Okay, yes, humanity did not enact the single best possible outcome in response to the single worst problem we have ever faced as a species In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table

Multi-panel view of the last few days of Hurricane Melissa: ↖️ GOES-19 infrared brightness temp ↗️ GOES-19 visible satellite ↙️ Hurricane hunter planes & flight paths ↘️ Recon-derived flight level wind swath ⬇️ Estimated minimum pressure from recon dropsondes

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating) The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.

Hurricane Humberto is now the 44th Category 5 storm on record in the Atlantic basin. This is the 12th Cat 5 in the past ten years, and the 6th since 2022.

Here is a look of #Helene and the Predecessor Rainfall Event, which began setting up around this time a year ago. I updated this to incorporate the @nws.noaa.gov flash flood warnings and flash flood emergencies. #FLwx #GAwx #ALwx #SCwx #NCwx #TNwx @spann.bsky.social @wxbrad.bsky.social

Mount Rainier from Mount Saint Helens

Nice gift "Plate Tectonics Flip Book" from the author Ch. Scotese to our tectonist J. Lazauskienė 😀

Lightning flashes within a powerful, Category 4 Hurricane Erin. An incredible view this morning from GOES-19.

#TaraPolarStation : la dérive a commencé ! ❄️ Prisonnière des glaces depuis le 8 juillet, la station entame sa #dérive à travers l’océan #Arctique. L’équipage découvre les réactions du navire dans cet environnement unique. 🚢 Cette aventure scientifique hors norme ne fait que commencer. 📸 Maéva Bardy

I recommend checking out the profiles and records of the people that went through this program while you still can: cpo.noaa.gov/fellowships/ They are a testament to how a small amount of federal funding can seed a tremendous increase in knowledge and understanding.

You think that vast armed force is going to be used just for immigration? I doubt it. Watch for ICE duties to expand duties and for ICE to follow the pattern of militarization of police. Also watch it used as secret police against anything anti-ICE.

The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡

"Build as much clean energy as possible as fast as possible" should be our No. 1 national priority in the coming decade. All our national resources should be bent to the task. The president should talk about it every week in a national address. It should be the moon shot X100.

EXTREMELY ANNOYING The climate movement spent millions of $ over decades focusing on just transition, helping displaced workers, yet climate action still gets broadly criticised as causing 'job losses' Tech bros pop up saying "I WANT TO DESTROYJOBS ASAP" and get a glowing write-up in the NYT 🤨🧐🆒🗑️

We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts

How Japan ignored climate critics and built a global natural gas empire 🇯🇵❤️🚢 Every six hours, somewhere in the world, an LNG shipment controlled by a Japanese company leaves a port. However, these tankers are only the tip of the iceberg A thread 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy

ah I see it's "photo of people enjoying sunshine to illustrate mass heatwave deaths" season again.

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Good things will still happen

It's been a rough week for the NOAA family, including feds, contractors, and scientists across this country / world. I need to say something very important. It is my motivation to get you the weather, water and climate data you need, regardless of what has, or will happen to us.

This new White House executive order says that the US Attorney General is going to prevent states from implementing democratically passed laws regarding climate change and clean energy. It scarcely needs stating at this point that this is wildly, unambiguously unconstitutional. Dictator shit.

NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite officially began operations as GOES East 2/2 Learn More: www.noaa.gov/news-release...

"There will be no interruption in service. All NOAA Research sites will remain online," a NOAA spokesperson told Axios Friday afternoon. www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...

Kindleberger's spiral coming to mind

My friend from the NOAA lab that brings you the Keeling Curve wants that world to know that things are horrible inside NOAA.

FaceTiming anyone in America these days

NOAA’s office of Oceanic Atmospheric Research has had IT and other support contracts canceled in the last day or so that will fundamentally affect its operation. One source there said “It will seriously hurt our ability to improve weather forecasting and climate projections.”

What a heartbreaking photograph - the impact of satellite constellations on the night sky. Taken above the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, Western Australia. Credit: Joshua Rozells

Make no mistake about it, if those numbers are even close to true, there is no way all of the weather forecast offices can exist as they do now. A full-on attack on public weather services. If a car lost 25% of its parts, it doesn't slow down. It just doesn't work.

We are bringing forward the full transition to #OpenData to 1 October 2025. This means that our entire Real-time Catalogue will be fully available under a CC-BY-4.0 licence at the maximum resolution. Find out more ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

The wind map at hint.fm/wind/ has been running since 2012, relying on weather data from NOAA. We added a notice like this today. Thanks to @cambecc.bsky.social for the inspiration.

All websites that depend on NOAA data should display something like this. earth.nullschool.net

Only thing efficient about this administration is how quickly they torched the country's reputation.

Ooh that's ugly🫣 Worth noting: @cambecc.bsky.social, who developed the amazing Earth Nullschool uses Sea Surface Temperature data from NOAA's Physical Sciences Laboratory. Loss of NOAA staff may impact Australia's capacity to respond to climate change, through potential loss of predictive power.

In fact, though this is not widely known, most or all private weather companies in U.S. (including forecasts that you see on TV or your favorite app) are built directly atop backbone of taxpayer-funded instrumentation, data, predictive modeling, & forecasts provided by NOAA. 7/11

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

i spent the 8 months as a federal employee managing emc's verification software. before that, i developed the verification for the gfs. so here is everyone's favorite gfs verification plot. the one from day i got fired. the plot that my two little hands coded up.

AMA about my love of maps observablehq.com/blog/maps-an... thanks @allisonhorst.bsky.social for the cosy chat

Global ocean heat content is at record high levels - new update just in from the Japan Meteorological Agency dataset... 🌊 Graphic at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

...and protect all NOAA employees from firings or reduction in force initiatives that would jeopardize the safety of the American public. (2/2)

Only thing efficient about this administration is how quickly they torched the country's reputation.

3 of the top 4 institutions receiving the most NSF funding are for earth, ocean, and atm science 1. Leidos(MD): McMurdo Station on Antarctica 3. UCAR(CO): National Center for Atmospheric Research 4. WHOI(MA): Ocean Observatories, Deep Submergence, research ships dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/top50inst2/d...

Most people in the US have no idea about the attacks on federally funded science or our government institutions. Many (or most!) of your family, coworkers, neighbors, and friends have no idea. My own MAGA dad thinks DOGE is just identifying waste, and that nothing has been cut. We have to tell them.

While I wait for the email that tells me whether I’ve been fired or spared, here’s a thread of things I’ve had the privilege of working on, experiencing, and accomplishing in my 10 months as a federal employee at the Storm Prediction Center. 1/?