The first two bowl games today were meh - some excitement but outcome not in doubt for much of the game. The Sugar Bowl, OTOH, is more than making up for any lack of excitement. Well into the 4th quarter and I have no idea who’s going to win.

The atmosphere doing its best to blow 2025 on out of here. Sustained winds 35-40 kts with gusts to 55 kts. Fun!

The queen of halftime!!

3-0.

Tonight's 37 is the second-coldest kickoff temp for a Wolfpack football game going back as far as 1954.

“Hey Google, how’s A&M’s backup QB?”

Can I still say “that’s another Wolfpack first down!” after every KC Concepcion first down?

Reposting for no reason whatsoever

This was *insane*

Forced password and passcode changes that don't give you any heads up or warning and that use a different keyboard (QWERTY vs 10-key) than the default input are terrible UX and terrible design.

EM from Oceania forcefully telling IAEM conference audience that climate change is real, they're dealing with it every day, losing islands to it.

The soccer equivalent of a half-court heave at the buzzer? Congrats Scotland!

@gruber.foo Re: recent DF post on CarPlay. Another factor that doesn't get much press is that of incongruent time scales between phones and cars. Not only do people replace phones more frequently than they replace cars, and phones are designed and manufactured on much shorter time scales. 1/2

Used today’s 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (and the song of the same name) to workshop how to produce a TikTok/Instagram-style video with my media meteorology class. Kinda wish I’d just told them to run with this for this week’s assignment - some really neat ideas.

Football hot take: Any kick that hits the upright gets one point for the kicking team. If it bounces in on a FG attempt, it’s four points.

Periodic reminder: A “ground stop” for XYZ airport means traffic destined to fly to XYZ is being held on the ground at their points of origin, not that anything has “stopped” at XYZ. So, a “ground stop for CLT” means planes at *other airports* are stopped from leaving for CLT.

Anyone who thought Game 7 of this World Series was going to do anything but end in extras hasn't been paying attention.

NC State has never lost on this field. (The playing surface was replaced after the Chris Brown concert last month.)

This time tomorrow, it won’t be this time tomorrow.

Wolfpack Nation! Do not let the warmth of the afternoon sun fool you! Temperatures will CRASH at sunset, leaving us in the lower 50s at kickoff and deep into the 40s by the time the game is over. Stay warm! Bring your (red!) jackets/coats and your hot chocolate money.

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

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

"The NOAA aircraft left the storm early after experiencing severe turbulence in the southwestern eyewall." These men and women are not being paid due to the US government shutdown. Not to mention that according to AOML's director emeritus Robert Atlas, they are down 40-50% staff. #Melissa

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

So, with the Blue Jays in the World Series and Rush going on tour again, do we get notorious baseball fan Geddy Lee singing ‘O Canada’?

They’re coming to NC!!!

Beautiful sunset takeoff out of BOS this evening after a successful NBCU Weather Summit, connecting with and learning from my colleagues. Until next time!

Drummer Anika Nilles, who previously played with Jeff Beck, will join Lee and Lifeson for a 50th anniversary tour dedicated to the memory of the late Neil Peart. Details ↓

AAAAHHHH!!! youtu.be/koiX_Wspatw?...

Gameday suggestion: When Campbell comes to town, instead of playing Rudyard Kipling's "Law of the Wolf" hype video, NC State should play Rudyard Kipling's "How the Camel Got His Hump".

Just a reminder that NWS is considered essential during a government shutdown. Meteorologists will still go to work, forecasts will still be made, watches and warnings will be issued, data will flow. We won’t be paid until the shutdown ends, but we’ll still protect life and property as always.

Fascinating bit of insight into how to interpret model ensembles of the disturbance that could affect NC/SC as a tropical storm hurricane early next week. Thanks @burgwx.bsky.social!

Hey @xkcd.com - I think you might have inspired this.

A high of 95 (!!) today, growing indication of a sloppy/wet weekend, and the chance for tropical shenanigans next week? Welcome to September in North Carolina.

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

👏 CONGRATULATIONS to all of the spring 2025 scholarship recipients this year! 📺 Sadie Morris is the winner of the 2025 NWA Foundation Broadcast Scholarship! 🏆 To read more about our spring 2025 scholarship winners click here: nwas.org/congratulati...

D, and it’s not even close.

Happy Peak of the Atlantic Hurricane Season to all who celebrate.

Overall, a successful day with a Pack win, a forecast that held long enough to get the game in, and travels that have me ready for #nwas25. The travels were interesting, though. Can’t say as I’ve ever been on a commercial flight that did anything like this:

And we’re under way at Carter-Finley! Sunny and upper 80s for the fans, 90° on the field at kickoff.

Hey, Pack fans! Remember how nice the weather was for last week? Yeah, today is not that. Lots of sun, heat, and humidity. Slather on the suncreen and stay hydrated — you know, with WATER!

Hey, Bluesky hive mind! I have a graph *labeling* question for you. Is it better to have the month label aligned with the vertical line — ostensibly to mark the beginning of the month? Or have the month label between the lines (showing the period between lines is that month)?

Just took a look at the forecast for State/UVa this weekend. We always knew it would be hard to top last week’s weather. No chance of doing that this week, I’m afraid.

Just took a look at the forecast for State/UVa this weekend. We always knew it would be hard to top last week’s weather. No chance of doing that this week, I’m afraid.

Let’s go Horned Frogs!

That’ll do, Labor Day.

Get you someone who looks at you like college football looks at Lee Corso. Happy retirement, Coach. (Also, what a fantastic sendoff! Props to everyone involved. This is how you do it.)

Hey @aaronthomastv.bsky.social - hope Cincy’s treating you well!

Pinch yourselves, Pack fans. Here's the final forecast for tonight's Pack Football home opener at Carter-Finley Stadium. Not sure it gets better than this at any point during the season, much less in August.

Just found a new "flying toasters" screen saver clone that works on MacOS (after Sequoia broke the one I had been using for years). This does not fix everything that is wrong in the world today, but it's a tiny win and I shall take it.