Researchers including a team at MIT report in Nature that a machine-learning layer doubled a gold-standard model's forecast accuracy at two to six weeks. Beyond two weeks, energy, farm and emergency planners have had little reliable forecast to use.
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Barometers on drifting buoys improved forecasts of Mediterranean Storm Harry in a first assessment
Pressure data from drifting Mediterranean buoys improved forecasts of Storm Harry in January 2026, according to a new study of the M3E network. It rests on one storm, and the coverage does not say how large the gain was.
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Researchers at MIT and Microsoft report in Nature that their open-source correction tool doubled an AI weather model's subseasonal accuracy. Its gains on extreme heat and rain at three weeks are the part grid planners would care about.
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El Niño tops 2015 on a trend-adjusted index whose data starts in 2008
Australia's Bureau of Meteorology says weekly average sea-surface temperatures in the central Pacific are at a record weeks before El Niño's December peak. Planners in exposed sectors still have 1997-98 and 2015-16 as their closest guide, because the record describes ocean heat and no source yet counts this year's damage.
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Copernicus put August 2026 at 16.96C, a hundredth of a degree above July 2023 and inside its own uncertainty, so it calls the month a tie. The clustering of the record months is the firmer finding.
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FAO's cereal index climbs 17.2% in a year despite a near-record grain harvest
FAO's September food price index rose to 136.0, its highest since November 2022, while its cereal index climbed 17.2% from a year earlier. With Gulf urea supply cut and El Nino's harvest boost due to fade, the larger cost risk sits with next year's planting.
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Indonesia's fires quadruple in area as a record El Niño takes hold
Indonesia's fires grew roughly fourfold after June as the strongest El Niño on record began forming, with emissions on track to match 2015. The event is still strengthening on 1.4C of warming, and the year's outlook leans on a short record of past El Niños.
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buildOne report1 publisher Scanner authors find six exploitable GitHub workflows among 60 that use pull_request_target
Scanner authors writing on dev.to hand-checked 60 public pull_request_target workflows and judged 6 exploitable by anyone who can open a pull request. About as many looked dangerous and were safe, so an audit has to read what runs after the checkout.
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EarthCARE's lidar helped Darwin forecasters confirm the height of Anak Krakatau's ash plume
Australia's Darwin ash-advisory centre used ESA's EarthCARE lidar to confirm that Anak Krakatau's westward plume sat near 15 km, as forecast. That check brought a satellite built to study clouds and Earth's energy balance into aviation advice in near-real time.
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Copernicus logged 21.10 C on Aug. 22, one hundredth of a degree above March 2024. The timing, not the margin, is what should move planning assumptions.
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Jha and Byrne varied the rate at which dry air mixes into convective plumes across ERA5 and CESM2, and found it significantly moves moist-heat extremes outside the tropics, which means a swept parameter sits underneath the wet-bulb projection.
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buildConfirmed3 publishers Google's new model trains on sparse station observations instead of six-hour-old physics output, which is what buys the 5 km surface grid. Wind aloft still comes out at 25 km, the same as WeatherNext 2.
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JPL's new tracking mix halves the estimated annual wander of Earth's center of mass
The last two international estimates of the annual motion disagreed by seven millimetres, nearly as much as the motion itself, so a JPL-led team rebuilt the measurement by adding GPS and low-orbit satellites to laser ranging.
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Climate Impact Lab projects 451,000 extra El Niño heat deaths by February 2027
University of Chicago researchers project 451,000 extra heat deaths worldwide from El Niño by February 2027, with 31,400 of them in Nigeria. The estimate rests on a six-month forecast, so the Sahel has only this season to prepare.
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Climate Impact Lab attributes 450,000 deaths to El Nino heat through February
The Climate Impact Lab ran a European seasonal temperature outlook through local mortality curves fitted for 24,000 regions, and the authors want health ministries to treat the result as a schedule for moving staff, water and cooling.
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NOAA gives 75% odds that this El Nino outranks every event back to 1950
The eastern Pacific is running 2.1 C above average on weekly NOAA data, past the 2 C mark for a super event. The official strength category comes from three-month averages, and the regional outlook comes with a caveat attached.
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Richer countries get more accurate weather forecasts, 35 years of ECMWF data show
Two researchers scored 35 years of ECMWF forecasts against the observed weather and found accuracy rises with national income at every lead time out to a week. The reasons are mostly geographic and only partly a matter of spending.
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Daily rain sampling in Manaus links the 2023-24 Amazon drought to shifted moisture sources
A UNESP-led team read 207 daily rain samples collected in Manaus between March 2023 and February 2025 and found two Atlantic systems taking turns at setting the isotope ratio. The early-warning use is still untested.
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Extreme heat seasons stretched in opposite directions across half the world's land
A NASA Goddard team compared the 1980s with 2015 to 2024 and found extreme heat seasons growing at both ends, later in the western United States and earlier in western Europe, on schedules no summer calendar tracks.
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A wet winter and a May flash drought pushed Europe's fires north into countries that plan for rain
Almost 650,000 hectares have burned across the EU in more than 1,913 large fires, close to double the long-term average, with the anomaly concentrated in the north and west rather than the fire-prone south.
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