Emotional support chicken nuggets for your timeline for absolutely no reason at all

Getting reallllllllllly tired of my profession being painted as the bad guy when we're all just a bunch of nerds who want you to be safe from tornadoes.

WTAF?! Also, for the love of God, can we not refer to NCAR As a “climate lab?” It does a hell of a lot more than just climate.

North Dakota is undefeated. 8" of snow Tuesday, vivid sundog this morning, wind chills in the -30s by the time I leave tonight's hockey game.

Sincere shoutout to @samsayshello.bsky.social for roaming the department parking lot and scraping snow/ice from others' cars. Literally the only way it could be more Upper Midwest is to do so with a Busch Light in hand.

I have many thoughts, but what jumps out the most right now is the cruelty. Have dozens of people come to your meeting, basically force them to grovel after months of anxiety, then vote nearly unanimously against them anyways. Sending love to the Huskers. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

🚨 New job alert! 🚨 Want to work with me? We're searching for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position at the University of Arizona in Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences! Desired expertise is radar meteorology, broadly defined, with a focus on mesoscale phenomena. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Underrated part of faculty life, even though it takes non-negligible time: writing recommendation letters. It just feels good to write nice things about people.

Just a legendary run for FSU football: - NCSU punt so bad it bonks off a blocker's head and the punter recovers - Defense gets stop, punt is dropped - Defense gives up 4th down TD - Return flight diverted due to fog - Bus breaks down on drive from Jacksonville to Tallahassee

In ~40 minutes, I'll be chatting with @jakecarstens.bsky.social and @drkimwood.bsky.social about this year's hurricane season! It's a bit like a forum, so we'll have some Q&A for any specific questions that don't get brought up. discord.gg/9aS7WVJ8qH

Just found out the awesome team at @climasillinois.bsky.social will be in Asheville in the next couple of days to conduct interviews about Risk Communication during #Helene. If you live in the area and are willing to chat, feel free to reach out to them! They are an awesome group! #NCwx

Usually I chuckle at these emails but this one has me weirdly irritated

For atmospheric science students looking for a funded M.S. opportunity for Fall 2026, the esteemed @dblountwx.bsky.social has a Graduate Research Assistantship position open at Ohio University! See the original post for more details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Career goal moment: 2015 Jake, reading AMS journal papers for Intro to Atmospheric Dynamics, would be mind blown to see his name in BAMS :) journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org! Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2 www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

I was Last Friday years old when I learned that "67" is a meme. This likely explains many of the 600+ likes this post got. (Seriously though, our students are doing forecasts for 11,000+ hockey fans and I couldn't be more proud 😭)

You can probably guess when I chose to take out the trash

Excited to share our new BAMS publication w/ the field! From Facebook to TikTok, weather and climate information has become increasingly digital. Our new BAMS paper charts the rise of digital meteorology, the AMS CDM Seal, and how universities are evolving to meet it. 🌪️🌩️📲 doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

Back in the control room today! It's fun to sit back, press buttons, and work with our broadcast meteorology students as they get their reps in on camera. Cole just started as a UND Weather Update anchor this semester and is killing it!

A couple years of work, lots of learning, lots of trial & error, and endless support from ya'll have culminated into the news I got today: SounderPy is officially a peer-reviewed, published software. This couldn't have happened w/o yall -- thank u 🤍 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

The 2nd Edition of my textbook is now available! Biggest updates are in figure quality, including soundings based on SounderPy output thanks to @wxkylegillett.bsky.social making it freely available! shop.elsevier.com/books/synopt... www.amazon.com/Synoptic-Ana...

Achievement unlocked: have chemtrail awareness pamphlet mailed to my faculty mailbox ✅

Me: Is among the first to pile on with Reviewer #2 jokes and rants about how we should sprinkle more positivity into reviewing science Also me, reading over a review I just wrote up:

Fortunately well out to sea, but check out #Dexter & its resurrection as a powerful #extratropical cyclone over the North Atlantic. Perfect case for a meteorological deep dive: Favorable trough interaction led to "sting jet" formation & #hurricane force winds as cyclone phases w/ shortwave. 🌀 🦂

This is what I get for publishing in a public health journal

The calendar switched from July to August.

