Impressively low air quality from smoke in Duluth from a prescribed burn in Burnett County, WI. It should thankfully clear out pretty quickly!

74° at the Duluth airport and 30s near the lake. Even still have some ice on Lake Superior! #MNwx

Twins lead the American League after 10% of the season. Seriously.

The impacts of #urban areas on #clouds & #precipitation are complicated due to multiple competing pathways. In our new @agu.org paper (doi.org/10.1029/2025...), we explore how the #Houston metropolitan area influences summertime cloud formation & #convective storms using both models & observations.

I cannot fathom using AI for writing outside of minor assistance. If it isn’t worth my time to write and *think* about how to write, why should anyone read what I write?

The astonishing rate of March snowmelt in Colorado River Basin continues, and is now well into record-low territory (even, it appears, relative to pre-SNOTEL era). And the extreme regional heatwave is only slowly fading, with unprecedented March melt continuing in meantime.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Grand plans, Nordic lore, Sconnie culture, and athletic excellence: One reporter’s circuitous adventure to the heart of Hayward, Wisconsin’s storied American Birkebeiner.

News: As you might have heard, our Judge and Scorekeeper, with a voice on loan to God, Bill Kurtis, is stepping down from “Wait Wait” at the end of May. chicago.suntimes.com/arts-and-cul...

www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0... Good, balanced reporting on the current state of “digital meteorologists” - popular and not going anywhere in our current media landscape!

I just submitted my letter to NSF responding to its proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). I argue that doing so would be an astonishing and avoidable misstep, and that federal support for the institution should in fact be *increased.* [1/4]

During his recent state of the city address, Bemidji Mayor Jorge Prince detailed physical and financial damages caused by last June's devastating storm, which he said dominated much of what happened in the city last year, and the effects will be felt for years to come.

I’ve watched over a dozen hours of figure skating the past two weeks but NOTHING was quite like this performance! So much fun!

still unclear to me how the species made it this far

“When Liu, 20, decided to return to skating, she did so with conditions. She’d wear what she wants. Dance to the music she wants. Eat what she wants. Take breaks when she wants…. [Skating] would be the vehicle through which she displayed the real Alysa.” she did it! her! way!!

Fantastic day to ski Lutsen! Temps in the 30s and sunny skies with zero wind. Great conditions!

Stop Guessing, Start Planning. Ever look at a single snow forecast and think, "But what are the actual odds?" The Probabilistic Precipitation Portal is a resource to help you get ahead of the storm by moving beyond a single number to give you the full picture. www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/Prob_Precip/ 👇

NCAR represents what is possible when a nation chooses to invest in science as a public good, writes @carlonimbus.bsky.social of @ucs.org. #SaveNCAR eos.org/opinions/wha...

Long overdue to give the 1340 requirements an overhaul! My hope, knowing how slow these standards are to change, is fewer requirements overall. (Though I feel everyone in meteorology should have at least basic understanding of programming.)

What a difference a week can make when it comes to ice cover on ice on Lake Superior! The entire coastline of western Lake Superior was analyzed to have some ice on it on yesterday’s analysis per the North American Ice Service/US National Ice Center. usicecenter.gov/Products/Gre...

Temperatures only in the -20s this morning! The end of the worst of the cold - it (probably) only gets warmer from here as we exit the climatologically coldest time of the year!

Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

Not too often that temperatures in Duluth are similar to those of my hometown (near Philly) in January! Especially when those temps are in the single digits!

A beautiful morning on the south shore of Lake Superior!

This is light-hearted and doesn't touch on cases of fuckaroundits, but maybe it'll spark joy. Mid 90s local PBS. youtu.be/oiSzwoJr4-0

Some fun reading for your weekend! The first edition of the Wisconet Rewind is now live! Dive in to this ESRI Story Map, revisiting some of the weather extremes we measured in 2025. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a9d...

2025 was the fourth warmest year on record for the USA www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/nationa...

solar won't work here, it's only useful in really sunny areas of the world like Britain

I have a theory about this. Regular people want tech to reduce our real-life burdens: cooking, errands, dishes, and definitely laundry. Rich tech bros already have "staff" to take care of all that for them, so they don't care. 1/

Each month, we get a bread box from Duluth’s Best Bread. This month’s theme is Hanukkah and they really hit it out of the park! Can’t wait to devour it all!

Aviation accidents “receive an intense investigation by the NTSB with specific recommendations to improve safety, while events like the July 4th flash flood with 119 fatalities rely on entities like Camp Mystic self-policing themselves and developing their own plans to try to improve safety.”

A frigid December morning in Duluth as temperatures fall below zero for the first time this season in the Twin Ports - even reading zero in the harbor! #MNwx

The release of new safety plans by Camp Mystic shows the laissez-faire approach our society has to weather disasters compared to much lower probability risks such as commercial airline accidents. If we truly want to limit these tragedies, that has to change. https://tinyurl.com/527djxk3

Zero! We did it! The first time this winter season the temperature has reached 0°F at Duluth! (At the airport at least - temps will continue to fall tonight) #MNwx

Just a friendly reminder that the Polar Vortex is not an Arctic storm, polar hurricane, blizzard or things that comes to visit us. Lobes of its wave system can dip south into the U.S. bringing colder air. I have already seen a car commercial improperly refer to it and a major newspaper headline.

Update: verified. Bonafide firehose of lake effect snow at the head of the lake this afternoon/evening! Challenging to predict - most models had it shifting eastward quickly. #MNwx

Definitely hints of “overachieving” lake affect snowfall this afternoon/evening for Duluth. Big fluffy flakes are falling now and there should be a good couple of hours for convergent winds to persist before the band shifts eastward.

How often is November the snowiest month of the winter (Jul-Jun) season? @alaskawx.bsky.social

La Niña, the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), and the potential for a rare November Sudden Stratospheric Warming event (you're likely to have heard of this referred to as the "polar vortex") may combine to drive winter-like conditions across much of the U.S. late November into early December.

Wisconet is hiring! Come join the premier mesonet of the Great Lakes and help us develop even more tools and applications to support farmers, growers, emergency managers, and the public! Apply by December 7. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/wiscone...

First morning of snow making at Lutsen Mountain! What a beautiful sight to see - let’s go winter!

A wet Halloween night for parts of the Twin Ports - but hey, it’s pretty warm!

Soon. ☃️

Welp, that’s all for the growing season in the Twin Ports! Coldest morning of the fall so far!

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Absolutely fantastic sun shower/rainbow conditions this afternoon!

Thus, sharing a 15-day AIFS forecast map of a TC impacting the United States holds about as much value as sharing a 15-day GFS forecast. Practically none. It may garner attention & entertainment value, but also much confusion to the general public that isn't watching every model cycle.

“This ... is a remarkable story of a man named Peter falling overboard and swimming two miles to a land named Pete’s Island; matter of record.”

Jhoan Duran wanted his show-stopping entrance to continue in Philly. So the Twins thought it was right to send everything they had — including the custom remix — to Phillies. “This is for the greater good of baseball fans.” The trade within the trade: www.nytimes.com/athletic/653...