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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I mean how freaking cool is that.

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is something I have never seen before on satellite. Clouds perfectly outlining roads. Just incredibly neat imagery of Houston, Texas this morning. Massive shoutout to Ethan Mok who discovered it (on Twitter).

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Weather History @weatherhistory.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

May 27th, 1997: An F5 tornado produced some of the most extreme tornadic damage ever seen. The incredibly violent wedge hit the Double Creek Estates subdivision of Jarrell, Texas. Much of the neighborhood was obliterated, with little debris & deep ground scouring left behind. 1/2

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The TX legislative investigation into the July Hill Country flash flood apparently did not even consult with a meteorologist - showing again why a formal investigative process led by a national disaster review board to make improvements to the system is needed. tinyurl.com/yuutt484

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TX Hill Country investigations show - again - why a national disaster safety board is needed

Record heat and some severe weather expected in Florida next couple of days

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Alex Boreham @cyclonicwx.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

#Sinlaku is rapidly intensifying, with its eye now totally clear. Looks like it will be a super typhoon within the next 12 hours. It will continue to impress on satellite for the next few days! Impressive early season typhoon heralding a likely strong El Niño this year

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/04/2026

i will never forget how elon musk said absolutely nothing at all about the NASA artemis ii mission except one post making fun of that women who took the photo of the launch in the reflection of her glasses. he hates space

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David Demko @davedemko.com · 11/04/2026

NOAA GOES 18 weather satellite’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument detected the atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Artemis II Orion capsule over the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and southern California just before 23:56 GMT — too cool! #ArtemisII #NASA #NOAA

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Mike @empiricgame.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Steal her look

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Jimmy @jimmy-d.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Here we are again

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 12/03/2026

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a cornerstone of U.S. weather science. AMS urges a transparent, community-driven review before restructuring such critical infrastructure. Read our response to NSF's "Dear Colleague Letter": bit.ly/4bglx16

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AMS Responds to NSF Regarding the Future of National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

You may find this map shocking. The crazy imbalance even surprised me! It’s the ratio of record highs vs record lows in each city since 2020. That’s right, in Miami there have been 115 daily record highs, but only 1 record morning low! Phoenix: 138 to 0!… 1/

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days. Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Every now and then, I come across a place in nature that simply doesn't feel real. Crawling down a small hole in the absolute middle of nowhere and stepping into this scene was like being transported to another world. I found myself enchanted and struggled to leave for quite some time. #Photography

A photo of the inside of a cave that has an opening at the top through which a perfect beam of light enters the room, filling it with a golden light and highlighting the dust suspended in the air. Directly below the opening in the ceiling is a pule of rocks from the collapse, with a circle of vibrant green ferns growing atop them. On the far right is a smaller hole that I climbed down through to enter the cave. [note: I will not publicly disclose this location due to the sensitive ecosystem within]

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Alex Boreham @cyclonicwx.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Though still murky thanks to warm water off Japan the PDO is looking more positive than most times this decade. You can see the +PMM connect with warmth in the WPAC as well. This has been slowly headed east. El Nino is on the way and it should have more PDO support than 2023

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

60-day precipitation departure from normal. Most all states, with a few notable exceptions, are quite dry.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

It's been a dry last 30 days for most places.

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Wisc-Satellite @wisc-satellite.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: A New Perspective on an Old Storm: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Better forecasting of flash floods is needed. NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory “is working to develop higher resolution modeling, but it's on the chopping block in the president's proposed budget.”

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This is a dangerous lie. 30 of 122 WFOs don’t have an MIC. NWS is famously flexible, but you can’t let 14% (600/4300) of an already thin workforce go - especially the senior staff - and then claim “overstaffing”. You can only stretch a rubber band so far before it snaps.

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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Flood Watch issued yesterday at 1:18 pm. WPC had mesoscale discussions throughout the event. NWS issues Flash Flood Warning at 1:14 am. NWS issues Flash Flood Emergency at 4:03 am. NWS was on the ball. The challenge is always getting the warning the last mile and getting people to respond.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.

