Didn't quite make it home in time to catch the full sunset, but what I did see was pretty gorgeous

Good evening ☺️

Start to finish, yesterday’s storm was a phenomenal showing 🤩 youtu.be/zxNKlTHjoj4?... #weather

I put together all of the timelapse clips from yesterday’s epic cloud show. An unbelievably stunning day, what a treat to have witnessed 😍 #CAwx

Okay, today wasn’t too bad

Just based on the size of this anvil towering over the Santa Cruz mountains (@ appx. 3:30pm) it would not be surprising to learn there may have been funnel clouds embedded in this system #CAwx

A low-pressure system moves down the West Coast, bringing stormy weather to California.

Captured beautiful timelapse shots over the San Francisco Bay this morning: the pocket of unstable air embedded behind the main front of this storm set up the right conditions for some dramatic cloud development! #CAwx

Another moody system crawling across The Bay last night. It’s possible I’m having TOO much fun learning aerial photography 🤩

Dramatic rainshower over the Berkeley Marina yesterday evening as our next system arrives #CAwx

“The Bay Area sees some of the least frequent lightning in the world. San Francisco County averages less than one lightning strike per square mile, per year, nearly 5,000 times less than parts of Florida.” #CAwx

Last night’s sunset over the San Francisco Bay was downright tropical😍 #CAwx

Tonight’s sunset over the San Francisco Bay was a feast of different cloud types! #cawx (One of my first ever flights with my drone, plz forgive my less-than-perfect handling 🙃)

This is at the very top of my list of civil service dream jobs. What’s the over/under that positions like these exist in 2 years? www.kqed.org/news/12033338

Smoke from wildfires in Chile wraps around a low off the coast.

March 27 marks the anniversary of the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake (M9.2), the most powerful recorded quake in U.S. history. This megathrust event reshaped landscapes, and you can help reshape our understanding by publishing your seismic research in #OpenAccess #CostFree journals

Stumbled across this 2024 paper researching how people engage with live-streamed Extreme Weather Events, which feels very timely "particularly as recognition grows of the relationship between how extreme weather is understood and remembered determines future risk behaviours" doi.org/10.1080/1747...

The first Tylertown, MS tornado from the Saturday outbreak has been preliminarily rated EF4, the third tornado to be rated as such from the three-day stretch. #wxsky #mswx

A lotttt of blowing dust on true color imagery over Oklahoma and West Texas...

It’s a shame I couldn’t get a better photo, this little flush of instability across the bay made for some pretty awesome cumulus spires on this morning’s commute 😍

Strong statement from @agu.org

This is exactly what many of us that are not NOAA employees are worried about why this impacts more than NOAA.

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

What a neat taste of the future of our weather reporting infrastructure: KMUX radar is down, and there’s weather kicking up in the Bay right now. AccuWeather has no way of informing the user that their “radar view” is only showing the bits of what KDAX can see over the hills.

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

Me: over here just trying to have a peaceful moment with a pair of hawks Nature: bet [you’ll want the sound 🔈 on 😂]

There might be a lot to be upset about, and things may seem dark… but the kindness and generosity of people will never cease to humble and astound me. Thank you.

“For the Karuk Tribe, Cal Fire will no longer hold regulatory or oversight authority over the burns and will instead act as a partner and consultant. The previous arrangement essentially amounted to one nation telling another nation what to do on its land — a violation of sovereignty.”

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

First, assume that the atmosphere is a fluid...

Three tropical cyclones churn in the Southern Hemisphere.

Check out our latest post-event summary covering the #AtmopshericRiver that brought heavy precipitation and significant snowfall to much of California just before Valentine's Day. #CAwx Read here: cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-event-s...

Elon’s “justify your job” email is just a taste of how soul-crushing and exhausting it is to work in tech. Each company has their own flavor, but generally they all say the same thing: don’t forget how replaceable you are.

Check out our new Polar Vortex Blog! Though parts of the US have been very cold and snowy, experts do not think there's much evidence that the polar vortex is the main driver of our winter weather so far this year. www.climate.gov/news-feature...

And we will have bad outcomes at some point this year. When those happen, resist the urge to simplify. Look at the systemic issues rather than individual decisions. No decision made in a complex, dynamic, highly uncertain environment can be seen as simple or linear. 5/

"Research output is therefore not only expected to serve the public good, but a broad view of the social contract conceptually situates scientific knowledge generated with public funds within the public trust" elifesciences.org/articles/65066

Epic icebow/halo over SF State on this gorgeous sunny day

Happy Valentine’s Day! A thread of middle atmosphere/ stratosphere-related Valentines:

Check out our post-event summary of the long-duration #AtmosphericRiver that brought extreme precipitation and flooding to Northern California during the first week of February. #CAwx cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-event-s...

Roses are red, But that's not quite true, They absorb every wavelength of the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, *Except* for that hue.

Roses are red Violets are blue If you are within the yellow hatched area, there is a 10% probability of an EF-2+ tornado within 25 miles of you

Hell froze over.

NEW: When motion sensing lights got installed at a weather observation site... "We need the lights off to acquire night vision to do our work. [...] “It is just stupid. We all have to stay completely still for 15 whole minutes before the lights will turn off." www.thereengineer.pro/p/waste-wast...

Home insurance crisis: it's not only hurricanes and wildfires... "The outlier year (2024) marked a 57% year-over-year increase in major hail, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data (and gutting NOAA won't reverse the trend) insurify.com/car-insuranc...

The AMS joins over 230 organizations and 2,600 individuals in submitting the following letter to Congress, expressing concern and strong opposition to the selective removal of public data from federal websites: bit.ly/42RqXwR

Another alternative to the phrase “climate change”: “when the outside gets big mad”

“This is going to be probably one of the strongest events that we’ve seen outside of the North Bay so far this year,” said Dalton Behringer a meteorologist for the National Weather Service. “Heavy rain and gusty wind is the main story here.” Well this should be a treat! www.kqed.org/news/1202652...

Women and girls belong in science, and their inclusion fosters innovation. In 2025, we join the United Nations to celebrate 10 years of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science—a key milestone in advancing gender equality and empowering women globally.

Without being able to use the phrase “climate change”, I offer up an alternative: “when weather gets bad sometimes (maybe always?)”

Far too resentful for a Friday morning.... Instead of studying, I spent precious time & energy writing a strongly worded letter to the CSU chancellor, Mildred Garcia, opposing this stomach-turning decision: openai.com/index/openai... I urge folks to do the same: [email protected]