Some painted pumpkin fun 🎨🎃 Guess which one is mine 😂🧖🏽‍♀️

Many important weather and climate data streams have gone silent as the U.S. government shutdown continues on. As just one example, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory did not release its regular monthly update for greenhouse gases, such as for carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

Oktoberfest beer 🍻🥨 with a peachy twist 🍑 📍Helen, GA

"This is going to be the worst disaster in the history of #Jamaica. And what I’m worried about is the long term, the lasting effects of the hurricane upon their region." As seen earlier on @camanpour.bsky.social @cnnipr.bsky.social and today on @pbs.org 📺 www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/t...

"I feel compelled to make people realize that this is not going away, that this is going to continue to happen over and over again, and that we need to harden ourselves in every possible way and adapt to these increasing disasters." —part of yesterday's #Melissa coverage on @nbcmiami.com

"Extreme weather events fueled by climate change are increasing and making me change. I’ve always been authentic [...] but I can no longer be non-alarmist. People need to realize that this is not going to stop until we cut down on greenhouse gas [emissions]." @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...

Speechless. #Melissa

#Melissa continues to intensify as it makes landfall. This is a terrible scenario for #Jamaica #wxSky #HurricaneMelissa

“Total structural failure is possible near the path of #Melissa’s center.” 185 mph winds, 892 mb central pressure - ranking top 5 strongest hurricanes ever in the Atlantic basin, but the most heartbreaking part…we are just hours away from landfall 😢💔

“Extensive infrastructural damage, long-duration power & communication outages, & isolation of communities are expected.” 😔 Strong warnings from NHC for Jamaica. Up to 40 rain could cause numerous life-threatening & catastrophic flash floods & landslides on the island.

still falling for you 🍂🍁 @joemurano.bsky.social

“Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” 💕 Congratulations, best wishes, & so much love to the newlyweds! ❣️💍🥹

📍Sicily 🌡️Late October warmth builds this weekend with highs running 3–8°C above average. 🔴Fingerprint of climate change: By Sunday–Monday, this kind of heat would be nearly impossible without human-caused climate change -- made at least 5x more likely

Absolutely LOVE that this incredibly valuable data is back, and with new interactive features!

📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon! ➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.

My littlest pumpkin turned ✨1️⃣💕🎃 & my big boy is the cutest, smartest scientist in the lab 🧪🥼 always love getting to spend auntie time with these kids 🥰 oh, and Allison too 😏

📣 Check it out! Explore the new data viz on our homepage: www.climatecentral.org @climatecentral.org just released a new tool to explore climate impacts in U.S. cities and states - making complex data easier to understand for your community. 🚨 What’s the biggest Fall climate threat where you live?

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