The second module in the COMET MetEd Radar Meteorology course is published! "The Radar Equations" demystifies common forms of the single point target and distributed target equations for backscattered power. Free registration required: learn.meted.ucar.edu#/online-cour...

So are the Thunder flopping like fish because they don’t think they can beat them straight up? This is a terrible look

Nominations are open for three STAC-level awards. Help us recognize deserving contributors to our SLS community! Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

And with grades posted, we are off to summer!

superb bow & arrow overnight in the Great Plains

This is very true!

Since I can’t be at @fcst70.bsky.social’s retirement celebration this evening, I wrote a thing instead.

Around NCAR, WRF has become a cautionary tale on attempting to maintain a sprawling community-contributed codebase. It’s a multi-million dollar investment just in people time to keep these codes running.

Downstream users don’t appreciate the significant undertaking it is to maintain these legacy systems on anything close to modern hardware. Many of the people who developed them have retired - there just isn’t the expertise to maintain or further them at this point. (cont.)

First field project sticker despite many years in the field!

Come and do a PhD with me! Understanding the Risk of Damaging and Disruptive U.S. Winter Weather in a Changing Climate Drop me an email if you're interested and find out more here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Academic friends please share!!

Trying to sell this in OKC makes me want to yell

The complete reliance on Canvas for everything class related should be seriously reconsidered after this fiasco. Even though I can grade my paper exam next week, I don’t even know my students cumulative grades now without Canvas

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

This hits too close to home

Ok you all can stop bragging about being in Vienna now. I’ve had enough on day 1

MiniCOW packs MegaPOWER! Observes birth and ingestion of satellite tornado and Fujiwara effect deflecting tornado. Tornado transitions 2x between clear eye and debris ball. Prelim data from most powerful mobile radar, 1 MegaWatt C-band storm-penetrating miniCOW in Braman, OK 🌪️

Didn’t want to be the one who broke the bad news, but since it’s public now, the absence of the NWC REU is a shame.

Piggy backing off Alan’s post and others commenting on the NBC article, I’ll throw some comments into the ring. To truly know the impact observations have on weather forecasts necessitates coupled experiments: one that has the observations and the other that doesn’t.

JournoJob alert: Come work with me at CNN Climate & Weather. Must have multimedia skills & be a sharp editor to shepherd and edit weather edutainment stories. This is a great role for the right person. careers.wbd.com/global/en/jo... (You can also be based in DC, NYC etc).

Timeline Cleanse: My dogs are part of a fundraising campaign for the University of Oklahoma's College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences. I am not sure how the photographer got these shots amongst the craziness of the photoshoot.

it's happening "PhD degree in Climatology or Atmospheric Sciences" "Deep knowledge of the mortgage business"

Massive and important positive news... #NSF #GRFP awards are out. 2,599 awards! + 1,440 Honorable Mentions. A significant boost from last year. Congratulations to the winners (and HM-s)! & many thanks to the reviewers & program officers who made this possible. www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

Cameron National?

Shall we rename it Rory National?

Being a 5 year old must be so confusing — your parents just spent years being excited about your burps and farts, and talking about poop and pee all the time; then all of a sudden this is considered inappropriate behavior.

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y'all.

So much awesomeness here

This feels almost like a chicken race of a flyby. Orion turning towards the approaching Moon. But then missing it. Play with the 3D of the flyby via my interactive HTML file with a Plotly 3d plot from here: figshare.com/ndownloader/... (55 MB dowload). Based on NASA's trajectory data, converted

This is so, so well-articulated.

I tell my students that writing is an exercise in figuring out what you think; it's not a place to deposit what you've already worked out. If you step on a frictionless surface, momentum takes over and you just slide; there's nothing to interact with, which means there's nowhere to stand.

Everyone is coming to Norman and I didn’t even know the NWC was having a big workshop 🤷🏼‍♂️

Interested in hurricanes? I want to introduce TC-ATLAS: the Tropical Cyclone Analysis Tool for Live and Archived Structure. Explore live or past storms without writing a line of code or downloading a data file, building on the capabilities of TC-RADAR: michaelfischerwx.github.io/TC-ATLAS/ind...

If you have a free account like me, it may be under “CoPilot —> privacy”

📣 Calling all WRF/MPAS users! @ams-waf.bsky.social is hosting a webinar in a couple weeks about the ongoing transition from WRF to MPAS for regional modeling throughout the community. Please join to hear the perspectives from our fabulous panelists! Register here: ametsoc.org/WebinarWRFMPAS

The production of ERA6, coming up in 2027, has started. The next‑generation climate reanalysis from #CopernicusClimate will offer >2× finer resolution than ERA5, a coupled ocean–atmosphere–wave model, improved data access & more. Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-c... @ecmwf.int

Entire goal for the first weekend is don’t lose your champion. Well I lost my champion’s opponent in the natty so I guess that’s still a win?

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Too many students are convinced by their own universities, by some of their teachers and professors, and by the AI companies themselves that ‘using ai to study is getting ahead of the game’ But the process they seek to get ahead of is the point.

This was awesome

Wisconsin barely beat Washington this year, at home, so this is not surprising.

I’m sorry, Siena is doing what now?

In Phoenix, Arizona, temperatures could reach an unbelievable 107°F (+42°C) on Friday. If that verifies, it would break the record for the earliest occurrence of 107°F since records began in 1895, pulverising the previous record by a whopping 44 days. This is totally bonkers.

Fair to say that the Western U.S. heatwave has reached record-shattering status, with dozens of locations breaking all-time March monthly heat records & some now approaching *April* records. Swath of record heat extends clear from Pacific to Great Plains, & from Canada to Mexico.

Lots of previously unreported allegations in the lawsuit, including how NOAA also terminated a cooperative agreement with UCAR at the same time as the NCAR news, and how NSF demanded individual cost accounting for every UCAR employee that attended AMS with only 6 days to turn it around.

The whole complaint is worth reading, as there is some truly damning stuff in here. Although perhaps nothing more damning than this: NSF's Nick Anderson telling a large group that the responses to the 'Dear Colleague Letter' would 'not be meaningful to OMB'

That’s neat

"As [AI gets] better at producing knowledge work – designing classes, writing papers, suggesting experiments & summarizing difficult texts – they don’t just make universities more productive. They risk hollowing out the ecosystem of learning & mentorship upon which these institutions are built"