Kicked off anniversary month in the most “us” way possible…lots of 🍕 pizza & ⚾️baseball. Chicago summers are superb 🏙️, I’m glad we made it before the 🍻beer snakes hibernate & the 🌬️ ❄️Windy City lives up to its name. #anniversary #Chicago @joemurano.bsky.social

The American Meteorological Society's formal response to "foundationally flawed" DOE mis/disinformation report on #ClimateChange is excellent & timely. Frankly, I have been more impressed w/@ametsoc.org's ability to effectively meet the moment this year than other scientific professional societies.

New AMS statement outlines five foundational flaws that make the Department of Energy's Climate Synthesis Report "inconsistent with scientific principles and practices." Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/3UQRC82

The @ametsoc.org responds to the the regime's Department of Energy #climate report: "We identify five foundational flaws in the [...] report. Each of these flaws, alone, places the report at odds with scientific principles and practices." www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

This one hits different 🥹 it’s always nice to be recognized for your work, but to be recognized by my peers in the @ametsoc.org weather & climate community is an honor 🥲 www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

And now the attribution analysis results: climate change strengthened #Erin ’s peak intensity by about 9 mph 📈, resulting in it becoming a Category 5️⃣ storm. If not for human-caused climate change, Erin would have been a Category 4 storm at its peak. www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...

🌀📈Did you also wake up feeling alarmed to see a Category 5 hurricane spinning in the Atlantic? You might be thinking, “well, that escalated quickly!”… & you’re not wrong! #Erin #climatematters #climateshiftindex @climatecentral.org

🦈 SHARKS! You hear the iconic beat from the iconic movie every summer. In the last 50 years since its release, “Jaws” changed pop culture & public perception of sharks. These creatures swam with dinosaurs, but it’s our human footprints that are changing their habitats more than ever before.

My favorite place to be is a new beach town with you 🌊🌴 #RosemaryBeach #SunshineState @joemurano.bsky.social

the boys are back in town 🗽⚾️ #PinstripePride #RepBX

I thank the heavens that you’re a Yankee fan. Turns out, you’re my favorite Yankee fan 🗽⚾️ @joemurano.bsky.social #PinstripePride #RepBX

he really knows the way to my heart 🐢🌪️⚡️ #nightatthemuseum #fernbankafterdark

⚾️🌟What a week! It was absolutely incredible getting to have the #AllStarGame and #HRDerby in our backyard. Field & player access, historic memorabilia, & a lot of koozies & chicken tendies later…we are still basking in it.

New York City received 2.07" (52.6 mm) of #rain in the past hour. That is the 4th biggest hourly rainfall on record for July. Moreover, it is the biggest hourly rainfall since an all-time record 3.15" (80.0 mm) of rain fell on September 1, 2021. #nywx

#AllRise for the All-Star 🤩👨🏽‍⚖️ 📸: @joemurano.bsky.social #AllStarGame #HRDerby

⚾️🥜PLAY BALL! All-Star weekend is sure to swing many dingers out of Atlanta’s Truist Park, but did you know our warming climate could mean more home runs for future games? @climatecentral.org #climatematters #AllStarGame

Texas flooded. The science worked. The system failed. 27,000 years of NOAA expertise erased by budget cuts. Warnings issued, but didn’t reach sleeping campers. #Climatechange is accelerating. Trump wants to further defund the agencies that warn us. #CampMystic open.substack.com/pub/chrisglo...

‼️The Rio Ruidoso River at Hollywood in New Mexico climbed nearly 19 feet in 30 minutes! #Flooding Again, with #climatechange, a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture.

Confirming @maxinejoselow.bsky.social 's scoop: DOE has hired 3 prominent climate contrarian's, and mainstream climate scientists are worried about what's next... W/ @ellanilsen.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/c...

"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process." My latest:

6 months ago I posted this, and I've thought about it every day since #Helene. A brief thread about communication and "the last mile"

It's the last mile stuff that we really have to work on. How do we make sure that people are getting the warnings (including making sure they have emergency alerts turned on) and to respond appropriately to the warnings (don't just ignore it!). www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/t...

This is absolutely heartbreaking 😢💔

Exactly. This is a slide from my mesoscale class on flash flooding (mainly just taken from Doswell et al. 1996)...this event hit every one of these bullets...

