So cool: northerly wind at the surface bringing in lake effect snow from Lake Ontario, and southerly wind higher up in the atmosphere bringing in snow from the south. Two different types of snow ❄️

So he’s… literally trying to starve Americans

From Dr. Rachel Cleetus: "Humans still have agency over this dire problem we have caused... The choices our political leaders make now — including at #COP30 — will determine the future we leave to our children and grandchildren... Global cooperation is absolutely essential to solve this challenge."

Why is this so funny 😭😭

Wore my rejecting kings shirt to the gym today 😤 love feeling hopeful

It’s done! Dems flipped the legislature! First time in 50 years!! www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

Dems are on track to flip the Onondaga County Legislature (where Syracuse, NY is). It was 12R-5D. Dems are currently up 10D-7R. That's 5 seats flipping in a 17 seat legislature! Don't overlook the local elections people!!

Just plotted the 58 METAR stations that are expected to stop reporting observations due to the FAA ending their contracts. Overlaid the counties in NC that issued a disaster declaration after Hurricane Helene last year.

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Going to be a gusty Halloween evening for trick or treaters! 7pm ET forecast has gusts near 50 mph in Syracuse 🌬️

Some much needed rain working through CNY

Shockingly, because of the government shutdown, the hurricane hunters are going unpaid as they risk their lives for theise data. And staff at the National Hurricane Center are also without pay as they continue to perform their critical duties during this record-breaking storm.

The irony of not having access to your own journal article 😭

I hope you'll join me in canceling your Spotify subscription. Absolutely sickening stuff.

Melissa turning more northerly in the last few frames as it approaches Jamaica-- more of a wobble? Effects of the eyewall will reach Montego Bay shortly...

Ties for the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in Atlantic recorded history. Unprecedented stuff for Jamaica.

Quoted here: "The role climate change has played in making Hurricane Melissa incredibly dangerous is undeniable." grist.org/extreme-weat...

Hurricane Melissa is the kind of rapidly-intensifying, terrifyingly powerful storm our overheated oceans and atmosphere can now produce. My team crowd-sourced these observations on the climate connections and the implications for people in harm's way. blog.ucs.org/erika-spange...

Check out @marc-alessi.bsky.social’s video to learn more:

This type of -80C cloud top symmetry for an Atlantic hurricane? Just insane

We live in a fundamentally different atmosphere/ocean system thanks to fossil fuel-caused climate change. It’s time to name it explicitly and call out the actors that helped to make this storm incredibly dangerous.

Cat 5, 175 mph Hurricane Melissa starting its northward turn toward Jamaica ☹️

"The NOAA aircraft left the storm early after experiencing severe turbulence in the southwestern eyewall." These men and women are not being paid due to the US government shutdown. Not to mention that according to AOML's director emeritus Robert Atlas, they are down 40-50% staff. #Melissa

Incredible real-time attribution by Climate Central!!

Absolutely crazy Melissa won’t make landfall in Jamaica until Tuesday morning… how many eyewall replacement cycles and wind field expansions will it undergo before then?

We are on the verge of a major humanitarian disaster for Jamaica and southern Haiti. Melissa is expected to rapidly intensify into a category 4 hurricane while moving slowly along the Jamaican coast…. www.hurricanes.gov

@accuweather.com what are y'all doing? Absolutely dangerous to be issuing your own cone forecasts on Melissa. It reminds me of something in particular...

Danger is brewing this week in the Caribbean, and it’s not just the Trump Administration's sinking of boats. In his latest blog, @decletbarreto.bsky.social calls for US climate and humanitarian aid, rather than military aggression, as Tropical Storm Melissa forms in the Caribbean: bit.ly/477G0o8

This band of lake effect rain from Lake Erie is intense! Some lightning/thunder mixed into a few of those squalls!

Check out my blog on the difference between extra-tropical, tropical, and subtropical storm systems!

The data and evidence are clear. Over the past 8 months, the egregious actions of President Trump and his enablers have caused real harm to people and communities across the country.

Climate change won’t stop for a government shutdown. We’re following a developing late-season heatwave in the Midwest and Northeastern US. Temperatures are expected to be over 20F above normal today through early next week.

Our comment to the DOE and EPA about the DOE Climate Working Group report is now posted on ESSOAR preprint server. It has a DOI and can now be cited! essopenarchive.org/users/260056...

First time in Colorado National Monument over the weekend. So beautiful (and some monsoonal moisture in the area!)

Folks living along the southeast coast are dealing with flooding and surf impacts from Tropical Storm Imelda. Luckily, Imelda is not expected to make landfall in the U.S. and instead will drift out to sea. Be sure to follow the National Hurricane Center for the latest information: www.hurricanes.gov

For the first time since 1992, there have been no named storms in the Atlantic Ocean for the month of September through the 15th. Early September is usually the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season:

Excellent article by a colleague: "5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you" theconversation.com/5-forecasts-...

Hearing on this lawsuit filed by EDF/UCS is today at 2pm ET. You can register here (under Judge Young): forms.mad.uscourts.gov/courtlist.html

Billionaires are a policy failure. That money should be circulating among working and middle class families, not sitting in the banks and stocks of 100 people

Join your union!!

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

As our recent report Decades of Deceit illustrates, fossil fuel companies cannot be trusted to do the right thing. "Just as the US needs laws to protect public health, it needs to be able to enforce laws when corporations knowingly cause harm," writes UCS's Kathy Mulvey.

Goodbye Joni Ernst!!!

Increasing your country's electricity generation by 61% is absolutely INSANE. And it's all renewable energy!! What an exciting energy revolution to live through.

This week, UCS’s Rachel Cleetus testified at the EPA hearing on its proposal to “reconsider” the 2009 Endangerment Finding and vehicle standards. If finalized, the rule would overturn science showing heat-trapping emissions harm public health. Here’s what she shared in 2.5 minutes.

Join us today at noon ET on the @ucs.org Instagram!

As UCS’s Julie McNamara explains, in a handout to the fossil fuel industry, EPA is attempting to argue that climate pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants—responsible for about a quarter of all US heat-trapping emissions—isn’t worth regulating.

Check out this powerful blog by one of my colleagues on Central TX flash flood survivors speaking out in a TX legislative session. "What is clear is that the brave people of Texas Hill Country have joined the growing list of disaster survivors across the country who can’t afford inaction."