Sergeant Sharpie says Cuba is not in a hurricane zone. Interesting to learn that for the first time.

The whole complaint is worth reading, as there is some truly damning stuff in here. Although perhaps nothing more damning than this: NSF's Nick Anderson telling a large group that the responses to the 'Dear Colleague Letter' would 'not be meaningful to OMB'

Severe weather rumbled through the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states today, bringing strong winds to the region.

The National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program was officially established in 1890. The program has a 50/50 chance of ending within the next 2 to 3 years due to the lack of funding and priorities. The program is the backbone for long term climate in the US due to dedicated observers.

BREAKING: University Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) files suit against NSF, OMB, NOAA and DOC to halt alleged "violations of the Constitution and Administrative Procedure Act" undertaken by agencies to dismantle Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

For those short on time, I had Claude do an executive summary of the entire lawsuit and I thought it did a good job (though, if you do have time, the source material is better).

25% of the world's liquified natural gas/LNG is offline. But Pakistan is in a better position - because of the explosive growth of solar and batteries. Pakistan DECREASED LNG imports last year in part because of ☀️+🔋 Here's why renewables - and EVs -are an energy security solution 🎧📻📖 on @npr.org

Correction: Best Self-Supporting Actor

Record-shattering March heat is forecast across the Bay Area this week as temperatures are anticipated to surge into the 90s, as much as 30 degrees above normal for this time of year. It won’t be a short-lived spike in temperatures: “It is going to be a marathon,” the National Weather Service said.

Virginia will become the second state to allow households to install do-it-yourself, balcony solar panels, joining Utah. My question: Will California be next? www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

That White House National Security Strategy document sure was useful. It said the Middle East was no longer a central theater of U.S. strategy, and Iran was not on the same strategic level as China or Russia. The U.S. would avoid American military commitments in the region, letting others lead.

The Iranian regime is filled with terrible people. Among their many crimes: 1) They kill protestors in the street. 2) They meddle in elections and won't accept unfavorable results. 3) They don't understand irony. by Donald J. Trump

“The fact that we have been punched in the face by our own fist underscores the need for us to launch this operation to punch ourselves in the face in the first place.”

Instead of blowing up things in Iran, the federal government could have spent $11 billion in a week paying the entire household incomes for everyone in these counties. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

We've spent $19 BILLION in TWO WEEKS. For a technology that's already dying. If we spent that much on solar & wind, we could reduce our energy dependency by 12.5% in a year. We could be pollution-free and have electricity at a quarter of current prices in eight years. Instead we have war.

Lake Tahoe went from blizzard to dirt in weeks amid rates of snowmelt that hydrologists described as historic. And now comes a record-shattering March heat wave.

How Bezos f#cked the @washingtonpost.com Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

NOAA is being pushed by Congress to push out tornado warning lead times with new research - but high impact tornado events in IL and MI over the last week reinforce to me we are not doing everything we can TODAY to maximize lead times. Taking another look at both events: tinyurl.com/49kb8d8t

The average sea ice thickness around the North Pole continues to set monthly record lows, according to the PIOMAS dataset. Each line represent one year from 1979 (blue) to 2026 (red)... note the trend too More graphics: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Many will experience a wicked temperature whiplash over the next week. 🔥 Daily record-breaking highs will be possible for the Southwest this weekend before more widespread record-breaking heat arrives next week. 🧊 A cold snap is forecast east of the Rockies, where temps will plunge 20° below normal.

Two major humic lakes in the Congo Basin are emitting ancient carbon from nearby peatlands into the atmosphere, reports a study in Nature Geoscience. These findings challenge the prevailing understanding that CO2 emissions from pristine humic lakes are derived from modern, rapidly cycling carbon. 🌍🧪

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Ukraine demonstrates value of clean, distributed, resilient clean energy in a war zone thinc.blog/2026/03/14/u...

As the West Coast prepares for a major heat wave, Dodge Ridge Mountain Resort in the central Sierra Nevada announced that it will close for the season after Sunday unless another major snowstorm arrives. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

I'm telling you, boring old lawyers are now going to ABA panels to applaud hostile retorts to MAGA panelists and yell "you're a clown" at them. A whole lot of people who merely furrowed their brows at Trump I are now seething with rage, and the Dem consultant class needs to wake up to that.

The latest run of the European ensemble model has 500 mb heights a week from now around 5960 m over southern AZ. To give some perspective on how insane that is, that would be the orange dot on the SPC graph of Tucson historical 500 mb heights (red line is all-time highest)

Meanwhile, in Hawai'i, ...

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

One guy can disrupt the fossil fuel system. No individual can disrupt renewables.

Spring in the DMV with weather weirding: Daily temperature record obliterated yesterday by 7 degrees with high 86. Now this.

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Outstanding letter to the National Science Foundation…captures the unique setting for world class science that NCAR facilitates, and could not replicate if divided into various centers, and if focus was removed from long term processess:

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]

But republicans (and frankly, some dems) would rather kill and maim our armed forces, murder civilians, do war crimes, destroy our Earth, and light our tax dollars on fire than shift to renewable resources. It’s insane.

NIH’s entire budget for FY2026 is $48 billion. We just spent a quarter of that amount in the first six days of this war of choice. $1.8 billion per day. That money could fund 450 R01s each and every day.

A snapshot of the tornado tearing through the NE side of Kankakee, IL. This image comes from Cory Gerkin's live stream of the ongoing severe weather outbreak.

Unfortunately, not much good news to share in our February state climate summary. According to NOAA data, it was the warmest February in 132 years of records. Mountain snowpack remains at the lowest level in over 40 years. Several locations set new monthly high temperature records for February. 1/4

About 1% of commercial reactors have melted down (3 meltdowns in a few hundred reactors). Does this suggest we should have less regulation?

Just your typical elevated hailstorm moving into Chicago where it’s 39F at the surface but with >1000 J/kg MUCAPE

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Storm was pretty as it dropped insane hail on OKC tonight #okwx

📌Erika Kirk's appointment is appalling, but not surprising. The Air Force has basically been a racist church for as long as I can remember, which is why this unqualified know-nothing can get within a thousand miles of the place. Further, like Trump, neither Kirk bothered to serve in our military.

Storm chasing is insanity in 2026.

CNBC: “.. Almost all of the economic effect of the individual tax cuts in the ‘big beautiful bill’ .. could be erased if oil prices remain elevated by more than $20 compared with prices before the U.S.-Iran war ..” @cnbc.com #OBBBA www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/r...

“.. Countries are expected to decide on the proposal Wednesday. It would be adopted if none objects, but even one country’s protests could delay the plan ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Not just Death Valley, but the Carrizo Plain and other locations in California are having amazing wildflower blooms this month. earthsky.org/earth/death-...

Tornado warning in effect for Kankakee.

Washington #DCA smashes daily record high by 5F in 155 year history with balmy 84F, 30F above normal.