Atmospheric Physics PhD @ Pembroke, Oxford.
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With a temperature of 34.1C and still rising, today is now hotter than any day outside of July/August in North London since records began in 1881. Hotter than any day in June and September, and it's still spring!
May 25
Today very unusual. 33.4 is well past the May record and would rank 5th highest for June, whose record temp is 34.0 nw3weather.co.uk/RankDay.php…
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Except the jet stream is actually on average shifting north...
nature.com/articles/s43247-0…
wcd.copernicus.org/articles/…
The increased rain however, could be worse than the models predict...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
Feb 9
2O consecutive days of no sunshine in Aberdeen - the longest period since records began in 1957. It’s part of the same story as extreme cold in the US and Eastern Europe/Ukraine. Jet stream moving south. We are not living through a climate change hoax. It’s for real.
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Robert Doane-Solomon retweeted
6 Nov 2025
10 points to whoever identifies the very obvious reason you cannot "supply the waste heat from your cooling system to power homes and businesses nearby."
This is your hint:
18 Sep 2025
Here's a better idea: every data centre you build, you build enough renewable energy to power it, and you supply the waste heat from your cooling system to power homes and businesses nearby. Simple. Common sense. And fair.
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10 Sep 2025
Surely the oldest restaurant west of the Mississippi is deserving of a RIH episode @holland_tom @dcsandbrook! After all, General Custer dined here and I don’t think the @TheRestHistory club members have heard enough facts about Custer.
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Robert Doane-Solomon retweeted
11 Feb 2025
the lengths you have to go when the Botley Road is closed to traffic
6 Feb 2025
Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer independent.co.uk/tech/quant…
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5 Feb 2025
This is totally absurd. We should absolutely not be spending 1.5x the amount we have given to Ukraine (!) to give these islands to Mauritius. It's bad for our national security, and the Chagossian people themselves don't even want it! @ChagossianVoic2
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24 Jan 2025
Botley Road has got nothing on this...
24 Jan 2025
Hammersmith Bridge could stay closed to vehicles for another decade, an MP has warned.
bbc.in/4h7Gux1
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12 Jan 2025
BA if my flight is cancelled it’s usually a good idea to email me to let me know…
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20 Dec 2024
They’ll cancel trains for literally any reason nowadays, even existing…
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6 Nov 2024
I'm reasonably happy with the directional shifts I based my prediction on, but I missed on the magnitude. Trump outperformed with minorities, winning the Sun Belt. Harris held steady with white women, but they didn't swing to her, so it wasn't enough to win the Rust Belt.
4 Nov 2024
US election prediction: Harris will win 270-268 by winning the 3 Rust Belt states, while losing all 4 Sun Belt states (except possibly NC). I'm fairly convinced we will see white women swing towards Harris, and Latino men swing to Trump. I think pollsters are herding (1/n)
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Robert Doane-Solomon retweeted
6 Nov 2024
A stark lesson from the US for energy policy in the UK: You don’t get the chance to make grand plans about climate or anything else if people feel poorer when they go to the polls in 5 years.
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6 Nov 2024
Looks pretty clear to me that Harris isn’t winning white people by enough to overcome Trump winning diverse people. In fact she might not have improved upon Biden there at all. Trump appears likely to win the election now.
4 Nov 2024
So extrapolating this to swing states implies Harris doing better than her polling in the 3 whiter states (WI/MI/PA) and worse in the 4 more diverse states (NV/AZ/GA/NC). However all it takes is the exact magnitude of these shifts to be a little different than I expect (3/n)
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4 Nov 2024
US election prediction: Harris will win 270-268 by winning the 3 Rust Belt states, while losing all 4 Sun Belt states (except possibly NC). I'm fairly convinced we will see white women swing towards Harris, and Latino men swing to Trump. I think pollsters are herding (1/n)
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4 Nov 2024
So extrapolating this to swing states implies Harris doing better than her polling in the 3 whiter states (WI/MI/PA) and worse in the 4 more diverse states (NV/AZ/GA/NC). However all it takes is the exact magnitude of these shifts to be a little different than I expect (3/n)
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4 Nov 2024
And we'd see Trump win in PA ( WI/MI) & then win overall. Plus I wouldn't underestimate the anger of Arab-Americans abt Gaza in MI that might not show up well in polling (like the UK election). I am not really confident at all, but if I had to bet, this would be my guess. (4/4)
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25 Oct 2024
Interesting dynamics at play over Switzerland this morning! High pressure trapping cloud over the lowlands between the Jura and the Alps, clear skies on north side of the Alps, cloudy in the southern side as storms from Italy push up against the mountains
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Robert Doane-Solomon retweeted
7 Oct 2024
A factor that is contributing to Milton's intense wind speeds is its relatively small size. In a smaller storm, the pressure falls occur over smaller distances, leading to larger pressure gradients. I have derived a simplified mathematical model to describe this effect:
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1 Oct 2024
188 years! 🤯
1 Oct 2024
Another scale busting map!
September rainfall for the UK.
Huge variation but parts of southern England seeing over three & a half times their average rainfall.
Incredibly Bedfordshire & Oxfordshire saw their wettest month (of any month) in at least 188 years.
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Robert Doane-Solomon retweeted
27 Sep 2024
This is a friendly reminder that Oxfordshire Council opposes the potential Abingdon Reservoir because it believes there is no clear need. news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfo…
27 Sep 2024
💧 Britain to ship in water from Norwegian fjords under drought plans
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09…
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