIjiZ
September 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power
✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson
Read here: buff.ly/47kIjiZ
✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson
Read here: buff.ly/47kIjiZ
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Summer 2025 is the warmest on record for the UK
Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
September 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Met Office stats confirm summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
The UK’s mean temp of 16.10°C surpasses the previous record of 15.76°C and pushes the summer of 1976 out of the top 5 warmest summers.
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
Latest storm names announced❗
Here are the #StormNames for 2025/26, announced with Met Eireann and KNMI, the Dutch National Weather Service. Has your name made the list?
Here are the #StormNames for 2025/26, announced with Met Eireann and KNMI, the Dutch National Weather Service. Has your name made the list?
September 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Latest storm names announced❗
Here are the #StormNames for 2025/26, announced with Met Eireann and KNMI, the Dutch National Weather Service. Has your name made the list?
Here are the #StormNames for 2025/26, announced with Met Eireann and KNMI, the Dutch National Weather Service. Has your name made the list?
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
📈 Thermal Trace map shows feels-like temps reaching 46°C in Spain on 15 August - @rebeccalize.bsky.social , #C3S
📈 July 2025 temperature anomalies in the Arctic circle - ACCAP
📈 Highest temperature of 2025 (May 1 through Aug 15) in North America - Brian Brettschneider
📈 July 2025 temperature anomalies in the Arctic circle - ACCAP
📈 Highest temperature of 2025 (May 1 through Aug 15) in North America - Brian Brettschneider
August 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
📈 Thermal Trace map shows feels-like temps reaching 46°C in Spain on 15 August - @rebeccalize.bsky.social , #C3S
📈 July 2025 temperature anomalies in the Arctic circle - ACCAP
📈 Highest temperature of 2025 (May 1 through Aug 15) in North America - Brian Brettschneider
📈 July 2025 temperature anomalies in the Arctic circle - ACCAP
📈 Highest temperature of 2025 (May 1 through Aug 15) in North America - Brian Brettschneider
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
Rising temperatures mean heat stress is becoming a growing health risk — especially in Europe. What causes heat stress and how do we monitor it? Explore the science in our article
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/heat-stress-...
#C3S
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/heat-stress-...
#C3S
August 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Rising temperatures mean heat stress is becoming a growing health risk — especially in Europe. What causes heat stress and how do we monitor it? Explore the science in our article
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/heat-stress-...
#C3S
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/heat-stress-...
#C3S
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
Ever wondered how heat stress is changing where you live? With the new Thermal Trace app from #CopernicusClimate and #ECMWF, you can explore “feels-like” temperatures, track heat stress categories and thresholds, and visualise interactive charts for your city.
August 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Ever wondered how heat stress is changing where you live? With the new Thermal Trace app from #CopernicusClimate and #ECMWF, you can explore “feels-like” temperatures, track heat stress categories and thresholds, and visualise interactive charts for your city.
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
In recent days, southern Europe has faced heatwaves ☀️ Thermal Trace maps show feels-like temps reaching 46°C – the ‘extreme heat stress’ threshold – in Spain on 14-15 August and 47°C on 11-12 August 🥵 In SW France, feels-like temps reached 45°C – that's up to 14°C above average! 🌡️
Find out more ⬇️
Find out more ⬇️
August 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
In recent days, southern Europe has faced heatwaves ☀️ Thermal Trace maps show feels-like temps reaching 46°C – the ‘extreme heat stress’ threshold – in Spain on 14-15 August and 47°C on 11-12 August 🥵 In SW France, feels-like temps reached 45°C – that's up to 14°C above average! 🌡️
Find out more ⬇️
Find out more ⬇️
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
🥁OUT NOW | The first signs of Africa’s solar take-off are in, as the continent’s solar panel imports SURGED by 60% in the last 12 months☀️
While South Africa led the 2023 rise in solar panel imports, 20 other countries lead the way this time around 📈
https://loom.ly/IBLOSSw
While South Africa led the 2023 rise in solar panel imports, 20 other countries lead the way this time around 📈
https://loom.ly/IBLOSSw
August 26, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🥁OUT NOW | The first signs of Africa’s solar take-off are in, as the continent’s solar panel imports SURGED by 60% in the last 12 months☀️
While South Africa led the 2023 rise in solar panel imports, 20 other countries lead the way this time around 📈
https://loom.ly/IBLOSSw
While South Africa led the 2023 rise in solar panel imports, 20 other countries lead the way this time around 📈
https://loom.ly/IBLOSSw
Visited Helios at Basildon Park - a 7 m installation of the Sun hanging among the trees in the grounds, and with soundscapes that are real recordings from space. 1 cm of the image on the sphere represents 2000 km on the surface of the Sun! 🤩☀️✨ #SciArt
August 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Visited Helios at Basildon Park - a 7 m installation of the Sun hanging among the trees in the grounds, and with soundscapes that are real recordings from space. 1 cm of the image on the sphere represents 2000 km on the surface of the Sun! 🤩☀️✨ #SciArt
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
🌡️ Heatwaves are prolonged, intense periods of high temps, with serious consequences for health, agriculture, energy and water. Learn more about how heatwaves are defined, and how Europe is adapting. Read the article 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/heatwaves-br...
