Will Thurston

winds and the way they blow stuff around

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

A southern oscillation

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

@TomChivers You may joke... https://t.co/Lge4pF1PGK

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

@RobMayeda @mn_storm Great to see the term pyrometeors still in use @nplareau - although with my pedants' hat on, I did try to convince Nick McCarthy it should be "pyrometeoroids", or even better "pyrometeorites" because they reach the ground 😆

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

@WeatherPeens a dong from Down Under https://t.co/OoDgAbioF2

[Bureau of Meteorology, Australia @BOM_au]

Tropical #CycloneSean has weakened to category 1 intensity and is forecast to remain well offshore. Sean will weaken below tropical cyclone strength during Wednesday.

Latest forecasts and warnings: https://t.co/4W35o8i7wJ or the BOM Weather app.

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

@NakedScientists sorry to hear your 5 Live Science program has been discontinued, it has been a fascinating source of early Sunday morning pleasure

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

@andrewmiskelly Should have listened to Blair Trewin and Warnie... https://t.co/23urQ7JrQK

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

@Saunders_Lab Congratulations!!

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

Joined the 𝕏-odus, same username

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

@CFDonia @jacobjivanov I'm sure you've already seen this? https://t.co/zuTAAKPafB

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

This is unsurprising given the proximity to the east coast (≈ 10 km), the huge increase in BTV-3 cases on the near-continent over the past month, and the recent warnings issued over the risk of airborne incursions into East Anglia, Kent and East Sussex https://t.co/BhsvPdYFzE

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

@RoostWeather Snap

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

Bluetongue, a viral disease that sickens cattle and kills sheep, is spreading rapidly across northwestern Europe after it resurfaced in the Netherlands last year—and three newly developed vaccines appear unable to stop it. https://t.co/WdaEbHSdng

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

@kieranmrhunt Interesting to wonder whether Nansen would have also done this double, had the Winter Olympics been in existence during his younger years

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

@mrtnrey What is the smallest size of insect do you think the radar can see?

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

Great work using the @metoffice NAME atmospheric dispersion model, led by @JacobwwwSmith with @imthursty @TJKrupnik @CIMMYT @cam_plantepi @MetOffice_Sci and Nepal Agriculture Research Council co-authors, under the ARRCC programme https://t.co/dqLYDDycMY

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

How can you forecast the arrival of devastating crop diseases spread by fungal spores, blown 1000s of km on the wind and from countries in which you don't have knowledge of crop disease surveys? Use automated media scraping to generate proxy observations! https://t.co/9wm86Azp3i

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

Also worth noting that not shown above is the 2020 impact factor of 3.7 for QJRMS, which was before Dee et al. (2020) would have been included in the calculation and was similar to the recent 2023 IF

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

Great example of the care needed when considering Journal Imapct Factors: Massive drop in Q.J.R. Meteorol. Soc., from 8.9 in 2022 to 3.0 in 2023. Is it mostly due to the Dee et al. (2020) ERA5 reanalysis paper, cited > 10k times, dropping out of the 2-year citation window?

[Ryota KARUBE @ryota_karube]

JCR Impact Factor 2023

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

The atmosphere shows its stripes

#ShowYourStripes
https://t.co/1ac78sIuQ6
@ed_hawkins

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

Yesterday in Exeter the temperature hovered around a chilly 12 °C all afternoon - despite us being in summer and the wind being southerly. However, this southerly wasn't bringing us air from Iberia or Africa - back trajectories suggest an air mass origin in Iceland or Greenland!

[Will Thurston @imthursty]

How do we at the @metoffice use NAME atmospheric dispersion model outputs to help @APHAgovuk and @Pirbright_Inst conduct surveillance and control of bluetongue disease? 👇

[APHA @APHAgovuk]

Bluetongue is an exotic notifiable disease in Great Britain, spread primarily by midges, which can threaten animal welfare and trade. Learn how APHA plays a part in controlling this disease: https://t.co/vIcnalB7bF
#aphascience