THEY. WERE. DOING. THIS. WITHOUT. PAY. NOAA’s hurricane hunter pilots (and Kermit The Frog hanging from the control panel) fly into Hurricane Melissa. Extraordinary bravery, saving lives. (🎥 Cmdr. Danielle Varwig, NOAA Corps).

🚀 Exciting news! The SciPy 2025 Proceedings are officially published: 👉 proceedings.scipy.org/2025 Huge thanks to the Proceedings Committee, @curvenote.com, Jim Weiss, all the authors, and reviewers who made this happen. 🙌

In Opinion When Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica on Tuesday, the island "experienced something near to the worst tropical cyclone impacts our planet can produce," writes meteorologist Alan Gerard. "I have little doubt that climate change is contributing to more significant meteorological events."

Our new study finds that the upper atmosphere is becoming more sheared and less stratified because of climate change. Both these changes are making the air less stable and more conducive to turbulence. Published in the November issue of Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. doi.org/10.1175/JAS-...

Texas Tech Geosciences is hiring two open-rank Atmospheric Science faculty positions in Precipitation Hazards, and in Data Science; part of an interdisciplinary, multi-year Atmospheric Hazards Strategic Hire. See the details for the Precipitation and Data Science positions and join us in fall 2026!

“Getting hit by a hurricane is never good. But getting hit by a hurricane that’s not moving is so much worse.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/hurr...

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/

NPR ran a story last night about NSF terminating funding for AI focused meteorology research & the (IMO) insane explanation they got from OMB. I shared my perspective on this and our continued insistence to shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to scientific R&D. tinyurl.com/2kzujwz8

The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org! Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2 www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

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.

Building on our historical strengths while positioning ourselves for emerging opportunities.

Honoring and remembering the brave men and women who lost their lives on Sept. 11. We will never forget.

🚨 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

Am I an idiot or is this a stupidly bad turing test

We at GSL are excited for NSSL’s three new MPAS configurations! For the first time, their runs and ours are using a common code base, the result of 18+ months of development by both groups (plus NCAR too). MPAS-HTPO vs our MPAS_RRFSA (MPAS-G on PivotalWx) is an initial conditions comparison (1/2)…

Why yes.. someone has studied the defecation patterns of seabirds while in flight... www.cell.com/current-biol...

🌎 Fresh data just in from space: the first results from the Microwave Sounder and Radio Occultation Sounder onboard @eumetsat.int’s MetOp-SG-A1 satellite are here, after less than a month in orbit: esa.int/Applications... 📸Eumetsat

Hundreds of old EV batteries have new jobs in Texas: Stabilizing the grid. After reaching the end of their automotive lives, the batteries are being reused to provide lower-cost grid energy storage. grist.org/energy/hundr... #climate #Batteries #EV #Energy #Texas #TX

The hiatus was a lesson! Can we please stop saying “surprising” when we mean “kind of interesting?” [and completely consistent with the range of internal variability an ensemble of models will produce] www.theguardian.com/environment/... agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Downburst city

Finally pushed a full 1.0.0 (not release candidate) to PyPI and conda-forge. This also means that: mamba install sharplib conda install sharplib Work now (assuming you have conda-forge set as your primary channel). There is also now a Dask/Xarray/kerchunk example notebook for HRRR data!

🧵 The Dragon Bravo Fire, ignited by a lightning strike on July 4, 2025, on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. As of August 11 the blaze has burned more than 143,000 acres and reached 44% containment as firefighting efforts continue.

It's still too early to determine what impacts Erin may bring to the northern Leeward Islands, Bermuda, or the east coast of the U.S. As we approach the climatological peak of the hurricane season, this is a great time to put your preparedness plans into place. hurricanes.gov for the latest.

The cost of maintaining the two OCO satellite missions up in space is a small fraction of the amount of money taxpayers already spent to design and launch the instruments

I missed seeing this yesterday. In case you missed it too. It appears the hiring freeze prevented a position for a meteorologist embedded with TDEM from being filled. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Saturday severe weather: Multiple damaging wind swaths are possible from Saturday into Saturday night, centered on central/southern Wisconsin, central/eastern Iowa, and northwest Illinois. Multiple rounds of large hail are possible across eastern Colorado starting in the late afternoon.

Houston AFD this morning belongs in the AFD hall of fame. forecast.weather.gov/product.php?...

These errors extend to real tasks as well. I was using gpt5 unknowingly yesterday trying to configure an SMB share and adding it to fstab in nofail mode. The LLM made up several Linux packages (as usual) and after a few minutes I got“you’ve hit your gpt5 limit” which surprised me

If you’ve seen Apollo 13, then you know “power is everything.” Building a nuclear reactor on the Moon might sound like a crazy idea. It is not.

NWS staff were told yesterday that the administration has designated most employees as "public safety" and exempt from the hiring freeze. Good news - but it's step 1.5 of fixing a crisis of their own making. More here: https://tinyurl.com/4jxzu83z

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨 Please RT this so as many people see it as possible. forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...

Passed my @ttu.edu Atmospheric Science M.S. defense today! Excited to continue on to a PhD with my advisor, @deeplycloudy.bsky.social, looking at lightning with phased array radars

NWS is hiring! The first of several top-priority, mission-critical positions posted Friday on USAJobs.gov! Others will follow soon. Visit USAJobs.gov and search “NWS” to learn more.

The first set of vacancy announcements for the @nws.noaa.gov since the exception was granted are now out for the #ElectronicsTechnician positions (0856 series), with announcements open through #August 8th. More announcements are expected in the weeks ahead. #hiring www.usajobs.gov/Search/Resul...

July 25-26th, 1979: Tropical Storm Claudette stalled over Alvin, Texas, inundating the town with 45 inches of rain in 42 hours. The total included 43 inches in 24 hours, which is the 24-hour rainfall record for the mainland U.S.

Would love to see the WFOs come over as well

Outstanding captures of bolt-from-the-blue lightning flashes by Dan Robinson @stormhighway.bsky.social showing the negative end of the bipolar leader typically exits the upper positive charge region and travels to ground outside the storm causing a -CG return stroke. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1c...

NOAA is now clear to proceed with both volumes of what is known as Atlas 15, which will show people their flash flood risk now and in a warming world, through FY 2026. www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/w...

🧪 Good news, for now at least. Senate Appropriations Committee passes the Commerce, Justice and Science Bill. NSF: flat funding, not -55% as requested by Trump! NIST, NOAA, NASA get strong support, R's push back cuts requested by Trump. Summary: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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Hi All - We are convening a session at AGU this December, please share with your groups and consider submitting to our session! @ltgbug.bsky.social #lightning #AGU2025

We have reached peak work life balance. Good thing it’s Microsoft Teams exclusive, so it’ll never work.

I am trying to find the center of the ridge can anyone please tell me where it is I cannot find it

I still can't get over the fact that "panels you point at sky and make electricity from sunlight with no fuel is the cheapest source of energy" needed explanation.

Some of the experimental products that we are developing at the WPC to track heavy precip objects (precipitation regions of interest above a certain threshold) for the region on the the hourly and sub-hourly timescales using the HRRR: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ensemble-qpf...

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

Update, this just happened today. I would describe this as unnecessary warning fatigue.

Interview I did with @npr.org Here and Now on emergency warning system as related to the recent floods in Texas. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...