Thinking about the combination of heat and air quality health risk today and tonight, especially in the DC area 😞

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Happy Independence Day!🇺🇸🎆 A prolonged, dangerous heat wave will persist through the Independence Day weekend across the Ohio Valley, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic. 🥵 Clusters of severe thunderstorms will move across parts of the Allegheny Plateau into Mid Atlantic this Independence Day. ⛈️ weather.gov

It's interesting that most people don't seem to know what weather event kills more people every year in the U.S. according to the National Weather Service Here you go...

My summer mantra 👇

❤️‍🩹 Ukrainian defender surprises his daughter at her graduation.

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We’re spending an awful lot of time undoing lessons that previous generations already learned the hard way... and then putting them back because we re-learned the reason they were there in the first place.

Yet another version of we’re on our own per health and public safety 😢

A flu outbreak at the Air Force's basic training hub in San Antonio is worsening. As of Tuesday, at least 222 recruits had been diagnosed with flu and 4 had been hospitalized. Mandatory vaccination is crucial for military readiness. And it’s being reinstated there after stupidly being abandoned.

Dog owners, what say you? 🤣

So so love to feel this 💕

An El Niño Advisory has been issued and you may have recently heard the term "Super El Niño". One of our meteorologists explains the terms NOAA uses to describe ENSO intensity and some basics of what El Niño is and is not. See the advisory: www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...

Hey @jpicca.bsky.social you’re going to love this version of “pizza” 😱

Upping the game on nutritional disasters 😳

At that same time, my grandfather was fighting in the Battle of Anzio, driving up Italy to liberate Rome and tie up a bunch of the German army so they couldn't redeploy to Normandy

82 years ago today my grandfather, who lied about his age to enlist in the military, was in one of the first waves of landing crafts to hit the beaches of Normandy. He's been gone a long time now, but today I remember him and the other brave souls who fought and died for a righteous cause.

Remembering my dad's dad, Norman Senior, who was killed on D-Day+2, June 1944, in the fight against fascism.

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Other than being in Congress, sleep is the only human activity where doing absolutely nothing counts as success.

My grandfather served and survived WWII in the Pacific. Oh how this horrific ideology makes me want to rage and cry simultaneously 😱

Last week a garage door guy came for a routine task and was also hyping the app I could use with the opener to get notified whenever the door goes up or down. OK that might be useful…except after 3 attempts, still can’t get the stupid app to sync correctly. I’m done 😡

Agree completely. I’ve had it with another app for formerly mundane and simple tasks 😡. Who’s with me?

My goodness. Higher emotional intelligence than a LOT of adults that come to mind…

Enter Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero. Eye opening with respect to the impact of most American’s utter lack of world religion traditions.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Good catch. Memories of non-meteorological echoes captured by our radars: from space shuttle Columbia disaster to tracking bird migrations to the Murrah bombing to…add your memories!

Opening today!

Here’s a great follow for lots of positivity 💕

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

We will not let their sacrifice be in vain. Share this post to remind all Americans that we must continue the fight against Fascism. Now and Forever. #memorialday

From different perspectives, both can be #tall, the grass and the mountain. #BlueSkyArtShow

Cats doing cats 🐈 🤣

Imagine being a Russian troll assigned to Bluesky: “Comrade, today you will destabilize Western democracy by arguing with poets, policy nerds, and a raccoon avatar with tenure.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

Several days of heavy rainfall beginning today over the western Gulf Coast where Flood Watches and slight risk for excessive rainfall outlooks have been issued for today, Saturday, and Sunday. Keep up with the latest through Memorial Day weekend at weather.gov and as always: Turn Around, Don't Drown

My local dump has a building sized sculpture made from steel in front of the place you take used motor oil.

Cats doing cats 🐈 🤣

PSA: Give blood! It’s a wonderful thing to do, and you get all the Lorna Doone cookies you can eat

The post-eruption road to Moana Loa Observatory reopened two months ago -- but the bigger deal is NOAA publicly recommitting to the previous planned renovations. This is home to the famous Keeling Curve measuring CO2 rise, of course.

just a reminder that nancy guthrie is still missing. it's been 100 days since she was kidnapped. she's in her 80s and isn't in great health. i'd be losing my fucking mind if someone kidnapped my 80 year old mother and nobody seemed interested in getting her back.

I’d favor adding an amendment that they cannot leave their offices; better yet, put them all in a room and deliver pizza until they pass a budget. Same goes for the House! That would be even more fun on C-SPAN 🤣

And since none of this is technically illegal (according to the grand jury), we’ll just move along…

How’s this for a classic “hope is not a plan” situation. SMDH Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

To my younger colleagues: this is Routine Maintenance Graduate School. Surgery to correct severe arthritis at the base of the thumb joint. Yeah, it’s a thing. Ugh 😩 Hoping to post happy updates as I regain use of this hand!

Only two weeks of Weather101 left this season! Don't miss your chance for some free weather education before the summer! Visit weather.gov/ohx/weather101 for the remaining list of classes until fall.

I, for one, will soon miss days like today. This will be a distant memory very soon. 😞

One of NOAA's true gems - which could be at risk under POTUS' FY27 budget - are its testbeds which test & evaluate NOAA research for how it can improve its operations. I wrote today about my experience participating in a NOAA winter weather forecasting testbed experiment. tinyurl.com/35pua9cc

I am a dedicated Atlantic subscriber who appreciates their work oh so much!

The toll on the NWS scientists who remain after the DOGE purge still runs very deep. You won’t find a more dedicated group of public servants; however, they remain stretched dangerously thin

When I think of all those years as a Fed, and being so respectful of the DIGNITY of public service, it’s hard to find words here. 😡