I can’t even begin to describe how demoralizing it is to work not knowing when my next paycheck will be, only to see those who can actually do something about it take recess while getting paid and saying shit like “See? You don’t even notice a shutdown because the govt is broken” to constituents.

The modern baseball lasts an average of 2.5 pitches before being taken out of play forever. In the pitch-clock era, it's astronomically shorter than the shortest lifespan of anything in the animal kingdom. http://dlvr.it/TN8MFK

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Did I just catch AF1?

That’s a little strange. Some sorta survey or something I guess?

Anyone know what this is / what caused it?

This week I’ve been participating in a phased array radar testbed and I’ll say this: if this agency does ultimately choose to fully invest in PAR as the future of weather radar, that future is certainly bright.

No take-backsies, sorry.

Took three months but the Pirates finally did something right

In other news, I officially bought a #SellTheTeam shirt today.

30 minutes into my shift and I have to go on air with a local radio station and say the words "people in Pittsburgh don't need to worry about tsunamis"

If you have time to kill and want to know what a pre-environmental protection era was like, Google the 1948 Donora, PA smog incident

whatever the opposite of @shawnmilrad.bsky.social is, probably

The Pittsburgh Pirates are an infuriating baseball team.

This storm is entirely CGs. Giving me major Mobile flashbacks. @backinblackwx.bsky.social @morganabigail.bsky.social

Well this isn’t ideal, especially given the largest annual festival in Pittsburgh is starting today with storms possible and a heat index > 90F.

I was generally pleased with the responses I heard from Dr. Neil Jacobs today. With this administration and a Republican supermajority, he really was a best case scenario for NOAA Administrator these next few years.

How I feel about today.

Death, taxes, and the HRRR initiating with convection then immediately killing it for no reason.

We tell people to curb as much outdoor activity as possible during heat waves like this. Meanwhile in Major League Baseball:

We had the most amazing asparagus soup at a local restaurant the other night. Today, walking through the store, @kelcerms.bsky.social goes “I’m gonna recreate it” and then proceeds to totally wing doing so. Let me tell ya… 🤌 11/10 highly recommend. I don’t even care that it’s 90 degrees outside.

Me: forecasts highs in the mid 90s Also me (walking outside): wow I didn’t know it would be THIS hot

“The United States bombs Iran and that’s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos…”

Chernobyl happened in 1986. Just sayin.

Catastrophic flash flooding one week, heat wave the next. I strongly condemn the weather this month.

Only realized today that this shift was my 10 year NWS anniversary.

Spent 13 hours at our county EOC today providing support to the EMA during the U.S. Open. From peeks of sun causing the WBGT to spike in the pre-storm environment to spectators waiting until rain has started to seek shelter when they could see it coming 20 mins in advance, it was a challenging day.

watching a live stream of local news in Lubbock on YouTube and you can’t hear the on-air met because the sound of hail hitting their roof/building is too loud 👀

I’ll believe this when there’s a 21 page article published in WAF supporting it.

This was a super enjoyable build and I am pleasantly surprised by how durable it is for being so thin. Included a retractable nose and gear, and working flaps/rudder. #Concorde #LEGO

Yesterday was the best birthday I could possibly ask for. Thank you @kelcerms.bsky.social ❤️ Here’s to 35! Officially closer to 40 than 30 😳

you can see P00P every day at the ballpark if you're a Pirates fan

Daboob?

Models all week: "two main waves Thursday night and Friday night with a lull in between" 00z RRFS valid at 18z Friday:

low key need one of these t-shirts, please and thanks

Tons of rain dumped on the Youghiogheny and Cheat basins yesterday, draining into the Monongahela flowing towards Pittsburgh. But thanks to USACE locks/dams along the Mon, water only rose a foot at The Point in downtown Pittsburgh. I don't know how this city survived the pre-locks and dams era.

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

I know I’d start going back to church if I got a tavern style slice at communion.

Real Chicagoans know tavern style blows deep dish out of the water. And more appropriate for a communion wafer.

Thunderstorm outflow + sea breeze formed a sort of storm-scale “triple point” near Jacksonville. Kicked off a storm that anchored to it and rode south, doing some interesting stuff along the way.

A bit cruel for Dick’s to only offer free #pittsburghmarathon medal engraving the day after the race, making folks go to the mall and stand in line for an hour+ the day after running 26 miles when they should probably be home resting and recovering.

Being in the east-northeast quadrant of a closed, vertically stacked upper low is fun. This little shower immediately developed a meso and turned right, moving NNE instead of NNW

looking at Sunday and Monday CAMs as we sit 300 miles east of a nearly-stationary, vertically-stacked low

I don’t think I’ve answered the phone or performed interviews more times in a single shift than I did today. Absolutely chaotic. I’ll be hearing our office phones ringing in my nightmares tonight.

Looks like my day shift on Tuesday should be a fun return after a long 4-day weekend 👀

I don’t miss much about Texas, but I do miss drylines.