Nerd alert: weather models coming into agreement on another major atmospheric river event for western and then Interior Alaska next week. For posterity, here’s the Friday morning GFS Integrated Vapor Transport and 700mb heights forecast valid Tuesday afternoon (Alaska time). #akwx #wxmodels #weather

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Anticipating steep cuts to its budget, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate research centers, has laid off 29 employees and decided not to fill 21 vacant positions. https://scim.ag/46yaM9g

Following their dance together near the United States' East Coast, the last few days saw Hurricane Imelda absorb the remnants of Hurricane Humberto after its dissipation.

The Autopen is running the government.

Hug a civil servant today.

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The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Mr. Shutdown under the gun...

Yikes, well this is a huge bummer! I used to use the Facility for Weather and Climate Assessments (FACTS) repository quite a lot for large ensemble and AMIP data download and processing. More about this: "A Community Resource for Assessing Weather and Climate Variability" (doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...)

The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a recent report.

As we await news from Interior and DOE on their latest attempt to boost the coal sector, take a look at my deep dive into the market realities, complete with some amazeballs charts and whatnot: www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Now that I'm not under the Hatch Act anymore, I'll say that if the administration posts partisan crap like this on an official government domain, then all federal workers should screw the Hatch Act and speak out how they really feel about this shitty administration. Rules for thee but not for me.

Coal power is uneconomic in the market, because its costs have stayed the same while clean energy costs fell. We should invest in coal communities rather than prop up uneconomic plants. Also, they are spending $625 million on this plan. That is TWICE as much as we spend on solar power R&D each year.

Not even Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet could give techbros a soul or a conscience

12 month running average Arctic sea ice area lowest on record.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

So everyone who shrugged off the eye-watering energy hunger of video generation as irrelevant seems to be pretty quiet about the way companies are pouring millions into this stuff www.wired.com/story/openai...

If only the roles had been reversed!

Bring back WWII! MAWA

Art of the Deal™️

Adding my 2 cents to the discussion on Google DeepMind’s performance for Imelda… 🧵 You might see a map like this and be impressed that at no point did it predict landfall in the US. But there is a lot of context lost by simplifying it to just one image.

Wow. Turns out Humberto is pulling Imelda eastward! www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

The US is financially bailing out Argentina to the tune of $20 billion after their right-wing government's policies screwed the country over. Who will bail the US out after our right-wing government finishes screwing us over? 🤔

Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Polar scientists meeting at @royalsociety.org in London this week are issuing a stark warning: dramatic and extreme changes in Antarctica are happening faster than expected, with consequences that will affect everyone on the planet. www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/a...

His pronouns: I/me/my/mine

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

The Boston Red Sox have won 17 of Garrett Crochet's last 20 starts.

On the left is a map of deterministic model tracks for Imelda from 2 days ago. If you mostly look at deterministic models, you would’ve been nearly convinced a landfall is happening. On the right is the latest forecast. There is a valuable lesson here for being cautious with interpreting models.

Sentient implies consciousness

But as it turns out, investigators have now found Cs-137 contaminated spices, specifically cloves also from Indonesia. These wereInterestingly, the spice manufacturing facility is about 500 miles away from the shrimp processing plant. So, again, what is going on?

NEW: Some thoughts from inside a few federal agencies as the shutdown approaches. Fed employees don't know much about what's going on and want the fight that Dem leadership generally has not shown.

"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30." "The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."

Trump's assault on Portland is not just a fascist power grab, although it is certainly that. It is frothing at the mouth, howling at the moon, eating bugs and bats for breakfast lunacy. But it's also a sign of weakness, not of strength. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Of the 44 Category 5 hurricanes in the past century, 12 of them occurred in just the past decade. But perhaps more impressive is that of the three hurricanes in this season so far, two of them were Category 5s! #Humberto #TD9 #Imelda

That's a lot more per month than the cost of eggs.

#Humberto is now a Cat 5! It’s the first time in nearly a century with back to back seasons with Cat 5’s in the Atlantic. We are seeing our warmer future unfold in real-time, IMO. 1/

This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

#Humberto's eye is warming rapidly on water vapor imagery, signifying extreme subsidence in the eye and an upper echelon tropical cyclone. This warmth in the eye is something hard to come by even for Category 4s!

MAGA www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Imelda expected soon.

Another cat 5

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.

11 am EDT - System becomes Tropical Depression Nine just north of eastern Cuba. Tropical Storm Watch issued for portions of the east coast of Florida. Here are the Key Messages. Visit http://hurricanes.gov for updates. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G13H1a9W0AAk8aX.png

We wanted to understand tropical cyclone dynamics and physics. So we asked Google DeepMind.

The best course of action right now remains to continue monitoring your trusted sources for forecast updates, especially in the Bahamas and along the coast in the Carolinas, and ensure you have hurricane plans prepared in case of major impacts. (graphic from NHC)

My new @nytimesoped.bsky.social piece — why we should all fear the Comey indictment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...