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Pete Pokrandt @pth1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just got vaccinated for flu & COVID. So thankful that my employer hosts clinics for these. Bring on the winter!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/09/2026

It's September 14th. Where's Mitch?

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NSF NCAR & UCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📢 Our ASP Graduate Visitor Program Fellowship is accepting applications for the 2027 cohort of fellows. This program is intended for graduate students to work on their thesis, dissertation, or final project w/ guidance from NSF NCAR scientists and engineers in Boulder. bit.ly/4nBRgOG

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Kevin McGrath @wxguy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

AMS Attendees: The conference hotel rates are now available. annual.ametsoc.org/2027/attend/... #ams2027

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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lights out and eyes up the next couple nights! Tonight, more than 19 million birds are expected to fly across Wisconsin as we approach the peak of fall migration in September. Tomorrow night, we'll see a roughly 94% eclipsing of the moon between 8:23 pm and 2:01 am.

19 million birds are expected to fly across Wisconsin tonight.

94% of the moon will be eclipsed tomorrow night across Wisconsin.

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The total solar eclipse, as seen from space.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The reduced threat of hurricanes because of the intense El Niño is good news for the Caribbean, but the dry air and stable conditions are causing drought. In Puerto Rico, over 180,000 customers will get rotating 48-hour water shut offs starting tomorrow. The forecast: very dry through October.

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Colorado Climate Center @climate.colostate.edu · 31/07/2026

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Big Thompson flood of July 31, 1976: one of the deadliest disasters in Colorado history. An intense rainstorm led to a rapid flood wave down the canyon where many people were commemorating Colorado's centennial. 144 people lost their lives. #cowx 1/

Photo of a house sitting atop a bridge after having been washed downstream by the Big Thompson flood. Source: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/big-thompson-canyon-flood-colorado-1976

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Hot Like Mars @hotlikemars.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

17 tour dates. 🚌💨 If we’re coming to your city, tag a friend and help us spread the word. ❤️👇

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Sen. Ron Johnson lecturing Dr. Anthony Fauci about medicine is the epitome of idiocracy.

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Weather History @weatherhistory.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NSF Unidata is hiring! We are seeking an enthusiastic and collaborative professional to join our team as a Program Specialist IV – Community Services & Partnerships Manager. More information: buff.ly/lwKemu7

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I will be back on #WORT Madison WI public radio tomorrow Friday July 24, 1-2pm ET/12-1pm CT talking with Esty Dinur of #APublicAffair about climate change, El Niño, the Trump administration, and the future: www.wortfm.org/news-talk/ta...

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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

June 2023 pales in comparison to this event. There were ~3 total monitors back then that recorded a 24-hr AQI in the Hazardous category (all in PA). Yesterday there were dozens affecting tens of millions of people

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Scott Marks @bizarchive.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I love that #Phish brought back the Doniac Schvice for next week's shows at MSG. ❤️

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Andrea Lopez Lang @alopezlang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The wildfire smoke plume in Madison WI. I can smell the smoke inside today. Photos taken looking SW from @uwmad-aos.bsky.social

View looking SW on a clear day in October 2025 from AOSS in Madison WI

View looking SW on 16 July 2026 from AOSS in Madison WI

Air quality map of PM2.5 in Madison, with values exceeding 400

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

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Pete Pokrandt @pth1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So psyched to be able to walk from work to #Phish today and tomorrow!

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It’s important to take a beat & say it out loud. This is the president of the United States. How undignified. How diminishing of our country. You wouldn’t let your kids talk like this, so why are you willing to tolerate it from the leader of your country?

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

So this covers individual radars, and @stormscale.io 's Heimdall Radar site covers MRMS. Both easy to use, free, and fast! No having to launch a script, no visits to multiple sites or opening multiple programs. Just awesome tools!

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

ncview2 is a relatively faithful python port of David Pierce's ncview. It handles non-uniform grids, and can perform on-the-fly area averaging with multiple color maps. github.com/benmsanderso...

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GitHub - benmsanderson/ncview2

Contribute to benmsanderson/ncview2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

MetPy Mondays is back! John Leeman from NSF Unidata introduces what’s new in MetPy and previews a new 15-part MetPy Mondays series focused on practical meteorological data analysis, remote data access, and case study plotting. buff.ly/BQitB7I

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MetPy Mondays #329 - What's New in MetPy? | NSF Unidata

This MetPy Monday episode introduces a new series focused on the latest features in MetPy and practical workflows for meteorological data analysis in Python. John highlights improvements to core…

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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I think my favorite feature of the new @wisconet.bsky.social almanac page is the departure from normal calendar.

Calendar view of 2026 showing how much above or below normal the daily high temperature was.

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Evolution of daily sea surface temperatures (SSTs) during 1-22 April 2026 in the western portion of the eastern North Pacific. 🥵

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 21/04/2026

I'd like to introduce you all to a personal project I've been working on recently. It's called Heimdall, and it's an MRMS + ProbSevere situational awareness monitor for CONUS scale severe weather. It's got roaming, alerts, archive mode, and is fully client side. heimdall.stormscale.io

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UW–Madison Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Christi, Ankur, and Pete show off their Day of the Badger spirit (and swag) on the AOSS rooftop. AOS faculty and staff give during DOTB because they see firsthand how gifts support our students and the dept. This year, all DOTB gifts will be matched $ for $ up to $10,000: dayofthebadger.org/aos

Christi, Ankur, and Pete from the UW–Madison AOS Dept stand on the rooftop of the AOSS building and pose with Day of the Badger gear.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Science is good. We should fund it.

