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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Very cool version of this monthly global average surface temperature anomaly chart showing both El Niño and La Niña years

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I rattled off a lot of dates in this reel and surprisingly this was only my second take! I said June 31 was the first day of summer 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I was having the same thought. Initially I discounted it thinking it may bf a sidelobe artifact from the debris ball, but it clearly and cleanly splits away from the main meso… May be a secondary tornado 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Earth eclipses the Sun as seen by Artemis II on Orion. Satellites showing off as usual...

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

NSSL Warn-on-Forecast model is pretty bullish on supercells with low level rotation in south MS this evening.

NSSL WoFS forecast of 90th percentile 0-2km updraft helicity

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

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NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The explosion of forms of morphologies at the beginning of the Phanerozoic is usually listed as having a start date around 535 million years ago. But a new disposit not only pulls that 4 million years further back, it also links it to the Ediacaran fauna. 🧪⚒️ Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Reconstruction of Jiangchuan biota (~554-539 million years ago). Credit: Xiaodong Wang.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 09/03/2026

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 370,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 940,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,300,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,790,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with purple for the 1980s, blue for the 1990s, green for the 2000s, and white for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2000 to 2025. 2026 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between February and April by looking at the decadal average line positions.

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

We’ve got a couple rounds of storms this week, severe weather season is waking up!

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Today, the Nationa Hurricane Center issued an upgraded max wind for Hurricane Melissa: 190MPH!!! Here’s a breakdown of some of the findings in their Tropical Cyclone Report. (I condensed as much as I could to just under 6 minutes)

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Hurricane #Melissa’s Tropical Cyclone Report was published by the NHC today. It was upgraded to 190MPH, tied for fastest Atlantic hurricane speed on record!

TikTok video by Kit Thomas - Meteorologist

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I’m ready for later sunsets! Spring is just around the corner in Memphis.

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This sleet has cemented into glaciers on most roads since we haven’t seen temps much above freezing but three days in the last week. Soon we’ll melt down, but it may take til midweek!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/01/2026

CW: Shooting, murder. This is an execution in the street by ICE.

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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This is one of my favorite ways to visualize #SeaLevelRise... With another year of verified water levels at Key West behind us now (as of today), here's the updated version of this chart I've been making for the past decade or so. 🧪🌊 [1/3]

"Heatmap" chart showing the number of hours per day from 1913-2025 that the water level spent above the mean high tide (using the current 1983-2001 epoch) at Key West FL.

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Michael Brown @mjibrown.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It's called climate change denial for a reason. “The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado," Russ Vought...said in a statement..."This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country."

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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/12/2025

As James says, this isn't even about climate. It's about all the tools, platforms, models, datasets we use to study and forecast weather and understand how it impacts people, too.

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Given tonight’s news the admin wants to disband NCAR, resharing my post from earlier today about the successful reduction of flooding on the Skagit R in WA state. NCAR does foundational R&D that enables my community to do the kinds of important work I talk about here. tinyurl.com/bdebat4m

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A look at a successful real-time effort to reduce flooding in western Washington last week

Looking at how federal science and water agencies work together in flood events. Also - flood risk continue in the Pacific Northwest while the rest of the country warms up.

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mattwilsonwx.bsky.social @mattwilsonwx.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I'm not sure most folks are aware of the immense magnitude of loss this would entail for the global weather and climate community, and beyond. NCAR has played a greater cumulative role in advancing weather prediction and atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world.

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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

NCAR is crucial to cutting-edge meteorology and improvements in weather forecasting. As others have noted, it's far, far bigger than a "climate" research lab. This is self-sabotage by a wildly ignorant and malicious administration cutting off their nose to spite their face. Find a better scapegoat.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17/12/2025

Oh no... Seeing the direct tweet is even more frightening. Every day is a new crisis, and the repercussions are unimaginable.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/12/2025

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

usatoday.com

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado

The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

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James Franklin @franklinjamesl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

These people are nuts. NCAR developed the GPS dropsonde, which revolutionized the understanding of TC structure, improved forecasts, and validated remote sensing platforms, as documented in over 400 peer-reviewed publications in the last 25 years. And that’s just one of NCAR’s countless advances.

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

It will take many years to recover from the damage to essential research structures being frivolously eliminated. Climate Science is important. It's not just a far-off issue, your insurance is affected by these data, your energy bill is affected by these data, even your future medical bills!!!

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Some models are pointing towards a big warm-up for Memphis the days around Christmas! While it's still at the long-range of the models, prone to large error, I wanted to see how likely it was for us to see highs 70+ the week of Christmas. This is the 30-yr Dec 25 centered average probability.

