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Bloomberg
30-06-2025
- Science
- Bloomberg
Germany Phases Out Weather Ships on Climate Change Pressures
Germany is introducing high-tech buoys in the seas off its northern coast as global warming increases the need for more accurate ocean data. By , Joe Wertz, and Mary Hui Save Welcome to Weather Watch, our weekly newsletter on how the planet's ever wilder weather patterns are impacting the global economy. Got feedback and forecasts? Write us at weatherteam@ And sign up here if you're not on the list already. For almost four decades, Germany monitored conditions in the seas off its northern coast using a combination of weather ships and lighthouses.
Bloomberg
30-06-2025
- Climate
- Bloomberg
Heat Wave in Europe: Impact Power Grid, Health, Crops
00:00 Temperatures across Western Europe are expected to be ten degrees above the norm in coming days. The heatwave has been triggered by a blast of hot air from North Africa. It's expected to stress power systems and has triggered health alerts. Joining me now is Joe WERTZ, Bloomberg's weather and climate reporter. Joe, thanks for joining us bright and early around the studio, around the desk. What can we expect that it's going to be scorching, but there's going to be impacts for that kind of on a human personal level, but also on a on a company level and for the energy grid itself. Yeah, that's right. So it is it's going to be super hot. It's already been super hot. Look, I mean, the this get this high pressure system in its we don't only have kind of a change of of the winds that normally blow westerly that are now blowing up from the south that we bring in in this hot blast of air from from North Africa that you mentioned. Also the high pressure is really clearing out all the clouds. So we've just got the sun just just just baking everything. So, yeah, stress in the energy grids. We've got operators in France, you know, that have have warned that the rivers there might be getting warm, that it's the same rivers that they rely on for cooling the nuclear plants there. So energy grid stress from that, plus increased cooling demand. And this thing is just sitting over Europe and just just just baking in it. How long is this expected to last and what is the impact going to be on agriculture? Yeah, we've already seen some impact from agriculture and farming. It's kind of a crucial time for some farmers in a lot of parts. You know, we should see it here for the next couple of days. Really, France is getting right in the bull's eye of this this this this heat dome effect. Temperatures there well north of 40 degrees and some of the central areas. And, you know, it's you mentioned impact on human health, which is a big deal. We've got, you know, heat health alerts, basically covering parts of the UK, big, big areas of Spain, nearly all of France. And, you know, the temperatures are going to be hot during the day, but they're also not going to cool off in a lot of these areas at night. That's come, you know, makes for uncomfortable sleeping conditions for a lot of folks. But that also doesn't give folks, you know, the relief, the cooling relief that you typically get at night, which is a major, you know, health risk for especially vulnerable people, kids or older folks. Yeah. Or folks with medical conditions. We're talking some in some areas of nighttime temperatures of 25, 25 degrees. Absolutely. Even warmer in some areas, too. So just no relief at night from this. You know, luckily we've got a lower pressure system coming in that might it should bring in a little stormy or weather some more clouds. That should also clear out that high pressure and drop temperatures a little bit. But we got a couple more days of this in store.
Bloomberg
09-06-2025
- Climate
- Bloomberg
Tricky Tropical Urban Weather Tests Forecasters in Singapore
By and Joe Wertz Save Welcome to Weather Watch, our weekly newsletter on how the planet's ever wilder weather patterns are impacting the global economy. Got feedback and forecasts? Write us at weatherteam@ And sign up here if you're not on the list already. Weather in the tropics can change rapidly, going from torrential rain to blazing sun in minutes, making forecasting especially tricky in a region that has some of the world's fastest growing and urbanizing populations.
Bloomberg
06-06-2025
- Climate
- Bloomberg
Heat Is Bad for Workers' Health. RFK Jr. Doesn't Care.
We're on the verge of what will probably be one of the hottest Northern Hemisphere summers in human history. In early May, the water in the English Channel was already so hot that octopuses invaded it, inspiring Bloomberg News' Joe Wertz to dub this ' hot octopus summer,' and not in a fun, Megan Thee Stallion way. Soaring temperatures, which are deadlier than any other natural disaster, will endanger the health and productivity of millions of Americans this summer. Workers at construction sites, farms and factories, along with delivery workers and many others in heat-exposed jobs, are especially at risk. So naturally, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is somehow in charge of managing our nation's health, has reportedly fired all of the people who have been helping the federal government write heat protections for workers. This will likely make extreme heat even riskier and the economic impact even heavier.
Bloomberg
02-06-2025
- Climate
- Bloomberg
Burning Roads, Invading Octopus Signal a Hot Summer Ahead
Today's newsletter looks at the summer ahead for the Northern Hemisphere and all of the troubling, surprising and weird impacts climate change is creating. Read on or get the full story on baking highways, new employee heat laws and a British octopus invasion on For unlimited access to climate and energy news, please subscribe. By Joe Wertz
