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Jesse Westfall

@jlebert.bsky.social
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Meteorologist, BSc. At the intersection of risk comms, decision support, and Inuit Nunangat. UofA alum, extended Edmonton Fire family. Posts are my own.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Was it a foul on Senegal: I think so Am I still somehow mad they called it a penalty in the 120th minute: also yes somehow
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Jesse Westfall @jlebert.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Stay off Highway 1 west of Calgary if you can. Conditions are atrocious, many vehicles in the ditch #yyc #abroads #abwx
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 22/01/2026
Australia’s worst heatwave since black summer made five times more likely by global heating, analysis finds
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Australia’s worst heatwave since black summer made five times more likely by global heating, analysis finds
Extreme heat ‘is getting worse and whether we like it or not … there’s ultimately a limit to what we can actually physically cope with,’ scientist says
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17/01/2026
The total volume of #Arctic sea ice has been at or near record low levels for every day since late October. More graphics of thickness and volume: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Line graph time series of daily mean Arctic sea ice volume for each year from 1979 to 2025 using shades of red, white and blue. A seasonal cycle is shown with thicker ice in late winter and thinner ice in late summer. A long-term decreasing trend is also visible. Data is from PIOMAS v2.1.
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ariel @aritalks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
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Jesse Westfall @jlebert.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Happy heated seats in the morning, A/C in the afternoon season to all those who celebrate! 🥶🥵 #September
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Jesse Westfall @jlebert.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Unreal match!! 🙌🇨🇦
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Wisc-Satellite @wisc-satellite.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
A Delta flight experienced Extreme Turbulence over Wyoming on 30 July, injuring 25 and causing a diversion to Minneapolis. AI suggested that one factor may have the presence of the ITCZ. Over Wyoming. We had questions... cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Just to illustrate how long waves from a #tsunami can keep going, this is a tide gauge record from Crescent City CA (known for its sensitivity to tsunami waves due to bathymetric and resonance effects) showing significant wave activity still continues 24+ hours after their first arrival. 🧪⚒️
Crescent city river gauge record
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Jesse Westfall @jlebert.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Can confirm. I bought a new Tory Burch on a whim and they gave me champagne to drink while I was paying 🥂💸💅
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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The Atlantic's chilling secret: A century of data reveals ocean current collapse
A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this anomaly to a long-term weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulat...
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Stéphane Bilodeau @smbilodeau.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Doctors warn about short, long term impacts of poor air quality from wildfires 🌬️🔥 👇Important insights about the impact of wildfire smoke on health, by K.Ward via @globalnews.ca‬ I was pleased to contribute with Dr Weichenthal @healthsciences.mcgill.ca and others #IAQ globalnews.ca/video/112131...
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Doctors warn about short, long term impacts of poor air quality from wildfires | Watch News Videos Online
Watch Doctors warn about short, long term impacts of poor air quality from wildfires Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
As you may be aware, northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba are being evacuated because of wild fires. Latest is La Ronge. My rez, Beardy’s & Okemasis, under its RezCross has spots available. A Cree welcoming. If you care, or know folks seeking a place, do share! Our information…
Emergency shelters for wildlife evacuees.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Can't believe it's been a whole year since I made this. Thank you to everyone who's shared what it means to them seeing Pride represented with images from near and far, all across the universe. The original page was taken down, but can still be found on archive.org: web.archive.org/web/20250129...
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | NASA Has Pride Across the Universe
The Progress Pride flag, based on the original rainbow pride flag by Gilbert Baker, was created in 2018 by Daniel Quasar to celebrate diversity within the queer community and the need for continued pr...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
If you’d like to know more about this topic: tos.org/oceanography...
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FEATURE ARTICLE • Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation Approaching a Tipping Point? | Oceanography
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Martin Z. Olszynski @molszyns.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
200 charges — good grief! www.canada.ca/en/environme...
