The most Icelandic video you will see today 🇮🇸
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Scott Duncan
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Scott Duncan
@ScottDuncanWX
Scottish meteorologist based in London | MMet @UniofReading | Former co-owner @wxcharts | opinions are my own
- Europe is insanely warm right now. It has never been this warm so late in the year for some. Can't believe it is only 43 days until Christmas.
- Craziest thing you will see today... Stunning upwards lightning above Acatenango Volcano in Guatemala 🇬🇹Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextCorrection: the volcano featured in the video is Volcan de Agua. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcán_de… It was taken between the Convento Santa Clara and Tanque La Union on a street that runs north-south. Acatenango is west of Antigua Guatemala. Volcan de Agua is south. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acatenango
- The extreme warmth in October really is quite shocking when you zoom out. 🔴 = warmer than average 🔵 = cooler than average
- Brace yourself. One of the most brutal Arctic cold outbreaks on record is gathering momentum and moving through North America right now. Wind chills are hitting extremely dangerous levels of -70°F (-57°C) in Wyoming.
GIF - Flooding disaster unfolding right now in Central Europe. Why is it so bad? This thread takes a quick look at some of the key ingredients of this record-breaking storm.
- Italy 🇮🇹 simply stunning from space today. The most distinct country shape in the world.
- We have not seen anything like it. We can't compare this looming heat emergency to summer 1976. A warmer world, thanks to human induced climate change, makes it almost effortless to break extreme heat thresholds. We continue to see this across the planet - not just in Europe.
- I didn't think it was possible, not in my lifetime anyway. +49.6°C in Canada 🇨🇦 That is 121°F! This is the story of the Canadian heat record that was crushed on 3 consecutive days by an unfathomable margin of +4.6°C (+8°F). This moment will be talked about for centuries.
GIF - I can't believe I am writing this. Canada 🇨🇦 has obliterated its national all-time heat record *for the second day in a row*. Before yesterday, greater than 45°C had never been recorded. As far as climatology is concerned, this is deeply shocking.
GIF - Spain, u ok? Alicante 🇪🇸 just recorded +29.2 °C today. Not so long ago, some parts of Spain were sub -20 °C with deep snow cover. January has been one heck of a rollercoaster for our Spanish friends.
