“The diminished ability to study, monitor, forecast, warn for, and recover from more intense hurricanes and other hazards like flooding, heat waves and wildfires was—and continues to be—a source of unease.” www.nbcmiami.com/weather/hurr...

⚒️🧪 Fiery eruption of Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano in Azerbaijan! The Otman-Bozdagh mud volcano erupted at ~8:27am local time today (11/10/25). Three eruption phases of between 4-12 minutes were recorded over an ~40 minute period. Video source: @_yagha_

Nights like this are the best. All the trouble of the world is momentarily set aside while we're collectively marveling at the pretty lights and nature together. This is how it's supposed to be. Life, I mean. Shared joy and all. 🙂

Me liking every post I see about the Northern Lights rn

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Y'all this is the best. I'm in rural Oklahoma and there's people stopped on a lot of the exit ramps along the highway watching the aurora. Many have likely never seen it before. One old southern dude stopped beside me asking if I see the "big orange lights" too. We're all just little curious humans.

It looks like the CME's from the two previous X-class flares Sunday and Monday combined into one wave RIGHT on top of us! The CME from today's X5.1 looks to miss us tomorrow slightly ahead of our orbit. In short, WE LUCKED OUT SO GOOD!!!!!

Seeing some beautiful photos of aurorae tonight, so here's a reminder that other planets get them, too! This is Saturn, with aurorae visible at both poles in this UV image from Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, taken in October 1997 when the planet was 1.3 billion km away.

Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades? Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

INCREDIBLE That we got such a brilliant show in Memphis, TN tonight! Even through city lights and looking directly at lights, our East Memphis camera caught some brilliant red waves between 8-10pm tonight!

GULF COAST AURORA?!?!?!

Seems like the #Aurora is already visible over a large chunk of the CONUS tonight thanks to the #CME's over the last few days from a couple of significant X-class solar flares.

My goodness...

I am not sure I've ever said "oh my god" so many times in a five minute span.

Unreal aurora now outside of Champaign, IL!

Info from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center: G4 Storm levels have been reached! My favorite part of this graphic is the credit line "image courtesy of a NOAA/SWPC spouse" I also texted my husband to go get a picture but he was working lol

reflecting off the lake?!

Android as a great feature called Expert Raw... takes amazing photos of stars/night skies if you have a tripod or can prop the phone

MEMPHIS, TN AURORA RIGHT NOW!!!!!

My entire timeline rn.

Just a 2 second exposure from KSTP

This cold outbreak was also impressive in how far south it pushed, even to #Miami, FL. The Miami International Airport #KMIA set its first record low (49°F) in more than a decade! Between the last two record lows (11/2/14 to 11/11/25), there have been *97 new record highs* set at the airport. #FLwx

You’ve probably heard this claim: Climate’s always changing! It's true, Earth’s climate has changed before. But not this fast, and not for this reason. Introducing Cold Facts, Hot Takes: my new series of evidence-based replies to common troll takes 🔥 Want the whole episode? Links below ⬇️

For the folks that are still struggling with this. Here is a Venn Diagram. #3I/Atlas #3I 🔭

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

The 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: A New Perspective on an Old Storm: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship? 🧵 🧪🔭🛸 (1/7)

🌡️Want to track breaking temperature records? @climatecentral.org has a tool for that! Visualize local temperature records for 247 U.S. cities, updated daily, at the link below. app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/loca...

This would be good news to help improve the drought situation in Arkansas and Mississippi! Much of West Tennessee including Memphis were dropped from any abnormally dry areas last Thursday.

This is a dust devil... on Mars.

A prominent lake effect snow band off of Lake Michigan brings heavy snow to the Midwest. This satellite view shows the evolution of this snow band throughout the day today.

November 10, 1975 4:15-6:00pm: Fitzgerald radios Anderson "I have lost both radars, can you provide me with plots?" "Charlie on that, Fitzgerald." Fitzgerald also cannot find the beacon at Whitefish Point, and calls for any vessels with information. They are told the lighthouse is not operating.

The cold front arrived last night and has dropped temperatures across the Mid-South 25-30 degrees!!! Over night, we're expecting our first freeze of the season.

Out of all the stats that will be in history books from Melissa, this is the most astounding to me. GLM data was recording a peak flash rate of 700 strikes per minute — nearly 12 per second — as it made landfall on Jamaica. That’s rewriting our understanding flash density in tropical cyclones.

I posted this as a reply elsewhere, but I'll say it again: We air traffic controllers are not okay. The delay you call unnecessary may have been the delay that prevented one or more of us from working an unsafe level of traffic...

The 3-month Oceanic Nino Index (ONI) just hit -0.5C (rounded from -0.451C). This is the minimum threshold for a La Nina. (Note: a La Nina Advisory is in effect.)

November 1, 1965 – “Fortune” magazine covers carbon dioxide build-up allouryesterdays.info/2025/10/31/n...

all I need in the world

Here are updated verifications for 2025, AL/EP combined, EMXI not available. Impressed that NHC is beating everything, including consensus, for intensity, and everything but Google DeepMind (GDMI) for track. Rough year for GFS and the statistical intensity aids. Banner year for GDMI.

Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:

Yeah. It’s Climate Change. In the last 45 years the most extreme Atlantic hurricanes have nearly doubled and extreme rapid intensification has increased by 6X!! #climatechange #melissa #hurricane #fyp #florida

Thanks to some vigilant friends out there, I have a nearly-complete 87-hour radar loop of #Melissa 's approach to #Jamaica. The loop abruptly ends when the radar is lost (either loss of communication with it or loss of the actual structure). bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/radar/

I deeply respect the work that's been invested into exploring our approaches to tracking high-end tropical cyclones, but I can't in good conscience remain silent regarding the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) and discussion around a so-called category 6. 🧵 [1/5]

Obvious wavenumber-5 mesovortex pattern within #Melissa’s eyewall earlier today — when the simulation matches reality. Just two decades ago, the very existence of mesovortices was still a matter of debate.

"Extreme weather events fueled by climate change are increasing and making me change. I’ve always been authentic [...] but I can no longer be non-alarmist. People need to realize that this is not going to stop until we cut down on greenhouse gas [emissions]." @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...

Late night update on Melissa. I’ve been making more effort to update TikTok with forecasts, follow me @ProKitman!

I keep a pretty thorough spreadsheet of tropical data. With most storms it's at most 3-hourly updates, but I made this chart with room for the hourly updates Melissa had across Jamaica. It's always amazing to see how quickly storms weaken over land.

Melissa was a Category 5 hurricane for 36 consecutive hours. Only 4 other hurricanes in the satellite record – Irma (2017), Ivan (2004), Mitch (1998), and David 1979 – lasted as long as a Category 5 hurricane. Typically Cat 5s last about 18 hours before weakening.

Given higher than usual confidence of rapid intensification (RI) from analyses of an exceptionally favorable environment & with the aid of newer hurricane models (HAFS) & Google DeepMind, NHC was able to skillfully predict Melissa's RI days in advance.

While the eye of #Melissa was making landfall, did you notice the standing wave on the Eastern side of the island? The mountains in eastern Jamaica reach upwards of to 7,000 feet, and likely wrung out a ton of additional moisture. Looking here for flooding and landslide reports in the coming days.