You're going to hear a lot of stories about #Helene this week. I humbly ask that if you have time, to hear mine. The Buncombe County Special Collections interviewed me a month ago to talk about my experiences covering weather disasters while living one. helenehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1...

Gabrielle has changed in the last 24 hours. Now a major hurricane southeast of Bermuda.

A severe thunderstorm at 7:06 am on September 21 isn’t what you’d normally expect in Wisconsin, but we’ve got that today. Stay inside and away from windows until this storm passes.

What movie do you consider perfect?

The autumnal equinox is tomorrow at 1:19 pm CT. Who’s seeing some good fall colors already?

So much “free news” is of questionable quality. I can’t tell you how much probably really good journalism I haven’t read because of so many paywalls. I know journalism has a price, but they’re really shooting themselves in the foot by not finding a way to get more people to read it.

Baseball is the best

Yea well my bologna has a first name. It’s O-S-C-A-R.

I’m not sure what’s worse, the ESPN alerts for UFC or the ESPN alerts for WWE.

It was feeling very weird seeing Illinois in the top-10.

The OU defense might just keep us in every game this year.

Is quarterback play so bad that we’re actually thinking Mateer is good?

Me, watching my baseball team collapse after peaking in the first half of the season.

Apparently, Tornado warnings weren't allowed to be broadcast on television the last time that Tulsa beat Oklahoma State in Stillwater

I’ve never liked MM, even before I went to OU and learned he was a Texas guy. Nothing about him makes me want to ever watch a movie with him in it.

“Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore.” Seeing so much of this everywhere lately. Everybody asking their favorite LLM what to do, think, say. Silicon Valley keeps unleashing things without any thought of what will happen.

Giving an interview to someone and then being unable to read the story they write is one of most annoyance-inducing things I’ve dealt with. One of the worst things we’ve done for society is lock knowledge away because instead of legitimate ads, media used slop ads and we got ad blockers.

. @theatlantic.com might want to fix the sub headline in this graphic.

Four years ago today. Snowy Yellowstone is the best Yellowstone.

Grand Marsh with an impressive 1.41” of rain this afternoon as multiple thunderstorms moved over the site. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected throughout the weekend, with periods of heavy rain possible. Not a total washout, but watch out for lightning!

I'm giving social media a go after a hiatus, so hi! I'm a Kiwi volcanologist working on Ngāuruhoe (Mt Doom) in NZ, the 2021 La Palma/Tajogaite eruption impacts, seafloor geologic hazards, & collaborate w. @geotenerife.bsky.social. More on my work here: janinekrippner.weebly.com Nice to meet you❤️🌋

HUGE win for ocean life as Morocco becomes the 60th nation to ratify, forcing new high seas protections. “The US signed the treaty under Biden and American negotiators played a “very important role in drafting” it, but that since President Trump took office “the U.S. has kind of checked out.”

After having a great geo call with @earthjay.bsky.social yesterday, I am inspired to give this platform a go again! So here is my latest writing. Over the last few years I have been doing the classic newspaper column writing scicomm style. www.teawamutunews.nz/2025/09/pani...

Am I going to be referencing a @whysharksmatter.bsky.social paper in a journal article about a weather station network? Yes, I do believe I am.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

I thought my shot was just blurry, but that is Regulus just sitting next to Venus.

If you can’t discredit the argument, try to discredit the source…

Yes, the moon and Venus conjunction this morning was really neat. Regulus is there somewhere too, but too faint to see in the early morning light.

Given my experiences this morning, I understand why people put off dealing with medical stuff.

This dog led an officer to his leash while being rescued from his burning home. 14/10 for all (IG: aurorapoliceil)

i listened to mtg’s entire weather modification hearing yesterday and tried — for you, dear WIRED readers — to make sense of it:

Keeping an eye on north-central Wisconsin this afternoon and evening for the chance of slow moving thunderstorms along a warm front that could produce heavy rain. There's a Level 1/4 risk of flash flooding for the area.

Stopped by the Midwest Farm Report today to talk about Wisconet and the 2nd Annual Wisconsin Weather Festival, coming to @uwenergy.bsky.social on October 25!

Shut it down. Shut it down right now.

The @nwas.org and @iaem-org.bsky.social are united in safeguarding communities from weather-driven disasters. Today, we are making a joint statement to reaffirm our commitment—to our mission and to those who depend on us. The full statement is available here: nwas.org/nwa-iaem-joi...

Coming soon to the Wisconet website: Chill Hour calculations for each of our weather stations. We calculate chill hours as the sum of the number of hours between 32°F and 45°F during the October 1 - February 28/29 time frame. wisconet.wisc.edu

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Badger badger badger badger 2. Badger badger badger badger 3. Badger badger badger badger 4. Badger badger badger badger 5. Mushroom, mushroom Bonus round: a snake, a snake, snake, a snake, oh it’s a snake

D is leaps and bounds ahead of the other regions, but G is pretty solid.

⚠️ not an active eruption ⚠️

Looks like a great day to go to the island

I shared this earlier, but this is *exactly* the point I try to make whenever I get the question about "which volcano will be the next to have a big eruption?" It is rarely the ones that are in the headlines at the time.

Real banger of a hearing.

Incredibly proud of my colleagues at NOAA's NCEI that put together this thorough storymap of Hurricane Helene. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8887...

It's a rather warm start to the first day of goose season for Wisconsin. Shooting for highs in the mid-80s today, with dissipating showers over northern Wisconsin.

There’s gotta be a limit to how high this guy can jump…he can’t keep setting world records, right? Right?

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to Bluesky

The stock market isn’t the economy

If he starts for the Vikings this weekend, Carson Wentz would become the first quarterback in NFL history to start at least one game for six different teams in six consecutive seasons: Eagles (2020) Colts (2021) Commanders (2022) Rams (2023) Chiefs (2024) Vikings (2025) Mr. Immaculate Grid.

We're starting to make plans for updates to our website this fall and winter. What would you like to see added to the Wisconet site?

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is proposing to eliminate the entire Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. I strongly encourage you to voice opposition to this cut at the appropriate link in the thread below. More details are available here: budgetprocess.unl.edu/proposed-bud...