And how severely a place floods is determined by several factors like soil type & saturation, river levels, urban asphalt vs green space impacting runoff, drainage infrastructure… It can be very complex, very localized, & escalate quickly. That’s why it’s called flash flooding.

Based on some of the reactions and comments I am absorbing by average people and elected officials, I think there needs to be a serious explanation and lesson on what the limits of predictability are for floods like the one in Texas.

There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.

Low-level moisture fueling this system came from a warmer-than-average Gulf of Mexico. 🌊 Sea surface temps are 1°–2°F above average for early July—made 10x to 30x more likely by climate change. Warmer oceans = more evaporation = rainier, more intense storms. 🧵/6

⚠️CLIMATE CHANGE CONNECTION: The water cycle is supercharged. A warmer atmosphere holds more moisture -- and releases it unevenly. That’s fueling more intense rainfall across much of Texas. ➡️ Rainfall rate increases tied to climate change account for >30% of U.S. inland flood damage since 1988. 🧵/5

The weather maker responsible for this event? The remnants of Tropical Storm Barry stalled over Texas -- blocked in all directions by: ⬅️ High pressure over the Desert Southwest ➡️ Low pressure over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico ⬆️ High pressure over TN/KY/AR 🧵/4

A warmer, wetter atmosphere... here's a visualization of changes in annual mean global precipitable water through last year... #HumanCausedClimateChange Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... Data from ERA5 reanalysis.

A quick🧵about the devastating Texas flooding -- and how it connects to climate change. ⬇️ (Photo cred: @nytimes.com)

we worked so hard on this, nights and weekends, trying our best to do a good job for the American people

Please read this. This science & research has saved countless lives. Any meteorologist will tell you our goal is to save lives & protect property. This would undo decades of progress, erase crucial information, & put so many lives at risk. It’s absolutely terrifying.

The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline. The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.

They want to close the NOAA lab (GML) that brings you this, the most iconic time series in the environmental sciences. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔 NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

Terminating weather and climate labs and cooperative institutes immediately makes us less safe from severe weather and climate events. The research conducted at these labs has given us improvements to hurricane, storm surge, tornado, and severe thunderstorm warnings.

There's a lot of bad news in the NOAA budget release, and yes there are going to be negotiations over the next few months. But what's baffling to me is the complete elimination of the OAR labs, especially NSSL. Like, no one in Oklahoma is going to stop that from happening?

The National Climate Assessment, and all special reports and past assessments, are now offline. Federal climate science is being systematically erased.

"A new heat record for June of 46°C was set Saturday in the town of El Granado, according to Spain's national weather service." CSI shows this heat was made 3x more likely by climate change — & across much of Spain, would've been almost impossible without it. 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article...

I love this article. This also answers why the joke “you have such an easy job! You get paid to be wrong half of the time” is not only not funny & offensive, it’s very very wrong. Lol

The northernmost portion of the #Arctic has unusually low sea-ice extent right now, especially for this time of year. Our only way at "seeing" this ice cover is through satellite-derived data. More graphics at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social.

⚠️☔️ATLANTA/ FLASH FLOOD WARNING: Significant flash flooding unfolding. Remember, flooding at night is more dangerous because it is hard to see the water piling up. Never drive through flooded roadways. Most flood fatalities happen when flood waters sweep away occupied cars.

Current mood.

What a terrible loss… The research & communication efforts on this website were the gold standard in science. Eliminating the words “climate change” from content won’t make its impacts disappear.

I sought comment from NOAA and the Department of Defense on this and received this reply today from NOAA's spokesperson. They suggest we use the surviving ATMS microwave that degrades significantly at the edges. You can see how much worse off we'd be with Erick last week if we only had ATMS.

I've updated my reporting from yesterday to include an official statement from NOAA and my response to it (spoiler: it's a false equivalence that doesn't address the actual issue) 👇

SSMIS is also used by forecasters to peer underneath the clouds of hurricanes to assess their location, cloud structure, and intensity. Losing SSMIS is another blow that will further degrade our ability to monitor and forecast hurricanes, just in time for the coming peak of hurricane season.

This is a really big deal for everyone. This has major consequences for our ability to monitor our planet, especially across the polar regions (Antarctic/Greenland surface melt, sea ice data, etc.). There are alternative data sources in some cases, but it will take time to prepare these products.