Taking off my weather hat for a moment for something more important than the forecast…today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. I’ve shared before that my grandparents (mom’s side) are both Holocaust survivors. Please do me a favor and read their story in this thread.

Join us this (Tuesday) afternoon at 4:30pm in 381A for what will most certainly be an excellent panel discussion on the future of the public-private partnership! We're really excited to have such an amazing group of panelists! 😃

I'm now at ~6 hours of sleep across 2 nights because this issue persists despite maintenance taking time with the system yesterday. 🥱

Me at any mention of Hurricane Hilary (2023) in a conference talk:

Very exciting to share that @climatecentral.org is hiring a Climate Data Scientist to join a new climate services effort focused on advancing predictions of risks and hazards on seasonal-to-decadal timescales. The application closes on February 9, 2026 at 5pm ET, & the description can be found here:

Shameless plug: I expect to host a grad student through NOAA’s Lapenta program this summer to evaluate global or near-global storm-scale MPAS forecasts. Contact me for more details! And I’ll be speaking today at 4:30p CT in Rm. 362C on our regional model development efforts with MPAS! #ams2026

This morning, I'm thankful for running power and water. Unfortunately, my hotel room's HVAC makes an awful noise when the heat runs, so I'm operating on little sleep. Forgive me if I'm a terrible conversationalist at the conference today! 😴

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

On board my on-time flight to Houston! I'm looking forward to catching up with folks and learning about advances in our science. 🎉

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Beyond helping establish DHS itself in 2003, Mr. Mitnick was a senate-confirmed Trump choice for General Counsel for DHS in his first term. I've talked with him a few times, and he's not a man for hyperbole. So bear that in mind when you see him calling out DHS's "lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty."

For #AMS2026 - John and @pamknox.bsky.social report that Elevator #14 at the headquarters Hilton should be avoided at all costs. They had to be freed from it by Houston Fire Dept after it got stuck, and the FD told them it happens regularly with that elevator.

too much ice accumulation seems real bad, y'all

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

I'm currently packing for travel to Houston in ways that enable me to offer support as needed if we end up delayed or otherwise stuck somewhere. Items like a charged power bank, extra snacks, bandaids, a spare pair of gloves, a spare scarf. Because people matter.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Gov. Walz’s office tells @zeteo.com: “The Governor has activated the State Emergency Operations Center. He is meeting with public safety officials now and will hold a press conference at 1:30 CT to address the shooting in Minneapolis.”

I feel physically ill watching the footage from Mpls. I can't imagine what people on the ground feel.

"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ... "Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.

This is a pretty neat tool that helps folks prepare and understand what to do if (when) the power goes out. alexdobrenko.github.io/storm-prep/ #NCwx #SCwx

Here's a comparison of two countries - Germany and Spain. During the day where solar dominates costs drop. At night when gas use increases, so do costs. The nation with the higher gas percentage has higher costs overall. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

genuinely stunning image

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Within minutes of me getting home from a 10-hour workday, my cat loudly protested until I put my feet up (my lap apparently isn't good enough) and then proceeded to snuggle up against my leg. I'm trying to savor such moments even more these days.

As a big winter storm comes for the US, some may blame outages on renewable energy. This is a pattern. In Feb 2021 when an outage hit Texas critics blamed solar + wind. Investigations found the outage's cause was gas + coal plants forced offline because of freezing temperatures. (more here⬇️)

I would like to gently request that AI pharmacy bots stop trying to kill my mother

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Well, my database now computes 1,431 counties/zones for Sunday and 1,281 max on Saturday, that's wildly above the previous max value denoted below

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Starting to see local meteorologists compare this to the big ice storm of 2002, which led to power outages that lasted up to 10 days in the hardest-hit areas.

Simple feed for #AMS2026 posts - pin away!

I haven't (yet) adjusted my AMS travel plans, but I'm not feeling great about traveling for this impending winter storm. It's the first time in years that I haven't felt excited for going to AMS, and I co-chaired a pair of conferences at the last one. 😅 (Great experience! Absolutely exhausting too.)

Really excited to see this paper out!! Led by @vtcoop.bsky.social we show that if you use cold and warm paleoclimates together, you can reduce uncertainty in Earth's climate sensitivity by quantifying the pattern effect and more precisely constrain future climate change www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I think it's important to boost news of the general strike in Minneapolis today and it's possible to do it without the hyperbole that nobody in the media is covering it It may not be getting the attention it deserves! Posting links to reported stories is one way to combat that!

It turns out that having experienced emergency management staff is important during emergencies: www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

I just thought everyone should see this

For those attending #AMS2026, you'll note there aren't nearly as many NOAA/NWS folks as normal - largely driven by the impacts this administration has had on our field. While perusing the many private company booths, recall none of the big players did so much as issue a press release in opposition.

Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky? Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices? NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN... Press release: www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

Yes, this is a fantastic read! Also, "cold rain = sad melted snowflakes" is now entering my lexicon.

FOLKS ITS NOT ALL DOOM AND GLOOM!

Areas under this winter storm watch include: all y'all.

⚠️~132 million: Number of people under alerts for snow, sleet, & freezing rain. A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend. 🧵

"ice is bad" means many things this week to an atmospheric scientist who cares about other people

I picked a hell of a week to visit Europe, and Switzerland, at that.l I’ve spent three days at an international gathering, and, Americans: everybody else is deep into planning a post-US world. We are only worth considering as an opponent. New alliances are being formed. We are being left behind.

Hey if you track records this weekend here’s the skinny, the straight dope, the skilly: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit... This is heavily vetted from standardized observing networks, which means:

Read every word of this thread.