Big warm up in Central USA
Temperatures are rising above 90F/32C in South Dakota at Winner and Mitchell.
It's very remarkable but not unprecedented for mid April.
The warmth will expand and move East next days with the first taste of summer in the Central/South East coast.

Millions in Europe are experiencing another remarkable weekend of early summer warmth...

Meanwhile Iceland 🇮🇸 is living up to its name 🥶

In parts of Spain, the water level in reservoirs is already dangerously low for this time of year.
Farmers fearing for their crops and livestock hope politicians will act quickly p.dw.com/p/4eTIc?maca=e…

'Morocco has been experiencing 6 consecutive years of drought, exacerbated by climate change, which has led to record temperatures and increased evaporation'

Vital water source for farms, Al Massira reservoir is at just 3% of its average water level.
moroccoworldnews.com/2024/04/362010…

Farming faces catastrophe from climate change. Food shortages are here.
A thread, starting in the UK.
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fwi.co.uk/arable/further…

If you look carefully, you’ll find ONE location across the vast southern Great Barrier Reef that is coloured blue

It’s the only tiny spot where heat exposure didn’t exceed the 4 Degree Heating Weeks threshold that triggers coral bleaching.

We’ve never seen bleaching like this.

My experiences confirm what Terrence says here... having seen many who live within bubbles of privilege that allow them to pretend we are not already in planetary collapse.

George Tsakraklides The Canadian, Russian and Ukrainian wheat belt are all in drought. Getting more rain with a higher rate of evaporation did not break even like we hoped. Australia wheat production down 36% for 2023-24. Will bread be the new chocolate?

A recap of the heat records broken in VIETNAM these days including a 27.9C MIN. at Ho Chi Minh City, a 40.5C max. at Ha Tinh among others.
Details below 👎

In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them.

No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate

🚨BREAKING: 100 people have died in Mali because of an extreme heatwave that hit the country last month.

Last week the town of Kayes recorded a temperature high of 48.5°C.

THE HOTTEST DAY IN APRIL, ON RECORD IN AFRICAN HISTORY!

WHEN will leaders take extreme weather SERIOUSLY?

We need an inquiry into how the media failed to adequately warn the public of the time scale and magnitude of what is happening. I could count on one hand the number of friends and family that understand even the basics of this…
Not. For. Long.

Evidence is emerging of a potential collapse of forest systems in south-western Australia due to heat and drought, which are driven by global warming.

abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

A species so arrogant that it becomes ignorant of its own death, is now in the bizarre position of observing itself through satellites as it literally cooks to death - along with its children and everything else that lives here, who has to suffer the genocidal consequences of…

The risk of concurrent heatwaves and extreme sea levels along the global coastline is increasing.

The study shows that these events could increase from 7 days on average per year (1989–2013) to 38 days on average. Making it a significant health threat.

phys.org/news/2024-04-t…

Another climate bomb strikes- this time in #Russia - When you heat the globe at this pace - snow melt happens in record timeframes, causing whole cities to flood. This is the new climate - floods and droughts. The #climate stability of the Holocene is well and truly behind us.

What's missing from this graphic?

1.1 trillion tonnes of human atmospheric CO2 plus other GHGs which heat this planet to its physically required energy equilibrium of 10 degrees Celsius above preindustrial after fast and slow feedbacks.

🔴⚠️♨️🌡️🇬🇱 For the hottest global March ever in the data record, #Greenland has reached the highest average anomaly of the last 18 years according to the latest ERA5 data, with a max of +6°C in the central area. This will not help against its huge ice loss. #ClimateEmergency