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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!

Screenshot of a scientific journal paywall

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 23/09/2026

Tropical moisture surging into the Desert Southwest continues a dangerous flash flooding threat across central and eastern New Mexico and the TX/OK panhandles through Thursday morning. Slow-moving storms producing heavy rainfall can quickly lead to flooding across the desert terrain. weather.gov

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just a couple hundred miles from Mexico's southwestern coast, Hurricane Polo strengthens even further. Polo has recently recorded a central pressure of 892 millibars, making it the second most-intense Eastern Pacific hurricane on record, behind 2015's Hurricane Patricia.

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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Director, University of Georgia Weather Network and Extension Specialist Share as appropriate. Pam Knox retired from this position. I am on the Search Committee if there are any questions. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/506...

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Extension Specialist and Director of the UGA Weather Network

The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (UGA CAES) is seeking a dynamic individual for the position of Extension Specialist and Director of the UGA Weather Network...

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In the eastern North Pacific south of Mexico, Hurricane Polo has rapidly intensified from a tropical depression to a major hurricane in just over a day and continues to barrel toward category 5 strength.

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Mike Charnick @charnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Giant hail up to 4 inches (!!!) in diameter between Eads and Chivington Colorado, measured over an hour after it fell! This is the largest hail stone I have held in Colorado. #cowx #hail

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Cameron Simcoe @camcoeadvntrs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s pretty uncommon for our area to get intense night time convection… even more so in September! Colorado weather being wild today

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 20/09/2026

the implication is that the answer to that question should be greater than zero. no! we should want the number to be zero!

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bluesky is the most learned group ever assembled of smart, funny people who will read a headline and then talk for two days about only the headline

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 19/09/2026

West slope September stunner. east of Rifle #cowx

A thunderstorm anvil with lots of mammatus; a faint rainbow and mountains in the foreground

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 18/09/2026

follow along with @coyotegulch.bsky.social summarizing the water discussions at the Colorado River District seminar today in Grand Junction

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 17/09/2026

some fine sunset colors this evening

a sunset with orange-tinted clouds reflected off a lake

a sunset with orange-tinted clouds reflected off a lake, slightly darker than the first photo

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Peter Mullinax @wxmvpete.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A highly anomalous weather pattern is likely to result in significant rainfall, first in the Southwest today, but then into the Midwest late week. First, a couple upper-level disturbances near Baja will approach the Southwest today, bringing a concentrated source of lift. (1/7)

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Colorado Climate Center @climate.colostate.edu · 10/09/2026

August 2026 was our warmest on record: our 3rd record-warm month in this calendar year and the 4th for Water Year 2026. Last month featured a mix of worsening drought and localized flash flooding, as well as two tragic weather-related fatalities. Check out out our latest monthly summary for more:

climate.colostate.edu

CO Monthly Climate Summary

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Colorado Climate Center @climate.colostate.edu · 09/09/2026

NOAA data confirms that we just went through the warmest August and the warmest climatological summer (June-July-August) on record for Colorado. Stay tuned for our monthly summary (coming soon!) which will include stats on the many, many records broken this summer. #cowx

"Quadrant chart" showing precipitation on the horizontal axis and temperature on the vertical axis for all June-July-August periods since 1895 in Colorado. 2026 stands above all other years as the warmest summer on record. It was also the 22nd driest summer.

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 09/09/2026

and yet still 3 degrees warmer than average!

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

6:55p: Cars in the garage, Greeley! Quarter size hail heading your way, severe tstorm warning just issued for the Greeley area: #COwx

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 04/09/2026

Here are the selected storm totals in Texas and Louisiana from rainfall associated with Edouard. For more storm reports, including rainfall accumulations and peak wind gusts, visit the latest Storm Summary at: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/...

NOAA NWS Weather Prediction Center graphic titled "Rainfall Amounts from Edouard," showing preliminary 72-hour observations & rainfall estimates valid 10 PM CDT Thursday 9/3/26.

Selected Rainfall Reports:

Thicket, TX: 24.36"

Southern Rough, TX: 17.84"

Warren, TX: 16.08"

Kountze, TX: 13.64"

Village Mills, TX: 12.84"

Livingston, TX: 10.58"

Woodsville, TX: 10.25"

Chester, TX: 9.58"

Goodrich, TX: 9.55"

Vinton, LA: 4.89"

Abbeville, LA: 3.00"

Bearhead Creek, LA: 2.74"

Baldwin, LA: 2.51"

Map Description:
Map of southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana depicting estimated rainfall totals. A large swath of high rainfall concentrations (yellow, orange, red, and purple shading) covers eastern Texas north and east of Houston, centered around areas northwest of Beaumont, matching rainfall totals ranging from 4 to over 24 inches. Surrounding areas in Texas and Louisiana show lighter totals shaded in blues and greens.

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IEMBOT Emergency @emergency.weather.im · 02/09/2026

LCH issues Flash Flood Emergency [flash flood: observed, flash flood damage threat: catastrophic] for Hardin, Tyler [TX] till Sep 2, 10:45 AM CDT Link

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

More people should know how integral @akrherz.bsky.social is to U.S. climate data analysis.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The NPS photo is wild…

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 28/08/2026

Big REFS Transition Project 1 (spc-post v3.0) is done. spc-post is SPC's suite of guidance and model post processing. It runs on WCOSS2, the NWS supercomputer that also runs the US forecast model suite. Today, I froze the spc-post v3.0 code in preparation for the 30-day test period. 🧵

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 26/08/2026

I don’t know what words to use to describe this…”wall of water” doesn’t even seem sufficient. Awful.

