In recent years, I have tried to find new ways of visualising and communicating climate change, particularly on Twitter. Several of these have gone viral and been replicated elsewhere. This page contains my tweets which have gained the most attention or those I like best. Check out the full threads of each tweet for further details.
Global warming is not spatially uniform (30 July 2022)
Global warming is not spatially uniform.
— Dr Simon Lee (@SimonLeeWx) July 30, 2022
For Northern Hemisphere summer (June-August), this figure shows the difference between the local trend and the global trend since 1970 in @NASAGISS data. pic.twitter.com/x8faoUzC1y
Hottest days of the year are getting hotter (19 July 2022)
UK’s hottest days of each year since 1900 updated to include the 40.3°C recorded today. pic.twitter.com/ZY0NmupSTU
— Dr Simon Lee (@SimonLeeWx) July 19, 2022
Putting 40°C into context (18 July 2022)
This is not normal summer weather. This is extreme, dangerous, and we have made it worse. pic.twitter.com/QN76zIVOU3
— Dr Simon Lee (@SimonLeeWx) July 18, 2022
A 2050 weather forecast comes true in 2022 (15 July 2022)
In 2020, the @metoffice produced a hypothetical weather forecast for 23 July 2050 based on UK climate projections.
— Dr Simon Lee (@SimonLeeWx) July 15, 2022
Today, the forecast for Tuesday is shockingly almost identical for large parts of the country. pic.twitter.com/U5hQhZwoTi
1998 used to look hot (14 September 2021)
When I was a kid looking at NASA climate graphs (I was a cool kid), I could scarcely believe that one day the planet would be so warm that 1998 — an historically warm year at the time — would look ordinary.
— Dr Simon Lee (@SimonLeeWx) September 14, 2021
And I think the same about the current level of global heat. pic.twitter.com/FAPadnTC0I
The warmest year of your life so far (14 January 2021)
My thoroughly scientific take on the 2020 global temperature anomaly #climatechange pic.twitter.com/FZZJLzmEgm
— Dr Simon Lee (@SimonLeeWx) January 14, 2021
Cold summers are seemingly extinct (22 July 2019)
In the UK, there has not been a “cold” summer since 1993, using the threshold of 13.5°C (the 25th percentile of 1910-2018). The 2000s and the 2010s are unprecedented in their overall warmth. #ClimateChange pic.twitter.com/LAs2mnXcj0
— Dr Simon Lee (@SimonLeeWx) July 22, 2019
Global climate context of the heatwaves in 1976 and 2018 (22 July 2018)
The big difference between the heatwaves of 1976 and 2018.
— Dr Simon Lee (@SimonLeeWx) July 22, 2018
June 1976: the UK was one of the warmest places relative to normal across the globe, with most areas cooler than average.
June 2018: the UK was just another warm blob in a mostly warmer than normal world.#GlobalHeatwave. pic.twitter.com/eIsj7glEiE
Simon H. Lee 