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Federal weather & climate science is under threat. Starting TODAY at 3:00 PM ET, join a coalition of scientists--including AMS leaders--for a 100-hour livestream. Learn what federal science does for you, ask questions, and help build awareness to "Save Our Forecasts": wclivestream.com

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I will give one of the talks, and I hope if you’ve ever been funded by a US government grant, you will do the same. Everyone else, please turn in.

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A National Weather Service office in Kentucky was scrambling to cover the overnight forecast on Friday as severe storms moved through much of the eastern U.S. The office is one of several left without an overnight forecaster as a result of cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency.

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A dust storm hits Chicago. One of the more mind blowing satellite images we've seen in a minute.

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WSJ exclusive: This Air-Traffic Controller Just Averted a Midair Collision. Now He’s Speaking Out. Manager at Newark says his agency is understaffed, stressed out, experienced equipment failures that forced him to record flight info with pen and paper www.wsj.com/business/air...

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Imagine paying for your move from say Alaska to Oklahoma and then you get a RIF notice… like all of this is so risky 😭. Thinking about everyone in the agency!

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SPC’s severe weather database is now QC’ed and updated for all of 2024. It was quite the year, coming in 2nd place for number of confirmed tornadoes since 1950, trailing the prolific 2004 season and overtaking the historic 2011 season. 2024 did see the most Sig Wind (65+ kt) reports since 1955.

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The Trump administration recently notified Klukwan's tribal library that it was canceling two grants that account for the vast majority of its budget. That left the staff no choice but to cancel all future events – and dramatically reduce their hours. (From KHNS - Haines)

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Very sad and frustrating news about Alaska and Arctic Science impacts of cuts to sea ice products. From @alaskawx.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/alaskacl...

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A federal judge has halted President Trump's attempt to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services – the agency which provides federal funding to libraries and museums across the country.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I, for one, welcome our “weather weapon” overlords

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Seems bad.

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#Earthquake (#sismo) possibly felt 37 sec ago in #Alaska. Felt it? Tell us via: 📱https://m.emsc.eu/#app 🌐https://m.emsc.eu 🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org ⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon!

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Today, Vermont Edition co-hosted a cross-border conversation with Radio Noon, a call-in program from the CBC in Quebec. Hosts Mikaela Lefrak and Shawn Apel took calls from listeners on both sides of the border about the current state of U.S.-Canada relations.

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Harvard takes the next step: SUES the Trump administration in escalating confrontation "Lawsuit argues that government actions, including freezing $2.2 billion in federal funding, violated the First Amendment and didn’t follow legal procedures." wapo.st/4jhsGRn

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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

Sorry to get political but I think we should pay people to check for poop in our food

submitted 40 days ago • 82 comments

The proposed NOAA budget gutting would also eliminate the Climate Adaptation Program (CAP). The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, the org I work for, is the CAP for Alaska and has been working for Alaskans since 2006. #akwx #climate #NOAA alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-...

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The town of Whittier is threatened by a landslide. DOGE cuts are threatening the program that is keeping an eye on the risk. #akleg #Alaska

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It's been a rough week for the NOAA family, including feds, contractors, and scientists across this country / world. I need to say something very important. It is my motivation to get you the weather, water and climate data you need, regardless of what has, or will happen to us.

submitted 48 days ago • 226 comments

Our current situation

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At least 200 at the “Many Voices” protest in Soldotna.

submitted 54 days ago • 11 comments

At least two offices of the National Weather Service have said they are delaying or skipping sending staff into the field to survey damage from this week’s severe weather, a key step that meteorologists usually use to confirm whether or not a tornado has struck.

submitted 56 days ago • 37 comments

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

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The NWS office in Paducah, which has to handle some of the most frequent and impactful weather in America and was nearly taken out by a tornado tonight ahead of a catastrophic flood event has to use a parking lot porta potty because they can’t fix plumbing due to the govt funding freeze.

submitted 57 days ago • 15 comments

Final 6 / 6 posts for #dezoomcamp projects and this is my last post for the course! I completed 80 / 80 days working on the data engineer zoomcamp and learned a ton of new tools including google cloud, dlt, dbt, terraform, docker, spark, clustering, etc.

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Final 5 / 6 posts for #dezoomcamp projects! The this project used AWS, dlt, and Reshift.

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Final 4 / 6 posts for #dezoomcamp projects! The second project used BigQuery and Spark.

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Final 3 / 6 posts for #dezoomcamp projects! The second project did a great job with their dashboard visualization.

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Final 2 / 6 posts for #dezoomcamp projects! This project did a great job following the rubic and being clear with the steps that needed to be taken. What I thought was interesting is they wrote a python script to create a 'dummy' dataset to use.

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Final 1 / 6 posts for #dezoomcamp projects! Going through and grading the first project.

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One of my recent projects was to build a notebook to get current, forecast, and archive river gauge data from both the USGS and @nws.noaa.gov APIs. The notebook is live, with a My Binder link to load in your browser. Go play and have fun! #StateOfFlood github.com/jjrennie/riv...

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If your local National Weather Service office has paused or canceled spotter training this year, here’s a great option! 🌪️ @comet-meted.bsky.social has teamed up with the National Weather Service (NWS) to develop a (totally free!) online storm spotter certification course. 🌪️⛈️⚡️ More info: 🧵⬇️

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Studies show petting an animal can reduce stress, lower blood pressure and abate loneliness. Shelburne's New Village Farm invites guests to snuggle their dog-like herd of Nigerian dwarf, Oberhasli, and French alpine goats. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nAj...

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Day 73 / 80 #dezoomcamp - I decided to create a dashboard in google looker studio last night, and I like the initial layout and features of it so far. My favorite question I've answered so far is what are the most popular orange cat names on Petfinder?!

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I love these post it notes 🗒️

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Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

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Day 72 / 80 #dezoomcamp and finishing up my project this week! Even after I submit my project, I think I may continue updating the code. I keep finding small changes to make. I am happy that my backfill is now working. app.gitbook.com/o/1AUjC0vvNe...

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Explore static prototypes of our upcoming new profile page! ✨ Mobile: www.figma.com/proto/bxUVtA... Desktop: www.figma.com/proto/bxUVtA...

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Day 71 / 80 #dezoomcamp and I continued working on my Petfinder api project. Tonight I am focusing on my backfill python script. Here is a data.io of the current data pipeline.

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I haven’t seen this highlighted yet, but my gov device won’t even let me download signal - so I’m assume they were messaging from personal phones… Yet I can’t even log into my work email from my personal device. Like wth.

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Day 70 / 80 #dezoomcamp and I continued working on my first full draft of how-to documentation in my gitbook! Going back through it all I found a small bug in my bucket naming, but that should be fixed now. app.gitbook.com/o/1AUjC0vvNe...

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It’s really hard to establish a sense of scale for the Kilauea eruptions, even being here in person - so a big thank you to the USGS folks who conveniently positioned their vehicles near the crater wall to collect tephra during Episode 14. Do you see em? 🌋🛻

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Six weeks into the new administration, the Internet Archive — one of the few large-scale archivists to back up the web — had cataloged some 73,000 web pages that had existed on U.S. government websites that were expunged after Trump's inauguration.

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Day 69 / 80 #dezoomcamp and I’m excited to announce that my final project is using the PetFinder API www.petfinder.com/developers/v.... I was really excited to connect my love for data with my love for finding pets a furever home 🐾

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With this post, I’ve tracked about 52 protests in locations across the state since January docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 68 days ago • 2 comments

“knowing the weather is literally more important than wearing a life jacket”

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