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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, it rained last night. 5.47” at our house, to be precise. We are fine, and the neighborhood is mostly good (a few wet basements). But wow, there was a lot of flash flooding around the Omaha metro last night!

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

She's right, of course - keep talking about your books! I wrote Wilder Weather: What Laura Ingalls Wilder Teaches Us About the Weather, Climate, and Protecting What We Cherish. Nonfiction book that draws from Laura's experiences (she lived through a lot!) to apply to weather/climate now and future.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So proud to announce that Women Writing the West has awarded WILDER WEATHER the 2026 WILLA Literary Award Winner in Scholarly Nonfiction! I am joining outstanding company from 2026 and years past. www.womenwritingthewest.org/awards/the-w...

Gold seal with Women Writing the West WILLA Literary Award Winner written around the circle.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Heat burst at the house this morning!

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Come and see me tomorrow (Friday 8/7) from 1-4 PM at the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in Pepin, WI! I'll be signing books and answering any of your weather/climate questions.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hey folks at the AMS Madison Summit! I have a few copies of “Wilder Weather” with me this week. Find me if you want to get a copy and get it signed!

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Great list of books! And hey, while you're at it, go ahead and add WILDER WEATHER! www.sdhspress.com/books/wilder...

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I made a pretty, yummy thing! www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking...

Square, clear baking dish with layered dessert, one corner cut out, of graham cracker crust, white cheesecake cream, strawberry cheesecake cream, and sliced strawberries in thin gelatin.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

NOAA NIHHIS Heat Tabletop Design Challenge invites communities to design situation manuals for heat tabletop exercises, which test local heat response efforts through simulated scenarios. Up to 40 U.S. communities can win a $25,000 prize. Learn more and apply here by August 12th lnkd.in/ef6GVgR4

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Spring book tour alert! I'm hitting the road to talk about Wilder Weather in some places close to my heart! If you're in southern Michigan (Albion and Hillsdale) or central Pennsylvania (State College), come and see me!

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Don’t ever talk to me about how kids on SNAP shouldn’t get to have a chocolate bar now and then. Never.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Well played, @midwestclimate.bsky.social! I couldn’t be prouder to see an AWSSI valentines!

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I'll wear red on Friday 2/6 for my sweet mom and our Nonny, who lost her 21-year battle with heart disease in October. 💔 @americanheart.bsky.social

February 6, first Friday in February, is National Wear Red Day. Cardiovascular disease is the number 1 killer of women. Wear red for yourself or someone you love. From the American Heart Association Go Red for Women campaign.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Since he isn't on Bluesky, pass on to DK that I think he is absolutely right. It might "just mean more," but it doesn't mean they just win more. SEC has shown they aren't special. Their "strength of schedule" is a phantom based on the myth that SEC is better. Also, pass on to DK to get an acct here.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

On this #IndigenousPeoplesDay, I acknowledge that I am on the ancestral lands of the Odawa nation and also spending time on the ancestral lands of the Anishinabewaki and Missisaugua nations. I am grateful for the care they have taken of these lands.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The recorded live stream of my presentation at the South Dakota Festival of Books is available here (FB video): www.facebook.com/sdhumanities...

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I'll be in Spearfish SD in just under a week to participate in the South Dakota Festival of Books! Come see me and dozens of other amazing authors, including Pamela Smith Hill! We both speak/read on Saturday 9/27 and will sign books on Friday 9/26 and Saturday 9/27. sdhumanities.org/festival-of-...

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Pretty sunrise alert! Note the crepuscular ray effect in the clouds! You’re charming, Gretna. #sunrise #newx

Streaks of clouds lit orange in the sunrise behind the silhouette of a home, with shadowed streaks upward from the rising sun that is not yet in view.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Look out, Lincoln - here I come! I'll be at the University of Nebraska's School of Natural Resources on Wednesday, September 10, at 3:30 PM to give a seminar. I'll bring some books to sell and will be happy to sign books that folks already have! See you tomorrow!

Wilder Weather: Research, Communication, and Connection
Main Speaker: Barb Boustead
Climatologist, meteorologist, instructor, writer
Date: 9/10/2025
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: 107 South Hardin Hall (Auditorium)

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

It’s a beautiful day to come to the Nebraska State Fair for $3 Tuesday! While you’re here, find me at the Nebraska Writers Guild booth in the Pinnacle Bank Expo Building with copies of WILDER WEATHER you can buy and have me sign!

