US probing whether Ticketmaster does enough to stop resale bots, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4nB1q29

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

There's probably the most famous picture of Poland documenting subsidence in the san joaquin valley. www.usgs.gov/media/images...

SCOOP: Two senior NOAA officials were just placed on leave. Both led ‘Sharpiegate’ inquiry www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/w...

Today's story, republished in SciAm: Most AI weather models aren't very good yet at predicting local extreme weather. But they're showing promise - and experts say NOAA needs more investment in these tools, which Trump cuts threaten to stymie. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-w...

Flood forecasting being cut: “Promising NOAA research-to-operations efforts that would actually help with some of the challenges I discuss above, including Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats, Warn-on-Forecast, and FLASH would be terminated under the current FY26 presidential budget.”

The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.

Texas officials now are busy trying to blame the National Weather Service. Beyond that misguided reaction, a few important points - a quick 🧵

ICE raids are leaving fields full of rotting food in California. Even the documented workers are not showing up. And guess what? You’ll still want your strawberries then you’ll pay more for imported ones. This isn’t border security. It’s cruel economic sabotage, dressed up as patriotism.

Let's check in and see how sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Gulf of Mexico have looked like during the peak of hurricane season since 1940. 🔥

Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites.

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.

New paper: NOAA research flights are important for improving hurricane forecasts. Wind data from NOAA flights improved forecasts of a storm’s path by up to 24% on average, found Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social & Ryan Torn. Read more in AMS journal #WeaForecasting: doi.org/10.1175/WAF-...

Please take heat warnings and advisories seriously. Drink as much water as you can stomach. Stay out of the sun as much as you possibly can. Demand that cooling needs be prioritized on the electrical grid - it matters more than so-called "data centers." www.scientificamerican.com/article/extr...

You can't get 85% of people to agree on whether eating ice cream is better than being stuck in traffic

Important reminder that fatal wet bulb temperature doesn’t care about your body composition, or resting heart rate… or shade, or airflow

One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties.

mRNA vax is one of the greatest public health achievements of all time-right up there with Salk polio vax & smallpox eradication. There is a massive amount of hi quality data showing safety & effectiveness. People will die if we abandon mRNA due to misinformation & junk science 👇 wapo.st/3HEpBx3

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

“There’s no future I see that doesn’t have fire in it,” said CIRES Fellow Jennifer Balch in a recent CPR news article. “What we really need to be thinking about is how we build our homes and how we build our communities to make sure that they're resistant to fire.” www.cpr.org/2025/06/10/w...

Here's the White House's strategy for gutting science funding sooner rather than later. Freeze new spending and run out the clock until the end of the fiscal year (Sept 30), then claw back the unspent funds. It's being done under the cover of phone calls and other distractions.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Most people lose sight of a major disaster after a few months. The reality is that many people have housing problems for years, especially in rural towns. Some areas will never completely rebuild and people will migrate to other parts of the state or country to make a living.

Atlantic #HurricaneSeason begins today, June 1. Since records began, the continental U.S. has experienced four Category 5 hurricane landfalls, and ALL four of them were only tropical storms just three days prior! Rapid intensification is terrifying when it occurs right before landfall.

Let's dive into this a bit. A short and very incomplete thread on US Forest Service research. 1/

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

…and please use gloves if you happen to have any! This prevents the heat from your hand melting the stone.

So important. The fact that he's leaving -- IF he's really leaving -- is not a win. DOGE remains, and the damage already done will take a generation to repair. Do not congratulate.

The Austin metro area got hammered by an isolated supercell yesterday evening, I did a bit of a deep dive into it and how the "expanding bullseye" is resulting in more economic loss from storms like this. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

"We haven't had a pre-June 1 named storm in the Atlantic. The season is already a bust!" No. There is little correlation with the first named storm date in the Satellite Era (1966-) to the number of seasonal hurricanes. FYI: The decadal average (2015-2024) for first Atlantic hurricane? August 3

So many awesome instruments on this mission. The most critical to bend the curve on rising hail losses, usually exceeding $30b/year, are the roof shingle panels being deployed & hit by hail. Having better roofing will lower losses - can’t wait to see all the data from this crucial part of research!

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

It was an incredible day for hail science yesterday here in Texas! First time handling/measuring/testing softball sized hail and larger. A big moment for advance our understanding of hail and its impacts yesterday for all involved! Lots of research forthcoming from this event.

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Teams had the most successful IOP yet today in Colorado, featuring > 70-80 mm hailstones (large apple sized) and an unexpected tornado near Akron! Well done everyone!

It’s hard to overstate how important Unidata is to weather research & communication, but the program paused most of its operations this month due to a lapse in funding from the NSF freeze. Staff is furloughed & it is unclear when they will be able to resume operations thebulletin.org/2025/05/deco...

We all know where this came from - Joel Myers is the king of twisting truths to make himself look good at the expense of others. He’s more than willing to throw the entire weather enterprise under the bus if he thinks it will make him look good.

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

NEW: The anti-clean energy provisions in Trump's budget bill “could result in nearly 300,000 current and future American jobs to be lost, including 86,000 in solar manufacturing,” according to the Solar Energy Industries Association Household energy costs could also rise as much as 7% by 2035

“To even land on Lutnick’s desk, NOAA contracts must first go through an approval process led in part by Keegan McLaughlin, a former Temple University student who worked as a food hall monitor last year...” I’m sure this means all NOAA’s contracts are being thoughtfully considered.

"The impasse has forced NOAA to furlough employees, and it has created a work environment where NOAA staffers spend much of their time trying to justify their work — rather than doing it, they say." Backlog of unsigned contracts paralyzes NOAA: www.eenews.net/articles/bac...

Impact of global warming on the critical ocean current AMOC has already led to increased flooding along US Northeast Coast and found differences ranging from 20% to 50%. along the U.S. Northeast Coast (USNEC). phys.org/news/2025-05...

This is hella cool!

We are officially in the Twitchification era of weather. Bro-like streamers that are cosplaying as meteorologists and think that issuing weather warnings is some kind of video game. It’s worse than it has ever been.

New study: The risk of flooding events along the U.S. Northeast coast has doubled since 2005. Now, scientists have discovered that up to 50% of these events occurred because key Atlantic ocean currents are slowing down. #AMOC 🌊 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

IMHO, the real story about 5/16 warning performance should be how NWS warned sometimes with 30+ Min of lead time, even with multiple potentially tornadic storms in some CWAs, and forecasters from different offices backing each other up. wapo.st/4j6UTtu

After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%. So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.

The St. Louis storm yesterday declared an EF-3 TORNADO (140MPH+); and was more than ONE MILE WIDE. I just returned from trying to donate goods at the O'Fallon Y. I can tell the devastation is the worst I've ever seen. Broke my heart. Homes destroyed, people w/ no power, water Trees severed in half

Scar From last night's #tornado outside London,KY go.nasa.gov/3Ff1Ydy