The National Weather Service is now hiring for both entry-level and seasoned meteorologist positions. Apply by January 29! The entry-level positions are available in: ▪️ Houston, TX ▪️ Ft. Worth, TX ▪️ Hastings, NE ▪️ Great Falls, MT ▪️ Marquette, MI Apply: www.usajobs.gov/job/854675700

The challenge is that due to various quirks of American governance, there's no guarantee that congressionally appropriated funds are actually allocated as per legislation. Most "cuts" in 2025 stemmed not from funding decreases but non-disbursement of extant funds for partisan political reasons.[1/2]

‘It’s the continued existence of the normative state that lulls a population to sleep. It makes you discount the warnings of others. “Surely,” you say to yourself, “things aren’t that bad. My life is pretty much what it was.”’ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

NSF needs to hear from you. Among other points, I suggested: keep politics out of science; stop using the threat of cancelling scientific grants to try to control universities; increase NSF funding for fundamental research. Pls send around. Deadline is January 27. Thanks www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

Although we need everyone to call their representatives, the most important voices to reach are Senators from Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, North Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming who have voiced support for weather and climate research in the past. 3/

The entire region experienced much above average (top 10%) to record-warm #temperatures in December. For weather monitoring sites with at least 50 years of data, 50 of 60 sites in Utah had a record-warm December, 31 of 75 sites had records in Colorado, and 34 of 46 sites had records in Wyoming. #wx

Just got 3 review requests in the span of 30 minutes 🙃

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

🚨 @aguscipolicy.bsky.social shares via email that the Senate may vote on a #SaveNCAR amendment TODAY 🚨 "By the end of this week, we may have a bill funding NSF that includes a safety net for NCAR." Use our call script to contact your Senators: wclivestream.com/act/

NEW: I obtained internal emails from the Department of Energy's climate working group. They show the group plotting to produce a second misleading climate report, DOE officials avoiding public disclosure laws, DOE peer reviewers stating they weren't qualified: www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

one defense of CBA has always been that it forces admins to be explicit about their values.... "Over the past four decades, Republican and Democratic administrations have used different estimates of the monetary value of a human life... But until now, no administration has counted it as zero."

Snowpack across much of West was at record or near-record low levels for most of Dec. Despite recent local recovery--esp. in central/southern Sierra in California--it remains extremely low most everywhere else. Record low snowpack may return by later in Jan w/this pattern.

First time attending an @ametsoc.org Annual Meeting or just need a refresher on what to expect during your time in Houston? Join me and fellow colleagues from the AMS Board for Early Career Professionals on Tuesday as we host a free webinar leading up to the big Annual Meeting! #AMS2026

Great that Congress is funding, but exec orders and reorgs strengthening political control over the merit review process still seem to be place. If NIH is flat funded but funds are directed to re-evaluating the germ theory of disease in line with HHS leadership’s skepticism, win is quite limited

The battle to save NCAR has faded from the headlines, but it is not over. www.eenews.net/articles/tak... Call your Congressional reps and ask them to add language explicitly protecting NCAR to the spending package: 5calls.org/issue/ncar-n...

Only if Congress decides to assert its authority though. Otherwise Congress’s appropriations power is about as useful as Congress’s power to declare war seems to have become.

Just a reminder to everyone looking at the congressional budget and seeing $24b for NASA: No, everything is not just fine. NASA is not just space and science, it's also people. And more than 4000 of those people, out of over 17000 at the start of 2025, are now gone. It will take years to recover.

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.

Want functioning insurance markets and real climate forecasts? Then you want NCAR intact. Post today - for insurance sector forwarding. Banks, too - susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/trump-targ...

