Major UK tourist attractions including Chester and Edinburgh Zoo are calling for changes to the way weather forecasts are displayed on mobile phone apps - warning that "misleading" rain icons cost venues up to £137,000 a day. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj18j09wvro

This is Facebook today. This is why we now discuss weather here, in a space clear of the idiots that now infest the place. If you appreciate this, then we’d like to see you here too.

“The rate of global warming has doubled since 2010 - now at 1°C every 30 years (Foster & Rahmstorf 2026). That's 33 times faster than the PETM mass extinction event of 56 million years ago, 83 times faster than the End-Triassic mass extinction event of 201 million years ago, and 250 times faster than the End-Permian mass extinction event of 252 million years ago. In terms of global scale events, in the entire geological record, only the instantaneous Cretaceous-Paleogene meteorite impact event occurred more rapidly than the current human-induced global warming." Geological Society of London.

Currently putting together a cloud academy so you can identify the different types of common clouds you’ll see in the skies every day and the weather you can expect from them. As always, it will be in the Classroom.

This article linking fossil fuel coal burning to rising temperatures was printed over a century ago on August 14, 1912 in a Warkworth, New Zealand newspaper.