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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 26/08/2026

thread numbering badges now show up on posts in feeds! to see them, make sure you have beta features enabled. you can do that here: bsky.app/settings/bet... once that's enabled, you should see them on posts in feeds like in the photo below. let us know what you think!

A demo showing where the thread number badge appears on posts in feeds.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The whole scene, for Dolly.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She wrote a handful of the greatest songs ever written, and the first thing so many people think of is not those towering achievements, but how good a person she was and how many people’s lives she improved

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When it comes to signing open letters about academic freedom, “We have to take a principled stand!” doesn’t work if there have been loads of other much more obvious and serious instances of violations of academic freedom to which you said absolutely nothing.

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 22/08/2026

The seasonality of extreme warmth was really stretched this year in Fort Collins. Back in March we had our first 90°F day forty-five (45) days earlier than one had ever been observed. Then yesterday (Aug 21) it reached 101°F, which is nearly 3 weeks later than any previous 100-degree day. #cowx

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 21/08/2026

I think you might have also been miserable in the 106/54 in eastern Colorado that day

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 20/08/2026

Minnesota people know all about Olivia’s awesomeness already, but if you’re looking for a WNBA team to follow, join the Lynx bandwagon, it’s a fun ride

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

ok ok maybe google search isn't all bad...

i searched alex trebek

google suggests did you mean: who is alex trebek

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NPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #RockyMountainNationalPark

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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 18/08/2026

Erin catalyzed research into TC intensification over land that I was grateful to contribute to (with @rschumacher.cloud and Tom Galarneau) in a 2011 Monthly Weather Review paper. For more on these oddities, see Sec. 3l of Kerry Emanuel’s AMS Centennial monograph: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

journals.ametsoc.org

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IEMBOT Emergency @emergency.weather.im · 16/08/2026

PUB issues Flash Flood Emergency [flash flood: observed, flash flood damage threat: catastrophic] for Custer, Pueblo [CO] till Aug 16, 4:45 PM MDT Link

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 16/08/2026

in many communities, it’s only on facebook. And bluesky shouldn’t be the replacement either - people shouldn’t be required to have an account on a commercial platform to get time-sensitive emergency information! I don’t claim to know what the solution is but the current landscape is def not it

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hurricane #Lala 's northern eyewall scraped #Hawaii, but it was not technically a landfall. Impacts are still significant even without an official landfall though.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I know it's silly to play "on pace for" games, but Baez is 23 years old. If he has a 17 year career and reaches, say, 10,000 plate appearances, he is on pace to total 10,000 home runs.

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Steve Hilberg @wxclisteve.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Big Rain Bullseye - Central Illinois This morning's highest rain totals are found in central Illinois, where CoCoRaHS observers reported more than seven inches of rain in a wide band of four to six inches of rain. The band extended from the Mississippi River on the west well into Indiana. #CoCoRaHS

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

*Please stay off the roads, Denver!* 3:36p: Flash Flood Warning for downtown Denver, Lakewood, Littleton until 6:30p. 1.02" of rain in <1 hour at Harvard Gulch Park (south Denver. #COwx

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Colorado Climate Center @climate.colostate.edu · 14/08/2026

Colorado Flood Threat Bulletin shows a high risk of flash flooding again today (Friday August 14) in northeastern Colorado and along the Palmer Divide. Be weather aware and stay safe! #cowx www.coloradofloodthreat.com

Map of the Colorado Flood Threat Bulletin for Friday August 14, 2026, showing a moderate risk over all of northeastern Colorado and a high risk along the Palmer Divide. From https://www.coloradofloodthreat.com

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 14/08/2026

...which is consistent with the record-breaking flooding in some areas bsky.app/profile/wxje...

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 14/08/2026

The parade of MCSs across Indiana has brought the most extreme multi-day rain event in that region in recent decades. Broad swath of amounts exceeding the 1000-yr recurrence interval for 3-day precip; over a foot of rain observed. Closest recent analog was Aug 2014, but that wasn't as widespread.

maps of points exceeding the 1000-year average recurrence interval for 72-h rainfall, with a large swath in eastern Indiana. Right map shows the 3-day rainfall estimate from Stage IV. Map from https://schumacher.atmos.colostate.edu/precip_monitor/precip_monitor.php?atlas=atlas14&dataset=stage4&ari=1000y&duration=72h

CoCoRaHS observed rainfall from 12-14 August 2026 in eastern Indiana, with multiple reports of >10" and one of 12.08".

Exceedances of the 1000-year, 72-hr ARI from Stage IV in 2002-2025 in the general region around Indiana. There was a somewhat similar event nearby in August 2014 (the orange dots on the map), but the heavy rain wasn't nearly as widespread, nor were the accumulations as large. Map from https://schumacher.atmos.colostate.edu/precip_monitor/interactive.php?dataset=stage4&color=year&syear=2002&duration=72&ari=1000

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