...RECORD SNOWSTORM FOR PROVIDENCE RI... AS OF 1 PM, THE SNOWFALL TOTAL AT RHODE ISLAND T.F. GREENE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS 32.8 INCHES. THIS BROKE THE RECORD FOR THE GREATEST SINGLE SNOWSTORM ON RECORD, WHICH WAS 28.6 INCHES SET DURING THE BLIZZARD OF `78, ON FEBRUARY 6-7, 1978.

Might I suggest this plot for tomorrow’s daily feature @akrherz.bsky.social - over six hours of sustained blizzard conditions at PVD and JFK this morning!

storms like this are where CoCoRaHS observers really shine. There's truly no other way to get this density, quality, and richness of snowfall data! Browse yourself at maps.cocorahs.org?maptype=snow...

A stunning satellite shot of a powerful nor'easter.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

JACK HUGHES 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 rode the rollercoaster to end regulation, gets the golden goal

the idea that this game could be settled by 3-on-3 is sickening and perverse

Matt Boldy you magnificent bastard

Evening update on the major blizzard forecast to impact the coastal Mid-Atlantic and New England regions, as well as quickly recapping this past week's severe weather and record warmth. tinyurl.com/mvyw9y

The snow this week has been very welcome, but we’re still way behind for the winter. Coverage of the implications of low mountain snowpack in The Atlantic:

Quinn Hughes is from some other hockey planet

a 72-mph wind gust from a convective snowband in SW Colorado in February is not something you see every day/year! #cowx

Eight backcountry skiers have been found dead and one remains missing after an avalanche near Lake Tahoe in California, officials said Wednesday, making it the deadliest avalanche in the U.S. in more than four decades. https://to.pbs.org/3ZETVxp

Elana Meyers Taylor. Wins medals in 4 Olympics (bronze in 2010, silver in 2014/18/22) In 2020 & 2022, she has kids. Both have special needs. She lives on the road with them, flying around the world for months at a time to compete in bobsled. And THEN! At 41! She wins her first gold. American hero.

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

The most recent week of shows (plus a rotating catalog of older shows) is now always on Hulu and Peacock.

BOU upgrades Fire Weather Watch to Red Flag Warning valid at Feb 17, 10:00 AM MST till Feb 17, 7:00 PM MST Link

first legit mountain snowstorm since early December over the next few days. Bring it! ❄️ #cowx

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.

Didn’t have a mid-February thunderstorm in Grand Junction on my winter 2025-26 bingo card, but here we are

On a busy day for science policy, it looks like oversight and operations of NCAR’s supercomputing center are transitioning to a third-party operator. www.nsf.gov/news/transit... Lean more about the costs of dismantling NCAR with this opinion from @carlonimbus.bsky.social.

At the very least, everyone else has to start playing Duck, Duck, Gray Duck

January brought more warm conditions across Colorado, and the mountain snowpack is at its lowest levels in decades. Water Year 2026 is off to the warmest start of any water year on record for Colorado, by a large margin. To read more cheery climate details, here's the link to our January summary!

if the Colorado snowpack numbers from SNOTEL stations (52% of median) aren't low enough for you, they get even worse when looking at data across all elevations. Using the University of Arizona's SWE dataset, we're now below one-third of the usual snowpack (32.5%) as of February 9. #cowx

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Took a look today at how and why the weather has been so persistently warm in the West and cold in the East - h/t to @weatherwest.bsky.social and @rschumacher.cloud for their great recent posts summarizing the precarious state of Western snowpack that I highlight in my post. tinyurl.com/3zhzd5b4

The mountain snowpack so far this winter is in bad shape. Long-time Coloradans might remember two other terrible winters for snow: 1976-77 and 1980-81. Our latest blog post takes a look at how this year compares to those snow droughts of the past. #cowx

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

This a word cloud from the titles of ~1100 terminated NSF grants. It is hard not to see these grant terminations as an attack on the training of the future United States scientific workforce.

Fire at the Highway 93/72 intersection near Rocky Flats

based on my limited knowledge of Finnish, shouldn't the goalie's name (Ahola) be pronounced "AH-hull-ah", not "a-HOLE-uh" ? It's bugging me.

think everyone on this site deserves the chance to meet Bubbles

these numbers are...bad #cowx

Given the latest NOAA CBRFC inflow forecast for Lake Powell, I dusted off this plot from my Twitter days and updated it. The Feb 1st outlook for Colorado River flows hasn't been this poor in >35 years. Even if wetter weather ahead, bottom-10 outcome likely. h/t @glenwoodrek.bsky.social

hats off to the CoCoRaHS observers who measured some ridiculous snowfall totals near the coast in North Carolina. One comment: "Snow continues, drifts 26 to 50 inches. Difficult to measure due to extreme winds." 🫡

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

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.”

This day fucking sucks!

🧵SPC will be introducing new information in Convective Outlooks starting in early March. The following thread will offer some basic information regarding these changes. The TL;DR: outlook categories are not changing! But there will be more info for peak hazard intensity.

some of you may be aware that I am completely OCD about how to give a good research talk. this story may just be the very best thing I've ever read on the topic. the. best. ever.

An exceptional winter storm that has the Carolinas, eastern TN, and northeast GA in its sights will produce a swath of heavy snow, including potential blizzard conditions along the NC coast this weekend.

What sits with me after this week of #AMS2026 is that despite everything we’ve seen over the last 12 months, the science is resilient. It is hurt and handicapped and hamstrung but it endures. And the students, despite EVERYTHING **still** want to work for NWS or in broadcasting.

The timelines during the Guadalupe Flood are excruciating. A true “flash” flood. #AMS2026

Want to know what's wrong with your favorite precipitation dataset? Chances are I'll mention it in one of my two talks today at #AMS2026. This morning (10:45am), a look at extreme short-duration rainstorms, especially in the CONUS404 simulation.

Amir AghaKouchak summarizing his group’s many advances on impact-based drought monitoring and prediction in the #AMS2026 Horton lecture

More than 10,000 STEM PhD's have left or been fired from the federal workforce since Trump took office again. NSF, EPA, DOE and USFS hardest hit. www.science.org/content/arti...

@nws.noaa.gov Director Ken Graham presented on NOAA’s modeling grand challenge at #AMS2026 this morning. He announced that the NWS is moving to MPAS as its modeling dynamical core, with his #1 moonshot goal being a global, fully coupled 3-km Earth prediction system using MPAS.

Love this summary by Paul Markowski of Roger Wakimoto’s legacy of mesoscale observations - “observing the atmosphere with purpose” #AMS2026