According to the governor’s spokesperson, no action has been taken re: Peters. His office adds that Polis is not considering a pardon, but commutation remains on the table.

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

If I wanted to know what ChatGPT thought I'd fucking well ask ChatGPT! I'm asking YOU because you're a human and you have experience!

S.3926, the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026, will be marked up in committee next week. It’s a bipartisan act that should be able to pass the Senate without much issue. A comprehensive summary is available below. (1/2) www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/2/cantw...

A view we will not soon forget. The Blizzard of 2026.

You often hear "software development is changing, and we must adapt" because of Claude Code. But for my entire career, code has been the *easiest* part of making shit people care about, and we still haven't adapted. The easier coding becomes, the less often we ask "do users actually NEED this?"

If you’re wondering how the NCAR breakup is playing out, a key update: www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_n...

Relevant news to people who depend on government science funding and not just health. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

All the Denver airport trains broke down so everyone had to walk across the bridge and somehow go from there. Looks like trains are starting to run again but there’s a big line down the escalators.

Lots of satellite mosaics in Houston at #AMS2026 but only one made of real tiles.

I'm providing an update on CREDIT at 4:30 PM today in 330A at #AMS2026. Here's a taste of some of the changing views on ML weather prediction I will be providing. (Thanks @plustssn.autumnsky.us for the last minute bug fix!)

Bridging Physics & AI in Climate Modeling 🌍🤖 Introducing JCM v1.0: A fully differentiable, intermediate-complexity atmospheric model built in Python/JAX. Training hybrid models is hard because legacy code lacks gradients. JCM solves this.

My UCSB colleague Gurusha Juneja wrote a python tool to auto-check your bibtex for hallucinated citations: pypi.org/project/harcx/ It supports papers, books, and URLs. Usage: pip install harcx harcx references.bib

When flying in winter, it is reassuring to have a pilot with an upper Midwest accent. See y’all in Houston!

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

NSF just posted their Dear Colleague Letter regarding the restructuring of NCAR. www.nsf.gov/funding/info...

Houston/Galveston NWS has a fantastic, detailed discussion of the uncertainties and potential impacts with the upcoming winter storm in the area. See forecast.weather.gov/product.php?...

The GFS continues to be the outlier with how far south it pushes below-freezing air into Houston Sunday morn (all the way to the coast). The Euro and now the HRRR and other experimental CAMs are generally keeping temperatures above freezing Sunday morning and only freeze Sunday night (after precip).

Simple feed for #AMS2026 posts - pin away!

New article in Bloomberg about AI Weather Predictio (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Papers due Feb 6! Machine Learning for Remote Sensing at ICLR 2026 (in person in Rio de Janeiro). This workshop promotes trans-disciplinary research through diverse view-points to tackle pressing questions, such as climate change, social inequalities, biodiversity, and food security.

Breaking: Senate ends debate on minibus bill that will fund most fed science agencies, and votes 82-15 for final passage. Goes to POTUS now for signature to become law. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

This is just down the street from historic Fort Snelling, where Dred Scott lived in slavery for years even though he resided in a free state.

Why do I still gravitate away from config files toward modifying things in code or jupyter notebooks? Code forces more surrounding context for the choices while configs remove it by default. Need to find an interface that has the best of both, like the Mario Kart character/vehicle select screens.

The Minibus Appropriations bill providing funding to NSF, NASA, NOAA, DOE, and EPA among others and support for government scientific research just overwhelmingly passed the House with 397 yes votes! On to the Senate.

I make an appearance in a new Washington Post video on AI for severe weather prediction. Check it out at www.washingtonpost.com/video/techno...

I recently learned this trick for getting images out of a Google Doc, so I wanted to share in case it's useful. File -> Download -> Web Page. Then unzip, and you've got a nice folder of images!

NEW: Mandatory evacuation order for the South Pointe neighborhood in Boulder County. Wildfire at 287 and Dillion (SE of Louisville)

Vegetation fire just southwest of the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette, CO near 287 and NE Tollway. Link: share.watchduty.org/i/74168?ts=1...

NSF also only gets a 3% cut and there is language protecting indirect rates. NCAR doesn't get any explicit mentions, just that the administration has to give Congress 30 days notice before any drastic changes.

sorry/you're welcome channel-6.ghost.io/simple-gifts/

Even after the news last week, we are still doing great research here at NCAR. My group has released a new paper, led by John Schreck, on arxiv about an efficient method for generating calibrated AI weather ensembles with reproducible scale specific perturbations. arxiv.org/abs/2512.18815

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

In the span of four days, we’ve built a coalition of over 80 lawmakers — including several Republicans — to stop the dismantling of NCAR. I’m grateful to them for their efforts as we work to secure language protecting NCAR in the upcoming CJS appropriations bill. We will not back down! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

From wildfire warnings to flood forecasts, NCAR's research impacts everyone in America. President Trump's attempt to dismantle it for political vengeance is beyond reckless. We will fight against this dangerous scheme every step of the way.

#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)

A really nice two-part article series from Ken Mylne @metoffice.gov.uk on probability forecasts just published open access online in @rmets.org Weather Part 1: doi.org/10.1002/wea.... Part 2: doi.org/10.1002/wea....

President Trump is delivering on his promise of retribution against Colorado for the state's mail-in ballots and refusal to release his ally Tina Peters from prison. The Trump team says it plans to close America's foremost weather lab: NCAR. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports.

Uhhhh, yikes ☹️ www.nsf.gov/news/intent-...

Trump's Demolition Derby Continues - From USAID to the East Wing, and Now a Fabled Colorardo Climate Research Hub @ncar-ucar.bsky.social Woody Allen filmed "Sleeper" there in 1973, but this is no joke now. revkin.substack.com/p/trumps-dem...

Based on what I have been hearing about the NCAR situation, no one knew anything until the USA Today article came out. That means there isn’t much actual organization inside the administration to pull this off and a chance to fight back. Call your congresspeople today! Especially republicans.

NCAR and UCAR have released a statement. NSF has not provided any guidance to UCAR or NCAR leadership about this whole situation. news.ucar.edu/133054/ucar-...

A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration. NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday. We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Oklahoma's Tate Sandell is recognized as the Lou Groza Award Winner for the nation's best kicker! #CFBPlayoff x #BoomerSooner

I wonder why the official Weather and Forecasting paper on the latest implementation of the GEFS is still in Early Online Release and not in final form even though it first appeared online in August 24, 2024(!?). See journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by February 6, 2026 to work with us next summer: buff.ly/5nsLdRu

Good view from the office this evening.

The costs of a hail damage have ballooned over the past two decades, prompting researchers to resort to extreme measures to understand how these storms destroy buildings. www.wired.com/story/it-was...