Ugh - Pittsburgh snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. 🤦‍♂️

“The people in this building aren’t here for the money” When I worked in the NCAR Mesa Lab at the RDA (2012-14), I worked with a guy who would drive his Honda civic hatchback (with over 400k miles) from Ft Collins three days a week.

People on Twitter are saying the Epstein files are more blacked out than Pete Hegseth at happy hour and I’m dying.

🚨 METEOROLOGICAL JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 In response to the deadly flooding event that occurred in the Texas Hill Country this past summer, TTU has received $24M from the state legislature to develop and implement a weather measurement and modeling system to serve the state.

Reminder: 85%+ of wildfires are human-caused. #COwx

Petty retribution seems to be on the menu as we head into the holidays. 🫤

I’m assuming that my Rep, Gabe Evans, has turned off receiving such input. I’ve long debated whether or not it is worth my time trying to correspond with my “representative” since he seems to only represent MAGA. I would honestly like to get feedback from folks on this.

From NSF: www.nsf.gov/news/intent-...

When people asked in spring what the Trump cuts would mean for NOAA, my general answer was: "You probably won't notice anything in the NWS forecast. What we're likely losing are the subtle research advancements that translate into big operational developments in ~4 years." This keeps that on track.

What a miserable/selfish section of humanity illustrated by Donald Trump/Russel Vought. “The flagged programs include a Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences that seeks to ‘make the sciences more welcoming, inclusive, and justice-centered’” Thinking of Heather Lazrus & others 😢

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Have any data questions? I’ll be at the NCAR/UCAR booth until 4:30 today. Stop by and say hi! #AGU25

I think it was @samlillo.bsky.social who mentioned recently how similar this Dec has been compared to Dec 2021. Seems like Excel Energy is thinking similarly… 👀

I bet @brianzahnd.bsky.social and @bradleyjersak.bsky.social (among others) would get a chuckle out of this. 🤓

I have begrudgingly opened a ko-fi tip jar for my video archiving endeavor. I can no longer afford to do things on my own dime with work cutting my hours and storage prices increasing. It’s the best compromise for me and my sanity, since it’s “pay what you want, if you want, if you wanna support me”

Some people called Nazareth a sh*thole. They said “nothing good comes from there.” But look at God.

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

for no reason, here is an animation from a direct numerical simulation of a share-free atmospheric boundary layer. this is vertical velocity, with narrow bright areas being upward motion, and broad dark areas being downward motion. this is near-surface in the x-y plane (you're superman looking down)

Wow!

If your familiar with the final mission in Halo 3 where you’re in a warthog furiously driving toward the escape ship while the ring collapses around (beneath) you: this is what it feels like trying your get your infant vaccinated during this Administration

Good for Berman. More of this please

The Warn-on-Forecast team at CIWRO is expanding! A position is opening for anyone who is interested in improving fire weather warning guidance with WoFS. You’ll get to work and collaborate with some pretty cool folks on the team, including yours truly. More info below, and feel free to share!

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

Not great timing what with the @agu.org annual meeting being held there in 2 weeks. 😩 I would love to see AGU come out with guidance for our international guests, as well as those of us who are concerned US citizens. Time for me to go and buy a whistle?

Today the FCC accepted for filing the application for Nexstar (Fox31) to acquire TEGNA (9NEWS) and has set a pleading cycle (public comment) to run through late January with a ruling to follow. The FCC says Nexstar is requesting two ownership rule waivers. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

Imagine thinking yourself a Christian and posting this on the 1st Sunday of Advent - when the reading in church was: they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

NPS is hiring GS-12 fire meteorologists in the Southwest and Rocky Mountain GACCs. Benefits include: •bipartisan support for fire •pay during shutdowns •overtime during fire season •no midnight shifts, and more. www.usajobs.gov/job/850741000

Who could have possibly predicted this

Get Mateer out of there!

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

@stonybrookram.bsky.social - I recall from the limited survey that Darrel and I performed that this was your response. (For the record, I still contend that “miss” the rains makes infinitely more sense.)

@gregstumpf.bsky.social weren’t you on the anticyclonic tornado?

Trump’s tariffs create chaos and higher costs for Americans — then Trump celebrates himself for ‘fixing’ the fallout. The math isn’t mathing. America needs leadership that doesn’t cause the problem in the first place.

Amazing what happens when you’re on target!

I’m ready for Hawkins.

So this happened today. Zeke turned 4 in September. We’ve been working on walking for a couple of years. Today he not only took his first real steps on his own - he did at least 10 yards!! Such a huge moment for him!! 🥹

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

WOOHOO!!!!

(And enough time)

Gotta hold em to 3 here

I don’t think US taxpayers should subsidize treason against the United States

Ugh - the panic 😣

Defense has to be gassed. Offense has to stay on the field for more than a handful of downs. (Oh, and thoughts of scoring would be nice too.)

“The only punishment capable of punishing Hitler, and deterring little boys thirsting for greatness in coming centuries from following his example is such a total transformation of the meaning attached to greatness that he should thereby be excluded from it.” -Simone Weil, 1943

Was looking back through some old Instagram posts and came across this cloud formation I captured on 19 June 2019 in Boulder, CO while taking a work break. (Realized it was before I joined Bluesky.) It appears to be a type of Kelvin-Helmholtz wave. I hustled back to take a timelapse of it 1/2

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.