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Mesoscale convective system materialized overnight and moved through central NY, producing isolated severe wind gusts (62 mph gust at @nysmesonet.org Westmoreland station) and flash flooding (3-5" of rain). (1/)

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

A class of #UAlbany undergrads spent the semester analyzing trends in environmental data & developing machine learning tools that support weather forecasting. Through the AI Plus initiative, UAlbany is developing AI-related courses like this one: www.albany.edu/news-center/...

A fully-funded postdoctoral scientist position is available in the research group of Distinguished Prof. Mathias Vuille. The position is open to scientists with interest & experience in: (1) South American (paleo-)climate, (2) Andean glacier-climate interactions, or 3) regional climate modeling.

Unidata maintains a lot of key weather data infrastructure, including the netCDF data standard and libraries, metpy. data dissemination servers for accessing models and observations from NOAA, and educational resources for the university community. Now everyone is furloughed b/c of Trump and DOGE.

Today, students in my @ualbanydaes.bsky.social data viz class present their final projects, which wouldn't be possible without the folks at @unidata.bsky.social. The consequences of this administration's attacks on science and education just keep on hitting closer and closer to home.

One of the motivations for NOAA’s (a Department of Commerce agency) creation of this list was to quantify the economic importance of weather and climate information for the US. It is widely used to support further investments in weather and climate operations and science at the federal level. 🧐

2nd Call: @justinminder.bsky.social and I are seeking a postdoc to perform research on the characteristics and predictability of rainfall events over the Catskill mountains that impact the NYC water supply. Application deadline is this Friday 5/9. www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/tan...

Science news is particularly grim this week. For NSF funding, 2 key fronts: 1) freeze on ALL existing grants (portal is down - no $$ going out, including reimbursements) www.nature.com/articles/d41... 2) budget proposes 40% overall cut & 15% cap on indirects (lawsuits blocked same for NIH in Feb)

NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

I talked to Nature about the latest development at NSF, which is a five-alarm fire for American science. The scale of immediate impact is massive. We narrowly escaped this affecting @viralemergence.org for now, but will have to shut down in a few months if this stays. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New AMS Statement and Special Report: The Federal agencies in the public sector provide a foundational role in supporting the rest of the weather enterprise. A failure of these systems would be catastrophic. Read the AMS Statement: bit.ly/4lLTdbk

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences. Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

Oh no! Several of the Regional Climate Centers have had their funding lapse through DOC/NOAA. These institutes are critical for connecting weather and climate data and services to local communities across the United States. Spread the word to drive attention and support!

Climate is the statistics of weather. And weather doesn't discriminate on the basis of politics.

More details on how vital NWS services will be affected as a consequence of federally induced staffing reductions... Weather Service Prepares for ‘Degraded Operations’ Amid Trump Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/c...

Come work with @btangywx.bsky.social and me on hydrometeorology over the Catskill Mountains!

Congress has a chance to have input on this, but slashing weather and climate research is incredibly irresponsible from the administration. www.science.org/content/arti...

This NY Times article is probably the most thorough that I've read on the president's extremely shortsighted budget outline for NOAA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/c...

The Trump administration plans to eliminate the research arm of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, close all weather and climate labs and eviscerate its budget along with several other NOAA offices, according to internal documents obtained by CNN.

Here's how your area fared with snowfall this season, compared to a 14-year climatology. Greens=Above Normal Browns=Below Normal #snOMG

ICF has supported the National Climate Assessment and the IPCC for nearly two decades with professionalism & integrity. Yesterday, ICF's contract to support NCA was cancelled. All federal staff details for OSTP + USGCRP were already returned to their agencies. There's no one left to work on NCA.

68,845,865. That's how many individuals in the United States speak a language other than English at home. Everyone deserves a chance to stay safe during disasters, and I will never stop advocating for that. Thinking of all the communities that are going to be affected by this change.