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Erik R. Nielsen @eniels13.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Over 7 inches in the last two hours west of Round Rock...

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MSJ | Student | DFW @wxandpi.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

*This* is why we call the Balcones Escarpment area, the Texas Hill Country, Flash Flood Alley. Locals and longtime visitors know, it can be very dangerous very fast. I can only really compare it to mountain flash flooding- just rain sluicing off of rock and into the closest channels.

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I did a deep dive into the horrific flash flooding that occurred overnight in central Texas. Very scared that this is going to end up being a long remembered, infamous July 4th weather event. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

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Catastrophic overnight flash flooding in central Texas

Also likely to see a tropical cyclone east of Florida in next 24 hours

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Dinah V. Pulver @dinahvp.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

NOAA budget package details plans to reduce spending, staff, climate research and shut down its labs and cooperative institutes with universities. #NOAA #climatechange www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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NOAA budget spells out plans to reduce spending and abandon climate research

A detailed expense budget for NOAA outlines plans to reduce spending and cut climate and atmospheric research.

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James Franklin @franklinjamesl.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Just a couple days ago NOAA claimed their "data sources are fully capable of providing a complete suite of cutting-edge data and models that ensure the gold-standard weather forecasting the American people deserve". This budget request puts the lie to that claim.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

For perspective: a recent study suggested that economic savings from just a *single* well-predicted hurricane, thanks to NOAA research advancements, are on order of *$5 billion.* That exceeds NOAA's *entire proposed annual operating budget.* So much for government efficiency.

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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It's hard to adequately summarize how destructive NOAA's 2026 proposed budget released on Monday is for hurricane forecasting, but I crammed all I could into today's newsletter. I encourage everyone with interests along the coast to read it carefully. ⬇️

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NOAA Proposes Permanently Closing Premiere Hurricane Research Institute

In its proposed 2026 budget released Monday, NOAA closes all federally funded weather and climate research labs, including the one responsible for maintaining the nation’s top hurricane models

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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Terminating weather and climate labs and cooperative institutes immediately makes us less safe from severe weather and climate events. The research conducted at these labs has given us improvements to hurricane, storm surge, tornado, and severe thunderstorm warnings.

Cuts to weather labs and cooperative institutes.

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Budget "blue book" is finally out with NOAA details to the OMB budget. From a quick look no big surprises, clearly spells out the disastrous impacts & confirms things like elimination of VORTEX/WoFS. I'll have more later but this earlier post has impacts balancedweather.substack.com/p/noaa-is-no...

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NOAA is not just the National Weather Service

Looking at the broader expanse of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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Tom Di Liberto @tdiliberto.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The impact of these cuts now, next year, 10 years, 50 years will be immeasurable. The overall cuts to science will go down in history as one of the biggest self-owns of all time. "What if we take what our superpower,-our investment in science and technology- and just obliterate it?"

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 30/06/2025

What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔 NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

Termination of OAR’s Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (-$102,292, -204 FTE/ -216 Positions) –NOAA will continue to support high priority ocean and weather research programs in NOS and NWS.

In coordination with the requested terminations for Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-10) and Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-19), NOAA will close the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL; the Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) in College Park, MD, Idaho Falls, ID, and Oak Ridge, TN, as well as a nation-wide network of soil moisture sensors; the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) in Boulder, CO; the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ; the Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, CO, Utqiaġvik, AK, Mauna Loa, HI, Hilo, HI, Big Island, HI, American Samoa, and the South Pole; the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, WA; and the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) in Boulder, CO.

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Wisc-Satellite @wisc-satellite.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Enjoy this DMSP-17 SSMIS Microwave image of Tropical Storm #Flossie in the East Pacific -- after receiving a generous 5-day notice, the entire DMSP constellation is being deactivated tomorrow. Source: tropic.ssec.wisc.edu

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

We are losing access to key weather satellite data important for hurricane forecasting. But remember when we said that computer models were less reliant on balloons because they now use satellite data? Well, this is some of that satellite data and we're losing it. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

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Critical meteorological satellite data terminated

Meanwhile, Eastern heat dome slowly shrinks

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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Imagine if one day the government just decided to make our hurricane forecasting worse under the dubious guise of “security.” Sounds crazy right?

