c/Collapse

Submission statement: an underweight northern rockhopper penguin found near Adelaide, South Australia. These are normally found on remote islands, not on mainland Australia. Recently, emaciated Fiordland penguins have also been found in South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia, also highly unusual.

Related to collapse because climate change is causing penguins to get very lost and they are starving. These penguins use the surface water temperature and salinity levels as part of their navigation. Something is going very wrong for them to end up in the totally wrong location, when they usually follow the same migration route very year.

This is locally related to collapse for Eastern Canada. There was a very large amount of rain over a short period of time which led to flooding in several regions leading to a few deaths and washing out a critical section of railroad which connects Halifax to the rest of Canada.

"The Mediterranean is now completely outside all previous records. We have never measured this level of heat across the basin at any time of year. It is only July. We usually see the annual maximum in August.

The sea surface temperatures are widely in the high 20s Celsius across the basin and hitting 30-32C in places. I can't imagine what it feels like to swim in seas this warm.

Did you know?

Both maps 2 and 3 in this post are showing the same data. One shows the actual sea surface temperature and the other shows how much warmer 🔴 or cooler 🔵 it is at each location (for this time of year).

For example, 30°C in central areas is about 5°C warmer than average.

Take another grid point south of Iceland...

12°C sea surface temperature is about 2°C warmer than average for here. Being able to understand the difference between these maps goes a long way on social media these days."