@ualbanydaes.bsky.social students sharing their passion for weather observations as part of a STEM Family Day on campus this past weekend.

Two more NWS Upper Air Sites have suspended upper air launches - Omaha and Rapid City. Here are two maps that show the degradation of our upper air network because of helium or staff shortages (or in the case of Chatham, because of coastal erosion). www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

"... the NWS costs only $7 per citizen to operate each year, yet results in an estimated 10-100 times larger financial return ..." "Every government organization ... must be subjected to careful oversight ... However, the instrument of wise oversight is the scalpel, not the chainsaw. "

Federal cuts cost key forecasting tool for Albany's National Weather Service www.timesunion.com/news/article...

Radiosondes on weather balloons are essential for collecting data from the upper atmosphere for accurate forecasting. Due to the mass firing at NOAA, the NWS doesn’t have enough people to launch balloons. 🎈 Accurate weather forecasts save lives. See data here: www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/soundi...

A statement from our department regarding the recent NOAA/NWS cuts.

Thanks to folks ‪@ualbanydaes.bsky.social‬, @uwatmossci.bsky.social, and elsewhere that have supported me along the way. I especially appreciate the excellent students, postdocs, and other collaborators that I've been privileged to work with!

“A lot of people don't realize how @NOAA.gov impacts their daily lives... It's a huge public service that is truly a bargain for the American taxpayer." - Brian Tang, @ualbanydaes.bsky.social spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

Evan is an incredibly bright, talented, and hard-working young scientist. Firings such as these will make us less prepared, less prosperous, and less safe in the face of hazardous weather for years to come.

"U.S. leadership in scientific innovation is at risk due to the recent and ongoing reductions in U.S. federal science capabilities. The consequences to the American people will be large and wide-ranging, including increased vulnerability to hazardous weather." www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

That little black spec on the right hand side of this infographic is the total budget of the NWS. How is eliminating positions that exponentially increase economic dividends through enhancing commerce and mitigating/preventing disasters saving money or eliminating waste/fraud?

In case you missed it, we are seeking a Visiting Assistant Prof. / Postdoc. Associate in Terrestrial Ice & Water Systems (w/ opportunity to transition to tenure-track) here @ualbanydaes.bsky.social. Review of applications is slated to start next week! albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Excellent article explaining the vast ways the National Weather Service protects life and property, and supports commerce in the U.S. The NWS is the gold standard across the world, with many countries modeling the NWS operating model. It’s a government service worth saving.

Congrats to Megan! She who works in my research group, improving our understanding of how to forecast hazardous aircraft icing conditions using data from the WINTRE-MIX field campaign.

The students in my Atmospheric Science Fieldwork class @ualbanydaes.bsky.social‬ had a busy week doing radiosonde launches as part of a multi-university field campaign in partnership with @cw3escripps.bsky.social. Very impressed at how quickly they picked up the fieldwork skills!

Visiting Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Associate in Terrestrial Ice and Water Systems We are looking to hire a Visiting Assistant Professor / Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences (DAES) at the University at Albany.

Now that it's evening, and more snow reports came in throughout the day, look how much different this map looks than it did this morning! I'll use this example to explain why knowing *how* data is created & data limitations is far more important than some might think 🧵

In our new @ametsoc.bsky.social JHM study: "Evaluating and Improving Snow in the National Water Model, using Observations from the New York State Mesonet", we use unique data from NYS Mesonet to identify biases in NWM's treatment of snow and ways to improve it. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Exciting postdoc funding opportunity for those interested in researching at UAlbany and other CIWRO partner institutions! ciwro.ou.edu/peter-lamb-p...

Fun overview video of the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning project that our UAlbany DAES team had the pleasure of participating in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPmO...

Applications are now open for the *free* UAlbany Weather, Climate, and Chemistry Camp to take place this summer! www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/jmi...

New summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) opportunity at UAlbany! www.albany.edu/cnse/dev-res...