Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

A horrific accident early Saturday morning left a car in the side of an NWS office and the office relying on the NWS service backup system. Service backup is important in situations like this - but also is being increasingly used due to NWS staffing and infrastructure issues. tinyurl.com/4txuyhbz

*Screams in Clouded Over Michigander*

Day 40 of the shutdown, that’s 2 missed paychecks and part of a third. Federal employees (including my colleagues at the National Weather Service) continue working without knowing when they’ll be paid, or are furloughed. If you know someone affected, please check in on them. #GovernmentShutdown2025

We’ve got a TDS

The Tigers have managed to age me by 5 years over the course of this series.

The CSSL/NTP assisted the US National Weather Service (NWS) with their upgrading of the official rating of the June 2025 Enderlin, ND tornado from EF3 to EF5. Announced by the NWS today, it’s the first EF5-rated tornado in the US since 2013. Details here: uwo.ca/ntp/blog/202... Image B. Emfinger

Spoden: Our training trains us for everything, except how to live with a mistake. How do you handle that?

No better way to spend Labor Day than in the UP of Michigan :)

And before unknowing people jump to the conclusion that this was an adversarial relationship, it was quite the opposite. NWS management and the union together made the agency stronger resulting in improved services.

INBOX: National Weather Service employees organization files federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump's executive order to ban some federal unions.

Why do we care about continued investment in our weather radar infrastructure? Without a reliable, modernized radar network, we lose valuable time in seeing tornadoes *before* they threaten places and people. The below percentages indicate that radar prompts 9 out of 10 warnings!

Excited to see @wxkylegillett.bsky.social paper on Sounderpy officially published! Sounderpy has been revolutionary in getting and visualizing sounding data! [![DOI](joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

Is it time to have a conversation yet regarding the impact of missing routine soundings PLUS additional special soundings that would typically be available to aid in forecasting Hurricane Erin?

First tornado vs latest tornado vs favorite tornado

Heartbreaking to see Norris’ injury tonight. Respect for both teams for just letting the clock run and stopping play for the night.

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

The news is true, the @nws.noaa.gov has been authorized to hire additional #meteorologists, #hydrologists, and #electronics #technicians beyond the 126 previously announced. To receive notifications, set up job alerts on www.usajobs.gov. Next round of #hiring is on the way. #Meteorology #Hydrology

NEW: The NWS has received permission to hire up to 450 meteorologists/hydrologists/radar technicians after DOGE-related cuts. Agency also given a public safety exemption from federal hiring freeze after losing more than 550 people in those cuts. (1/2)

Reminder that the Tsunami Warning Centers are part of the National Weather Service. It would be nice to have them fully funded.

This is a VERY large earthquake, possibly/probably among the 10 largest ever recorded. A clear subduction zone megathrust event. And it is another M>8.5 event with a notable foreshock (the recent M7.4 in same location), like Tohoku in 2011.

TSUNAMI ADVISORY 1: See tsunami.gov for alert areas. M8.0 080mi SE Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka 1625PDT Jul 29

The @nws.noaa.gov will be #hiring shortly for #Meteorologists, #Hydrologists, and #PhysicalScientists. If you recently graduated or are seeking employment in these fields, set up job alerts on www.usajobs.gov to receive notifications. #Hiring #Meteorology #Hydrology #WeatherForecasting #Operations

Hey, #WXsky, NOAA/NWS is soliciting comments on the potential use of Bluesky for disseminating information. You can take the survey right here www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN...

Spinny Boi in the Vegas area…

Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled. If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.

Putting a plug out there for an incredible weather app (EverythingWx) that was developed by Cory Mottice (Warning Coordination Meteorologist at NWS Corpus Christi) It’s ad free, pulls information directly from the National Weather Service, and has a beautiful design! apps.apple.com/us/app/every...

Few things get under my skin like implications of not caring about people. Scientists, civil servants, emergency managers, and so many more are folks who prioritize serving the public. Like it's part of every single thing we do. We're not here for the clicks or the followers. We're here for people.

This is so frustrating because it almost certainly played no role in this specific disaster. However, over the long term, this is a problem. And the active and proposed budget cuts further imperil this work. But trying to separate the two is impossible.

Look. I know you think you've got reasons to still be on twitter but you're no longer just hanging out at a Nazi bar, you're buying drinks. Leave.

Absolutely disgusting and a good reason for people to leave that hell site. It’s not even just some users anymore. The site itself/its software is now extremely racist. The sheer racism out of Grok is absolutely horrifying. No reason to stay when this is what you’re up against.

Amazing how as a meteorologist I've (we've) gone from not being able to forecast anything to somehow controlling the weather in the span of a few months.

To me this feels like a similar moment to Sandy Hook. If republicans aren’t willing to accept responsibility and change policy to protect young white christian girls in Texas, they won’t do it for anyone.

Science institutions, scientists and science communicators still on Twitter …. not really sure how much more evidence you need to leave that awful place and stop giving it your time, content and knowledge which it uses as a commodity to build its evil house upon. The time to leave was long ago. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Need more accounts like this to counter false narratives out there about warnings

we need to have a hard, serious conversation about the *profusion* of Amber, Silver, and Blue Alerts many people get, and how they may be pushing people to turn off vital emergency alerts on their devices entirely.

Another issue here is mismatch between public expectation & scientific reality re: what's possible in predicting localized convective extremes (i.e., severe/torrential t-storms). Days/environments supportive of such risk are predictable; exact timing/location/intensity of subsequent extremes is not.

All true: - NOAA funding cuts prohibit the agency to run at full capacity - Remaining NOAA employees doing exceptional / heroic work - Extreme events happen; sometimes unexpectedly - 20th century infrastructure is inadequate for today's climate - Finger pointing as an event is ongoing? Shameful.

In response to the tragically devastating floods in Texas yesterday & today, I've seen questions asking how is it possible that the NWS was able to predict floods from Helene days in advance, but yesterday's storms did not have nearly as much of a lead time. Short answer - very different phenomena:

My deep dive on whether there were adequate weather warnings for the catastrophic flooding in Texas. Mentions Alan Gerard Balanced Weather and Jordan McLeod. I am really interested in your thoughts on my take. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

While the NWS isn’t to blame, it’s as bad to blame political affiliation. The flood was a worst case scenario of a highly vulnerable area at night with a hazard that models can’t pinpoint accurately in advance. Are there lessons to be learned? Sure. But focus on improving for the future (1/2)

There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.

The second is that the NWS historically has done a very good job at that forecast contextualization (outreach to local governments, emergency managers, outdoor recreation facilities, etc.). But that's one of the first things to go away when offices are critically understaffed.

The forecast was solid. With a flash flood watch out the afternoon before this was not missed. They should know that locally higher amounts are always possible when you get training thunderstorms and that models cannot predict exact amounts and locations.

Many of the current tools that forecasters use to anticipate and communicate all of these hazards would be eliminated under this budget. I'm quite knowledgeable on severe weather forecasting (search "Hypothetical storm chasing target" for my forecast verification).

Regardless of your political affiliation, eliminating these data harms forecasts, especially short term forecasts of severe weather and flash flooding, and most certainly does not put America first nor make it great again. If you heard the contrary, you were lied to.

WPC issued as many as six MPDs for the deadly flash flooding in the TX Hill Country starting yesterday evening and lasting through much of today. The first MPD generally set the stage for what was to come, while the next three shown were as the event unfolded.

Why weather balloon data are so important to short-term forecasting of hazards including severe weather and flash floods.