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An incredible view of a dust storm charging south across Mexico.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

The Trump admin aims to zero out funding for NOAA’s 16 cooperative institutes, which study everything from extreme weather to fisheries to toxic algae. I spent last week talking with folks about the losses — & potential threats — to society if these institutes close. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Sheep maintained Solar. #baahh

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Strong contender in the "Charts that look like their topic" category climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024/g...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Learning so much from @adamjkucharski.bsky.social’s “Proof”—for example, I certainly didn’t know before that Francis Galton published a Nature paper on how to cut a cake so that it doesn’t dry out. www.nature.com/articles/075...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

This is the 30th anniversary of the OKC Bombing. Please let me share a perspective on it. It starts with an Oklahoma geography lesson. 1/n

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

🚨 The Call for Abstracts for the 2025 @nwas.org Annual Meeting is REOPENED! 🚨 The deadline has been extended to 11:59 PM Central Time on May 8! Join us in Huntsville as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary! #NWAS25 💻: nwas.org/call-for-abs...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Seeing a number of fed friends announce their "retirement" on FB today. This is probably not what they wanted, but in every case there was a sense of relief to be out of there. Lots of experience and institutional knowledge in critical areas is now just gone with no replacements in sight.

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“We've had to essentially go dark and we're waiting to hear when and if the next year contract does get approved,” said Nielson-Gammon, the Texas state climatologist and professor at Texas A&M University. www.kcur.org/news/2025-04...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Saturday is looking like an active day of both severe weather and Excessive Rainfall. At least 20 million people are under a Slight Risk.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

more insanity from noaa probationary firings…they are saying since our firings are now retroactive to 2/27 our health insurance has ended…despite our insurance premiums being taken out of our admin leave pay

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

reading the news is like a DDoS attack on my brain

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

You may see messages like this on parts of our website, including the drought page. We rely heavily on maps & data from the High Plains Regional Climate Center, which no longer has funding. We'll do our best to point to alternative data sources, but many of these products are not easy to replicate.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I'm not allowed to share these kinds of scholarships though my university email anymore so am doing so here. Scholarships for members of the LGBTQ+ STEM community. ostem.org/Page/scholar...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

visited nws performance branch, which is back up. they are working to restore warnings, LSRs, and such back to March 5th or so. I cant stress how hard it is to backfill near and real time data, across an agency, that operates 24-7, and is reeling from <gestures wildly> all-the-things.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

🐾🤍.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I am once again begging people to realize that the law is words on paper and is not self executing. "That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done." "That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."

submitted 6 days ago • 125 comments

Sculptured sky this morning

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Pine, palm, yellow rumped warblers. Goldfinches galore. Pileated pair nest building too. Lovely morning huntley meadows trip. Hermit thrush was close enough to pose

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

An astonishing illustration of how much cleaner the air around Parisians has gotten, thanks to limits on car traffic, from @chicoharlan.bsky.social and Naema Ahmed www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

🐈‍⬛🤍.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Many NOAA databases are scheduled to be decommissioned, including several I frequently use (IMLGS; sediment core database) and are crucial to my work. But there's also databases that normal people care about (earthquakes!). Can we download these in their entirety and host them somewhere else? 🌊🧪

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

NOAA budget proposal would affect weather satellite, other space programs The White House’s budget proposal for NOAA would seek to make major changes in a weather satellite program as well as transfer other space programs.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote a post with my perspectives on the reports today about NOAA's FY26 budget passback and the implications. I will admit this was really hard to write - it's almost inconceivable to me that we are really doing this. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

DOE capping indirect costs for universities at 15% - impacts on existing grants uncertain

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

seems more reading is imminent, and prescient. www.stewardingloss.com medium.com/thefarewellf...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

the real question being answered: whats the best seat on the P3? i look forward to the queasiness index...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

with stn spacing near 350-450km, removing sites and limiting launches, we lose resolution. introducing more synoptic scale errors from cycled models will be weird for predictability. the fun will be in trying to detect these effects on forecasts. stats riders, mount up!

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

my fav part of IT is how no one checks their work. just check the box. pass the buck.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I'm devastated and heartbroken. Staff at the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) got the ax. Most likely means the Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA6) is also cooked. USGCRP was the glue across the Federal family on all things climate - reducing duplication and making efficiencies.

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 13 days ago • 872 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 14 days ago • 527 comments

Historic rainfall across the Ohio River Basin (watershed average of 5.13" in the last 7 days) has caused widespread flooding along the River and its tributaries. The Ohio River at Old Shawneetown, IL is expected to crest over 53', the 6th highest crest on record and the highest since May 2011.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

This is a huge problem for helping the public understanding the value of emergency management. FEMA and emergency management agencies are saving lives everyday but how can we prove it?

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

We often (rightly) see maps like these showing how good SPC convective outlooks are; let's also give some kudos to WPC for some outstanding excessive rainfall outlooks for this event. Especially impressive are the day 5 outlooks, giving advance notice of prolonged excessive rainfall and flood risk.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Here's the status of river gauges over the flooded areas. Blue circles indicate record flooding levels, and black indicates they are within a foot of the record. #StateOfFlood #KYwx #TNwx #INwx @nws.noaa.gov

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Flood/flash flood reports as well as top rainfall reports going back to last Wednesday. Over 15 inches in parts of western Kentucky. ☔️🌧️

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I smiled at this interesting post tornado damage survey from NWS in North Webster, IN, after a tornado in southern Michigan at Bethel Township. The meteorologists surveyed within a day or two of the tornado, and the Amish community had all the home damage already repaired. #miwx

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Old meme, but I'm getting a laugh out of "months"

submitted 17 days ago • 62 comments