The @ametsoc.org Scientific and Technological Activities Commission (for which I am the Commissioner) is soliciting nominations for 13 Board and Committee early-career, distinguished science or tech accomplishment, or service awards! Most deadlines are June 12th! www.ametsoc.org/stac/awards/...

82-0 on the 4th time through. Helps when you get Wilt in the first spin, Luka in the second, Jerry West in the third, and Magic in the fourth. It probably didn’t matter what team or position came up for the last spot (SF), but Jamal Mashburn is pretty good. www.82-0.com/share?id=O6f...

The @ametsoc.org Scientific and Technological Activities Commission (for which I am the Commissioner) is soliciting nominations for 13 Board and Committee early-career, distinguished science or tech accomplishment, or service awards! Most deadlines are June 12th! www.ametsoc.org/stac/awards/...

Wrapping up one of the strangest springs I can recall in Wisconsin... Milwaukee had its record driest May, besting a record that had stood for 141 years. That followed its record wettest April, which obliterated its previous record by over 2 inches.

Fun with NWP on a Saturday… Yay for a global 3.75-km MPAS forecast with NOAA’s regional physics suite! LOL at the 1+ TB initialization file and 650+ GB six-hourly history files (+ 60+ GB six-hourly diagnostic files)! Now to see whether this gives out verification lead palpitations next week…

Call me old fashioned, but I love looking at small-town newspapers when someone local hits it “big.” Tonight, it’s the lead story in the Durango Herald - their own Sepp Kuss winning a stage of the Giro d’Italia grand tour. And it’s a well-done story, at that! www.durangoherald.com/articles/rid...

🌟 Congratulations Dustin Swales - DTC PROUD Award winner! 🌟 Physical Scientist, NOAA GSL. He made indispensable scientific, technical, & leadership contributions to the DTC Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) project. More on his accomplishments & impacts! dtcenter.org/news/dustin-...

Nominations are open for three STAC-level awards. Help us recognize deserving contributors to our SLS community! Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.

46 years ago tomorrow was the Mt. St. Helens eruption. I highly recommend following @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social to learn about the stories of the people who were lost and those who got away, all told with care and compassion.

I did not have “tornado warning near Meeker, CO” on my bingo card for today…

Around NCAR, WRF has become a cautionary tale on attempting to maintain a sprawling community-contributed codebase. It’s a multi-million dollar investment just in people time to keep these codes running.

Hot take: the RRFS is actually pretty good (even better than HRRR in some regards) for most everything but severe convection! And for that, at least deterministically, we have our developmental real-time MPAS forecasts that help demonstrate the physics + DA advances from RRFS v1 development.

Rumors of ruined Western Slope peach crop were greatly exaggerated, growers say

ncview2 is a relatively faithful python port of David Pierce's ncview. It handles non-uniform grids, and can perform on-the-fly area averaging with multiple color maps. github.com/benmsanderso...

lol 2.78:1 snow-liquid ratio - but after shaking out my trees again, I believe it…

Judging from how weighed-down with snow the trees already are at 6:30, I suspect there’s going to be a *lot* of tree damage across the Front Range come morning, and that I might not get a lot of consistent sleep overnight tonight…

Come work with us! We have an opening for a physical scientist focused* on AI/ML techniques. This closes on May 11. 🧪🌊 www.usajobs.gov/job/867653100 *There’s a secondary focus on developing pranks with me to wield against NWS/SPC, but that hasn’t been cleared by legal.

We are now hiring early-career meteorologists at most offices across the country! Through an improved, streamlined hiring process, eligible candidates will be entered into pools to be continually considered for vacancies. Interested? Here’s what you need to know: (1/3)

For our next #HumansOfCIRES, meet Daniel Abdi, a CIRES research scientist @noaa.gov's Global Systems Laboratory. Abdi uses high-performance computing & AI to develop, improve weather prediction models — and he develops computer games. Read the Q&A: cires.colorado.edu/news/humans-...

🤩 We’re excited to share that the DTC Visitor Program is now accepting applications! This is a great opportunity for researchers to collaborate & contribute to advancing modeling, evaluation, & software tools. Learn more & apply! dtcenter.org/news/dtc-vis...

“A 4:12 24th mile when you are already on 2:00 pace? A 13:42 5k from 35k to 40k? A 27:36 10k from 30k to 40k? A 59:01 second half? All of those are records for the fastest segments in any marathon.” www.letsrun.com/news/2026/04...

fighting the good fight 🫡 we're going to win

For the uninitiated, check out www.edsbscharitybowl.com, raising funds for New American Pathways, a nonprofit that helps support new Americans (esp. refugees) from arrival through citizenship.