Attention hurricane enthusiasts, connoisseurs, experts: the Atlantic season is entering the active months (Aug-Sep-Oct) so what better time to remind you of this Starter Pack so you can get reliable information and insights! go.bsky.app/88mXQKD

1 year of faculty life in the books! Definitely not easy to begin with, and this year threw unique challenges out there, but UND has been the perfect home to settle into this. Big things on the way in Year 2. I'll always appreciate this place for taking the chance on me to be its hurricane guy. 🌀

Bought this pin a few weeks back at a market in Winnipeg. The conversation at the register was succinct: "I'm an American meteorologist." "Ooooooooooooooof"

Excited to share a new lead-author paper, now available in final form in Environmental Research! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lOu73Ao6B... A review article (supplemented by my own data viz) on the science connecting tropical cyclones and *whispers* climate change, plus implications for public health.

Sooooooooooooooooo close

Fridays, man.

🚨New paper out in Environmental Research!🚨 "Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change: An Overview for the Public Health Community" - a review article updating a 2021 summer project I worked on at Florida State. Check it out at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... or DM me for access!

Sooooo proud of our UND Weather Update students (Jonathan, Anson, and Conrad), who presented on their work from 2024-2025 at the @ametsoc.org Broadcast/Digital Meteorology Conference! They can all say they've presented at a professional conference before their junior year. Rising stars 🤩

Ready for Day 3, here with @jakecarstens.bsky.social ! Excited for a lot of the talks today at #AMS52BC #AMS21Meso

Blurry Conference Talk Photo™️ because it's important to max out our chances to get science out there. The @ametsoc.org Mesoscale and Broadcast/Digital Meteorology Conferences are underway! I'll do my best to collect and share some cool advances and discussion points throughout the week.

Let's do something new this season! I'm launching a YouTube channel - subscribe at www.youtube.com/@DrJakeCarst.... Each week, I'll do my best to post an "Office Hours" Q&A video diving into hurricane science. Send me any questions that have been on your mind, and I'll post the 1st video next week.

Hello to the new followers! Must be Hurricane Season. 😅 As a re-intro of sorts, I consider my niche here to be more as a teacher than just another forecasting voice. We have plenty of wacky acronyms and diagrams in hurricane world, so I like to focus on making the science a little easier to follow.

Assuming my students don't concuss me by throwing tomatoes for having a Friday final... MADE IT THROUGH YEAR 1 OF FACULTY LIFE!!!!! (...what a year 😅 despite sooooo much out of my control, this job is everything I hoped it would be)

So this is what it's like to live in the Plains

1. Choose side of driving range with the wind at my back 2. Convince myself I actually drive the ball 350, book tee time for tomorrow 3. Remember that not all golf holes face north 4. Go home angry 5. Repeat

Testing the theoretical limits of warm air advection rn Didn't have 100° before finals week on my "first year in North Dakota" bingo card...

This has been a trying semester for many obvious reasons, and some less obvious (e.g., house hunting). Last Friday, our undergrad students named me "Best Junior/Senior Professor" and "Most Available Professor" at our end-of-year banquet. A boost I'm very thankful for. Lift each other up y'all.

It is with deep sadness that I share the passing of my Ph.D. advisor, Jenni Evans. She was an esteemed scientific leader in tropical meteorology & computational science. She shared great strength & inspiration to follow my dreams. @ametsoc.org @pennstateuniv.bsky.social shorturl.at/BrzAU

NOT NOW, REVIEWER 2

Nice piece by three heavyweights on the academia side of meteorology explaining NOAA’s critical importance.

Very happy to hear this but “sent in error” is such bullshit. The courts and merit protection boards just pwned you, you fascist dipshits.

Grading midterms and one of my students started an answer with "Oh man you asked the right guy." Love this job through all the chaos.

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk