This is a list of (some) locations that tied or broke their all-time *April* monthly temperature record in March 2026 during the record-shattering heatwave. Statistically and meteorologically, that is extraordinarily hard to achieve locally--let alone across such a vast region.

Another version of "never fucking surrender" aka hope in action.

Dang, well, at least the good news is that climate change is still happening despite being forgotten by most people since about 2020 or so??

The president is withholding disaster aid to states that didn't vote for him in the last election, in the middle of a worsening climate emergency that he is actively intensifying. This is end-game level failed-state stuff.

Amid the historic and ongoing record heatwave (which will continue for at least another week in this region), Colorado River Basin snowpack has unfortunately taken an unprecedented March nosedive. Given the pre-existing water crisis, this is a highly alarming trajectory.

that ADHD feeling of absolute elation of finishing an unpreferred task

Our Annual Woodcock Walk last night was so fun! MEEP!!!!!! 🪶

A dominant, persistent, and record-breaking heat dome. This satellite animation shows the evolution of the ridge over the last 6 days.

There is no precedent for this rate of March snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada. Many stations have lost more than 12 inches of snow water equivalent in 30 days, including @cssl.bsky.social. Half of that came in the past week. Statewide snowpack is at ~30% of normal, precisely when typically peaks. #CAwx

Western Maui, including the Lahaina area, is getting nailed by training convection bringing rainfall rates well over 1 in/hr. Flash flooding ongoing. Parts of Maui have already recorded their wettest month in history.

A particularly dangerous situation flash flood warning is in effect in northern Oahu where “catastrophic flooding is occurring.” More than 13 inches of rain has fallen since Thursday evening alone. www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

Unless there's a sudden shift in weather conditions, preliminary estimates show that 2026 set another new record low maximum extent for #Arctic sea ice. This follows very closely with last year, which previously set the record. Not good! Download graphic at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

To support folks impacted by the ongoing flooding in Hawaii: donate.rebuild.us/page/FUNWEXY...

Imminent dam failure on the North Shore of Oahu after more than 24 inches of rain from two Kona Low weather systems over the past 10 days. This particular dam was built by Dole more than 100 years ago and since abandoned, putting thousands of people at risk: www.civilbeat.org/2026/03/were...

it's cool how so many genuinely talented and thoughtful disaster specialists are unemployed or underemployed right now, but the teleported-to-waffle-house guy has a big fancy job the core narrative of this moment is "competence is actively punished."

chat is this bad?

i am losing it at this post on r/minneapolis

I see the environmental benefits of carpooling and raise you… bike pooling: picking up neighbor kids by cargo bike to get them to school. If your city supports it (via safe infrastructure & density) it’s the best way to start and end your day. 🚲 ❤️

Digging deeper, this is the first day where Phoenix had a high temp over 100F on the same day that Fairbanks had a high below 0F.

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Fair to say that the Western U.S. heatwave has reached record-shattering status, with dozens of locations breaking all-time March monthly heat records & some now approaching *April* records. Swath of record heat extends clear from Pacific to Great Plains, & from Canada to Mexico.

$200B, the Pentagon's insane ask for the illegal Iran war, is comparable to all planned spending on energy and climate over *10 years* in Biden's signature bill, which Trumpists almost completely repealed last summer.

Man, got a little emotional tonight, had to go to an event at Talmage’s school and one of the families I’d been buying groceries for during the ICE occupation was there. It was wonderful seeing them all feeling comfortable enough to be back and participating in the school community.

$200b would buy 100 million ebikes and reduce American gasoline consumption by like a third.

This is the best

I hope Bryce Harper cried himself to sleep last night with a glass of room temperature raw milk

baseball has two basic modes: 1. grumpy, slow-paced cotillion 2. drama avalanche where it feels like you’ve been kidnapped but in a way you enjoy for some reason

California’s lowest snowpack since 2015 means water storage is below normal. Reservoir levels are above normal but the paltry snowpack (which normally accounts for ~30% of water storage in CA) is putting the Sierra Nevada millions of acre-feet short of normal Source: cw3e.ucsd.edu/water_storag...

Now Iran is going to win the World Cup.

Ronald Acuña Jr. weeping while hugging Salvador Perez. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

Venezuela wins the World Baseball Classic

I think Venezuela should be allowed to capture our president now

The One Big Beautiful Bill ended the policies to make electric vehicles cheaper, so fewer people bought electric vehicles. Masterful gambit to make gasoline costs go up higher by increasing the demand for gasoline in the middle of the biggest energy crisis in 50 years.

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

People are so used to sanewashing that it is jarring to see the president quoted verbatim sounding like a crazy person. Trump the actual person and the media presentation of The President are usually completely divorced from each other.

The Morrill Fire in Nebraska has killed 1 and consumed 549,000 acres with 0% containment. This is more than 10% of the entire area burned by U.S. wildfires in 2025, and makes it one of the 20 largest fires in U.S. history. Sunday forecast is grim: High Wind Warning, 25-35 mph winds, gusting to 50.

so this report is based on a statement by a Houthi minister, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, who was mostly just re-stating the group's official position given on March 5 given that the Houthis still haven't gotten involved, I wouldn't read too much into it yet english.almayadeen.net/news/politic...

Last night was a big night for offshore wind: Vineyard Wind finished construction and Revolution Wind began sending power to the grid @wbur.org #energysky www.wbur.org/news/2026/03...

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The US is the reason this crisis exists, not just because of our reckless military, but also because our role in growing fossil fuel dependency. In 2024 we consumed the most oil in one year of any country in history - roughly equal to the amount that passes through the Strait of Hormuz each day.

El Niño is coming, and it is shaping up to be a big one. Over at The Climate Brink I've put together a compilation of the latest forecasts by different modeling groups. They suggest that we might see an event comparable in strength to what we saw in 2016: www.theclimatebrink....

add in Trump's inflammatory behavior in the early weeks and months of Covid and he may soon be in the running for the person responsible for the most deaths in human history.

Bush II set the bar very high but between this, USAID, the mass deportation atrocities and a conservative projection of the result of the anti-vax movement I think we can pretty definitively say Trump is the worst President now

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

can this be a solution

Superb—and *very* unsettling—roundup from @weatherwest.bsky.social. The imminent SW heat wave (likely the most intense for March on record) will involve similar dynamics to the June 2021 scorcher in the PacNW. This landscape-parching heat may set the stage for serious fire/drought trouble by summer.

As always to our international readers: I’m sorry and thanks for caring about this

Can anyone think of another situation where Americans phoned it in, thinking nothing could really hurt them, and then realized too late that they made a terrible mistake and are stuck with the consequences