Post ASnj7TLOdMHKRarBPE by nellie_m@home.social
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 (DIR) Post #ASnbQkSsP90fPa2J1c by al_meteo@meteo.social
       2023-02-18T09:00:41Z
       
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       These are the lowest #Temperatures in #Germany this morning February 18! In the south and southwest it was in many places the warmest February night since measurements began. In Munich, for example, the first time ever a double-digit low temperature was measured. https://www.mtwetter.de/tageskarte.php?par=mx_tn09&sort=2&sort_par=mx_tn09#Weather #Wetter#Climate #ClimateCrisis
       
 (DIR) Post #ASndHx1uWCgXgRM8Bs by al_meteo@meteo.social
       2023-02-18T09:22:38Z
       
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       By the way, it is a good example of a "silent extreme event" that gets no media attention at all! Instead of reporting about it, the polar vortex collapse and completely unclear consequences for the regional weather pattern are driven through the village for days.#Weather#Media#Climate#Communication
       
 (DIR) Post #ASndkFHUFpLCOg8KzA by al_meteo@meteo.social
       2023-02-18T09:27:46Z
       
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       By the way, it is a good example of a "silent extreme event" that gets no media attention at all! Instead of reporting about it, the polar vortex collapse and completely unclear consequences for the regional weather pattern are run through the roost for days.#Weather#Media#Climate#Communication
       
 (DIR) Post #ASnj7TLOdMHKRarBPE by nellie_m@home.social
       2023-02-18T10:27:59Z
       
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       @al_meteo hi Adrian, my sincere thanks for bringing our attention to this! Boosted. I don’t normally boost images without alt-text, and I totally see what a challenge it is with graphics like this. But please, out of respect for people on screenreaders: anything is better than just getting to hear “image”. How about “map of Germany with hundreds of measuring points e.g. Munich…C, Frankfurt…C, Hamburg…C, Berlin…C”I have blind followers. You may have, too. Let’s not make them feel ignored. 🙏
       
 (DIR) Post #ASnyx0b8FsqFezFXE0 by al_meteo@meteo.social
       2023-02-18T13:25:23Z
       
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       @nellie_m Thanks for the constructive feedback. It can't be pointed out often enough because it's too easy to forget. I will pay more attention to it in the future.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASo0Z7YwuOBcDexw4O by nellie_m@home.social
       2023-02-18T13:43:28Z
       
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       @al_meteo thank you for taking the time to reply, and for not taking it personally! Highly appreciated! There’s a bot out there somewhere you can subscribe to which sends a reminder if you forget. (sorry I’ll have to search for its exact name) And with the new Mastodon version freshly out now, they say that adding it later will become a lot easier 🙂
       
 (DIR) Post #ASoG0K2g7IK03TIehM by anlomedad@mst.mineown.de
       2023-02-18T16:36:27Z
       
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       @al_meteo A double digit warm night in Munich mid February – how can it be put into a story?I only recently learned that the smaller the diurnal temperature difference DTD gets, ie the difference between night and day temperature, the more difficult it gets for natural processes to keep in sync. So for example, smaller DTD in February wakes up the juices in some species of trees and they prepare to blossom. But pollinators have a different inner clock for waking up in spring. Result 1: tree blossoms don't get pollinated. Result 2: pollinators loose food from the tree species. Or: if the polar vortex slumps later, like it did on March 31 2020, bringing snow and cold temperatures for days, that smaller DTD long before the late polar event had woken up many spring processes which  then get killed by the late cold snap. There's lots more to tell the story in the media. And telling it triggers new "systemic thinking-brain circuits" in some people – an urgently needed culture change.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASqJSjyJzaYKlHQN16 by al_meteo@meteo.social
       2023-02-19T16:24:37Z
       
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       @anlomedad Thanks for pointing out these complexities! Indeed, frost damage has become more likely in the course of climate change, even if this may seem paradoxical at first glance. It is therefore all the more important that these complex interrelationships are pointed out and explained again and again, and here I see not only the schools but also the media as having a duty. Climate communication is as important as climate protection, perhaps even fundamental.