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"A review of... communications from a real-time messaging system operated by the NWS showed that no emergency manager from Kerr County was sending messages or interacting with NWS staff on the platform, even as emergency officials from other counties were doing so." www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...

Proposed NOAA cuts would destroy the basic infrastructure for weather research–including hurricane and flash flood forecasting–and take decades to recover from. “It’s like blowing up a dam and trying to rebuild it by gluing the pieces back together. It won’t work. You have to start from scratch.”

Who's ready to celebrate this team?? Thunder Nation is invited to the 2025 Champions Parade in downtown Oklahoma City, starting at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. Check out the parade route and fact sheet. www.okc.gov/Home/Compone...

📣 Exactly this It takes 3-6 mths JUST to get hires on station. Then mths of training before they can make meaningful contributions. (training also takes time from forecasters keeping ops afloat) Good to see NWS staffing going in the right direction, but minimal help before hurricane season.

Of all the weird stuff that goes on around here in the spring and summer, heat bursts are some of the most amazing.

This is an EXCELLENT read - thank you @mattlanza.bsky.social

Contrary to some narratives out there, the NWS office in Jackson, KY was fully staffed Friday (May 16th) to deal with the forecast #SevereWeather/#tornado outbreak. www.wkyufm.org/2025-05-17/k...

WaPo article on cuts at the National Weather Center and affiliated offices - full text here: wapo.st/4jBaFhl

NOAA Research introduced and is redeveloping our national Doppler radar network. It provides the radar observations used to keep you safe in severe weather (the same ones seen on TV & your phone). NOAA Research faces elimination. Learn more: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am... #SaveNOAA

What a bunch of nonsense. They just strung a bunch of buzzwords together to sound smart and authoritative. The administration is gutting NOAA and weather forecasts are suffering. What's "disrespectful" is cutting life-saving services out of spite.

Thanks to @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social and SFChronicle for sharing the full NOAA FY26 budget passback. After a detailed reading, think it is important for people to really understand just what massive changes are planned for US weather forecasting and research. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

“The Post spoke with 10 employees across the Weather Service …. Concerned with leaks to the media, the administration is installing monitoring software on NOAA employees’ devices to track their communications, two current employees said.” Reporting by Scott Dance… wapo.st/44sg8lC

Another moderate risk. At some point the Memphis NWS office is going to start taking this personally.

Nearly half of the local weather service offices are down by 20% after DOGE cuts, according to data obtained by AP apnews.com/article/doge...

Major shoutout to local National Weather Service offices who have issued literally hundreds and hundreds of tornado / severe thunderstorm / flood warnings in just the past 36 hours alone. Most offices are doing this amid staff shortages. SPC / WPC teams doing amazing work, too. Scientists matter.

And there you have it. At least a dozen tornadic supercells in an STP bullseye of 9, smack dab in the center of an SPC High Risk. We can stop complaining now, or rejoice, or just appreciate the NWS.

Wow...

Pretty nice day for OU Softball! Boomer!

If your local National Weather Service office has paused or canceled spotter training this year, here’s a great option! 🌪️ @comet-meted.bsky.social has teamed up with the National Weather Service (NWS) to develop a (totally free!) online storm spotter certification course. 🌪️⛈️⚡️ More info: 🧵⬇️

From life-saving weather warnings and cancer treatments to tech breakthroughs, federally funded science drives progress. In an open letter, the AMS urges strong federal science funding to ensure our future. More: bit.ly/4j6rQGZ

ICYMI: my Balanced Weather post yesterday about potential impacts of NWS reductions in upper air balloon flights balancedweather.substack.com/p/special-ba...

From knowledgeable scientists we’ve talked to, RAOBs have the second largest increase in error for upper air metrics when removed, behind aircraft data. On average, losing RAOBs will decrease mesoscale NWP forecast skill. doi.org/10.1175/2009... doi.org/10.1175/MWR-... doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

“It was a bust” Nope. Multiple significant tors and fatalities occurred with at least 37 tornado reports so far. Just because you didn’t get your disaster porn in a heavily populated area doesn’t mean the forecast was a bust. Some of y’all need therapy.

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Love the support we’re getting from our National Weather Center partners! Thanks today to OU School of Meteorology. I definitely picked the wrong week to stop eating donuts.

We practice what we preach - the annual building-wide tornado drill at the National Weather Center in Norman!

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

Saw this in the office break room of NOAA NCEI today. I’m going to take this “feel good” energy from an anonymous person and forward it to all of you, especially those that work for or alongside NOAA. I’m proud of the work we do, and I’m grateful for all NOAA does. Thank you.

Here's a small list of the ways you directly benefit from the National Weather Service on a daily basis. The agency is a public good that issues critical, lifesaving forecasts and alerts. We must save it from indiscriminate and irreparable damage. www.damweather.com/2025/02/the-...

9:00 am - traffic issues increasing in the OKC metro area.

Winter storm warning, winter weather advisory and extreme cold warning in effect for parts of Oklahoma. Just think … before you know it we’ll be complaining about the heat.

Dangerously cold air will move into the area starting Tuesday morning and will stick around until the end of the week. Winter precipitation is expected with this system Tuesday as well, with highest snowfall amounts across northern Oklahoma.

Government workers are everywhere youtu.be/ijvrvp8Z17M?...