Generally not a huge storm chase anniversary person but shoutout to the Silverton, TX storm 2 years ago today, perhaps my most relaxed/serene tornado encounter.

Breaking: Judge Jackson blocks NSF from dismantling NCAR. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...

Will Ferrell cracking Paul McCartney mid-performance has to be like a top 5 thing that's ever happened www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaWF...

Frontlit views of dry hailfall were pretty nuts on Thursday. The left photo looks to be afflicted with ISO grain, but zoom in to any tiny area and it's actually just millions of hailstones.

Welcome to Colorful Colorado

Masterful gambit HRRRDAS sir

Video after the tornado crossed the road to our south 2/2

Video of a tornado this afternoon between St. Paul and St. Libory, NE, sampled by NSSL as part of LIFT field project 1/2

A lot of hard, careful, methodical work has gone into this survey. It’s always sobering to observe this level of damage, but we will learn a lot from studying this event.

NEWS: House released its FY27 detailed draft budget report doc for science agencies, increasing NWS ops budget by 8%. It would also reject Trump admin plans to eliminate NOAA Research, direct admin not to close any NOAA labs or institutes & increase weather research funds. tinyurl.com/2s4mcd2w

Time lapse of a brief tornado on the 26th near dusk north of Pawhuska, #OKwx in the frustrating terrain of Osage Co. for an NSSL lidar deployment. But we managed to scan it, and I'm officially not skunked for 2026.

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Whoever put this display up in the NWC is a real one

Well, NSSL HailCam finally got 2026 Hail on Cam tonight near Cleburne, #TXwx

Not sure I want to know how many tornadoes, confirmable or not, have happened in this thing over the last 45 minutes

absolutely zonked

It's almost like they said they'd do this over a year before the election in some sort of Project

ICYMI: certainly seems the Trump Administration is working to reduce federal science regardless of Congressional intent and support, with actions ranging from dismantling USFS science programs to just dribbling budget allocations to agencies like NSF, NOAA and NIH. More: tinyurl.com/bdex4tdu

i guess those celebrating soras death didnt get the memo that some of us need daily personalized greetings from james bond—for mental health

When in Lubbock

A reviewer sent one of the best compliments I've ever received today and I'm going to ride that ego boost as far as it'll take me

From a forecast communication standpoint, this event highlights the asymmetric costs of false alarms and missed events on trust - perceived repeated false alarms can chip away at forecast trust but a single perceived missed event can devastate trust (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) 11/16

Pro gaming

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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