Its been a week since the NOAA/NWS layoffs. I haven't mentioned it to the kids. This morning, my daughter (6) asked "Dad, you're a weather man, right? I told Ms. (Teacher) and she thought it was cool!" I replied "I will always be a weather man!" Despite what is next, my heart will always be with Wx.

Welp, I too was one of the NWS probationary folks that got terminated today. 8 years as an AWIPS contractor previously, I finally got the Fed job I had been wanting. Worked on implementing the next generation of capabilities for AWIPS. A lot of promising stuff coming that is now up in the air...

Mammatus clouds behind the storms in eastern NC!

Awesome sun pillar sunset tonight @capitalweather.bsky.social

The moon and Venus tonight

Sure, it's a fire pit kind of night

This plane performed a go around near the Kennedy center and looks pretty close to the Jet Blue plane setting up for their final. < 1500 ft of vertical separation. I assume this is standard with very low ceilings and rain @josephgruber.com ?

Gut-renching remark “ACFT MSHP” in the weather obs at DCA tonight.

Yikes! I just listened to the DC Heli freq on @liveatc.bsky.social and PAT25 was cleared for visual separation from the CRJ. 😔

So, we all are ready to buy the dip?

Walked outside around lunch. It is 38. Sort of wanted to put on shorts! Feels like a heatwave.

Today in 1961—less than four days after President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration—a B-52G bomber on airborne alert over North Carolina suffered a massive fuel leak, caught fire, and exploded on approach to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. As it broke up, two 3.8-Megaton B39 Mod 2 H-bombs fell out.

For my home state followers, here's a close-up of the North Carolina snowpack. It appears that Kerr Lake provided a lake-enhanced band that almost reached into Raleigh. #wx #wxsky #ncwx #snow

So close...

Harvey is both monitor and king of the sled runs!

Absolutely puking sleet now in Arlington! @capitalweather.bsky.social

I'm starting to think this Sunday snow storm is gonna be a bust

33° and 🌧️ 🤮

Just missed the flurry jackpot! ❄️

Another cold, colorful sunrise over the DC area! 🌄🥶

Nice sunset after a week of cold and snow!

Sled runs iced up overnight and the kids were into it first thing this morning!

Been doing some backyard engineering. One upside of a sloped yard!

Love the easy to clear snow! And the best part is my neighbors can't complain because it is an electric leaf blower and because of that, it doesn't matter when I use it, right?!? 😂😎

Nailed it!

Several inches of snow were reported along parts of the East Coast, including in Baltimore and Washington D.C., which saw the most snow since 2022. To the west, gravity wave clouds cascaded over the Appalachian Mountains.

Our Boarder Collie mix, living his best life in the snow!

As of 7am, 5 inches in west Arlington with some sleet starting to mix in @capitalweather.bsky.social

I have a feeling that because of the deep cold after the storm that the kids won't have school until at least Thursday...😳

The message that all parents dread, just as kids are about to go back after 2 weeks off 😂

Lindsey Graham does not know what under attack is until he goes to a DC area Costco the day before a big winter storm. We did this morning and I'm just glad we made it out and didn't lose the children! 😂

Won my first Zwift race today! Took a categorized event, completely flat course and perfect sprint timing, but I will take it! Loving the new Zwift ride as well! @gozwift.bsky.social @zwiftrides.bsky.social

January weather

And just like that, the snow squalls are over!

You'd think that being a meteorologist for my day job would result in me NOT being caught in the middle of a snow squall / blizzard like storm unprepared, yet here we are... Gotta admit, it was fun. Roads in Arlington caved so quickly, I thought 4x4 was gonna be in the cards!

January 1st, 1871: One of the National Weather Service’s oldest products, the Daily Weather Map, debuted on January 1st, 1871. However, given the sparse number of stations and the inexperience of the new forecasters, the initial maps were quite limited in their display.

Skew-T Log-P xkcd.com/3032

Winter morning colors 🌄

Ball don't lie

Watch: Lightning hit the U.S. Capitol at 5:36 pm, simultaneously to - or a few seconds after - lightning hit the Washington Monument. Happy New Year. @capitalweather.bsky.social @stormhour.bsky.social @arlnow.bsky.social #weather #stormhour #DC

Oh nothing to see here, just a severe thunderstorm on *checks calendar* December 31st 😳 in Arlington, VA (Volume ⬆️)

Thunder in winter = snow in 10 days, book it! (I hope) 🤞

I had fun writing this one. ✨

We just can't understand why people don't want to come back to the office! Workers: It's not "being in the office" necessarily. It's this... I live 8 miles as the crow flies from my office. I have to take a 20 mile route because it's the fastest, until it isn't. 50 min one way commute today...🙄

Sleet in Arlington! @capitalweather.bsky.social

Nice halo around the moon tonight, with Jupiter just below, over DC tonight @capitalweather.bsky.social

Portage-effect snow is falling over Columbia County again! A power plant in Portage causes snow as steam rises and adds moisture to the cloud layer.

Sunset in DC WAS epic @capitalweather.bsky.social

Sunset in DC is about to be epic