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@leovanlierop.bsky.social

By the time everyone figures out climate change is a real issue that we should have been taking seriously 5-6 decades ago, it will be far too late.

Leo van Lierop

Any connection to the jetstream?

For these events, I think any jet-stream impact is a 2nd order effect.

As temperatures rise, you get more intense fires because a warmer atmosphere dries out the fuel. See www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo... In other places, as temperatures increase, you get more intense rainfall because a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor.

This led me to think about this plot, showing summer max temps in the 1930s and recent decade. From: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/which-was-...

@heatwavekgns.bsky.social

Extreme heat occurred in the 1930s, which you can see in the middle of the U.S. But the rest of the globe was pretty cool. Today, the heat is everywhere. And that heat then flows downstream to these other disasters, like fires and rainfall, which also seem to be everywhere.

Richard Heatwave Berler

webberweather.bsky.social

Love to show this to folks that think that the 1936 heat was a global scale event.

@webberweather.bsky.social

webberweather.bsky.social

The fingerprints of El Nino with a subseasonal boost from the MJO/BSISO & GLAAM are all over this highly anomalous wave pattern

@webberweather.bsky.social

Weekly avg WAFz & OLRa also show a clear wave source emanating from the NE Pacific where SSTs are record warm & fueling convection anomalies. This dynamical connection is not unlike the findings of some studies of the 2021 Pacific NW heatwave, including this one: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jake Reyna

@jakereyna.bsky.social