Burlington now has 4 days this winter where the wind chill was minus 20 degrees or colder🥶 That is twice the average for this decade, but less than half of what the average was prior to the 1990s📊

Dr. Preston was recently interviewed by New Hampshire newspaper @keenesentinel.bsky.social about last week's major snowstorm. 📰❄️⛄️

Important update about Congressional efforts to prevent the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from being dismantled. Last week the White House threatened to veto any appropriations bill that protects NCAR. Despite this attempt at intimidation ... (1/ )

For #ThrowbackThursday, we want to thank Lyndon ATM alumna and current Dartmouth Professor, Dr. Ari Varuolo-Clarke, for talking to our seminar class about hydroclimate variability and change last semester! #hydroclimate #pizzaseminar 🌎💧🍕

After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up. Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes. More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

On the 5th Anniversary of the failed January 6th insurrection attempt, we’re reminded how fragile democracy can be. We must remember the darkness of that day so it’s never repeated. As history is rewritten by some, we choose to speak the truth of what happened.

We had a superb group of Lyndon ATM alumni talk to our seminar class about graduate school last month! 🌪️❄️🌾🌎

Disappointing news out of Nebraska, where the University's Chancellor's Final Budget Reduction Plan continues to call for eliminating the Dept of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences - notably, against the recommendation of the university's Academic Planning Committee. budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...

Mark your calendars for an exciting upcoming webinar, hosted in collaboration with the American Meteorological Society (AMS) @ametsoc.org and The Climate Consensus (TCC): Blogospheric Science 101: Building Your Voice in the Atmospheric Arena.

Last month, retired NASA scientist, Dr. Dave Meyer, gave an in-person seminar about atmospheric remote sensing where he discussed NASA science missions and satellite instrumentation. 📡🛰️⭐️

🚨 Recruiting Two PhD/MS Students 🚨 I am looking to bring on at least two GRAs (M.S. or Ph.D. Level) beginning Spring or Fall 2026 to join our CHAOS research group. Research projects will be related to artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for extreme temperatures and rainfall

3…2…1…ACTION! College students! Get ready for The Climate Consensus Video Contest! From Sept 1st through Oct 31st, you can submit a video for a chance to win up to $100! This year’s theme: Climate Feedback Loops. Learn more by visiting theclimateconsensus.org/2025-video-c...

Day 4: This was our big field trip day to Burlington! GIV students got to see the operations area at NWS Burlington and watch a live broadcast @wcax.com. We had lunch at Oakledge Park before heading back to the Lyndon campus for a Twisters movie night! #Burlington #NWS #WCAX #Twisters

Day 3: We had a fantastic time with Mark Breen during our tour of the Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium. GIV students learned about climate change and its impacts on local farms like Chandler Pond Farm. Students also heard from Solphi Veltrop at the Vermont Climate Action Office. #climateaction

As we wrap up the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, this week’s Fun Fact Friday focuses on corals. Coral reefs are not only a fun vacation destination, but are also one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems.

Day 2: VT high schoolers at the GIV Weather & Climate Science Institute discussed midlatitude cyclones, contoured weather maps, learned about severe weather and storm chasing with a tornado chamber demonstration, and enjoyed a fun Kahoot review session. #severewx #tornadoes

We are excited to share pictures of our week-long GIV Weather & Climate Science Institute! Day 1: Move-in day! After unpacking, VT high schoolers played icebreaker games, toured the Lyndon campus, learned about recent flooding events, and attended a “Meet your RAs” panel. #vermontsummer

Check out the @wcax.com news story about the Lyndon crew’s recent storm chasing trip! 🚐⛈️🌪️📸 #greatplains #supercells #tornadoes #vtsulyndon

Love this! 🙌 Students from GIV's Weather & Climate Science Institute learning from VTSU Lyndon's Atmospheric Sciences Professor Ari Preston and our awesome alums at WCAX! Such a cool way to connect science, media, and mentorship!

Just in: U.S. just saw it's 2nd-warmest #spring on record. Find summary and stats + map images from our report at: www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/nationa... via NOAA's NCEI

Read our full statement at: theclimateconsensus.org/tcc-statement

Congratulations to the Lyndon Atmospheric Sciences Class of 2025! Bravo! We will miss you! 👏🎉🎓

What we feared is now happening. This isn’t hypothetical anymore. This is real. Cuts to NOAA are putting American lives at risk, plain and simple. We’re witnessing the consequences in real time. 📢 Call on Congress to immediately restore NOAA's full funding and staffing. #SaveNOAA

With climate change, drought and overuse have left the Colorado River system in crisis, since the need for water far exceeds availability, with more than 40 million people across the United States and Mexico relying on it.

@noaa.gov's hurricane forecasts are more accurate than ever, with 3-day forecasts now as precise as 1-day forecasts were in 2002. But funding cuts threaten this progress, just ahead of hurricane season. buff.ly/Oo51kTp @coweatherman.bsky.social. University of Wisconsin-Madison

Politics is not a game. It involves people's lives. And those making political decisions are not merely in power, they have an obligation to serve. You do not recklessly experiment using power you only steward. Many political decisions cannot be simply reversed.

I don't care how different our worldviews are, I will never wish a tragedy on someone else. Seeing posts about people deserving a tornado or a flood because they voted a certain way makes me want to rage. That's not how we build community. That's how we get more divided than we already are.

Over the last decade, 90% of American counties have been impacted by extreme weather disasters. Without the data, tools, and expertise from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), proactive mitigation of the worst extreme weather events would not be possible.

“The kind of biblical worldview Jesus wants you to have is inseparable from the kind of heart Jesus wants you to have.” —Michael Wear, The Spirit of Our Politics

I wouldn't be surprised if one of Musk's lackeys used a Monte Carlo resampling approach to determine the optimal set of meteorological whose removal maximally decreases NWS forecasting skill.

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...

Shoutout to the @lyndonamsnwa.bsky.social executive board for all their hard work this weekend for #NESC2025!!!!!!

Did you know? The NOAA Tsunami Program operates "to notify emergency managers, the public, and other partners about the potential for a tsunami following a possible tsunami-generating event." For every event. Why? It's just as important to know there's NO threat as to know when there IS a threat.

Evil beyond words.

@noaa.gov provides lifesaving science, service and stewardship to the nation. #SaveNOAA is a group of terminated NOAA employees fighting for reinstatement to continue to deliver Americans these critical services. #SaveNOAA #NOAAStrong #NOAA #Science #Fed #FedEmployees #Federal #Layoffs

The way of the cross. The way of Jesus. The way of humility, service and preference of others. The way of dying to self & rising with Christ. There’s no other following. This has been the stunning forfeiture in this generation’s discipleship & we have borne its fruit. In repentance we regather joy.

Did you know? NOAA's Weather Prediction Center issues Key Messages ahead of inclement weather like this week's Central U.S. winter storm. Key Messages add value to official outlooks by highlighting impacts and timing of hazards to support people in making decisions. www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov

Please see our full statement below in support of the NOAA/NWS federal agency. 🌎🌈 #standupforscience

I think the events of the past 4 days just put @katharinehayhoe.com's Saving Us at the top of my reading list... Once I'm done, if any of my students would like to borrow it, let me know!

When walking on the street, I think we’d all agree that shady trees can provide nice relief from extreme heat days, particularly in cities! It turns out that this relief is not as widely available in the Global South compared to the Global North. (1/6)

⚡️ Polish PM Tusk says Ukraine 'not alone' after Trump-Zelensky clash. "Dear Volodymyr Zelensky, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on X following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump's clash on Feb. 28.