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Hi! I'm Barb, a meteorologist and climatologist (civil servant) focusing mostly on weather/climate extremes and their impacts. Also a writer and science communicator, and author of WILDER WEATHER. From MI, based in NE.

White woman in her 40s in a white dress with blue flowers, sitting at a round table covered with a red checked tablecloth. In front of her is a stack of books, Wilder Weather by Barbara Boustead, and she is signing a copy.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Omaha area folks, come see me in person at the Bookworm! I'll be doing a Wilder Weather signing there on Tuesday, August 12, at 6 PM. I'd love to see some friendly faces there! Info is below. Info here: www.bookwormomaha.com/event/barbar...

Barbara Boustead, author of Wilder Weather, at the Bookworm in Omaha on Tuesday, August 12, at 6 PM. Golden wheat background with author photo and WILDER WEATHER cover photo superimposed.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Lookie what arrived to my doorstep!! It’s really a real book! Wilder Weather is coming! 😍🤩😱📘📖

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Great questions! In general, the threaded sites for OMA are in the image below. Sometimes there are data substitutions due to QC. When in doubt, err on the side of the threaded site. You can investigate the threads for all sites here: threadex.rcc-acis.org

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

“Wilder Weather”? What’s wilder than getting weather tattoos?! Inked by @sheastattoo with friends, because friends who tat together are bonded together! #tattoo #weather

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I can’t help but feel grief today as so many valued colleagues have their last day in NOAA this week. But I am here, holding fast. Best of wishes in what lies ahead to all who are leaving.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Appreciate the sentiment, but 1-day boycotts just don't matter to big companies. Most people buy the same stuff before/after, so it doesn't end up hurting their bottom line. Forget a 1-day boycott. Retract as much spending as you can. With the money you're saving, buy more at local businesses.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"Misery Index" (a.k.a. Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index #awssi) says not very miserable in places that are normally miserable.

Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index shows a lot of mild winter-to-date conditions from northern New England through the Great Lakes and central/northern Plains to the High Plains and West. Severe conditions across the Ohio River valley to the Southeast.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Feels like I’m the last one to the party, but I am finally on my way to New Orleans for #ams2025! Looking forward to a full week of meeting old friends and new, learning, and communicating about weather and climate with people who share my passions!

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Not even the GFS, which typically has no trouble conjuring up apocalyptic snow totals, can come up with any snow anywhere near us in the next 384 hours.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Everybody is posting their big winter snows, so I thought I’d post ours! Ties for the most snow we have had at my house all winter season. (Yep, still haven’t gotten more than a trace.)

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I can’t be the only one with a Wizard of Oz/ #Wicked theme tree this year!

Christmas tree with lots of multicolor ornaments and white lights, trimmed with gold ribbon, topped with a multicolor star, and with a cream and gold skirt, in the corner of a living room.

Zoom in to a Christmas tree trimmed with gold ribbon, focus on a Wizard of Oz tornado ornament and Emerald City ornament.

Zoom in on a Christmas tree trimmed with gold ribbon, focused on a ruby slippers ornament and a Barbie ornament that looks a bit like Glinda in a gold tulle dress.

Zoom in on a Christmas tree trimmed with gold ribbon, focusing on a lollipop ornament.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

On this day 49 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in a November "gale" (actually a stronger storm than just a "gale") on Lake Superior. Find the Laura Ingalls Wilder connection to the "witches of November" here! open.substack.com/pub/wilderwe...

The Gales of November: "When the witch of November comes stealing..." on wilderweather.substack.com. Text overlaid on a photo of waves crashing into a cold Great Lakes shore, with a lifeguard station taking waves and a snow-capped red house in the background.

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Dubious title. Funny label. Very interesting and real weather/climate phenomenon. If you don't know "corn sweat," get to know it now! open.substack.com/pub/wilderwe...

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

Wow! I can now say that I have an essay in the *award-winning* anthology, "Awakenings: Stories of Body and Consciousness"! You can still get a copy here: elj-editions.com/awakenings/

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

It’s #SafePlaceSelfie day! Where would you take shelter if severe weather threatens? (Hint: get in, get down, cover up!)

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Dr. Barb Mayes Boustead @windbarb.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Very exciting news: WILDER WEATHER is forthcoming in 2025 from the South Dakota Historical Society Press! What can Laura Ingalls Wilder teach us about paying attention to weather, climate, and the natural landscape around us? Subscribe for updates: substack.com/@wilderweather

Wilder Weather, forthcoming in 2025 from the South Dakota Historical Society Press!

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