Imagine dedicating your entire life to something this fucking stupid.

Some views from central North Dakota tonight #ndwx

This shouldn’t come as a surprise since almost everything he says is a lie, but “they” were not, in fact, calling for a 100% chance of rain.

AI has infiltrated our course management software. Fuck--and I cannot stress this part enough--all the way off.

Storm chase over. Back to regular June programming.

Our 2025 storm chase course concluded today. Overall we drove 3500 miles over 8 days, visited six states, and had several great chase days. Wish we could have been in the panhandle region the last few days, but it was still a successful trip and we made the most of the opportunities we had.

Day 4 summary - Put ourselves in good position in south central Oklahoma. Chased some promising looking supercells between Lawton and Loco but the road network and terrain eventually betrayed us. Day 5 is a down day for us. Toured the NWC and are now heading east to Arkansas.

Isolated cell ahead of the main line near Weatherford, OK

Day 3 summary - good day in the DFW area. Saw several supercells including this one as it passed over the Brazos River near Morgan, TX. But, that decision limits our options today. Currently targeting northwestern Oklahoma.

Lowering cloud base near Alvarado, TX

Day 2 recap - observed some weak convection in south central and southeast Kansas. After a bedbug scare at a gross hotel in Coffeyville we ended up back near Tulsa for the night. Storm chase day 3 - heading south towards DFW this morning.

Day 2 of our storm chase is going…not great. Dew point is dropping and the instability is fading. Sitting on this convergence boundary in south central Kansas hoping something breaks through.

Storm chase 2025 is officially underway!

Everyone at this network and the people they represent would lose their minds at the suggestion we have anything to learn from Europe in terms of walkability, bikeability, transit access or even universal healthcare. Much easier to say it must be something about the food.

National Weather Service confirms at least EF-3 tornado damage in London, Kentucky

Let's talk about Jackson (National Weather Service staffing) The Trump administration's cuts to the NWS have resulted in overnight staffing shortages at offices across the country. The New York Times reported earlier this week that federal cuts resulted in staffing cutbacks at Jackson.

Hello again, old friend. A welcome distraction right now.

Perfect rainy day to sit around and watch racing for 8+ hours. Barber and Miami were both good races. Hopefully Texas has a good finish.

"Difference, for Kennedy, is not something to be accommodated, celebrated, or cultivated. It is a tragedy to be stamped out."

In the wake of today's news that NASA and NOAA are going to essentially be gutted, it's comforting to know that journalists aren't afraid to push back and demand this administration answer the tough questions!

How the hell is this even possible? The governor has declared a state of emergency and there are flood warnings everywhere. Why are kids being forced to go to school?

I KNEW IT! NWS Louisville doesn’t have enough staffing to cover NWS surveys. They now have to verify tornadoes via social media pictures.

I am once again reminding everyone how awful Louisville is at handling tornado warnings. Not only are sirens blaring across the entire city for a localized threat, but @univeristyoflou.bsky.social is advising everyone to take shelter even though the threat is nowhere near any of their campuses.

The @nytimes.com just discovered parallel computing.

First time cat adopter here. I guess this is how it’s gonna be?

NWS offices across the country seem to be letting college students know that the summer volunteer program is being shuttered.

So is @noaa.gov going to rehire all the probationary employees it recently terminated? Otherwise, this is even more insulting. "Yeah turns out we weren't allowed to fire you after all but oh well what's done is done"

Here's a problem I didn't expect to run into today: anybody else having issues pulling NEXRAD data from AWS? Code that worked fine just a couple of months ago is now failing me. I've manually checked the buckets and the data still exist, but any type of search queries are hanging and failing.

Wasn’t that long ago people were screaming at Bubba Wallace to “stick to sports” simply for suggesting that racism might be bad. Now we’ve gone full on North Korea propaganda from an anti-trans bigot.

“you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and/or skills do not fit the Agency's current needs.” So they decided all probationary employees were unqualified. On the same day. It makes this all the more insulting because the lie is so fucking lazy and obvious.

This is small potatoes in comparison to everything else happening, but it further highlights the ignorance of many of our elected officials. A bill mandating review of tenured profs every 4 years is unneccessary because we already get ANNUAL performance reviews. www.lpm.org/news/2025-02...

A team effort story from @kentuckypublicradio.org www.lpm.org/news/2025-02...

NASCAR needs to hire some real meteorologists and actually listen to them. Stop wasting everyone’s time with this bs.

Coward won’t even ride on the banking.

The majority of their budget goes to Pell Grants and federal student loans. Without these programs, there is no way I could have afforded college and my life would have been very, very different than it is today.

It’s just bleak that there’s a considerable amount of people who are like “thank goodness the worlds richest human being is stopping the tyranny of the consumer financial protection bureau and that guy who collects atmospheric data”

The National Science Foundation says that it is complying with Friday's court order and will resuming funding to grants and projects. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

Humanity continues to befuddle me. This traffic jam is caused by a ‘dirty soda’ drive thru. People are waiting in line for over an hour and wasting gas to buy a Dr. Pepper with a splash of vanilla. Not only is that dumb, this is just a shitty gentrified knockoff of Sonic.

me: I would like to purchase Mentimeter to use in my classes my university: Sorry, that’s not an approved vendor. Please submit a mountain of paperwork so we can evaluate how they’ll handle our data also my University: gives award to faculty that have incorporated Mentimeter in their class

We got aid in Florida from Joe Biden despite this state not only doing zero mitigation for storms but also banning cities from doing their own global warming mitigation

An American Airlines jet is de-iced at Muhammad Ali Louisville International Airport as frigid temps put the area into a deep freeze

When moist air from the Gulf of America undercuts dry air descending from the Patriot Mountains, conditions become ripe for severe storms. Occasionally these storms produce destructive Freedom Funnels.

Frantically updating my lecture notes for this semester. Water evaporates from the surface of the Gulf of America and is advected over the U.S., where it then drip drip drips from heaven. It's some of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water. You can have all you want.

Averaging about an inch per hour since this morning here in Louisville. Still coming down pretty heavy.

Rooting very hard for this old joke to hold true. Euro is currently forecasting 10-12” of snow for the Ohio Valley while the NAM and GFS both have over 0.5” of freezing rain (no thanks—I enjoy electricity). Latest GFS ensemble shifts the storm track slightly south, so maybe there’s hope…

Maybe I’m just old and out of touch, but why the hell would I want to give students the ability to look up the answer to any question with zero effort? Shouldn’t we be encouraging critical thinkers who know how to search for answers on their own without a god damn machine spoon feeding it to them?

Pumpkin Spice? Pfft. It’s Holiday Spice time!