Hi everyone! With the abstract submission deadlines for the 2026 AMS Madison Joint Summit coming up, wanted to advertise these student award and travel opportunities available via the AMS WAF/NWP conferences. Feel free to spread the word to any interested students!

UW has a new climate related Postdoc fellowship, application due April 15! Please reach out if you are interested in working with me!

Our 15th annual Robock Lecture is just three weeks away on March 24! This year’s speaker is Dr. Clara Deser, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Register here: go.wisc.edu/pc3ui6. We hope to see you there!

We have some big and fast air pressure changes (Pepsi map on the left) this morning as the clipper moves across Wisconsin, helping bring strong and gusty winds to the state. Six stations have reported >50 mph gusts this morning. High WInd Warning stays in effect through 4 pm.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

There has been an amazing outpouring of support for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) amid its proposed dismantling from people, institutions, & companies all across the country. You, too, can help by sending feedback to NSF by Mar 13th: www.ametsoc.org/ams/...

Don’t forget to join our webinar tomorrow! We will cover global and U.S. climate stats from 2025, plus the latest U.S. billion-dollar disaster data and research. Register at: www.climatecentral.org/climate-brie...

We're thrilled to welcome Fraser King to our faculty as an assistant professor. Learn more in a brief Q&A with Fraser about his background, research, and what excites him about UW–Madison and AOS: www.aos.wisc.edu/news/q&a_fra...

There aren't a lot of resources for what people can do to prevent the destruction of NCAR, so I made this: #NCAR #climate #climatescience #weather #meteorology #activism #myresources

What's NCAR? and 8 ways it has helped you www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Scientist at #AGU25 are speaking out to #SaveNCAR. Join more than 2000 of your colleagues to call or email your members of Congress to ask them to support NCAR today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

It’s completely gut wrenching. I am so sorry to the many of you that work at NCAR. You do not deserve this.

These people are nuts. NCAR developed the GPS dropsonde, which revolutionized the understanding of TC structure, improved forecasts, and validated remote sensing platforms, as documented in over 400 peer-reviewed publications in the last 25 years. And that’s just one of NCAR’s countless advances.

It’s like being stabbed right in the gut. NCAR is the heart of my field. I can’t. I just can’t.

📣 We just released a new free resource at @climatecentral.org - a 72-slide deck introducing key facts about climate change, including its causes, impacts, and solutions. It also comes with speaker notes and links for local storytelling. ➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)

Now here is something scary... 👻 And some more spooky climate trends for today: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... #HappyHalloween! 🎃

You VERY rarely ever see a satellite presentation like this anywhere in the world. And you certainly don't expect to see it this close to a mountainous island. As of 5am EDT on Tuesday, #Melissa is the 8th strongest Atlantic hurricane on record by central pressure (901 mb).

Atlantic Hurricane Melissa Advisory Number 22 ...HURRICANE MELISSA RESUMES INTENSIFYING... ...LIFE-THREATENING AND CATASTROPHIC FLASH FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES EXPECTED IN PORTIONS OF JAMAICA AND SOUTHERN HISPANIOLA THROUGH MIDWEEK WITH HURRICANE FORCE WINDS LIKELY T... Additional Details Here.

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown. Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org! Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2 www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

We are Climate.us, a nonprofit successor to Climate(.)gov. Our goal is to build an enduring, independent, and scientifically rigorous platform that the world can rely on for climate communication, education, and engagement. Stay up to date: Climate.us/#updates#updates

Today at 3:30 CDT! Join us for an AOS-CPEP joint colloquium with Peggy McNeal, professor, Towson University, who will discuss "Adventures in Atmospheric Science Education Research (ASER): The Role of Cognition in Learning Atmospheric Science." Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=geeB...

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Layoff notices at JPL are going out today. About 11% of the Lab, or 550 people, are being let go. I'm thinking of my friends and colleagues there, some of whom will still be employed after today and some of whom won't. I'm sorry you're having to deal with this.

Fill the Hill and the flamingos are back! Be part of the feathered fun Oct 9–10, and support AOS at go.wisc.edu/5348a6. Gifts go to our discretionary fund and are used in impactful ways, helping students gain research experience and attend academic conferences. Will you join our AOS flock?

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S. Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world. www.nobelprize.org

Yesss!!! Go Ángel!! 🥳🥳

We're delighted to share that AOS and Nelson Institute prof. Tracey Holloway has been elected as an AGU Fellow! This distinguished honor is fitting for someone who has worked for over 20 yrs to advance air quality research and policy. Congratulations, Tracey! www.aos.wisc.edu/news/tracey-...

The mesoscale assistant position is the “entry” position into SPC operations, if that’s what you’re interested in!

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

More news on AI2ES. Please help save science funding in general but also help save AI for weather! www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

This is AI2ES, my AI institute. No way around it other than to say this is really awful. We are doing so many amazing things! We want to keep doing amazing things but without this level of funding, we will not be able to do so.

Welcome, @beeleung.bsky.social! So excited to have you join us! Not that I’m biased or anything, but our department just gets better and better.

DOE's embarrassment of a "climate science" report is 150 pages where as this response from the scientific community is 500. My take: It takes much more effort to refute nonsense than it does to generate it, a tax on the time of all who care about fact and accuracy sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doe...

Part of the application for currently open National Weather Service positions (since DOGE fired hundreds). They are now testing for political alignment (see question 3), despite the fact that the NWS is completely non-political. This is a job that literally deals with saving lives and property.

President Donald Trump issued an expansive executive order yesterday that would upend the process that the US government has used for decades to award research grants. go.nature.com/3UkQd9q

One more effort to politicize federal grantmaking. *Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB. *"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities." *Cannot "promote anti-American values" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

🚨🚨 I've independently confirmed with @NOAA that they received a late-breaking notice from @DeptofDefense that SSMIS data will continue to flow for the remainder of the lifespan of the satellites. I will be updating my reporting shortly. Here is the official NOAA statement 👇

Every time I open LinkedIn, someone from a science agency shares an unplanned (forced) early retirement or RIF. Lately it’s NASA & EPA. In spring, NOAA. I think people have no idea how deep this loss really is. I don’t know what rebuilding federal science looks like, but it won’t be simple or quick.

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

faculty peeps: I'm looking for a chapter-length document that describes how extreme weather is changing; this is for my introductory climate risk class. Preferably, it should be open source. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Wow. Just wow. This is worth the read. We are fast tracking back in time so fast. Cases of mistreatment dismissed and agreements cancelled because “The OCR’s new view is that equity and diversity efforts discriminate against white students.”

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

‼️ Concern continues to grow for dangerous & life-threatening flash flooding in the same areas hit by last weekend's devastating floods, with localized rain totals >10-12" possible. WPC Discussion: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/metwatch/met... (Read the quoted posts for how the forecast evolved today)

The Trump administration's proposed budget would slash NOAA's climate research funds. It still has to pass Congress, but it's already affecting scientists. A program supporting promising new climate scientists furloughed its current cohort and canceled 2025 awards. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

Not going to lie. I am very worried about what this means for our funding agencies. No matter what budget Congress decides, they could make work close to impossible for the programs they want to defund.

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)