No the 🦆 there is not.

The science -- and excitement -- of discovery: Scientists reveal identity of mysterious ‘golden orb’ collected during NOAA expedition --> Check out our special #EarthDayNOAA feature story: noaa.gov/news/scienti... via NOAA Research & NOAA Ocean Exploration #GoldenOrb

🎉xmACIS2Py 2.3 Released🎉 Added 1) Retrieval of multi-station data, 2) Retrieval of single-station meta-data, 3) Retrieval of multi-station meta-data. xmACIS2Py brings the xmACIS2Py Climate Analysis Tool into the Python ecosystem. #python #climate #weather Docs & Tutorials: pypi.org/project/xmac...

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

Spring book tour alert! I'm hitting the road to talk about Wilder Weather in some places close to my heart! If you're in southern Michigan (Albion and Hillsdale) or central Pennsylvania (State College), come and see me!

Inspirational. Aspirational.

CIRES scientists at NOAA’s Global Monitoring Lab (GML) in Boulder produce some of the most critical atmospheric data on Earth. Due to a federal funding pause at the agency, that work — and the positions of the people who do it — is now at risk. Learn what GML does and why it matters ⬇️

Absolutely breathtaking view of the Artemis II launch. Wow.

Absolutely this. We go to space and learn about the cosmos and astrophysics and all of it so that we can better understand our home, our Earth, its miraculous uniqueness in space and time

Map showing which year had the warmest March. Only years with large extents are labelled.

As highlighted in this morning's @straightarrownews.bsky.social newsletter... On This Day 1918: President Woodrow Wilson's Standard Time Act went into effect, advancing clocks by an hour and creating what's now known as daylight saving time. 😒😒😒 But also the messaging -- "Get Your Hoe Ready" 😆

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a shared hub of weather, water, and climate science, is under threat. On AMS Headlines 🗞️, hear from our community about how their work relies on NCAR's shared resources: https://bit.ly/41wO91v

To really illustrate how profoundly stupid, self-absorbed, & unthinking antivaxxers are just consider the very-easily-predictable results of what would happen if they got their way & stopped other people from vaccinating. They’d suffer and die, too. Cause vaccination isn’t just an individual choice.

1. Detroit Tigers 2. Omaha Storm Chasers 3. Kansas City Royals 4. Toledo Mud Hens 5. Whoever I pick out of the College World Series teams each year

🚨 It’s official: 2026 had the lowest annual maximum Arctic sea ice extent on record - essentially tied with last year’s record low. Climate change is reshaping the Arctic, and it's all throughout the year. For more information from @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/news-analyse...

1. EV's have significantly smaller impacts on the environment than combustion vehicles 2. EV's are less likely to catch on fire But apparently about 1/3 and 1/2 of people believe the opposite. heated.world/p/why-smart-...

Happy March 25th! 🤣

Awful. Conditions just continue to worsen for Colorado's snowpack (and across many other western U.S. states), with average snow water equivalent nosediving after the historic March heatwave. (which actually continues today with more record heat!) Graphic: nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-p...

Every Midwestern climate person making small talk this month: "Look I am really enjoying this pleasant weather but it is CONCERNINGLY warm for late March. What a treat to be done with winter, though. But AGAIN..."

According to our research, simple text searches on ChatGPT use nearly 10 TIMES as much electricity as a non-AI Google search 😮 That’s not sustainable – especially as people are already struggling with skyrocketing electricity prices.

Do you have shifting baseline syndrome? Yesterday's global sea-surface temperature was 5.17 standard deviations above the 1982-2011 average (first 30 years of data). The odds of this happening by chance are about 8,500,000-to-1 against (without climate change).

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack. Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

Honestly, this historic heat dome across the West is really hard to put into words for me. Temperatures over 110°F (43°C) in March, shattering all-time monthly records on multiple consecutive days, and not just by a little. ➡️ I can confirm this is human-caused climate change. polarwx.com/models/

The earliest first 90-degree day in Omaha is March 25, 1907. That record is in serious jeopardy today (March 21) with a forecast high temperature >90. Be careful outdoors today, folks. Early season heat is the most dangerous kind, because we aren't used to it yet.

I have a joke about writing, but I'm still working it out in my head before I get it on paper.

I have a climate joke, but human activities keep changing it.

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Nasty fire. Amazing to sustain that large of a fire for that long with mostly grassland as its fuel.

Welcome to our world

Don’t ever talk to me about how kids on SNAP shouldn’t get to have a chocolate bar now and then. Never.

Gift Link: wapo.st/4bAFCQZ

Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem

Good, clear-headed post inviting reflection after the MI tornadoes.

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm." www.npr.org/2026/02/28/n...

Seemingly unpopular take: I love daylight savings time in the spring through early fall. I prefer standard time in the later fall and winter. I don’t mind turning the clocks to make it happen.

This passage of Cosmos came to mind while I was watching Pete Hegseth strut across the stage at the Pentagon yesterday.

The numbers are staggering: Rent is now unaffordable for a record *half* of U.S. renters. Some 30 million jobs pay less than $15 an hour. The average wage needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment has climbed to $28.17 — nearly four times the federal minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in 16 years.

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C could prevent over 10,000 wildfire smoke-related deaths annually in the US, highlighting the health benefits of climate change mitigation. doi.org/hbq7cm

This winter is such a great example of shifting baselines. As someone in the east, it was cold this winter. Full stop. But it "felt" even more frigid because we haven't had such cold recently. It was cold but not historically so. But good heavens look at that record-breaking heat out West. 🔥

It's important to note that the duties of CPC continue - they are just being folded under the umbrella of the Weather Prediction Center at NCEP. In other words, subseasonal to seasonal is being pulled into the weather side (scientifically not exactly accurate, but consistent with Weather Act).

“The American dream turns into the American nightmare as we start to look at what we’re doing to biodiversity and systems that we depend on as humans."

This recent review paper blew my mind. It builds so nicely on a point that I've been screaming from the roof top for years: Fossil fuel pollution is the leading cause of avoidable morbidity and mortality in the world today, and it places an enormous burden on the economy of every nation as a result.

Fire up Chips! @cmichpress.bsky.social

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

A major insurance industry professional organization submitted a letter in support of the Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research, calling it crucial infrastructure for understanding weather & climate risk, and saying dismantling it threatens US insurance coverage. tinyurl.com/4aaxh22d

All that cold the L48 recently experienced really slowed down the onset of spring. But we are starting to see things pick back up, with extra-early activity in the TX panhandle and through parts of AZ, CA, and up the west coast #statusofspring www.usanpn.org/data/maps/sp... @usa-npn.bsky.social

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.