Rescuers blame weather and 'underprepared skiers' for rise in Alps avalanche deaths

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev7111kx9wo 

And the 'underprepared' is illustrated by

The statistics are sobering; if you're carrying a transceiver there is a 70% chance you'll survive an avalanche,  ... If you don't have one, the rescue operation can take longer, needing dozens of people and more equipment, and the survival rate drops to 20%.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cwy8rx3ryljo 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj98meelzv3o 

In detail at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u32Nwrx8Irk

and storms with heavy rain for the Canaries and Madeira, later moving to Egypt and the Gulf, and a cyclone [Noreen] in Australia forecast o make 3 different landfalls in three different Australian states (only the 4th instance if it happens) . NB, the video lasts half an hour)

Storm Therese

And it's brought snow to Tenerife

(albeit on high ground)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cr51n7yd7v5o 

Lots of data on the heat records being broken in the SW United States (and mostly data too, not a polemic on climate change despite the headline).

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/forecasters-predict-a-slightly-below-average-2026-atlantic-hurricane-season/ 

But, from the link ....

On average, April forecasts of hurricane season activity have had no “skill,” or even negative skill, when computed using the Mean Square Skill Score. This does not mean a particular April forecast will be incorrect — just that, on average, a forecast simply using climatology would do as well or better.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/cat-5-super-typhoon-sinlaku-the-2nd-strongest-typhoon-so-early-in-the-year/ 

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/cat-5-super-typhoon-sinlaku-the-2nd-strongest-typhoon-so-early-in-the-year/ 

Wouldn't you have loved to have been up there filming that? Well, maybe not.

Meanwhile the route up Everest has been blocked by an unusually large icefall

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy81lrnv5peo 

Yep, not sure from the same storm but from the same general region yesterday:

Will return back to normal 30C as it should be for May average.  Very interesting weather even there which UK lacking off.

That is very unusual. Must be equivalent of widespread snowfall over England in May (which happens once every now and then, like in early May 1979).

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/11/climate/50-hottest-cities-aqi-india-heatwave 

Banda in Uttar Pradesh reached 46.4C in the day and dipped to 34.7C at night

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cvgzn11v421o 

Indeed. it could well be serious, there is a reasonable chance it might only be strong. Some maps I've seen show the whole of the eastern Pacific as very warm - maybe that's good, maybe not.

There are several replies:

1. it's ever more obvious the world needs to decarbonise, and as fast as possible

2. There's a half cut bloke down the pub who's disproved all this global warming nonsense.

3, it's summer init.

Europe (including us) is closer to 1 than 2. Reform and Trump between 2 an 3.

The problem, Dev, is that the boat that would have got us to a survivable climate has now sailed.  Sea level is rising faster than ever, having increased in the last decade: we’re now looking at 5 cm per decade. It will continue to increase, driven by melting ice and thermal expansion.  It might not sound much but it’s a one way street heading downhill: potentially a metre in 75 years is incredibly serious.

A huge amount of the additional heat from AGW has been taken up by the oceans. That will likely mean more extreme El Niño events, such as this one predicted (with a fairly high confidence level) for later this year.  That will most likely drive global air temperatures to a new record, potentially 1.7-1.8c above pre-industrial levels.

Global CO2 is now above 430ppm.  

There’s a really good animation here: https://science.nasa.gov/earth/explore/earth-indicators/carbon-dioxide/

The emissions juggernaut won’t be stopping this side of 500ppm, I don’t think?