Similarly, the House NOAA budget matches the Senate which does not cut funding. AGAIN, this is just the text of the bill. Call your reps to support the new bills. AGU hs a nice comparison from last year. These new numbers agree with the Senate's who ignored the president's (Vought's) proposed cuts.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

US federal agencies and universities have spent 2025 in turmoil go.nature.com/44rwQ46

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Some reflections after returning back from a conference at which I and 20,000 colleagues learned that the Trump administration intends to dismantle #NCAR. This outrage should not happen. deepconvection.substack.com/p/save-ncar

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

🚨 AL, AK, FL, LA, MS, NC, TX residents — NCAR needs YOUR help! Call your Senator to #SaveNCAR today: wclivestream.com/act/

New AMS Statement: Dismantling NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research would weaken U.S. leadership in weather, water, and climate science, putting public safety at risk. For more than 60 years, NSF NCAR has improved forecasts and early warnings that save lives. More: https://bit.ly/4q6eChn

⚡️ Stop the Dismantling of NCAR the Worlds Leading Climate Lab and Protect Critical Weather Research Infrastructure ⚡️ Call your Representatives 202-224-3121 Then please send this letter Text SIGN PJPETE to 50409 @resist.bot

This is not just "NCAR boosterism," folks. There are multiple empirical measures by which this is correct--and also, if you took a random sampling of atmospheric & Earth scientists from around the world, I'd bet that a substantial majority of them would agree. NCAR is truly irreplaceable.

Happening today at #AGU25 #SaveNCAR

🚨 Late breaking update! 🚨 We'll be joined by @neguse.house.gov, who will be giving brief remarks on news of threats to NCAR during this #AGU25 session at 5:30 CT in E-2. Join us!

AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:

For people represented by Republicans who want ways to talk about NCAR's work when calling, NCAR's description of research benefits is good. Monitoring space weather to protect the grid, predicting wildfires, travel safety, agriculture, hail, tornadoes, hurricanes... researchworks.ucar.edu

🚨PSA🚨 A government restricting what scientists are allowed to study has NEVER been a sign of a society moving towards a more free, more just, or more enlightened future. A thriving scientific ecosystem is a core pillar of a healthy democracy.

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.

NCAR provides the facilities, tools, & data critical for atmospheric sci education & research. Leading computer models of the Earth System are developed here. The training, continuing education, & sci exchanges NCAR makes possible are irreplaceable. Its dismantling would be chaotic & devastating.

🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.

The US National Science Foundation is relaxing some of its requirements for the review of grant proposals in an effort to cope with a backlog of applications and reduced staff numbers go.nature.com/3MF8aPm

Highlighted in a recent Weather and Forecasting article, scientists used manually gathered snowfall data from across the West to train a new model that outperforms existing weather prediction models. Read more on how they used high-quality data to train the model: https://bit.ly/499Pb7l

GWC training season is here, ya'll -- and we're kicking off with a new kind of event to answer your requests for more time to learn about radar! 🥳⛈️📡 More info in thread ⬇️, but all the details also at girlswhochase.com/radarworkshop

I still can’t believe the National Science Foundation is being forced to move out of their brand new, purpose-built building because the HUD secretary thought his building was ugly. The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.

I will use this screenshot and quote until at least Twisters 3 (Twistier? Twister^3?) comes out #AGU25

"The 450 hires for the NWS won’t even cover the full shortfall...Also, let’s not lose sight of the fact that even if NWS could hire 450 people tomorrow...there is little chance that they would have the centuries of experience held by their predecessors."

The planet is cooling but it’s also warming and the warming is beneficial but it’s not caused by humans and also it’s all China’s fault but sure it’s the *scientists* who are bad communicators

Although I won’t be at AGU this year 😢, I recommend attending our Bridging the Gap from Climate to Extreme Weather sessions! Starting bright and early on Monday morning ☀️☕️ we have an awesome line up of talks/posters including many students! #AGU25

We could have eliminated Hepatitis B infection in the US… …instead we are going to let newborn babies risk 90% chance of chronic infection that cause liver failure and cancer so that a few incredibly stupid adults - who are all vaccinated btw - can force their selfish science denial on other people

It’s deep in the Daily Nebraskan article but TL:DR. Nebraska regents are idiots.

Sad to see that my colleagues in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at UNL saw their combined department eliminated late this afternoon by the UNL Board of Regents. No more meteorology no more geology at UNL. Words escape me!