August 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🌡️ Heatwaves are prolonged, intense periods of high temps, with serious consequences for health, agriculture, energy and water. Learn more about how heatwaves are defined, and how Europe is adapting. Read the article 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/heatwaves-br...
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
Witnessing the rapid and extensive thawing of permafrost in Svalbard is truly impressive but deeply concerning
August 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Witnessing the rapid and extensive thawing of permafrost in Svalbard is truly impressive but deeply concerning
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
The new Thermal Trace app from #C3S and #ECMWF is here! 80+ years of thermal stress data based on “feels-like” temperatures for any location worldwide, now at your fingertips. Fast, intuitive, interactive – and free! Read our article for the full details and head to the app. 🔗
bit.ly/46ZMllL
bit.ly/46ZMllL
August 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The new Thermal Trace app from #C3S and #ECMWF is here! 80+ years of thermal stress data based on “feels-like” temperatures for any location worldwide, now at your fingertips. Fast, intuitive, interactive – and free! Read our article for the full details and head to the app. 🔗
bit.ly/46ZMllL
bit.ly/46ZMllL
In recent days, southern Europe has faced heatwaves ☀️ Thermal Trace maps show feels-like temps reaching 46°C – the ‘extreme heat stress’ threshold – in Spain on 14-15 August and 47°C on 11-12 August 🥵 In SW France, feels-like temps reached 45°C – that's up to 14°C above average! 🌡️
Find out more ⬇️
Find out more ⬇️
August 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
In recent days, southern Europe has faced heatwaves ☀️ Thermal Trace maps show feels-like temps reaching 46°C – the ‘extreme heat stress’ threshold – in Spain on 14-15 August and 47°C on 11-12 August 🥵 In SW France, feels-like temps reached 45°C – that's up to 14°C above average! 🌡️
Find out more ⬇️
Find out more ⬇️
Excited to share our new app Thermal Trace!
🔗 thermaltrace.climate.copernicus.eu
Thermal stress = health impacts of exposure to extreme thermal conditions (heatwaves, cold spells) Use Thermal Trace to monitor heat & cold stress globally (five days behind real time) & explore changes over time 🥵🥶
🔗 thermaltrace.climate.copernicus.eu
Thermal stress = health impacts of exposure to extreme thermal conditions (heatwaves, cold spells) Use Thermal Trace to monitor heat & cold stress globally (five days behind real time) & explore changes over time 🥵🥶
August 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Excited to share our new app Thermal Trace!
🔗 thermaltrace.climate.copernicus.eu
Thermal stress = health impacts of exposure to extreme thermal conditions (heatwaves, cold spells) Use Thermal Trace to monitor heat & cold stress globally (five days behind real time) & explore changes over time 🥵🥶
🔗 thermaltrace.climate.copernicus.eu
Thermal stress = health impacts of exposure to extreme thermal conditions (heatwaves, cold spells) Use Thermal Trace to monitor heat & cold stress globally (five days behind real time) & explore changes over time 🥵🥶
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
Tropical nights are on the rise in Europe, offering little relief from daytime heat. The Copernicus Climate Change Service tracks these trends to help keep communities informed and safe.
Read more in our European State of the Climate report: climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024
#CopernicusClimate
Read more in our European State of the Climate report: climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024
#CopernicusClimate
July 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Tropical nights are on the rise in Europe, offering little relief from daytime heat. The Copernicus Climate Change Service tracks these trends to help keep communities informed and safe.
Read more in our European State of the Climate report: climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024
#CopernicusClimate
Read more in our European State of the Climate report: climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024
#CopernicusClimate
An interesting comparison of this summer so far with the UK’s infamous summer of 1976 ☀️🥵 This year’s June heat was more widespread across Europe + the UK saw larger temperature anomalies this June, but drought in 1976 was more prolonged and widespread with more extreme water use restrictions 💧
As the hosepipe ban kicks in over parts of Reading we look at how this summer so far compares to the UK’s infamous hot, dry summer of 1976 in this week’s @unirdg-met.bsky.social blog:
blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-...
blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-...
How does the UK summer so far compare to the extreme hot, dry summer of 1976?
By Dr Laura Baker Senior NCAS Scientist in the Department of Meteorology As we come to the end of the third heatwave of 2025, and a third English water board has announced a hosepipe ban, more an…
blogs.reading.ac.uk
July 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
An interesting comparison of this summer so far with the UK’s infamous summer of 1976 ☀️🥵 This year’s June heat was more widespread across Europe + the UK saw larger temperature anomalies this June, but drought in 1976 was more prolonged and widespread with more extreme water use restrictions 💧
Reposted by Dr Rebecca Emerton
Why are Europe and the Arctic warming twice as fast as the global average? Explore the science behind these regional trends in our latest article.
climate.copernicus.eu/why-are-euro...
#CopernicusClimate
climate.copernicus.eu/why-are-euro...
#CopernicusClimate
July 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Why are Europe and the Arctic warming twice as fast as the global average? Explore the science behind these regional trends in our latest article.
climate.copernicus.eu/why-are-euro...
#CopernicusClimate
climate.copernicus.eu/why-are-euro...
#CopernicusClimate