$1 for each precious minute of a 4-hour meeting two years ago in which my former faculty colleagues and I did right by our students when university administration would not. Thank y’all, @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @newap-georgia.bsky.social et al. for fighting for what is right.

3rd Annual FARM Radar institute DEADLINE EXTENDED until Monday, 27 April at 1159PM MDT! (Turns out my people are slackers…and didn’t answer questions very timely 🙄)

Play the song!

I also got the blessing of meeting the 14-month old daughter of two of my former advisees on the way out of town to Indianapolis airport. As an added bonus, their county is the 1,000th in the US that I’ve visited…because like many other meteorologists, it’s fun to track them!

I enjoyed visiting Purdue this week, during which I gave a seminar on the great modeling work at GSL and had great discussions with students, postdocs, and faculty. Thanks to @meteodan.bsky.social for inviting me, to @tornatrix.bsky.social for the picture, and to everyone for their hospitality!

Piggy backing off Alan’s post and others commenting on the NBC article, I’ll throw some comments into the ring. To truly know the impact observations have on weather forecasts necessitates coupled experiments: one that has the observations and the other that doesn’t.

April is #VolunteerMonth! Did you know AMS has over 140 boards and committees advancing our work across many fields🌻? On AMS Headlines, we speak with the heads of two major commissions to learn more about what these volunteers do: https://bit.ly/4com0is

Snow atop the Flatirons, Green Mountain, and the west ridge for the first time in a * long* time. #cowx

And actively being tested with RRFSv1 for potential inclusion in the first operational release this summer!

And now Franzi Koch - the instigator and strongest all day! A well-earned victory over the GOAT Vos (who I really feel for after her family’s loss in the last few weeks). #ParisRoubaixFemmes

Wout!! #ParisRoubaix

Happy to be invited to contribute to this @ametsoc.org feature on the Society’s volunteers! headlines.ametsoc.org/2026/04/09/a...

A quick trip to the mothership. Hi, friends!

Happy to share a new publication, in early release for @ametsoc.org Weather and Forecasting (led by Collin DeYoung), detailing unique observations of the Lake Michigan marine atmospheric boundary layer and their use for evaluating HRRR forecasts! journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Timely and accurate weather forecasts help communities prepare and respond. CIRES researchers @noaa.gov's Global Systems Laboratory developed a powerful new tool — HRRRCast, an experimental AI model designed to predict hazardous weather conditions. cires.colorado.edu/news/ai-help...

Learn how MPAS is gaining ground as WRF’s successor, with research and operations shifting across sectors. The NWS Director at AMS2026 urged a unified modeling foundation, calling for academia, government, and industry to align and collaborate. Register: https://bit.ly/4lL9Owh

Only a few days left to apply for student travel grants! Students in undergrad and graduate school are highly encouraged to apply if you're planning on attending the Joint Summit.

Talking w/ Lance Bosart earlier today reminded me this is the 20th anniversary of the “The Challenge of Convective Forecasting” NCAR ASP Summer Colloquium! Should we put together an anniversary poster for the AMS Madison Summit, @rschumacher.cloud @meteodan.bsky.social @tornatrix.bsky.social et al?

Denver Botanic Gardens, March 28 - Lilacs approaching full bloom. Beautiful, but still way too early.

Looking forward to this! 🌟 Thanks to our own Ligia Bernardet for being part of this important conversation.

Learn how MPAS is gaining ground as WRF’s successor, with research and operations shifting across sectors. The NWS Director at AMS2026 urged a unified modeling foundation, calling for academia, government, and industry to align and collaborate. Register: https://bit.ly/4lL9Owh

The written word abides! Now's the time to nominate writers for the @ametsoc.org Award for Distinguished Science Journalism and for the Battan Awards for best atmos-related books for adult and K-12 audiences. See links below, after a word from our president. 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKWn...

Glad to see this moving forward! We had agreed to host performances at UWM as well - until, well…grumble. If you’re in the Madison area and interested in weather and/or music, check it out!

Students have no idea how much we root for them

I appreciated this quote from former Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson in the spring edition of the Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine: “The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose works of thanks will not be heard.” (1/3)

Poetic symmetry: the last 9 to beat a 1 was Florida State over Xavier in 2018. G’night, Gators!