The world would be a better place if we all spent more time looking at cool stuff in the sky.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Just trying to simulate a tornado but the ring of turbulence I added turned out to be the one ring of power, and I have captured the direct attention of Sauron himself.

If a judge orders you to release funds for hungry children and you continue to fight it, it’s time to take a step back and re-evaluate how you got there. No political leverage is worth corrupting your soul.

🌀On the snap of my fingers, everyone will agree that NOAA and NSF should continue to do fundamental weather research 🫰

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

Just my routine plea not to compare a hurricane to the EF scale. Please.

Just when you think Hurricane Melissa is done intensifying, it says, “Are you sure?” Drop in central pressure measured by both NOAA and AF between center fixes suggests Melissa may incredibly be intensifying further.

Something I love about archival films is that when someone had a couple feet of film left on a roll they'd often use it to film their cat. So many films finish with a few seconds of cats So, here's some cats from the 1950s and 60s. They were loved Scanned from 8mm films #Film #History #Cats

Calling all ensemble forecast system enthusiasts! The State of Texas is funding development of a new ensemble prediction system (100 members, 2km grid spacing) with an embedded WoFS interface, to be developed at Texas Tech! Passing along 3 open research scientist positions towards that development:

Surprise horseshoe vortex from the NCAR parking lot this morning!

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

Been too long since I did a big silly ancient history 🧵so let's bring an old one back over from the Bad Place: It's time for ::air horn:: Publius Ventidius Bassus, the coolest Roman you have never heard of and the only person to walk in a triumph first as captive, then as triumphing general. 1/

very cool timelapse this evening #COwx

Happy world hagfish day, nerds! Your car has just been crushed by hagfish: Frequently Asked Questions – Southern Fried Science

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

The chapters in Moby Dick where he just lists facts about whales are good, actually

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

A group of priests and nuns tried to deliver holy communion to Catholics detained by ICE in Chicago. ICE turned them away. A reminder that the MAGA brand of 'Christian nationalism' has nothing to do with Christianity. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Surprised this photo contains a Ford Pinto and it's not the thing exploding. Also fascinating history!

Yeah everything SUCKS but humans are still silly wonderful beautiful creatures who collaborate with slugs to make videos like this. So. All is not lost.

This is the PNS for the #EnderlinTornado upgrade to EF-5, the first since the #MooreTornado on May 20, 2013. #Tornado #EnhancedFujitaScale #EFScale

CORN-ADO CHASING! It was another hot, sunny day with record heat in the Midwest, ripe for dust devils. During the harvest season when cornbelt dust devils fill with corn stalks, I call them corn-adoes! Got my drone into a few of them today.

This is Gritty

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

“Everyone must take midnight shifts far more often than they used to… Staff must also coordinate their vacations so they don’t overlap. And any sudden illness probably means someone has to work a surprise double shift, because ‘there’s no wiggle room anymore,’ “ wapo.st/3VDCrPO

“Hello everyone and welcome to my Ted Talk, ‘It Was the Cat: Diverting Blame in the Digital Age’.”

"Don't obey them when they say to do what?" You've got a conscience, haven't you? Go ask her. In fact, make it a goal to get really good at listening to her. People are going to be yelling at lot to stop you from hearing that still, small voice....

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

I’ve had students go to and from UNL’s atmospheric science program. I’ve collaborated with their faculty on education and field work programs. Eliminating this program would be like torch-cutting out a crown jewel and tossing it in the trash.

Devastating. The Univ of Nebraska @unlincoln.bsky.social is proposing to cut its ENTIRE Earth sciences program. UNL has trained famous paleontologists (Ned Colbert) and generations of Midwestern students in petroleum & mining. Sign the petition to oppose 👇 nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/09/13/u...

I am not allowed to do tours. ☹️

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.

Ep 32 of ongoing #Kilauea eruption is in full fountaining mode, and as of the time of this post, there is an amazing, quasi-steady intense "lavanado" ongoing in the shear zone next to the angled lava fountain. Ready-made source of horizontal shear and stretching! www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...

So this volcanic island in Iceland has a favorable RF nudger @cameronjnixon.bsky.social

Cancelling the next PAR R&D phase is nonsensical. PAR technology is our best candidate to replace our aging fleet of WSR-88Ds. Weather radar is one of the most lifesaving and highest-ROI technologies our gov’t has ever supported. Scrapping next gen radar is pound-foolish w/o the penny-wise part.

Jumping on the 'states I'd live in map' bandwagon.

To: All Staff Subject: IMPORTANT REMINDER!!! NEVER lend animals your phone to order items online. Gavin just confiscated another anvil and six rockets from the coyote enclosure.

Anyway, radioactive shrimp. What happened there? Nobody knows yet 🍤 ✨ There IS good news here! It's "FDA is still inspecting food on its way into the US & catching problems before people eat them! (Like radioactive shrimp from Indonesia, where the shrimp was always NOT radioactive before)"

Here’s a first-of-its-kind vertical cross-section analysis of the eyewall of Category 5 Hurricane Erin, captured by AgileRadar’s ROARS radar system installed on NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters P-3 aircraft.

Day 231: Please, big dog! They need this!

This thread is amazing. A real buried treasure.

I mean…come on… The moon through the top of Erin’s eye last night, taken by the #hurricanehunters

1-minute #GOES19/#GOESEast Visible images revealed mesovortices within the eye of Category 5 Hurricane #Erin.

Erin's not the only one with a trochoidal wobble this weekend:

The Tracy Arm, Alaska, landslide and tsunami generated a wave run up of 470m - 500m (1,540' - 1,640'). This is just shy of the Lituya Bay record of 524m (1,720') in 1958.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

I'm the guy who decided to put a bunch of steam-filled pipes in every spaceship. Make 'em real brittle, I said. Have them violently spurt at the most inopportune moments.