Is this coming? 🐻⌚️

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Views of the Aurora from mountain point (south of Ketchikan) at 5:30 am on Jan 20. It covered the entire sky and was flickering and pulsing. Incredible 😍 #AlaskaSky

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Fairbanks airport low temperature Tuesday thru 7am has been -45F (-42.8C), making this the 21st day thus far this winter with a low temperature of -40F/C or lower. This is the most since the winter of 1970-71. #akwx #Climate #Winter2026 @leahwrenn.bsky.social @carrieinfbx.bsky.social

The guidance, starting with the GFS days ago, has been indicating a convective low southwest of Mexico. Something is there now, so let’s see what happens. 🐻⌚️🍿

The 5-day forecast for sea ice in the Bering Sea shows ice making it to St. Paul Island earlier than any date in the prior 27 years. It will then quickly retreat with a southerly flow. @alaskawx.bsky.social

First 5pm sunset in a while. Spring, here we come…

A semi-convective low moving through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. 🐻⌚️

Kuujjuarapik & La Grande IV sites in Quebec set Dec low pressure records this morning when their MSLP fell into the low to mid 960s hPa. Inukjuak’s MSLP fell to 955.7 hPa, an all-time record. POR starts in 1937. The cyclone’s CP fell to 951 hPa at 15z, before moving west into Hudson Bay.

The latest reported snow depth at the Juneau Airport is 37". This is higher than any of the 6-hour snow depths in the ASOS era (2001-present) and larger than any of the once daily values since March 11, 1972. @alaska.bsky.social @alaskawx.bsky.social

Here are a few back of the napkin stats for cold in Alaska this month. @alaskawx.bsky.social Coldest since 2010: Anchorage, Talkeetna, Homer, King Salmon, McGrath Coldest since 1980: Fairbanks, Bettles, Eagle, Delta Junction Coldest since 1964: Juneau

With a powerful cold front coming through the country, we can see this on the hourly pressure changes from METAR stations. Very easy to see the rising pressure as the front passes! About to be very cold for a lot of people

Look at this weird cloud

Breaking news. :p

Obligatory pic of glass gone bottom up. For Gander #YQX, official minimum sea level pressure 949.7 mb this evening marks the lowest since Feb 9, 1964 (when the all-time low of 946.9 mb occurred). Data since 1959. Rebound will be swift: 50 mb rise next 12 hrs. Thus, wind! #nlwx

Dec and all-time low pressure records are expected Wed between southeast B.C. and southern Sask. The records were set <1970, so NCEP reanalysis percentiles/anomalies will be overblown. Short period record sites, like Baudette & Park Rapids MN, could see new December low pressure records too.

The cyclone that broke the December low pressure record at Gander Newfoundland (and Labrador) by 7 hPa. The record is at least 950.1 hPa now. The last time the site broke a monthly low pressure record was all the way back on November 4, 2025.

1001 cyclone near the Virginia Capes

Happy anniversary to the snow squall

AIFS Ensemble plots are now available on PolarWx for a limited number of map projections: polarwx.com/models/?mode...

We’re here for the inversions.

Rainfall reports and radar estimates (shaded map) are displayed below for the Southern Plains heavy rain event. Several locations saw 5-7 " rainfall accumulations, leading to several flash flood warnings and a flash flood emergency.

Interesting convective feature north of the Leewards

Officially a top-5 latest first snow in Denver as of today. We are a lock to move into the top-3, though we may finally (and probably marginally) snap this skid later this week. #COwx

2/2 (Really hope this comes through & not distorted) I expected it to have a corkscrew motion but not quite - tho the timelapse was at the end of the event. I’m assuming there was a local rotor that had enough moisture to get some condensation. Curious if anyone else has seen anything like this?

Was just hit by a terrain-induced convective shower in San Francisco’s Twin Peaks neighborhood, the first I’ve experienced in my time living here. The marine layer typically limits surface convection along the San Francisco Peninsula, but it’s nonexistent today, making these showers possible. #CAwx

An unusually strong storm system will bring widespread rain to southern California through Sunday. The period of most concern is tonight through Saturday night when a large area of heavy rain and isolated but potentially severe thunderstorms will bring a moderate risk of... (1/2)

Disturbed weather continues to exist near Central America near the tail end of a front.

I'm loving this view tonight!

I may have just witnessed my first aurora from the light pollution of northeast NJ no less

Big red pillar clearly naked eye visible to the northwest from Urbana, IL #Aurora

Better than anything I saw last year!

Desert aurora from Phoenix! #AZwx

Joining the party... Acton, MA

Another one today

I first wrote and cron’d the script that makes these @NWSSPC upper air maps in November 1998. It’s been running and making the twice-daily UA maps for the past 27 years at this URL: www.spc.noaa.gov/obswx/maps/. That’s over 138,000 maps online and it’s still going!

Just now

The Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska and northwest of Canada, has been slow to freeze over this autumn, with the rate of increase of sea ice extent way below normal since early October. Sea ice is slowly growing and expanding in the Chukchi and Bering Seas. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce

A local Maryland Dwarf Holly has berries now.

Our first pre 5pm sunset here. It recedes to 4:45 in early December before returning to 5pm January 5.

Managed to find this pair of Long-eared Owls this morning down at the lake. I've known this pair has called the lake home for a while now, but they've been extremely ellusive until now! #birds #raptors

Sunset

I can't believe I have to post this, but in these uncertain times, it's better to be prepared.

Bumper crop of vultures at Hughes in Gburg. It’s still unclear if they’re using the windows for their reflection or hunting something up there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pressure trace from the Red Island Shoal in Placentia Bay, wow, 945 mb. Radar image at that time. #nlwx

St. Pierre, in “oceanic France” just south of Newfoundland, dropped to 946 hPa as this cyclone passed by at 5pm their time (2000 UTC). They do not seem to be part of the “funky” Newfoundland time zone.

Disturbed weather moving west-northwest through the northwest Caribbean.

Sometimes when you go to take a fall foliage picture, it reverses on you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