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Philippe Papin @pppapin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Yes agreed! ATMS has its place with all the other Polar Orbiters thanks to pretty good vertical resolution (so it’s a good thermal sounder to determine TC warm cores for instance). But if TC convective structure is what you are looking for, it’s like driving legally blind. 😵‍💫 #blurry

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Philippe Papin @pppapin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

😬 yeah unfortunately ATMS does not have enough horizontal res needed to resolve inner core features in TCs like #Erick. Nice TS Storms post by Naufal Razin shows footprint of SSMIS imagers on overall TC microwave coverage. Microwave coverage peaked in 2015, w/ SSMIS ~60% of current coverage data.

Average 24h microwave coverage of TCs since 1987 with SSMIS contribution in red

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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I sought comment from NOAA and the Department of Defense on this and received this reply today from NOAA's spokesperson. They suggest we use the surviving ATMS microwave that degrades significantly at the edges. You can see how much worse off we'd be with Erick last week if we only had ATMS.

NOAA official statement on the discontinuation of Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) data that includes the Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder or SSMIS. The full statement reads:
"The DMSP is a single dataset in a robust suite of hurricane forecasting and modeling tools in the NWS portfolio. The current models continue to include data from:

·         GOES and other geostationary Earth-observing satellites
·         Polar-orbiting satellites, including Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) and EUMETSAT MetOp
·         Hurricane Hunter aircraft reconnaissance missions and other aircraft-based observations
·         Observations on the ground and from buoys
·         Radiosondes and supplemental upper air soundings
·         Ground-based weather radar sites in the U.S. and neighboring countries

In particular, the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS), currently flying on NOAA’s JPSS, provides the richest, most accurate satellite weather observations available. NOAA’s data sources are fully capable of providing a complete suite of cutting-edge data and models that ensure the gold-standard weather forecasting the American people deserve.

For more information regarding DSMP, please reach out to the Department of Defense."

Comparison of microwave imagery for Hurricane Erick last Wednesday, June 18th, from the Department of Defense Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder or SSMIS (top) and NOAA Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder or ATMS (bottom). SSMIS gives a strikingly detailed look of Erick's inner core, including its inner relic eyewall and outer eyewall. Because the ATMS scan degrades prominently on the edge of its swath, the ATMS shows only a collection of pixelated colors not useful for positioning the storm or estimating intensity.

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A comparison of what we see from geostationary infrared imagery vs. what we get when passive microwave imagery like what SSMIS provides is available. This is Hurricane Otis in 2023 as it was gearing up for extremely rapid intensification prior to impacting Acapulco as a category 5 storm.

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Brian Tang @btangywx.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

SSMIS is also used by forecasters to peer underneath the clouds of hurricanes to assess their location, cloud structure, and intensity. Losing SSMIS is another blow that will further degrade our ability to monitor and forecast hurricanes, just in time for the coming peak of hurricane season.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I don't care about this that much, but I actually don't think this underlying premise is true. There are plenty of hazard events we remember that don't have a human name attached to them -- 9/11, the Chicago Fire, the BP Oil Disaster, the Tax Day Flood, etc. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/o...

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Opinion | It’s Time to Name Heat Waves Like We Do Hurricanes

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Public's meteorological interpretation in one graphic h/t James Spann Welcome to our world...

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CNN @cnn.com · 13/06/2025

Saildrone vessels were being used by federal scientists to improve forecast and warning accuracy. But they won't be in forecasters' suite of tools this year. The company "was unable to bid" on a contract for this season, NOAA spokesperson Keeley Belva told CNN.

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For the past four years, a fleet of drone vessels has purposefully steered into the heart of hurricanes to gather information on a storm’s wind speeds, wave heights and, critically, the complex transf...

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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I told you we’d be back

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