While I wait for the email that tells me whether I’ve been fired or spared, here’s a thread of things I’ve had the privilege of working on, experiencing, and accomplishing in my 10 months as a federal employee at the Storm Prediction Center.
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We need the media to start covering the federal purge as if they were deaths. Understanding the people and their stories make this real.
It performs roughly as well as 3D-RTMA per HWT SFE evaluations, but runs faster.
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https://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/halbert/oa3hrrr.pdf
It compile on MacOS, Linux, and Windows, and has Python bindings for data science applications. It’s performant and supports cutting edge techniques.
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https://github.com/keltonhalbert/SHARPlib
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I wrote more about that.
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https://stormscale-io-git-refactor-keltonhalberts-projects.vercel.app/blog/mesoa-bootcamp-1
I’ve been writing an interactive GUI for exploring/computing the data.
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(I’m truly sorry, in a just world you would be President)
(Of course, if you're making climate forecasting better,
their sponsors don't want that put back together.)
I had to farm out an intermediate level spreadsheet this week so
I love the weather. Wish I could have joined SPC or NHC (but I wasn't smart enough!).
Your friend, come rain or EF-5,
Kim
I am in the same boat over at the Radar Operations Center. Just holding my breath and trying to carry on.
I'm in private sector AgTech, and the things you have done make my head spin (in a good engineer-type way) and inspire me.
Agriculture will crumble without excellent weather data systems, we need you now more than ever.
My job wouldn't exist without yours 🫡
https://www.mspb.gov/studies/adverse_action_report/14_IdentifyingProbationers.htm