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Environment and Climate Change Canada Enforcement lays 200 charges under the Fisheries Act against one company for alleged offences related to unauthorized deposits of deleterious substances - Canada....
On April 30, 2025, Environment and Climate Change Canada Enforcement laid 200 charges against ArcelorMittal Canada inc. for violation of subsection 36(3) of the Fisheries Act.
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Jean C. @jcgirina.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Couldn't have said it better myself. Credit to @adapalmer.bsky.social
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Dr Rebecca Emerton @rebeccalize.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social & @wmo-global.bsky.social European State of the Climate 2024 report is now online! 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024 It's been a pleasure to coordinate #ESOTC2024, working with ~100 scientists to analyse the data and tell the story of Europe's climate in 2024 📈💧☀️🔥
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#ESOTC2024 reports the most widespread flooding in Europe since 2013, affecting at least 413K people and contributing to an estimated €18 billion in damage caused by extreme weather events. 30% of rivers exceeded the high flood threshold, 12% exceeded the severe flood threshold. bit.ly/42t0unK
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
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Jesse Westfall @jlebert.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Stealing their "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" quote. Perfect.
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Jesse Westfall @jlebert.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A very interesting read re: the dire wolf hoopla, to this non-genomicist. Also realizing how much I've missed educated scientific discourse. Well done 👏
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 07/04/2025
"More than 50 Indigenous communities [in Canada] – with a total population of 56,000 people – depend on about 6,000km of winter roads." ..and those roads are disappearing because of climate change.
theguardian.com
‘The ice is not freezing as it should’: supply roads to Canada’s Indigenous communities under threat from climate crisis
Northern Ontario is seeing a ‘shorter window’ for ice roads that deliver vital supplies to remote First Nations
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John Cassidy @earthquakeguy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The Geological Survey of Canada (Pacific Geoscience Centre near Victoria, BC and Vancouver, BC) has an opening for a research scientist in Earthquake Seismology. Join a great, diverse team doing cutting edge science. ⚒️🧪 Details: emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap... Apply by 25 April, 2025
Photo showing buildings of the Pacific Geoscience Centre and Institute of Ocean Sciences located between farmland and the Pacific Ocean (Patricia Bay, near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada). Coast Guard docks are also visible in the photo.
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Greg MacEachern @gregmaceachern.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Couldn’t go to the First Ministers meeting, but can sit down with Breitbart and do a fundraiser with Ben Shapiro. But at least we now know whose side she’s on and it’s not Canada’s www.breitbart.com/politics/202...
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Exclusive--Canadian Premier Danielle Smith: Trudeau Blew Tariff Negotiations in First Mar-a-Lago Meeting
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith of the United Conseravtive Party told Breitbart News Saturday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set Canada back in tariff negotiations with America during a meeting wit...
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Call me old fashioned, but I don’t think provincial leaders should be working with hostile foreign govts to interfere in a federal election to get their preferred party elected whose “perspective would be very much in sync with, I think…the new direction in America” This is traitorous stuff.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 16/03/2025
This is a plea for people to stop misusing 'sting jet' A somewhat pointy end to an occluded front is not a 'sting jet' Strong winds equatorward of the low centre are not a 'sting jet' It's a specific phenomenon with a specific definition doi.org/10.1002/wea....
A tweet from NWS Lubbock saying "Check out this #GOESEast true color image of the storm system that moved across the Great Plains yesterday. It was particularly intense, with a rare scorpion-tail appearance (sting jet), and produced very high winds, a dust storm, severe storms, and significant wildfires" with an accompanying satellite image of a storm with a lot of dust entrained in it.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The clusterfuck clusters on. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
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Alberta’s Smith says province still working to import pain medication from Turkey
Health Canada says it has yet to receive an application from the province or any of the companies associated with the $70-million agreement
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 04/03/2025
#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through February 2025 (record warm) 🔥 We need more research, not less, to understand the implications of this. + Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue) + Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
Heat map-style graphic showing monthly air temperature rankings in the Arctic at the 925 hPa level for each month from January 1979 to February 2025. There is a long-term warming trend evident in each month. Blue shading is shown for colder months, and red shading is shown for warmer months. A yellow number is shown for each grid box to display the actual temperature ranking. February 2025 was the warmest February on record.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 01/03/2025
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Tom Di Liberto @tdiliberto.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Check out the external affairs page at NOAA right now. That's right. Everyone at NOAA external affairs was fired. www.noaa.gov/external-aff...
