Climate and Economy's Saturday roundup carried the Copernicus Emergency Management Service Low-Flow Index for the third ten-day period of July 2026. [1] The index showed severe and extreme low flow along the Rhine, the Loire, the Danube, and the Po, and across much of the Alpine and Carpathian drainage network.

That is a late-July instrument printed on Saturday, not a Saturday gauge reading. Friday's paper deferred Kaub. Saturday still has no fetched centimeter on that rod. Eliot Jacobson's preliminary global sea-surface temperature of 21.20°C is dated August 5. [1] It is not a Saturday sounding either.

A blog that stacks four dry rivers and a warm sea is a climate desk, not a lockmaster. The completed Saturday record is the index period and the print date. Inventing a Kaub number would be a different paper.

The same Saturday stack printed Eliot Jacobson's preliminary global sea-surface temperature of 21.20°C on August 5, above 21.17°C on April 24, 2024, and a Northern Hemisphere daily mean of 22.742°C on August 1. [1] Those clocks are August 5 and August 1. They are not Saturday rods. Friday asked for Kaub. Saturday still does not have it. The paper will not invent a centimeter to decorate a late-July index.

-- DARA OSEI, London