This was posted yesterday by a retired senior officer and now corporate leader. If AI cannot even generate a map of the US accurately what is it all about? Lunacy.

We should have a national quiet day, where everyone just shuts up for 24 hours

From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.

I like “stir your own grits.”

I can’t emphasize this enough. Many people are nervous, they don’t feel like they have the language to have an informed conversation and don’t want to accidentally walk into a “debate” with someone. Those of us who can, can invite conversations centered on common ground.

"Hold off on releasing the files that exonerate me." - no innocent person ever

These are our most impressive institutions and crucial for our survival as a people and a species.

Famed weatherman Al Roker is urging the Trump administration not to follow through with its plan to dismantle a climate research facility in Colorado.

Climate is simply a longer-term average of... weather. Climate change research is simply the study of changing weather patterns. NCAR has been at the forefront of weather / climate research and providing essential datasets for decades. It is one of the world's best training grounds for scientists.

NCAR is crucial to cutting-edge meteorology and improvements in weather forecasting. As others have noted, it's far, far bigger than a "climate" research lab. This is self-sabotage by a wildly ignorant and malicious administration cutting off their nose to spite their face. Find a better scapegoat.

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

Folks on Washington state community Facebook groups are arguing about whether images of local flood damage are real or not. Generative AI is making it so much harder for people to get the reliable information they need to make decisions during disasters.

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

Omg these bands. I only got like half of them.

The DeepMind NPR article is giving big “The Euro Nailed Sandy” vibes. The performance is noteworthy, but newsworthy? 🤔 But, the cat’s out of that bag, so good luck to all answering “when will the Cat 6 storm hit my house?” and “what does Deep Mind say” all winter.

Who wants to tell them? “Private companies can do only so much without baseline data from U.S. government agencies such as NOAA”

Today is National Lemon Cream Pie Day Per serving 🍋 deliver 125% DV vitamin C, 347.7 mg polyphenols, 5.9 g fiber & 10% DV vitamin B6. Remember, not every food you eat needs to be the pinnacle of nutrient density. And, you’re still getting the benefits of lemon, even in pie form! How a-pie-tizing!

Who wants to tell him, Ohioans don’t go to war on *ichigan game day.

More saber rattling. There are good reasons that the U.S. Constitution does not leave the decision on whether to go to war to the whims of one man.

red sky at night sailor’s delight red sky at morn oh shit that’s aliens

I have news for you. Nearly every woman you know has experienced this personally. Which means everyone thinking, “why didn’t she/they stand up for her, I would” you’ve probably been in the room when this or something like it has happened. And you didn’t. We watched you.

A UK female spitfire pilot, 1944, known as a ferry pilot, delivering newly manufactured aircrafts from the factory to airfields #WomensArt

Who wants to watch me lose my shit completely

This is your must read this week. Read this. It is about leukemia and the powers and limits of science and the terrifying dangers of the turn against it. It is human and excoriating and beautiful. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

This is exactly right

A horrific accident early Saturday morning left a car in the side of an NWS office and the office relying on the NWS service backup system. Service backup is important in situations like this - but also is being increasingly used due to NWS staffing and infrastructure issues. tinyurl.com/4txuyhbz

🙏 for everyone in Darwin. "Darwin’s airport and supermarkets have closed as Severe Tropical Cyclone Fina barrels towards land, having intensified into a category three system – the first cyclone of that strength in Australian waters in November in 20 years. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Did you see the commercial with the meteorologist, “closely monitoring the Polar Vortex”, while the weather outside is frightful (flurries). He must shelter in place, but assures us, his radio listeners he’ll be monitoring the Polar Vortex all night. But that’s not all. The plot thickens …

Every Category 4 and 5 Atlantic hurricane since 2020, all together, in one group photo. H/t to @ferragamowx.bsky.social for the inspiration.

There’s no straightforward explanation for why airplanes stay in the air.

Absolute solidarity to all the women out there who have had a man at work lean forward, point a finger at you, and mutter the equivalent of “quiet piggy” while all of your colleagues just stand around and do nothing. There’s a reason why that was so triggering to so many people.

Does anyone know what happens when teenagers leave the nest re: their constant germs? I get EVERY bug they individually get. I wonder, does some sort of super immunity kick in? Is there a reward for 20 years of constant assault on my immune system? Have you seen them try to cover a cough? 😒

As a seasoned emergency manager who's overseen some of FEMA's biggest response and recovery plans, I can assure you this is nonsense. Reducing the 75/25 cost share and assuming states not ending in -orida have the capacity to manage major public assistance projects is naive and dangerous policy.

Bring in your puppies people. 🫣 Noem is having a bad day. I present Ex 1 and Ex 2 Exhibit 1 wapo.st/44foJY3

Exhibit 2 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/c...

In 1824, Joseph Fourier noted that co2 was trapping heat and warming the planet Over 200 years later its still a mystery to clueless deniers

"Like it or not, we humans are bound up with our fellows, and with the other plants and animals all over the world. Our lives are intertwined." -Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

"We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos

So many Americans looking at our skillsets right now thinking "Am I impressive enough to be braindrained to another country?"

You can help make the Fifth National Climate Assessment easier to find. Watch this short video to learn how. #ClimateForUs

This is Carl. He was just woken up from a nap. Hopes for your sake the house is on fire. 12/10 (IG: grumpus.steve.carl)

The latest ENSO update is out and the La Niña Advisory remains in effect. La Niña is expected to remain weak therefore would be less likely to result in conventional winter impacts. Read more: www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...

hear me out, maybe it’s time to stop making men the president for awhile

Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)

WeatherSky is so much better tonight than your 912 posts about the Edmund Fitzgerald yesterday. 🤩 (Sadly, I have nothing but light pollution in the City of Atlanta.)

i want enemies