Hot, dry, dusty south wind hellscape over the Salt Lake Valley this afternoon

LIve now with @professorpowder.bsky.social on the #unidata shutdown www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw8...

NSF-supported Unidata announced that almost their entire staff will be furloughed as of today. This is a huge threat to weather education and research at universities--Unidata provides crucial realtime data feeds of weather data, including satellite, radar, and observations.

On April 30th, NSF halted funding for Unidata, an organization critical for the sharing and analysis of atmospheric and related datasets. Unidata has been and is a transformative scientific organization. For more on its history/impacts see wasatchweatherweenies.blogspot.com/2025/05/nsf-...

The latest on a new ski resort in the Oquirrhs wasatchweatherweenies.blogspot.com/2025/04/new-...

New Central Wasatch Commission Dashboard. they are looking for comments. cwc.utah.gov/environmenta...

Trump-Doge preparing to end the Keeling curve monitoring (that has tracked atmospheric CO2 since 1950). This attack on science would amount to a crime against humanity I think! www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

There's a big difference between academic administration and academic leadership. We seem to have a lot of the former right now and not enough of the latter.

Snowfall at Salt Lake City International Airport so far this season (12.7") is the 3rd lowest on record through March 10th behind 2014/15 (9.6") and 1933/34 (12.3"). We will, however, add to these totals starting later this week.

Has the University of Utah announced early retirement incentive packages to deal with the budget cuts? Asking for a friend...

"Eliminating jobs in this vital and necessary agency threatens the health of our waterways, lakes and oceans, which we rely on for food, commerce and recreation.” - Al Roker #SaveNOAA

The University of Utah ski team is back on top.

Sad. "Besides the direct impact of radiosondes on weather forecasts, they also have an indirect effect as a result of being used as reference data – helping to bias-correct satellite sounding and aircraft temperature data, especially in the troposphere." - ECMWF

Low population, but our biggest state with major weather impacts from the fishing to snow-safety communities alaskapublic.org/news/politic...

"Two of the probationary employees who had been on the job for less than two years were flight director...This is particularly problematic since every hurricane hunter mission is required to carry a flight director." yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/03/noaa...

@noaa.gov provides lifesaving science, service and stewardship to the nation. #SaveNOAA is a group of terminated NOAA employees fighting for reinstatement to continue to deliver Americans these critical services. #SaveNOAA #NOAAStrong #NOAA #Science #Fed #FedEmployees #Federal #Layoffs

The included Bennett Building also includes the offices for National Weather Service Western Region Headquarters, including key scientific and technology support personnel www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

@agu.org is offering resources to scientists un-jobbed in the past few weeks. Free membership, abstract fees, and career guidance and connections. It’s a start. go.agu.org/index.php/em...

Just released statement from the American Meteorological Society urging strong support of NOAA and federal science agencies for the continued success of the weather enterprise and American people.

That little black spec on the right hand side of this infographic is the total budget of the NWS. How is eliminating positions that exponentially increase economic dividends through enhancing commerce and mitigating/preventing disasters saving money or eliminating waste/fraud?

Do you know how valuable meteorologists are to wildfire response? Fire chiefs sure do.

---Why do we need potato farmers when I can get my fries at McDonald's? I deal with that logic when it comes to weather forecasts, Apps and the layoffs at the National Weather Service. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

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Today's cuts to NOAA and NWS staff will weaken emergency response and ultimately cost lives as we enter severe weather, hurricane, and wildfire season. The talented and dedicated meteorologists working to advance our Nation's ability to forecast and prepare for high-impact weather deserve better.

We have taken our Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) into operations today to run side by side with our physics-based weather forecasts. The #AIFS outperforms traditional models for many measures, at a fraction of energy use. ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med... #AI #MachineLearning

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Currently 62F @utah.edu

Dear manager, last week I: 1. Got up early 2. Stayed up late 3. Exhibited uninterrupted prosperity 4. Used a machete to cut through red tape 5. Toured the facility and picked up slack 🎵👩🏼‍🔬👗🧥🎵

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

Utah faculty members lined up Wednesday at the Capitol to oppose a bill they fear could threaten the liberal arts. One pointed to Albert Einstein’s love of the violin as an example that science can benefit from art and music.

Federal science agencies are under threat. AGU has made it easy to advocate for NSF, NOAA, NASA and more. Visit AGU’s Science Policy Action Center to stand up for science. fromtheprow.agu.org/standing-tog...

NSF cuts jeopardize US leadership in science in general! This focuses on computing but it is not good for any area of science

With 9.2" so far, this season has produced the 2nd lowest amount of snowfall on record through Feb 17 in the Salt Lake City area per records from the National Weather Service (Record 2014/15 6.8").

The OU School of Meteorology has another open faculty hire - this time for a teaching position! We're looking for someone with unique experience in one of several areas: apply.interfolio.com/163576. Please share!

AGU stands with federal scientists. Read more on fromtheprow.agu.org/standing-tog...

Devastating. Hard to overstate how bad this FIRST STEP is. Here in Alaska, there is an outsized proportion of federal workers in their probationary period. Alaska is often the first stop in a career in federal service and typically has a large fraction of probationary workers.

Shrinking the National Weather Service staff with no real plan as tornado, hurricane, and fire seasons approach unnecessarily puts public safety at risk

Your National Weather Service providing critical 24/7 public safety information for Utah from urban to rural areas. How much does this cost? For the US, the NWS budget is about $1.3 billion per year, or about $4 per person. They aren't on bluesky so reproducing their tweet below.

Red sky at morning, avalanche forecasters take warning