Am I allowed to take an executive dysfunction day

help i can't tell where this sonde entered the updraft

5/9

You want me to send an email? The thing Jeffrey Epstein loved doing??

If most American journalists stopped listening to what the Trump administration was saying they would probably earn less money but we’d be better informed.

practicing my best ruler slant for this weekend

me when i swing 40-60 degrees in one diurnal cycle without a major front

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

He kept thinking of how great Minnesota was when he visited before Christmas. Then Oklahoma was 70 degrees in early January.

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

Accidentally typed "regression slop" instead of "slope" and I think we've found a new term for LLMs

I can tell you C IL into W IN needs a 5% tornado contour tomorrow because I left this morning

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

God bless all the SoM faculty and TAs affiliated with any class containing the word "climate"

Had a blast with some good friends today!

it appears that temperatures are happening

We love last-second blizzard warnings during our cross-country drives, absolutely fantastic

There is no way to stop climate change research at NCAR without doing irreparable damage to weather research. "The idea that you can just pull “vital” weather research activities out of a unique, vibrant scientific environment and expect that they will just continue to roll along is ludicrous."

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.

It's almost like they're doing what they said they'd do in a document they published 2 years ago.

actually i didnt need to go into the office this afternoon

I am simultaneously both of them

It turns out that PhD candidate life is much scarier than life beforehand

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

If we don't trust experts, we all will die Have a good weekend www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC6P...

A top fault of mine prior to this year was not being cynical enough about university leadership across the country

So stoked to finally be attending Main Character University during the Main Character Annihilation administration

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was

PhD s̶t̶u̶d̶e̶n̶t̶ candidate (and some celebratory fireworks)

From UNL Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Chair, Clint Rowe, on how the community can help make the case to the Univ. of Nebraska Board of Regents as to why their department should be retained:

It's pretty disorienting knowing how influential UNL's program is in meteorology while seeing this plan advance forward. They send an impressive fraction of their students into successful operational and research careers.

It took 6 months to nail down an edit I don't hate of Arnett...but I did it. Tough lighting and white-balancing act. But lord, what a beauty of a storm.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Happy first anniversary of that time we had to watch the clocks tick from 1:59 am to 1:00 am again in the middle of a tornado outbreak

Per NOAA/AOML/HRD’s Sim Aberson, the 219 kt reading will be the fastest wind ever measured by a dropsonde if it passes final quality-control checks.

The Braum's Enjoyer

Breakdown of time spent writing: Cohering a logical flow of ideas - 5% Pacing the room - 25% Googling synonyms to words I've already used - 70%

Satellite image of a beautiful midlatitude cyclone over the Great Lakes

This is not allowed. Gaslighting gaslighters nope stop it

Going through an old class project and found my pics of the complete transition from CI to (barely) tornadic supercell of the 4/19/23 Moore storm. Like, starting from the exact cumulus puff out west of Lawton (which was notably wider than its peers at conception)

The eyes of betrayal

my soft social media strike is taking a hiatus folks

The CSSL/NTP assisted the US National Weather Service (NWS) with their upgrading of the official rating of the June 2025 Enderlin, ND tornado from EF3 to EF5. Announced by the NWS today, it’s the first EF5-rated tornado in the US since 2013. Details here: uwo.ca/ntp/blog/202... Image B. Emfinger

just casually ending the ef5 streak too why not

I either need to stop going on walks or start going on a lot more

The Univ. of Nebraska’s Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences has established a webpage soliciting the community’s help in saving their program. Their hearing in front of campus admin is next Friday, Oct 10th. Please consider sharing why they’re essential! eas.unl.edu/save-earth-a...

Swept almost everything off my plate before my general exam starts this week and instead of stressed I feel...freer than I have in years