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.

Heading to Carter-Finley tomorrow for NC State vs ECU? You're gonna LOVE the weather. If you're tailgating, make sure to wear sunscreen — it won't be August hot, but the sun is still August strong.

Who else is enjoying false fall?

This is August?

A balloon is caught in the airflow from one of our A/C vents. Smudge the cat is confused by this, but to her credit, has not popped the balloon.

Excited to share what my colleague, @chasecain.bsky.social, has been working on for the last few weeks. This new podcast explores climate change - and the first interview is former CA gov Arnold Schwarzenegger! Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2ntpfSP...

Welp, it’s raining …

10/10, no notes.

Slightly diminish a band: Popguns ‘N’ Roses

Winter is coming.

Mid 50s dew points in August? Why, yes, I will hang out in the hammock.

Proud member of the Oregon Trail Generation (miss me with the “xennial” nonsense), and one of the most GenX things I do is cut the plastic rings from soca can/bottle packs.

Earthquake near NYC… initial USGS says M3.0. USGS did you feel it map:

After the brutal July we had (warmest July on record at RDU), this would an utterly fantastic way to spend the first week-plus of August.

My youngest has lost her third tooth in about the last six weeks. She looks like a hockey player who likes hockey for the fights.

Wet-bulb globe temperature offers the best metric for heat stress but requires specialized instruments. NCICS’s Kyle Wodzicki and colleagues offer a fresh approach—and find alarming evidence of extreme heat trends in the Southeast US. @ncsco.bsky.social @kathiedello.bsky.social bit.ly/ncicswbgt2025

People dunking on folks in North Dakota searching up info on the tsunami are IMO missing the point. Not exactly a big threat are tsunami for the Dakotas. I’m not mad this isn’t top of mind. And I’m low key thrilled folks heard something they thought might be dangerous and searched for more info.

Some really good emergency communication principles in this video, especially in what is being spoken.

No disrespect to Michael Jordan, but Ryno was the only #23 from Chicago I tuned in to see. Memory eternal!

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but

Part 3: On the cuts to NOAA, their long-term impact on models (garbage in, garbage out) and therefore forecast quality, and how the gutting of NWS staff and key personnel is going to come back to bite us. #TexasFlood as seen on @cnn.com with @erinburnett.bsky.social 📺 3/3 fin

Part 2: On humans' response to timely and urgent weather emergency calls-to-action, or lack thereof. #TexasFloods2025 as seen on @cnn.com with @erinburnett.bsky.social 📺 2/3

Part 1: Climate change's influence in producing events like the #TexasFloods. Talk about it, we must. The interview followed an excellent report by Derek Van Dam which spoke of the supercharged atmosphere's ability to dump rain. As seen on @cnn.com with @erinburnett.bsky.social 📺 1/3

A lot of ink and electrons will be spilled over this weekend’s events. We will debate whether the forecast was accurate and whether warnings were timely and heeded. What Dr Evans is pointing out here is a critical angle: How accurate and advanced a forecast is even reasonable to expect?

Noooo! Hope she’s OK.

Travel today could not have gone better, doubly so considering the circumstances. Afternoon storms rolling into NYC, lots of cancelled flights. Somehow, we got out, around, and to our destination *early*. Bravo & thx to all involved, including a weather forecasters, dispatch, ATC, & crew.

How to get to work today, NYC edition: “First building on the right, past the dinosaur. Can’t miss it.”

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she / With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" - E Lazarus

‘USSF said the … instruments in question remain functional and that the data will be sent directly to weather satellite readout terminals across the DOD. Navy FNMOC made the decision to stop processing that data and sharing it publicly…’ www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

“Why, yes, I enjoy going to the library to read and then taking a nap.”

A key dataset hurricane forecasters use to track and forecast hurricanes is set to go dark next week. @johnmoralestv.bsky.social explains what's at stake. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/j...

9am! Utterly disrespectful.

I just dropped off the kids at school and it’s 87°. That’s just wrong.

Has anyone else named their portable A/C unit, and so, why did you name it Olaf?