Advisories on Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine (formerly AL94) will start at 5pm ET, meaning that while it is not a tropical cyclone yet, there is high confidence of it developing and bringing significant wind or storm surge impacts to land within the next 72hrs. Check hurricanes.gov for the latest.

The Fall/Autumnal Equinox is TODAY at 2:19 PM EDT. That's the time at which our Sun is directly over the Earth's equator, signaling the start of Northern Hemisphere astronomical fall. The Earth’s northern hemisphere will continue to tilt further from the sun through the Winter Solstice on Dec 21.

Fly out of terminal A, return at C. Every dammed time. #dfw

🌍 M7.8 earthquake near 145 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia at 2025-09-18 18:58 UTC More info: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00t2ssp5

What a dorky, pointless criticism of an awards show host. It’s not meant to be peak entertainment. I’m not even a huge fan of his but it seemed fine.

I remember a coworker of mine in the early 2000’s hammering me with rhetoric from conservative outlets proclaiming something to the effect of Muslim birthrates being so high that it was the end of America. That’s when I became a crazy lib, I guess. I used critical thinking.

🌍 M7.4 earthquake near 111 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia at 2025-09-13 02:37 UTC More info: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000qvw5

I’ve been entering usernames and passwords using a remote or game controller for more than 20 years. How is this suddenly an issue? Oh. The olds.

Whenever I think about taking a selfie, I see myself on the screen and think, “I look tired.” I think that’s just how I am now.

A toasty middle of the country through the upcoming week. (oranges/reds are temps 10+ degrees above normal)

Just heard an interview in which someone said “fingerhead” twice. I only note this because I wonder how many words I say wrong and no one says anything. I may go my whole life saying things like fingerhead.

I can almost hear our ancestors in a horse and buggy sobbing for their heirs’ futures.

Can y’all imagine if so many critical eyes were on your daily chance of precip forecast several days out? God bless the NHC.

Feels like that the humor of a coach named “Wink” Martindale is lost on almost everyone anymore. #iAmOld (He’s the Michigan college football coach. You’re welcome.)

I’m a bit of a gamer, so I’m fed that stuff in my news app. “Gaming” sites are increasingly terrible, mixed with AI content and worse and worse writing. I just saw a person quoted and their credentials were “social media user.”

Common in our house: *hear my wife talking* Me: what, baby? Her: I’m talking to the dog.

The relief is welcome! In the last year in the U.S., there have been 84,194 record high max or high minimum daily temperatures, but only 30,872 record low min or low max daily temperatures. 173% more record highs.

Another federal holiday during which the complains about using the name of the holiday to identify the time period on a federal weather website isn’t met with the same “why can’t we just call it {day of the week}?!” horseshit that we hear on Juneteenth and MLK Day. Wonder what the difference is.

Watching Manchester by the Sea is so incredibly emotionally draining, and for some reason I’ve done it like six times.

Sometimes (my whole life) I’m convinced that my family doesn’t really know that when I say I don’t want to do anything for my birthday, that it resonates. Something always happens or I’m pressured (asked so much) into something. I want nothing. My birthday is Sunday. Pray for nothing to happen.

update: I'm a little colorblind.

Poll. My wife showed me this. What color does this look like to you? Green or blue? I know there are inbetweens. But how does it lean to you?

Did you hear it's been 20 years since Katrina?

Flashback to a map I made 13 years ago today that popped up on my FB memories.

My favorite part of an Antiques Roadshow appraisal is when the appraiser tells the person essentially, “if this were different, it’d be worth way more.”

People caring about this blew my mind. But, I guess “it” worked, whatever the hell it was.

Half the jokes I tell.

We subscribe to YoutubeTV. Apparently they’re negotiating with Fox to keep their content, and I’d love nothing more than for Google to tell Fox to go themselves. Won’t happen. But that’d be cool.

NWS is hiring! Are you interested in working for an agency that uses science and technology to protect lives and property? Additional mission-critical positions just posted on usajobs.gov, including Meteorologist (1340) openings. Many are great opportunities for first-time hires. More coming soon!

And you all think Facebook isn’t a miracle.

This should be no surprise to anyone, but I just happened to sit next to someone that clearly communicated their support for Trump to be narrowly related to costs to their business. Their understanding of what was costing money felt imperfect at best, but they were very passionate. Money.

Just like the jeans thing a few weeks ago, people are saying online that “everyone” is (something) regarding Cracker Barrel. A few loud people care and the rest are memeing to ride the “outrage” wave of social media clout. I think that “no one cares” is closer an approximation than “everyone cares.”

me doing something absolutely no one asked for

🌍 M8 earthquake near Drake Passage at 2025-08-22 02:16 UTC More info: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/pt25234000

Who are these people that glance at a map and think, “too small”? Mao projections have long been fodder for silly memes. Now here we are.

Just saw a friend's FB post with a pic of their kid that had many "better get a shotgun" comments. How do people not think that's gross as hell?

Erin is expected to produce life-threatening surf and rip currents along the beaches of much of the east coast of the U.S. during the next several days. Beachgoers in those areas should follow advice from lifeguards, local authorities, and beach warning flags. weather.gov/safety/ripcurrent

NWS is hiring! Additional top-priority hiring efforts for mission-critical positions have been posted on USAJobs.gov! Openings for Hydrologist positions (1315 series) were posted TODAY. Many of these positions are great opportunities for first-time hires into the NWS. Spread the word!

I thought Gemini was asking me to translate my emails into Polish for the first week or two.

I used to chime in – likely unwelcomely – with little bits of trivia on Twitter threads and a little here. Now that AI is so prevalent, I’m afraid people would assume I just asked ChatGPT, so I stopped doing that (as much)

I'd give him three guesses.

For some reason, Facebook has been serving me posts from TV mets lately. I just saw one post about "a half foot of rain!"

The NWS forecast high for Caribou, ME (CAR) Tuesday is 93°F, which would tie the record daily high. It's only been hotter than 93°F there nineteen times in the last 86 years.

I’m old enough to see the alignment with WWW paranoia with AI paranoia. Yeah. There are issues, but it’s not evil, grandpa.

I’ve seen a number of posts shitting on this post, but man, though this is obviously fraught with some issues, if you’re going to work towards normalcy in this nation, Cuban is about as close to a lefty billionaire as we’re gonna get. Pick better battles.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Tom Hanks was not Jim Lovell.

TL;DR: Joe Rogan is still a gullible idiot.

Public Service Announcement: hot weather does not ignite fires.

"Don't worry about one deterministic model showing a large hurricane hitting Florida. Anyways, here's a blown-up image of exactly that."