14-day Power Outage Loop. Still ~20,000 without power from the ice storm in Mississippi! x.com/PowerOutage_...

Does anyone have todo list app recommendations? Preferably (in order of priority): - not a subscription - nested lists - separate lists - notifications/reminders - local or self-hosted

hackers took over Notepad++ update servers and distributed a malicious update for the app. The update servers were vulnerable for roughly six months 😬 www.theverge.com/tech/872462/...

Oh! “A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.”

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154... #SaveNCAR

Presented my work on CCN and ECAPE effects on sea breeze convection this morning at #AMS2026! Publication soon (hopefully) stay tuned!

well we’re off to a “great” start

US weather for any AMS annual meeting in all of recorded history

A while a go I saw a post (I can’t remember if it was here or the other place) about someone working on an nvidia driver for macOS/arm…? Did I imagine this? or does anyone else know what I’m talking about? because I can’t find it now..

For the first time ever, Texas got more power from solar than coal last year.

It really is amazing how cheap this stuff is getting

Twenty-five years ago, Wikipedia was an unlikely idea: a place where anyone could share free knowledge. Today, it’s one of the most visited sites on Earth, not powered by corporate ads, but by people.

Through the magic of Making The Same Mistake Twice™, rsync creates directory structure and files when backing up to an external drive… but all of the files are zero bytes. Today I learned this is not a file system type issue—it just happened backing up to an ext4-formatted drive

Well, it's now official (per NOAA): Dec (and Nov-Dec) 2025 were the warmest such periods on record for Western U.S. (and also for most individual Western states). It has been an extraordinarily sustained period of winter warmth, and this eerily balmy winter continues into Jan.

🎉xmACIS2Py 2.0 Released🎉 xmACIS2Py 2.0 is now on pip and Anaconda with A LOT of new features and updates! xmACIS2Py 2.0 Examples: Data Access & Analysis: github.com/edrewitz/xmA... Graphical Summaries: github.com/edrewitz/xmA... #python #data #climate #weather #climatology #analysis #stats

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

The Chevy Volt is now the McRib of cars.

Have we thought about quantifying inversions vs “how far away can ground clutter be seen”?

At the $100 level I'll let you play with the weather modification tool we all use.

So someone with more knowledge on this please explain to me… the SJC bill doesn’t include any specific language protecting NCAR, but it shouldn’t have to, right? Vought can’t legally terminate NCAR now, so adding specific wording about NCAR to the bill doesn’t protect it any more? (1/2)

Breaking: House releases FY26 budget directive doc for science agencies. Rejects elimination of NOAA Research, but moves key Wx research programs including phased array radar to NWS. Also directs NOAA to report on need for new “extreme weather” federal R&D center. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

NSF also only gets a 3% cut and there is language protecting indirect rates. NCAR doesn't get any explicit mentions, just that the administration has to give Congress 30 days notice before any drastic changes.

Freaking spectacular sunset over Champaign-Urbana this evening. Stepped outside with the dog and saw everything glowing orange, lucky enough to get the drone in the air in time to snap a few photos before the colors faded. Looks like there’s even a sun pillar tucked in there.

Next time post a SHA-256 and then publish the story after

13 years ago, I bought a copy of Minecraft for $26.99. The fact that the game today includes both Java and Bedrock for $29.99 and has received 13 years of free updates is incredible.

good news! I have finally organized all* of my openSCAD projects used to design things and published them on github bad news! * = last week I wiped my laptop to upgrade fedora 42 -> 43 and switch KDE -> cosmic. I didn't need to wipe, I just felt like it. I failed to back up any of my projects!

Got so excited to deploy/upgrade to python 3.14.2 today and it immediately blew up my webfarm sigh with memory leaks.... debug debug debug and lo and behold, I believe the trouble is here with httpx + python 3.14.2 github.com/encode/httpx... uffff

great read!

“Applied, commercializable outcomes” is EXACTLY what UCAR does???? That’s like, all they do? Has anyone told them what the C stands for?? Mind-boggling.

NOAA has started terminating grants to UCAR under the UCAR/NOAA Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Program (CAMP).

I guess I’m a Texas Tech fan now

🚨 METEOROLOGICAL JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 In response to the deadly flooding event that occurred in the Texas Hill Country this past summer, TTU has received $24M from the state legislature to develop and implement a weather measurement and modeling system to serve the state.

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

I had to get my thoughts out on the NCAR news, and 1200 words is a bit over the character limit here.. So I took my first shot at writing on Substack about how terrible this decision is. Give it a read/share if you have a moment, and write your representatives! open.substack.com/pub/dbissell...

OMBs statement masquerading as the NSF: www.nsf.gov/news/intent-...

Well this is awful -- the latest Raspberry Pi OS release requires the latest github tag build or the built in username, SSH key, localization, etc. dont work... (even the download on the website doesn't work) github.com/raspberrypi/...

If you’re going to buy an RTL-SDR blog receiver, I HIGHLY recommend getting a $3 USB extension cable from Amazon (or preferably, your local electronics store if that’s an option). I’ve had to re-solder the USB connector on my older V3 like 4 times now because of the weight distribution

TIL (after being forced to use a mouse for a bit) you can hold Shift to scroll horizontally with a mouse scroll wheel in any application on macOS. Who knew?!

Timelapse of splitting supercells from 28 April 2025 youtu.be/vPrHbksRB1Q?...

Broke: Miami over Notre Dame Woke: Both of them over Alabama

This is bad for the sport.

If I’m picking Indiana Georgia Ohio State Texas Tech Oregon Texas A&M Ole Miss Oklahoma Miami BYU Tulane James Madison

University of Nebraska formally ends its storied meteorology program, furthering concerns about the future of the atmospheric science academic sector. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Quite the canting angle with some light graupel falling out of this cloud here in Lubbock. Unfortunately it is too small (probably sublimated a lot before it got here) for my camera to pick up

Satellite Imagery xkcd.com/3173/

*sigh* perhaps this is absolute insanity. I hope texas makes it to the CFP now just so that we have another chance of knocking them out of it.

Spack v1.1.0 and spack-packages v2025.11.0 are out! 🥳Features: 🏗️ Compiler control (unmixing, %%) 📦 Improved externals ⬇️ Git fetching 😌 Configurable config 👩🏻‍🔬Experimental: 👩🏻‍💻 New parallel console UI 🏎️ Concretization caching More here! github.com/spack/spack/...