Webpage for NOAA's external affairs team. At top is pink salmon colored box with text that says all external affairs people were fired.
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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 28/02/2025
The AMS stands in support of federal employees impacted by layoffs across agencies including NOAA. Many are vital members of our community who do invaluable work. As we work to respond, here are a few AMS resources available to everyone who needs them: bit.ly/4kgQvK5
A serene image of a vast ocean under a colorful sky, with calm waters reflecting the light hues of the sky and a small boat visible in the distance. Photo credit: 2024 Weather Band Photo Contest submission "Sunrise at Suva Point" by Viniana Bau.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
An extraordinary display of public support for Ukraine, yes--and also an unprecedented public rebuke of the United States by virtually all of its allies.
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Marshall Ramsey @marshallramsey.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Thinking about the good people of @noaa and @nws today. Such a dark day for our nation and our safety.
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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Apropos of everything, I keep a very frequently (these days) updated list of internships/jobs across the wx-climate enterprise here: wx.erau.edu/about/opport.... Open to anyone, not just our students. I will start including higher-level positions than I normally do (normally focus on entry-level).
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Jesse Westfall @jlebert.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Morning! Unfortunately there is no direct equivalent produced out of our central region. There is the OVB for Ontario - just gotta get on the distribution list. Quebec is a bit trickier, but there may be an option there too. Does BlueSky have a DM option? 😉
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 23/02/2025
The amount of sea ice currently on our planet continues to set new record lows for this time of year... More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social for the satellite-era period.
Line graph time series of 2025's daily global sea ice extent in red shading compared to each year from 1979 to 2024 using shades of purple to white for each line. There is substantial interannual and daily variability. Seasonal cycles are visible. Note: the poles are affected by very different Earth system processes/seasonality. I am using 5-day running mean data.
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Jesse Westfall @jlebert.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
CANADA!!! 🇨🇦🍁🏒
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It's Intenational Celebration of Women in Science Day! The CERN Lab in Geneva has this page in honor of the day. home.cern/news/news/ce...
home.cern
International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025
From left to right: Irene, Sofia, Eva, Maria, Asar and Marta share their stories about working at CERN on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. (Image: CERN) On 11 Febru...
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 07/02/2025
Allegedly, Smith's staff pressured health officials to approve over half a billion dollars in private health care contracts to a businessman who bought them seats in NHL luxury boxes in return for the favour. Then Smith fired a CEO who tried to investigate.
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Kavita Patel MD @drkavitapatel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
In case you wondered what depths our democracy has sunk to
letter describing ice authority boarding school buses
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Catherine Griwkowsky @cgriwkowsky.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This is an absolute bombshell read. My jaw is on the floor. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
theglobeandmail.com
Alberta ousted health services CEO amid probe into medical contracts, document alleges
Athana Mentzelopoulos was dismissed two days before a meeting with province’s auditor on her investigation, according to letter
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
My university library is assembling a list of resources for disappeared US government #data. Check it out: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue
subjectguides.library.american.edu
Subject Guides: Government Information Data Rescue: Home
Links to trusted repositories that have rescued U.S. government data
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Jesse Westfall @jlebert.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I hope someone downloaded datasets and other info from NOAA à la CDC. These are dark days. #NOAAbreach
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Jesse Westfall @jlebert.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
That Chappell Roan performance was 🔥 #grammys2025
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