Did you know? If the Sun were crushed down to make a black hole, it would be only about 6 kms across. Every week for 5 weeks I’m giving away a signed copy of my pbk A CRACK IN EVERYTHING to a randomly chosen UK person from those re-posting this (3 of 5) https://t.co/hjYxm3t4J4
@Seesaw someone has used my email to register with you. When I tried to unsubscribe, it asks if I’m pupil, teacher etc. I’m none of those. Why isn’t there just a clear unsubscribe button?
The 7 hottest days on Earth in the last 100,000+ years all happened in the last week:
July 6 ~ 17.23°C / 63.01°F
July 7 ~ 17.20°C / 62.96°F
July 4 ~ 17.18°C / 62.93°F
July 5 ~ 17.18°C / 62.92°F
July 8 ~ 17.17°C / 62.90°F
July 10 ~ 17.12°C / 62.81°F
July 9 ~ 17.11°C / 62.79°F
Another day, another record for the North Atlantic. Everything is happening so fast, it's hard to get a sense of the enormity of these anomalies, let alone their consequences.
This is so unusual. That's a *huge* amount of energy being transferred to the atmosphere. Expect extreme temperature and storm records. Just the top few metres of our oceans store as much energy as the entirety of our atmosphere. I'm very concerned for later this year into 2024.
@metoffice our rainfall rate yesterday in Didcot was over 150mm/hr for a good long while - this is the maximum rate it reached, 172.2mm/hr.
Is that unusually high? It felt extreme and the gardens / town flooded fast.
@suzanne_young I was listening to Margret Atwood being interviewed by Seth Myers. She talked about having this exact thing happen to her. You’re in good company.