Great Blue Heron enjoying low tide on the Hudson in downtown Troy, NY.

Every year a few Killdeer seem to accidentally find the worst places to nest on campus. 2 years ago it was my buildings parking lot and last year a highway on ramp. These fellas have unfortunately spent the last week getting cozy on a well used soccer and lacrosse field…

Osprey surveying the Hudson above Troy, NY today

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Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

New York's 2025 Climate Report: 🌡 Downstate, the Capital Region, and W.NY saw a warmer 2025, while the eastern Catskills and ADKS saw a near-average 2025. Statewide, 2025 was 0.81°F above the 1980-2010 average, continuing a nearly 3°F warming from the early 1900s.

New York Climate Report for December 2025: 🌡The entire state saw a below-average December, driven by a handful of cold air outbreaks. 🌧The Lower Hudson River Valley, NYC, and LI saw a drier than average Dec, while W.NY and the ADKS saw a wetter Dec. Statewide, precipitation was near average.

INTRODUCING YOUR NEW YORK ISLANDERS ALL-TIME SHUTOUT LEADER, ILYA SOROKIN!

NO WORDS #ISLESWIN #ISLES

My StoryGraph 2025 Wrapped

Do you prefer your gingerbread Paleozoic, Mesozoic, or Cenozoic?

Other folks are doing a better job describing the community contributions of NCAR. But personally, the tutorials, resources, models, and collaborations that I had through NCAR were vital to my learning & doing atmospheric science and getting a PhD.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

The new GloSAT temperature dataset extends our observational estimates of global temperature change back to 1781 Blog: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/new-estima... Paper by Morice et al.: essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Excited for this paper to be out! With the collaboration of met services from Central America, we evaluate in detail the biases in gridded products that arise from the underlying station data, and the effect this has on the apparent emergence of regional drying trends. Thanks to all the co-authors!

November in NY was average to slightly cooler than average (albeit warmer than the avg Nov pre 1980) and drier than average outside of the lake impacted regions in Central NY and the ADKs.

🏆 CHAMPIONS AGAIN 🏆 GOTHAM FC are the 2025 NWSL Champions! 💙🖤 A clutch finish from Rose Lavelle sealed the 1–0 win and the crown. A night written into club history. YOUR 2025 CHAMPIONS. ✨

Hockey Fights Cancer Night at UBS

1,019 glaciers have disappeared since 1973 in Switzerland! ✝️ 1st nationwide assessment of vanished glaciers: >40% of the glaciers inventoried in 1973 ~13% (47±3 km²) of total glacier area loss! 🧊🔥 But, as it is based on the latest inventory (from 2016), the actual figures are far much higher! 📈 😰

The road leads straight to the NWSL Championship Presented by Google Pixel

JAEDYN SHAW IS THE DEFINITION OF CLUTCH!

Exciting news! Student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 are open! Are you a graduate student working on any aspect of past climates or environments? Apply to be part of our 2-week summer school in the eastern Sierra Nevada! More details here: paleoclimate.camp/apply

Faint Aurora Borealis over the Hudson River in Troy just now

Fully funded PhD projects available in my group (Please share with interested parties, details here: www.thefosterlab.org/blog/2025/11...):

Video shows lava shot over 1,000 feet into the air from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on Sunday. The impressive eruption was accompanied by a "volnado," or a tornado-like swirl of dust and ash caused by the contrast between the heated air near the lava and the cooler ambient air.

In light of the 50th anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, here is one of the cooler model case studies published. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... images from here since the orgininal resolution is low www.weather.gov/mqt/fitz_res...

Gotham FC with the upset extra time win in KC to advance to the semis!

i wanted a golden goal walk-off banger AND I GOT ONE

Exposure to thermal stress – whether from extreme heat or cold – poses risks to our health. The Thermal Trace app from #C3S helps everyone stay informed. Just select a date and location on the map, choose a variable & visualise or even download charts & data. ⬇️

A damaging hurricane in a warmer world How would a major hurricane that hit Jamaica in 1903 be different today, in a warmer world? It would drop more rain. (At least) climatelabbook.substack.com/p/a-damaging...

And so unto us, the word of the Lord "Go Bills"

Long Island's own, Marshall Warren! #Isles

My first main authored paper is out today! 🧪🔬 We explore the role that distant ENSO teleconnections to the North Atlantic have in interrupting the dynamics that link the NAO to winter SST variability in the Red Sea. Spoiler: they play a huge role! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #climate

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

My first main authored paper is out today! 🧪🔬 We explore the role that distant ENSO teleconnections to the North Atlantic have in interrupting the dynamics that link the NAO to winter SST variability in the Red Sea. Spoiler: they play a huge role! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #climate

This is cool - new paper from Hali Kilbourne et al. 'Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium-Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals' agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Just since 1970, 📍Albany, NY has warmed by 4.3°F. There is a clear way of knowing that this is human-caused climate change. @slapointewx.bsky.social walks you through the data 🔽 #ClimateMatters youtu.be/EofLTRuKU8o?...

Weather Prediction Center (WPC) has unveiled the experimental Urban Rain Rate Dashboard. It uses high-res model guidance to highlight where chances of intense rain rates are highest in major cities. It’s linked in “Forecast Tools” tab on the WPC home page. Direct link: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/urrd/

Update on this, there is always a way to make your irrelevant tangent relevant again

I’ve had the incredible opportunity to teach 2 weeks of an undergraduate oceanography class, which has so far been incredible. However, today I learned how easy it is to get way off track. After introducing katabatic winds and sea ice I somehow ended up telling the story of Orpheus and Eurydice…

Please send water

Our paper is out today in @aguadvances.bsky.social 🥳! My coauthors and I use a simulation spanning the Last Interglacial (~130,000 - ~115,000 years ago) to show how changes in Earth's orbit impact atmospheric river behavior and the ensuing impacts on the Greenland ice sheet. 🧪🥼⚒️❄️ 🧵

Online chatter suggests that the DOE Climate Change (Denying) Working Group has been disbanded and the report will be withdrawn. 😂 Seems that violating FACA and the Information Quality Acts have consequences. Not seen any official announcement though.

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report. This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Example: refuting one sentence.

Researchers at #UAlbany are tracking decades of climate history in the Adirondacks through lake mud. They found the region has made a near full recovery from metal pollution since the initiation of the Clean Air Act. Read more via @us.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/industrial-p...

Monitoring climate variables through 2024 - what long-term trends and variability do you see? 📈📉 #SOTC2024 #StateOfClimate Page S8: doi.org/10.1175/2025...

Just finished up a fantastic 4 days of meeting with collaborators at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.