North Dakota hockey fans in Vegas (and Grand Forks) tonight:

Be careful folks, today is April Fool's Day, which means that the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive. Don't worry though, tomorrow we will be back to normal, and the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive.

Interested in hurricanes? I want to introduce TC-ATLAS: the Tropical Cyclone Analysis Tool for Live and Archived Structure. Explore live or past storms without writing a line of code or downloading a data file, building on the capabilities of TC-RADAR: michaelfischerwx.github.io/TC-ATLAS/ind...

"Go to North Dakota"

Evergreen

I'm ecstatic to announce that I will be joining the UND Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences this fall as an Assistant Professor! This huge milestone is the culmination of a dream over a decade in the making - one that's taken me across 3 (soon 4) states, 3 degrees, and 2 postdoctoral experiences... (1/2)

Olympic hockey was fun today, but it's almost time for my last game of the Grand Forks Park District beer league. I'm going for the Jake Carstens Hat Trick against the White team... 3 goals across the full 16 game season. (This sport is hard)

🚨 LAST CHANCE TO APPLY 🚨 Applications for #AMSECLA26 close TODAY at 11:59 PM PST. The leadership skills and network you can gain as an ECLA cohort member is unmatched, and we are roughly 150 strong since the program’s inception in 2018.

I have no idea what the rest of 2026 is going to throw, but I have 20+ of the best in the game to ride it with. Love y'all @ametsoc.org @amsearlycareer.bsky.social 💙💚 #AMS2026

If you're still at #AMS2026, come hang out with me this afternoon at Poster 979. It's actually the first time I've shared my own tropical cyclone research in over a year and a half, so I'd love to bounce ideas off of anyone interested. 🌀

Almost filled out my Infinity Gauntlet. Thanks to all who attended the Early Career Conference and Reception at #AMS2026! With it in the books, I'm thrilled to officially take over as Chair of @amsearlycareer.bsky.social.

Day 2 of the Early Career Conference at #AMS2026! Excited to have UND student Sam Johnson with us today helping out. Say hi to him in Room 350D and Thank a Student Assistant Today.

The official debut of my research group was tonight at #AMS2026! Sooooooo proud of Sydney, Kyle, and Payton, as well as our other students repping North Dakota this week. Stay tuned for much more from my Northern Plains Sickos at the Tropical Conference in March 👀

Showtime! #AMS2026 attendees: come by the Conference for Early Career Professionals today and tomorrow in Room 350D! Our reception is also open to all, taking place from 8:30-10:30PM tonight in the Hilton Lanier Grand Ballroom A.

Each year, we try to get the AMS Board for Early Career Professionals together for a pre-conference dinner to catch up before the craziness of the next couple of days. Major kudos to our Chair, Emily, for pivoting our reservation due to unscheduled early closures! Always so much fun! #AMS2026

See you soon, #AMS2026! Come by the Early Career Conference Sunday-Monday, check out my students' posters, then stick around long enough to heckle me when it's my turn to present.

👀🚨👀 #AMS2026 #DrinkingWithScientists 🚨👀🚨

Blackboard (or Zoom... or WiFi as a whole) outages on the first full day of class A tale as old as time

A modest milestone for career academics, but I'll take any boost I can get!

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.