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Rock Lab Strasbourg @rocklabstrasbourg.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Check out our new paper about phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano in New Zealand! 🌋🇳🇿

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Chris Becke (aka BeckePhysics) @chrisbecke.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Space station flying in front of the moon. Crozet VA. Thanksgiving evening 8:15 pm

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🧪 If this observation holds up, I think it’s the first direct signal we’ve detected of a dark matter particle (rather than indirectly inferring their existence from gravitational effects. Exciting! I wonder if it’s consistent with what we (haven’t) seen at the LHC… phys.org/news/2025-11-y…

Text Shot: "We detected gamma rays with a photon energy of 20 gigaelectronvolts (or 20 billion electronvolts, an extremely large amount of energy) extending in a halolike structure toward the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The gamma-ray emission component closely matches the shape expected from the dark matter halo," said Totani.

The observed energy spectrum, or range of gamma-ray emission intensities, matches the emission predicted from the annihilation of hypothetical WIMPs, with a mass approximately 500 times that of a proton.

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Tonight I dove into the diverging solutions for early next week. Some models bring a cold plunge fast, others delay it to late week and are warmer. We are certain though that Thanksgiving will remain clear and chilly in the Mid-South, so that's good news!

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We're not sure what next week will bring...

YouTube video by Kit Thomas, Meteorologist

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

As a follow-up to yesterday's post about next week's uncertainty: The Euro Ensemble's weekly temp anomaly is cutting the mid-south down the middle for above/below average temps. The ensembles are so spread it's basically outputting climatology for us.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 25/11/2025

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

History’s “most successful international agreement to date”, the Montreal Protocol, continues to pave the way for complete ozone hole recovery within our lifetimes

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 25/11/2025

All latitude bands were warmer than average over the last 6 months. This was particularly visible across the Arctic and Antarctic regions. 🔥 Plot shows zonal-mean temperature anomalies, where latitude = y-axis (not scaled by distance). GISTEMPv4 data using their 1951-1980 baseline.

Bar graph showing zonal mean surface air temperature anomalies for the period of May-June-July-August-September-October 2025. All latitude bands observed above average temperature anomalies.

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Someone please come up with a name better than "weather scrunchie," because I just thought of it and hate it 🤣

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Today's Excel adventure: radar graphs! Each thin line shows a single year 1991-2020, with the oval showing the NWS climatological average, and 2025 plotted darkest on top of them all.

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Trevor led the special with a rapid turnaround; it was his vision to quickly tell the stories of these people impacted. He was also promoted to Chief Meteorologist around the same time that Spring, and I admired his dedication to our viewers, making his first editorial decisions as Chief for them.

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The next goal naturally is to win an award (perhaps by year 12?), but whether or not the Academy chooses us or one of our talented fellow nominees, that's not important to me at this point. I'm so glad to have earned this recognition!

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

It was a week which affirmed for me this is what I was meant to do, and I feel it is the defining event for why I am proud to be a Meteorologist. A few years ago, I said I wanted to earn a nomination for an Emmy Award by year 10. I am proud to have accomplished that goal.

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

During a lull in activity, I spent about eight minutes recapping and breaking down the anatomy of the Lake City tornado, a video which garnered tens of thousands of views on our YouTube page. Over 30 tornadoes touched down over the course of four days, with live coverage lasting many hours each day.

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

On April 2nd, we were on air for over 14 hours nonstop. Twice, a Tornado Emergency was issued in our area. Late Wednesday night, NWS communications were impacted and we were no longer getting radar from KNQA.

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I've been nominated for an Emmy Award!!! Along with Trevor Birchett and Mikayla Morris, we were nominated for our work on our one-month-later special of the early April 2025 tornado outbreak across the Mid-South. This event was career-defining for me, and I'm proud of the work we did that week.

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Philippe Papin @pppapin.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The National Hurricane Center has put together a 2025 Verification Preview. Covers a prelim view on seasonal track, intensity, & genesis 🌀forecasts. Also touching on rapid intensification forecasts & Melissa which was the most impactful storm of the year. URL: www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/NHC_Veri...

Title & Abstract of the National Hurricane Center Verification Report Preview.

Figure 5 of the Verification Report Preview

Figure 7 of the report comparing NHC intensity forecasts of Michael (2018), Dorian (2019), Otis (2023) vs. Melissa.

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Long-range forecasting is notoriously difficult, but this setup is just horrendous. The spread on temperatures next week in the ensembles is over 30 degrees for some days!!

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Nice one today! #NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover Sol 1693 Nov. 24, 2025: Left Navigation Camera mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul... NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Wednesday will be interesting as a cold air mass pushes into the Mid-South. The maximum temperature for the day will be set at midnight, with the afternoon high not cresting higher. The morning low will also not be the minimum for the day, as the colder air fully arrives with mid 30s by 11:59pm.

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adamplatform.bsky.social @adamplatform.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The eruption after thousand of years of #HayliGubbi #volcano in #Ethiopia. According to analyses, part of the eruptive column from the eruption may have reached an altitude between 18 and 20 km. The #Copernicus #Sentinel5p image on Nov. 23 shows the big plume moving eastward.

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Kit Thomas @kitthomaswx.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

These stations are reporting visibility reduced to <0.25mi, it just is oddly displaying it as a “-“ rather than a “<“

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