Important update about Congressional efforts to prevent the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from being dismantled. Last week the White House threatened to veto any appropriations bill that protects NCAR. Despite this attempt at intimidation ... (1/ )

The battle to save NCAR has faded from the headlines, but it is not over. www.eenews.net/articles/tak... Call your Congressional reps and ask them to add language explicitly protecting NCAR to the spending package: 5calls.org/issue/ncar-n...

We hear that protection of NCAR from breakup is in peril in the CJS bill - be sure to contact your representatives to ensure that they hear your support!

"They carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," a witness says. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."

From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.

Easy way to start voicing support for NCAR and science in general. Thanks AGU :-)

Absolutely not. We'll fight it in the court of public opinion, in the literal courts, in Congress, whatever it takes. I'm sick and tired of these people decimating the institutions that hold this country together. Science belongs to the American people. It's not theirs to destroy on a whim

NCAR and UCAR have released a statement. NSF has not provided any guidance to UCAR or NCAR leadership about this whole situation. news.ucar.edu/133054/ucar-...

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

Fun to see the snow-covered ground (and relatively warm rivers) show up clearly on satellite thanks to the lack of cloud cover. Not as thrilled about the extremely cold temps we’re getting as a result though…

Sad to see that my colleagues in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at UNL saw their combined department eliminated late this afternoon by the UNL Board of Regents. No more meteorology no more geology at UNL. Words escape me!

Aviation accidents “receive an intense investigation by the NTSB with specific recommendations to improve safety, while events like the July 4th flash flood with 119 fatalities rely on entities like Camp Mystic self-policing themselves and developing their own plans to try to improve safety.”

As villages across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta clean up from remnants of Typhoon Halong, they face another loss. Public radio and television station KYUK has lost federal funding and plans to make cuts in January. My @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...

From UNL Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Chair, Clint Rowe, on how the community can help make the case to the Univ. of Nebraska Board of Regents as to why their department should be retained:

A few views from IDOT's plows in Northwest Indiana. One in the lake effect band and one in the resulting backup on I-65 😬 511in.org

But they captured some historic data including the 893mb center drop, cementing #Melissa as the 3rd most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic. Mission for the ages.

That’s…not at all how this works. As the NHC’s wind field image shows, Jamaica is only experiencing tropical storm-force winds right now, with weaker winds elsewhere. The most widespread and longest-lasting impact has and will be extreme rain - for which the prep is rather different than wind.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Atlantic Hurricane Melissa Intermediate Advisory Number 25a ...CATEGORY 5 MELISSA MOVING SLOWLY WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AND EXPECTED TO TURN NORTHWARD LATER TODAY... ...CATASTROPHIC AND LIFE-THREATENING WINDS, FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE EXPECTED ON JAMAICA TONIGHT AND EA... Additional Details Here.

We needed a way to quickly plot skew-ts from our balloon launches out in the field, so I was able to put this together... UI-Sonde is a lightweight GUI modeled after the import sounding functionality of the SHARPpy GUI. I also tried to capture the look of the classic SHARPpy format with a few tweaks

Calling all prospective grad students! 🚨 Come learn about CliMAS during our annual Prospective Graduate Student Webinar - featuring our internationally recognized on campus and online MS and PhD programs. RSVP here to receive a Zoom link: forms.gle/CYsLWz5uoRNm....

Excited to share our new BAMS publication w/ the field! From Facebook to TikTok, weather and climate information has become increasingly digital. Our new BAMS paper charts the rise of digital meteorology, the AMS CDM Seal, and how universities are evolving to meet it. 🌪️🌩️📲 doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

Anticipating steep cuts to its budget, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate research centers, has laid off 29 employees and decided not to fill 21 vacant positions. https://scim.ag/46yaM9g

Inevitable result of a drought during harvest: field fire near St. Joseph, IL this afternoon

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Adding my 2 cents to the discussion on Google DeepMind’s performance for Imelda… 🧵 You might see a map like this and be impressed that at no point did it predict landfall in the US. But there is a lot of context lost by simplifying it to just one image.

Check out this promo video promoting our College, featuring Assistant Professor Joseph Trujillo-Falcón and many of our students! youtu.be/ZRgExF7r1gE?...

Take a few minutes to help support our fellow atmospheric scientists at UNL ⬇️

The most relatable meme I've ever seen lol

We had the Champaign County EM in class last week and another big concern they have is dust storms once harvest begins. Lots to keep an eye on this Fall...

COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.

Greetings from the CliMAS Fall 2025 Welcome BBQ!

New AMS statement outlines five foundational flaws that make the Department of Energy's Climate Synthesis Report "inconsistent with scientific principles and practices." Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/3UQRC82

On today's addition of "things that are objectively terrible ideas": the largest owner of local TV stations in the US (Nexstar) is planning to merge with another massive station group (Tegna) www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/m...

Don't think the hospital staff believed me when I said I would definitely pass out during the blood draw. But don't worry, I proved them wrong 😂

The @ametsoc.org will be hosting a webinar about @nws.noaa.gov hiring, and the changes in the overall process on #August 20th at 12 PM EDT. Please consider registering if you are interested in upcoming or ongoing announcements. #Meteorology #Hydrology #ElectronicsTechnician #PhysicalScientist

We are in the final week for abstract submissions for #AMS2026! Get your applications in for the Weather Ready Nation Symposium and the Societal Applications Symposium by Thursday!

✨Are you an undergraduate or graduate student interested in working, networking, and attending sessions at the AMS 106th Annual Meeting in Houston — all while earning a stipend? Apply to be a student assistant at #AMS2026 💼! Learn more and submit your application by 15 September: bit.ly/4lfu8UG

EFFICIENCY! 🙄

Over 230 wind reports yesterday. Not all that surprising given the classic summer setup. Strongest gust reported was 92 mph from the ASOS station in Spencer, IA ⛈️

Looks like the main corridor of storms has set up south of Champaign today. A few funnel clouds spotted earlier north of the county though. Here in town, there's still a chance for some downpours and a rumble of thunder heading into the overnight.

A chance for some severe weather near Champaign-Urbana this afternoon and evening 👀 Though exact details will depend largely on where the remnants from storms currently out west end up

Evening walk views

🥲 Guess we're not allowed to have nice things anymore

Stormy weather made for a good excuse to update some old radar plotting code (while my actual research code runs in the background)

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

And there's a 6% cut to NOAA's budget (we're still waiting to know that detail in the Senate version). House appropriations meets tomorrow and Thursday. So if you want to share your thoughts on the 23% cut to NSF, here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/about/member...

My opinion has always been that you will get short-term gains in typing speed & code generation, but you’re trading it for significant long-term slowdowns and errors when you: 1) Don’t actually know how the code works because you didn’t write it 2) Realize it never had any forward thinking design

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Important post from @franklinjamesl.bsky.social this afternoon about what the proposed NOAA cuts would mean for hurricane forecasting (from the person who oversaw the NHC's hurricane forecasters) open.substack.com/pub/franklin...