Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Can’t imagine many marine animal and plant species have the adaptive capacity we are pushing the extremes to now, and by us, I mean this El Niño certainly wouldn’t be this strong without greenhouse warming. 110
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026For sure. The injuries almost don't matter for once since the team is so (unexpectedly) marginal to begin with. 010
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Broncos and my Packers both seem cursed in the injury department. 110
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026On my run this morning, in gusty winds and 70s F before sunrise, today just felt like it could be a perfect day for fire. 010
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026No thermometer on me during this trail run but if it was 70 F at the car, then it almost certainly is in the 70s maybe 80s as I hit an inversion. Downsloping winds, yes, but this is not a healthy climate thing. 120
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Almost 70 F in S Boulder at 5:30 am in October is just comically stupid and annoying after the last fiscal year of dry heat we’ve relentlessly endured. 180
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026* I have to qualify some areas of the SW US had a massive monsoon, but we missed out on it all in Boulder-Erie, so that's some locality bias on my part. 000
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026After the relentlessly hot and dry year we've had in the SW US, though (since Fall 2025), this really does suck and so I think we're all just fatigued from it. 101
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Easily my favorite training run of this training cycle. 080
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Yep, I just roll my eyes when anyone posts a positive outlier rain forecast from one of the models these days for our area. We are under a cruel spell that eventually has to break, right? 010
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hopefully the polls are more accurate than the infinite positive forecasts for precip in Erie-Boulder. 110
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NYTimes: We sat down with 3 independent Erie, CO voters at the Old Mine cafe. After the ECMWF has failed to to deliver on precipitation on a regular basis, DOGE checks, and lower prices, they are willing to give yesterday's 12Z ECMWF forecast of rain in Erie another chance. 181
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If ever there were more pure test of the-"I am not doing any research into candidate and know nothing about them -- I simply vote R on my ballot"-voters. The scary thing is ... 110
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In case anyone's wondering why I'm increasingly a disgruntled meteorologist, I live in the white speck of nothingness in Erie. 4200
Reposted by Chris ☈ozoffMathew Barlow @mathewabarlow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hourly mid-stratospheric temperatures over Hurricane Polo, from yesterday in the GFS. 1215
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Flex away. I can live vicariously through all our neighbors’ better precipitation fortunes. I may have to become a rain tourist to remember the feeling of a drenching downpour. 010
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It sprinkled hard enough to briefly dampen our sidewalks in Erie, CO. #ElNino 1160
Reposted by Chris ☈ozoffNSF NCAR Research Applications Laboratory @ncar-ral.bsky.social · 25/09/2026👏 Congratulations to RAL scientist Cenlin He, recipient of the 2026 AGU Global Environmental Change Early Career Award! Well deserved, Cenlin! 🥳 Congratulations on this wonderful achievement and to all this year’s AGU honorees! Read more! ral.ucar.edu/news/cenlin-... 083
Reposted by Chris ☈ozoffAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026German chemist Dr. Ida Noddack co-discovered Rhenium (element 75) in 1925. She died #OTD in 1978. She was the first to propose the concept of nuclear fission (1934). Her theory was met with fierce skepticism and outright dismissed by contemporary physics giants. But 4 years later...🧵 #WomenInSTEM 291522501
Reposted by Chris ☈ozoffNahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Category 5 Hurricane Polo. Simply incredible. 521590531
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We had a similar (humid) low in Boulder, CO, and to us it is like.static.klipy.comJames McAvoy: Hot So HotALT: James McAvoy: Hot So Hot 110
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As much as I lament how many stupid running injuries I get, at least I still think I have not suffered as many injuries per unit time as Aaron Banks and across as many distinct body parts. 020
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Holy cow! That's a positive testament to your work/reviewing reputation to be that sought out, but that's pretty extreme. 000
Reposted by Chris ☈ozoffZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 22/09/2026The world has made real progress in steering away from some of the darkest climate futures where global emissions doubled (or more) this century. But as David Wallace-Wells and I note in today's NYT, we are not out of the woods yet, and climate uncertainty is not our friend: www.nytimes.com/2026... 417774
Reposted by Chris ☈ozoffBrendon 🐻🌪️❄ @brendonme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Absolutely zero expectations of anything cool today and then I run across this 512030
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It’s impressive how there can be an inverse relationship between the obvious warming and acceptance that it’s happening. I guess covid set my personal bar (extremely low) on how dang irrational humans can be with inconvenient truths. 040
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Just in my small circles, I’ve seen a lot of very longtime stalwart conservatives renounce MAGA and Trump. It’s pretty remarkable. 110
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sorry, I completely misunderstood your second post. I wrongly inferred you were saying there was a strong D -> R transition and you were simply clarifying your definition. Yes, the anti MAGA sentiments are encouraging and obvious. 110
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Nice! I forgot about that one. That was an active period as that was 5 days after the big day in SE SD. 020
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Is there really a large D -> R transition this cycle? (Outside of Fetterman, Maher, and other tools)? Honest question since I’ve been tuned out on polling. 100
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Reading my horoscope before I go into the office. 050
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Looks like today’s performance will be strong storms north and south but not at our latitude. 110
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Some brilliant cloud textures illuminated by the sunrise this morning. 0130
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The HRRR teases us yet again today with an afternoon soaking for virtually all of the NE CO plains, including us. Could we get more than a sprinkle, or will it be yet another sunset rainbow reminding us someone else is having a good time? 250
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Has Pete Hegseth specified he will personally conduct the examinations for compliance? 110
Reposted by Chris ☈ozoffRuss Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 19/09/2026West slope September stunner. east of Rifle #cowx 47111
Reposted by Chris ☈ozoffTrent @trnt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Very nice ground rotation around 4:31, would lean towards a gustando considering the conditions #COwx 192
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I might need to re-initialize the model with higher basic state winds to generate EF5 wind damages, but as long as it doesn't violate the CFL condition, that would be an interesting experiment and quite useful to science in many ways. 010
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026At 3-4 seconds, you can see a strong (almost tornado-like) vortex entering the domain from right/bottom half). 141
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A software engineer I work with put together this 3D rendering of one of my simulations of hurricane airflows around buildings. 2161
Reposted by Chris ☈ozoffRobert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Trump's strategy for reducing global oil use wasn't what I would have recommended, but it does seem to be effective. 0242
Chris ☈ozoff @agitatedcu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Roast our turkeys outdoors on the asphalt parking lots, crank up the AC, and give thanks to big coal, just like the pilgrims did. 🇺🇸 051