Oooo promises promises!

Same.

Been hard to keep up my passion for weather this winter given our hot and dry trend.. haven't paid attention to models/forecasts. A little delight to get a CO classic "run run run" moment of rain and wind at daycare drop-off today. Thankful to be surprised again. More water (snow), please.

Pour one out for my talented, devoted, and classy husband as well as all other researchers lost here and around the country in this dark time: www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

If you know me, you know I travel with a moka pot because I am a picky espresso drinker. So, imagine my delight when these makes an appearance! Now how do I get this job…

This whole thread and subthread is science explained well. It’s not purely plain language, but it’s very well communicated and I, personally, have learned a lot. Thank you!!

Adding to the count the way that current “leadership” is failing the people, and on purpose, by choice 😔

Happy new year surprise rain? Okay 👍

It’s officially Denver’s hottest Christmas on record: 70° for a high breaks the old daily record of 69° (2005). #COwx

Heads up Colorado: there’s a visibility event planned on Saturday in front of the NOAA building in Boulder to show your support for NCAR

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

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-...

If you’re wondering wtf is going on with the wind, this is a great description.

Can’t stop staring 😳

If “hey siri what’s the high temperature today” is “the high temperature in Lafayette is going to be 72” one more time, I’m gunna lose it… mix of emotions because the days are lovely, but I’m kind of hot and bothered.

Irwin’s first light show as seen by our amazing satellites.

Something special out there. Caught naked eye and phone with the whole family! Lafayette, CO.

Places that have now seen snowflakes before Denver: ❄️Nashville, TN ❄️Knoxville, TN ❄️Louisville, KY ❄️Indianapolis, IN ❄️Cincinnati, OH All those have an average first snow more than a month later than Denver. Weird times. #COwx

Boooooo.

Applications are open for the @ncar-cisl.bsky.social SIParCS summer internship program! It's a great opportunity for computationally-inclined students to get experience with real-world research problems spanning computational and Earth System Science. Link: ucar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UCAR_C...

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating) The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

Oof.

A jaw-dropping view of the sun setting on Hurricane Melissa tonight. Melissa continues its approach to Jamaica as a powerful, major hurricane.

“Getting hit by a hurricane is never good. But getting hit by a hurricane that’s not moving is so much worse.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/hurr...

Some truly crazy rain totals in parts of the San Juans. Worst rainstorm in some spots in 80+ years. Unfortunately...more rain on the way there tomorrow/Tuesday. #COwx

Highly unusual situation approaching western Colorado with the moisture from Hurricane Priscilla. Grand Junction has never had precipitable water over an inch (25mm) so late in the year, but looks like it will be near that level on both Fri & Sat. Six standard deviations above average! #cowx 1/2

A storm and fall colors in Colorado — a CIRES scientist snapped this photo of the San Juan mountains from Last Dollar Road near Telluride. #PhotoFriday 📸: Christina Kumler @purpal9.bsky.social / CIRES

I love the weather community so much. Soup weather tomorrow, folks. Ready the clam chowder!

Very confident to be passing the AMS AI committee torch to this great team.

Yesss

The Lafayette Bubble made the forecast haha! Look at that dip in precip... What a weird year for water at #MyHouse.

A complaint about work-life balance/boundaries: dislike a world that "demands higher security and 2 step authentication" b/c it involves my personal device. Work doesn't supply a cell phone, but it's necessary for these steps. So, to my personal life codes go and down at my phone I look 👎

Not a normal post for me, but wanted to call out King Soopers/Kroger for this business model; it really irks me. This cheese has always been $2.99. This "price drop" is on a price higher than I've ever seen. Food is going up in cost, sure, but company is taking advantage of marketing. Be advised.

That's a heck of an air mass difference right there.

Neat thread on CO weather and climate.

The Transportation Department on Friday said it was terminating or withdrawing $679 million in federal funding for 12 projects around the country intended to support the development of offshore wind power.

Hurricane Erin is currently about 5 times larger than the entire state of Colorado: #COwx

When you’re like “oh apple forecast please be right for once.”

My confidence in these outlooks is never super very high, especially with the size of this week’s H pressure ridge, but right now hope is kind of all we have out here. Fingers and toes crossed.

More little surprises like this, please! Not a lot of rain out of it, but anything is welcome, needed, and appreciated at this point.

It really sucks 😔 to have been humid a chunk of these days, too, without rain is an extra kicker.

Well, despite water falling from the sky on 20 out of 31 days in July, #Boulder only recorded 1.00" of total rain during the month, about 50% of normal. This was the driest July in 525,000 minutes (i.e. one year). Yes it was much drier last July in 2024... #cowx

Wind farms? I’m a big fan.

Holy moly - Denver just tied its highest dewpoint in 17 years! 66° dew at 1a this morning = almost equal to Dallas/Austin. Wild! This means it's crazy humid out this morning for Colorado standards. Part of the flash flood risk today/tomorrow. #COwx

Help.

Monday 1PM Temps♨️ #COWX

Updates on the South Rim Fire burning through Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park from @marcsallinger.bsky.social. Such a huge bummer

Bless.

Stayed at the North Rim Lodge twice, one in cabins and the other camping. Now that is it gone and NPS staffing gutted, rebuilding will challenging. There are no other accommodations anywhere nearby #grandcanyon #northrim www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

For anyone near a hurricane-prone area, this is alarmingly bad news. www.local10.com/weather/hurr... [1/5]