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 07/04/2026

Learn how MPAS is gaining ground as WRF’s successor, with research and operations shifting across sectors. The NWS Director at AMS2026 urged a unified modeling foundation, calling for academia, government, and industry to align and collaborate. Register: bit.ly/4lL9Owh

Panelists will discuss the WRF to MPAS transition during this webinar.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 02/04/2026

I’m very excited to announce the latest release of SHARPlib, v1.4.0. This might be one of the coolest updates yet (in my opinion) and results in dramatic performance improvements through the use of pseudoadiabatic lookup tables. Available on PyPI/conda-forge. github.com/keltonhalber...

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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Do you like music? Do you like Wisconsin weather? Do you like those things mashed together? Come see a concert in April that takes Wisconsin weather data from Wisconet and turns it into music! music.wisc.edu/event/earth-...

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Earth Signals: Wisconsin Weather - Mead Witter School of Music

Free | No ticket required The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Mead Wtter School of Music present Earth Signals, a collaboration focusing on the theme of Wisconsin weather […]

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Pete Pokrandt @pth1.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I miss the band Dopapod.. they were solid. They come up every so often in my playlists and it makes me smile. Saw ‘em a few times at intimate venues in Madison

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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The current heatwave in the US Southwest is utterly destroying many records for this time of year. Phoenix, Arizona has ~90 years of daily temperature data, and yet recent temperatures beat the previous March record by 5 °F (2.8 °C), and would actually tie the record for April.

Plot wrapping daily maximum temperature history for Phoenix, Arizona for every year since 1933, and showing the anomalously high temperatures in 2026.

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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 16/03/2026

JUST IN: A consortium of universities filed a lawsuit Monday to stop the Trump administration’s planned dismantling of Boulder’s NCAR, alleging that the planned reorganization violates the Constitution and federal law.

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Dismantling of Boulder’s NCAR by Trump administration is illegal, universities allege in new lawsuit

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

This move is so incredibly dumb, and ultimately so destructive to our understanding of extreme weather and of climate change, that it could only have come from the Trump administration. Truly dangerous idiocy. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...

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Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

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ECMWF @ecmwf.int · 05/03/2026

📣 OpenIFS is now open source! The move will make it easier to collaborate and generate new ideas. ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

A weather chart showing pressure systems and rainfall over the North Atlantic and Western Europe, with coloured precipitation areas and labelled storm tracks.

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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

If you think you're going to see tonight's lunar eclipse, you're not. Cloudy skies abound tonight, so just sleep through it. Solar eclipses are better anyways.

Cloudy skies tonight during the lunar eclipse.

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Pete Pokrandt @pth1.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Presale ticket order came through for both Madison Phish shows this summer. Can't wait!

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Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#HigherEd #AcademicSky *Please* amplify this risk. The US DOE wants to implement an earnings test on all undergrads and grads--if grads of your programs do not earn a specified amount upon receiving their degrees, your programs risk losing federal funding. The earnings tests begin *this October*.

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UW–Madison Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Join us on Tues, March 24, for our 15th annual Leonard Robock Lecture! Dr. Clara Deser, senior scientist at NCAR, will discuss "A Range of Outcomes: The Combined Effects of Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on Local Climate.” Register today: go.wisc.edu/pc3ui6

Flyer for AOS Leonard Robock Lecture with Dr. Clara Deser

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UW–Madison Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Today at 3:30 pm CT: Clear-air turbulence (CAT) research—and plenty of CAT puns—with John Knox, the recipient of the 2025 AOS Distinguished Alumni Award! Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7AV...

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UW-AOS Colloquium - February 16, 2026 - John Knox

YouTube video by UW-AOS UW Madison

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Pete Pokrandt @pth1.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Just bought tix to see the band Eggy @eggymusic.bsky.social at High Noon Saloon here in Madison in March. Heard good things about them, really looking forward to to the show!

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Nick Bassill @nickpbassill.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

If you're still at #AMS2026 and looking for something to see this afternoon, I'll be presenting progress we've made at the @nyswrcc.bsky.social at the 1st Annual Disaster and Emergency Management Symposium, at 2:15 in 352A. Guest appearance by NY Governor Hochul (sort of).

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 24/01/2026

For #AMS2026 - John and @pamknox.bsky.social report that Elevator #14 at the headquarters Hilton should be avoided at all costs. They had to be freed from it by Houston Fire Dept after it got stuck, and the FD told them it happens regularly with that elevator.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

AI-driven global model output from NCEP is now available in NSF Unidata data streams! Ready to explore? We’ve created an IDV bundle and Jupyter notebook to help you dive in. You can even try them out on the NSF Unidata Science Gateway without installing a thing! www.unidata.ucar.edu/news/ai-driv...

AI-driven GFS output displayed on a 3D globe in the IDV. The display shows color-shaded mean sea level pressure, a color-filled contour vertical cross section of temperature, 500 mb height contours, and an isosurface of wind speed (roughly depicting jet stream locations).

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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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Pete Pokrandt @pth1.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Damn.. Ripple made me cry on this one. Love the harp on Bird Song too. RIP Bobby. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l_g...

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Bob Weir And Wolf Bros: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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