france

Supercell clouds, massive thunderstorms, and extreme hail and winds ripping through France yesterday. Recurring theme among witnesses is that they've never see anything like this.

Climate change is no longer this amorphous & abstract phenomenon. And yet Dame Nature is barely warming up (literally and figuratively)

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Some of us will. 
Some of us will die. 
Darwin nods, grimly.

was definitely a thunderstorm last night, serious but didn't seem too out of the ordinary...

but then the damage i saw in my neighborhood alone this morning was very unusual - broken tree branches blocking traffic paths left & right, as well as even one street, both road & sidewalks, still inundated with water; and as of this afternoon, none of it seems to have been cleared!

Climate

This is not going to end well.

Too much energy in the sea is a recipe for severe storms.

Forgot to mention that these temperatures are ~5ºC above normal

Exactly. Water temperature where I am in the Mediterranean is 23–25ºC right now. The sea can no longer play its role as a heat sink and cool down the atmosphere at night. A warmer atmosphere stores more humidity, which in turn causes more of these unusually violent weather events when cold fronts meet the warm moist air.

There are a lot of subtleties to climate change, but the headline is simple enough that everybody should understand: a warmer atmosphere is a more humid and more energetic atmosphere

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Source: https://x.com/meteo_76/status/1933603481639633197

The supercell clouds is so insane looking , back in my day we were only taught  about cumulonimbus clouds, looks like curriculum will need to be updated .