This does not work if the nights do not cool down sufficiently and they do not in fact cool down sufficiently. That's why the 2003 heatwave was so devastating. After a few days of hot days and nights those homes because ovens.

post a poster you used to have in your room, apartment, or house. even though I let them go a long time ago I still like both of these.

Projected changes in both mean climate and climate variability drive substantial increases in extreme fire weather in the western United States #climaterisk journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

RIP Marcia Lucas, whose skill as a film editor and storyteller made a clunky independent film called STAR WARS greater than the sum of its parts. Rightly referred to as "Lucas's secret weapon," Marcia had an uncanny talent to see a film from the perspective of an audience--and won an Oscar for it.

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

From a political communications perspective, this is extremely impressive, to be able to push back effectively on her misinformation AND run circles around her on pipeline and economic development rhetoric simultaneously. It really deflates the idea that conservative govts are better for biz

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Nature research paper: Divergent urban storm response to convective, frontal and tropical systems go.nature.com/4uYNHWq

I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better.

The Canadian fire season could kick into gear starting Monday as a large persistent upper ridge will bring conducive fire weather to Manitoba/NW Ontario for the following 10 days. This is a classic set up for significant fire activity.

If you use LLMs to do your data analysis, or if you listen to people who do, you should read this kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

the political project is to invalidate all existing climate science papers from being used in regulation, litigation, design, etc. and a lot of you are not making this easy

I’ve never been prouder to be a UA grad. And the news from campus has been pretty bleak these past few years, so this is a surprising feel-good story.

Rainfall intensity matters as much as how much rain falls. New in Nature: Corey Lesk and I show that daily-scale concentration of precipitation dries the land over the long-run, an effect as strong as total precipitation is climatological wetting. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've updated my map of all 320 tornado emergencies issued since 1999, valid through the storms that hit Mississippi the other day. wxdam.com/weather/torn...

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

New paper out today in Nature Water! We examine how changes in the *width* of the streamflow hydrograph affect water allocation among junior and senior water users. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... No paywall: rdcu.be/fgfl5 @natwater.nature.com

Heading to @egu.eu? Come see @kschwarzwald.bsky.social show how "The choice of historical data product dominates climate uncertainty in projections of climate impacts in a 2-degree world" Quite the result, if I may say so myself, and the culmination of 2 years of work gwagner.com/observational

Lawsuits allege that State Farm tries to avoid paying what it owes for hail damage. The litigation is happening as homeowners face soaring insurance costs, partly due to threats from climate change. n.pr/4uevEeG

It's funny, I just gave a talk at an S&P event about how I like to look for Zillow listings for NC houses that have collapsed into the sea. The overwhelming majority have sold within the last <5 years. I think about that every time someone says "if only we had more granular risk models!"

lol what did we say @kellyhereid.bsky.social

aaaand here's another (jp morgan chase): for all the headlines about how finance doesn't care about climate anymore (there are many) the job postings are saying the opposite--they've truly never cared this much before

Here we go. 🌪️ Tornado watch for southern Minnesota (just south of MSP) into northern Iowa/Wisconsin until 10 p.m. tonight. Stay alert for warnings tonight! MSP will see some storms but biggest severe risk is south. #mnwx #wiwx #iawx www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Western drought is driving beef prices through the roof. This is just a prologue to the far more serious food-supply disruptions a hotter planet will bring Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

It’s a beautiful map drawn in 1884 by a man who moved from tropical St. Lucia to a self-built log cabin in Point Douglas, a decade before anyone ever called the city Winnipeg.

The chief and council of Peguis First Nation are pleading for help from Canada’s military as the threat of a once-in-200-year flood grows larger by the day.

The images of Earth from Artemis are amazing. But if we destroy our ability to understand (and live on) our planet, all they are is pretty pictures www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

Smart take on the (hidden) costs of AI, and what to do about them. The intro alone: 🧐 www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com

I love the fact that, while Galielo's response to haters ("And yet it moves") may be apocryphal, Dr Marvel posts screencaps to keep hers all on the record.

We are in uncharted territory. Both with respect to water and fire.

Elizabeth Banks

Today is an excellent day to buy Kate’s excellent book. bookshop.org/p/books/huma...

This is exactly what our research shows: when it becomes harder to tell apart expert-looking content from the real thing, the value of expertise goes up. And so does demand for it… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... AI hallucinations haunt users more than job losses

Canada average student debt (for those with debt) round about $30,000. Interest rate on loans: 0% (federally, some provincial loans still carry interest) England average student debt at graduation: 53,000 GBP (C$97,000 at current exchange). Interest rate on loans: 6.2%. Utterly bananas.

Every basin has below-normal snowpack. Some have melted out almost entirely. That's not unheard of for low elevations in mid-March, but what highly unusual is the lack of snow at middle and high elevations across such a broad region. Winters like are becoming increasingly common.

Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/

I'm back home to support my mom and my Uber is right behind the dirtiest, mud-encrusted Porsche I can imagine. Winnipeg in March does not allow for status-seeking by automobile.

Just in: UCAR has filed a lawsuit against NSF, the Commerce Dept, NOAA, and OMB to prevent the dismantling of NCAR, alleging "violations of the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act."

At a workshop I led on Friday, I argued that “That’s a great question!” is a terrible default opening. It repetitive. Worse, before you’ve even said anything, you’re already signaling that you’re insincere - willing to lie to the audience to keep up appearances. There are exceptions, obviously

'These findings underscore the challenge of training AI models exclusively on historical data and highlight the need to account for such biases when applying them to future climate prediction' agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

It’s Thursday afternoon. Things I’m confident about for this weekend’s snow in the Twin Cities: • Heavy snow • Rough driving late Saturday night through early Sunday afternoon • No long distance driving between the Twin Cities and the Iowa border

My latest for @science.org on the fraught future of NCAR as NSF's deadline nears. It can still go so many ways.

5/10

Next week I head to Orlando for a big insurance meeting on natural catastrophes. I will give a short talk on climate-related perils from the perspective of a former academic and government scientist. And I'll do it in my own weird style. Behold! My four most inscrutable slides:

It is shocking how quickly one of the biggest benefits of U.S. higher education, the ability to recruit the best students from around the world, is eroding.

$1,005,000 That is the amount of federal funding that was already funded and withdrawn, plus the funds recommended by peer review and would have been awarded to my research group if the status quo were in place at NSF, NOAA, DOE.

A major insurance industry professional organization submitted a letter in support of the Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research, calling it crucial infrastructure for understanding weather & climate risk, and saying dismantling it threatens US insurance coverage. tinyurl.com/4aaxh22d

"It’s not hard to see why ICE has expanded its reach beyond the Twin Cities. The qualities that have hindered ICE’s operation in Minneapolis and St. Paul — density and walkability; a large, almost exclusively left-of-center population — are absent here." www.theverge.com/policy/87871...

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.