Seems this is a thing that the GFS model does now: Occasionally simulating a hurricane-style windstorm in the Mediterranean (an unusually strong example of a 'medicane'). Likely a manifestation of the bias seen with tropical cyclone development; too eager to spin things up.

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Radar image of Tuesday's mass crane migration. A 100 km long line of migrating cranes was clearly visible on weather radar. It is estimated that around 10,000 (?) cranes were involved in that formation. The highest count observed was 26,000 migrating cranes on that day in Kangasala (near Tampere).

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Composites of winter (DJF) temperature anomalies of moderate-to-strong ENSO events (RONI threshold ±1.0 °C) in Europe. Note, these are detrended temperature anomalies. The pattern is cold for northeastern Europe but closer inspection reveals that two winters (1987 and 2010) push the average down.

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El Niño strengthening into unseen territory. The Niño3.4 region just reached a +3.0 °C anomaly (relative to the 1991–2020). Such a warmth has never been observed in September, and it's only a few hundredths of a degree away from the 2015 all-time record.

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Interesting couplet over Pianosa Island currently @federicopavan.bsky.social

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