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Weather and climate prediction for renewable energy. MIT EAPS alumnus. Sports fan.
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$1.38 billion spent on NWS.
$102.1 billion returned in estimated public value.
Those values produce a return on investment (ROI) of 73.98.
Full report (135 pages): doi.org/10.1175/cofu...
(Yet NOAA has long been **underfunded** as Scott Rayder noted last year: www.federaltimes.com/opinions/202...)
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Extra ironic considering the likely provenance of those almonds
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So what's different this time? Why the disaster? Most homes in Pacific Palisades are 40-100 years old, why haven't they burned before? Two key factors: heavy fuel load from changing land use and decades of effective fire suppression, and an extremely strong, very dry Santa Ana and anomalous drought.
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Heh it's correct today! Technically the other one would be correct for the southern hemisphere 😉
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Maybe Thanksgiving weekend
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Hey Mike, heads up- looks like the link is broken here
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This is a nice visualization of that data! Aligns with the medium range models showing something spinning up in Western Caribbean next week. Out of curiosity, do you have similar plots for other basins?
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Welcome! Here is a feed of wx folks put together by @ianlivingston.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/did:...
And a starter pack of tropical folks from @bmcnoldy.bsky.social: go.bsky.app/88mXQKD
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Such a warm summer in Europe would have been practically impossible in pre-industrial times.
Under the SSP2-4.5 scenario, a summer like 2024 will be unusually cold in 2100.
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Not yet but you can embed things you've uploaded to YouTube or vimeo