Sam Hardy
@shardywx.bsky.social
Atmospheric Scientist working at JBA Consulting. Previously researched high-impact weather 🌀⛈️ at Uni of Leeds. He/him. Views are my own. https://samhardywx.net
Reposted by Sam Hardy
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
August 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
Reposted by Sam Hardy
This government made a political choice to make life harder for the sick and disabled.
Well done to those MPs who had the courage to speak up for the marginalised and put their constituents first.
That is what it means to serve the people.
Well done to those MPs who had the courage to speak up for the marginalised and put their constituents first.
That is what it means to serve the people.
July 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This government made a political choice to make life harder for the sick and disabled.
Well done to those MPs who had the courage to speak up for the marginalised and put their constituents first.
That is what it means to serve the people.
Well done to those MPs who had the courage to speak up for the marginalised and put their constituents first.
That is what it means to serve the people.
Nailed it
1. Here are just a few of the ways in which Starmer’s Labour Party seems determined to alienate its voters and lose the next election. As they pile up, you have to keep pinching yourself and asking, “what the hell is it playing at?” 🧵
February 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Nailed it
Nailed it 😄
February 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Nailed it 😄
Reposted by Sam Hardy
With Storm Éowyn bring strong winds, you might hear about a 'sting jet'. But just what is it?
See this short open-access Weather article from 2017 by @eloquentscience.com & Keith Browning doi.org/10.1002/wea....
More accessible articles in this short thread 🧵
See this short open-access Weather article from 2017 by @eloquentscience.com & Keith Browning doi.org/10.1002/wea....
More accessible articles in this short thread 🧵
What is a sting jet?
Some extratropical cyclones possess a maximum of surface wind speed equatorward of their low centres at the end of the feature known as the back-bent front, and close to the tip of a characteristic c...
doi.org
January 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
With Storm Éowyn bring strong winds, you might hear about a 'sting jet'. But just what is it?
See this short open-access Weather article from 2017 by @eloquentscience.com & Keith Browning doi.org/10.1002/wea....
More accessible articles in this short thread 🧵
See this short open-access Weather article from 2017 by @eloquentscience.com & Keith Browning doi.org/10.1002/wea....
More accessible articles in this short thread 🧵
Reposted by Sam Hardy
Our government is sleepwalking into climate catastrophe.
My piece for @theguardian.com on another broken pledge slipping under the radar.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My piece for @theguardian.com on another broken pledge slipping under the radar.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear. Why won’t this Labour government face them? | Jeremy Corbyn
Labour seems gripped by a form of denialism. The danger is real and incremental change won’t avert it, says Jeremy Corbyn, independent MP for Islington North
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Our government is sleepwalking into climate catastrophe.
My piece for @theguardian.com on another broken pledge slipping under the radar.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My piece for @theguardian.com on another broken pledge slipping under the radar.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Sam Hardy
This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often
December 10, 2024 at 12:57 PM
This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often
Reposted by Sam Hardy
The UK windstorm season 2024/25 has seen a fairly active start (Bert, Darragh).
In the future we expect these storms to be more frequent and intense, but by how much?
Well in a new paper, we've tried to answer this...
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
In the future we expect these storms to be more frequent and intense, but by how much?
Well in a new paper, we've tried to answer this...
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Forced trends and internal variability in climate change projections of extreme European windstorm frequency and severity
This study provides an assessment of changes to European windstorm severity and frequency in a warming climate. The results show increases in storm average and aggregate severity for western Europe, ....
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 11, 2024 at 12:21 PM
The UK windstorm season 2024/25 has seen a fairly active start (Bert, Darragh).
In the future we expect these storms to be more frequent and intense, but by how much?
Well in a new paper, we've tried to answer this...
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
In the future we expect these storms to be more frequent and intense, but by how much?
Well in a new paper, we've tried to answer this...
rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Reposted by Sam Hardy
“If you never had ECMWF in the first place, creating the ERA5 reanalyses, and all the investment that went into that, you wouldn’t have these AI tools. That’s like saying ‘I can beat Garry Kasparov at chess, but only after I study every move he ever played’.” www.newscientist.com/article/2458...
December 5, 2024 at 11:03 AM
“If you never had ECMWF in the first place, creating the ERA5 reanalyses, and all the investment that went into that, you wouldn’t have these AI tools. That’s like saying ‘I can beat Garry Kasparov at chess, but only after I study every move he ever played’.” www.newscientist.com/article/2458...
Reposted by Sam Hardy
"without using a supercomputer", you say? Then what was used to make that precious training and validation dataset, ERA5?
This is not a criticism of AI models, but the way their advances are currently being reported www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is not a criticism of AI models, but the way their advances are currently being reported www.nature.com/articles/d41...
December 5, 2024 at 12:51 PM
"without using a supercomputer", you say? Then what was used to make that precious training and validation dataset, ERA5?
This is not a criticism of AI models, but the way their advances are currently being reported www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is not a criticism of AI models, but the way their advances are currently being reported www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Sam Hardy
Soggy Saturday incoming 🌧️🍃❄️
Storm Bert has been named and is forecast to bring heavy rain, strong winds and disruptive snow to parts of the UK through the weekend ⚠️
Click the link in our bio for the latest forecasts and warnings.
Click the link in our bio for the latest forecasts and warnings.
November 21, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Soggy Saturday incoming 🌧️🍃❄️
Reposted by Sam Hardy
Hello Bluesky! My first post on here seems like a good opportunity to advertise our new paper that was published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science today:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Climate model trend errors are evident in seasonal forecasts at short leads - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Climate model trend errors are evident in seasonal forecasts at short leads
www.nature.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Hello Bluesky! My first post on here seems like a good opportunity to advertise our new paper that was published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science today:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...