Couldn't sum up the mood in Minneapolis right now any better than that.

It never ceases to amaze me that people can all watch the same exact video and come to such wildly divergent conclusions of the "facts" they just saw. Confirmation bias is a trip.

If you are looking for heroes...shout out to the teachers doing what they can to protect their students.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s being scared and doing it anyway

I don't love how experts and elites are being conflated in these statements and the overall sentiment of the public. There is absolutely still a place for expertise in government, and I want decision makers who know what they're talking about.

Oh no.

At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled. One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood. Read more here: eos.org/research-and...

NCAR does a whole lot more than just climate research, and I think calling it a climate research lab paints an incomplete picture. Atmospheric chemistry, severe thunderstorms, radar, software and tools, etc.

Petition to pull "Let it Snow" out of Minnesota's Christmas playlist rotation. I think we are good with the snow now.

The OG social media. Everything since has been worse (sorry Bluesky).

Ha, wow it's still going. That's embarrassing!

We're on Year 9! 🫶 xkcd.com/3172/

Trying to convince my kids that sweatpants are not appropriate engagement party attire and you would NOT believe the pushback.

While not quite the same as last night, tonight's aurora has still had its moments! Taken just SW of the Twin Cities.

This webcam from up in Ely, MN is a good place to be at the moment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevQ...

A couple of the best ones I could get tonight.

All the colors.

Just spent an hour outside freezing my tail off, but this aurora is so worth it!

The effort my kids put into negotiating out of having to wear a coat and gloves in sub-freezing weather is really something.

Bookmarking this for the one time I have to go downtown in the winter.

Imagine being the QB of an NFL team, and during the game they zoom into a closeup on your face right as you start picking your nose. 🤣

Not always. We have two!

Spent all afternoon in the heat and wind watching flag football. I feel like a raisin.

An excellent video by @gradyhillhouse.bsky.social that gets most things right on about the July 4 central Texas floods.

What about authors of journal papers? Asking for a friend. ;)

Hey Folks...You may start seeing social media sites and a website for Climate.us If you see it, follow and share. It is legit and has some amazing, credible people behind it trying to plug leaks in the climate science world. Trust me on this one. More is coming....

We now live in the Pyrocene, a proposed new geologic epoch of fire activity brought about by human-caused climate change. Living in the Pyrocene means a new reality: knowing what the latest wildfire smoke forecasts are, in order to plan your outdoor activities. I review the best tools to do so:

NISAR has lifted off! And been successfully placed in its orbit! Good job, ISRO! Woohoo!

Last two planes trying to pull in to MSP ahead of the storm thought better of it at the last second

Frog picked the wrong bush to stare at me from if it was hoping not to be noticed. Also TIL frogs can actually see colors very well. 🙃

After every weather-related natural disaster that results in tragic loss of life, meteorologists are always introspective about what we could have done better, where chains of communication broke down, etc. And that conversation is happening again now in our public discourse of social media. (1/2)

Look, I’m all for being angry at what they’ve done to the NWS. Heck, they stole my dream job, forcing me to move across the country to remain employed. But the NWS was on top of this. Flash flood watch, warning, and emergency (causing EAS alert) were all issued in timely manner

Needs a LOT more As and Hs.

"Earth observation data is an essential component of our work. It allows us to improve our climate monitoring & weather forecasting. We're one of the largest users of #EO worldwide - data from more than 100 different satellite data streams enter our processing daily" - @frabier.bsky.social at #LPS25

Every country is warming. Every country is experiencing more extreme weather events because of climate change, mainly caused by burning fossil fuels. www.ShowYourStripes.info Time to #ShowYourStripes and start climate conversations to prompt actions to reduce emissions, personally & collectively.

Every year that I try to grow a veggie garden I get a new nemesis for my shit list. One year it was squash bugs, another it was horn worms. Now, the deer are eating the tomatoes I grew from seed and have been babying along for three months. Assholes!

Y'all I have not looked at social media or news all day long and clearly I missed something epic.

Visibility isn't too bad right now but unlike the past few days when the smoke was mostly aloft, the surface air is noticeably gross now. Wear masks if you plan to spend much time outside.

Tonight would have been a great aurora viewing night here in Minnesota, but we get a thick blanket of smoky haze instead.

Latest wildfire smoke forecast from weather.gc.ca/firework/fir... shows a significant Canadian smoke incursion into MN, WI, and MI on Fri, advancing into the E U.S. on Sat. The pink colors: AQI> 182 (Red, Unhealthy). Left image: 7 pm EDT Fri. Right: 7 pm Sat. The HRR Smoke model is similar.

before and after today’s glacier collapse that buried 90% of blatten, switzerland

Hydrologists! Ever heard of a Spatial Hydrograph? Our new paper in @agu.org GRL shows that the SWOT satellite can capture spatial flow waves propagating down rivers—something previously only only observable at river gauges: doi.org/10.1029/2024... #SWOT #hydrology #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation

Yikes, that does not look good.

Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy

Vim is the original escape room

After tragic flash flood deaths very near my home over the weekend, I did a deep dive into the science of urban flash flooding - and also explained how the NOAA research that has revolutionized our understanding and prediction of these hazards is in grave danger. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

This is the 30th anniversary of the OKC Bombing. Please let me share a perspective on it. It starts with an Oklahoma geography lesson. 1/n

“Diversify your portfolio” is advice that applies in careers as well as in finance.

I wrote a post with my perspectives on the reports today about NOAA's FY26 budget passback and the implications. I will admit this was really hard to write - it's almost inconceivable to me that we are really doing this. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...