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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Its been a week since the NOAA/NWS layoffs. I haven't mentioned it to the kids. This morning, my daughter (6) asked "Dad, you're a weather man, right? I told Ms. (Teacher) and she thought it was cool!" I replied "I will always be a weather man!" Despite what is next, my heart will always be with Wx.

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Welp, I too was one of the NWS probationary folks that got terminated today. 8 years as an AWIPS contractor previously, I finally got the Fed job I had been wanting. Worked on implementing the next generation of capabilities for AWIPS. A lot of promising stuff coming that is now up in the air...

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Mammatus clouds behind the storms in eastern NC!

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Sure, it's a fire pit kind of night

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This plane performed a go around near the Kennedy center and looks pretty close to the Jet Blue plane setting up for their final. < 1500 ft of vertical separation. I assume this is standard with very low ceilings and rain @josephgruber.com ?

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Nate Johnson @natejohnson.org · 30/01/2025

Gut-renching remark “ACFT MSHP” in the weather obs at DCA tonight.

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 30/01/2025

Yikes! I just listened to the DC Heli freq on @liveatc.bsky.social and PAT25 was cleared for visual separation from the CRJ. 😔

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

So, we all are ready to buy the dip?

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Walked outside around lunch. It is 38. Sort of wanted to put on shorts! Feels like a heatwave.

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Today in 1961—less than four days after President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration—a B-52G bomber on airborne alert over North Carolina suffered a massive fuel leak, caught fire, and exploded on approach to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. As it broke up, two 3.8-Megaton B39 Mod 2 H-bombs fell out.

A graphic produced by C3i e-magazine that includes the following text next to a black and white photograph of one of the B39 thermonuclear bombs involved in this Broken Arrow accident (the one found hanging by its parachute from a tree):

"24 January 1961 | Goldsboro, North Carolina B-52 Crash | 2 Mark 39 Nuclear Bombs

The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash was an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, on 24 January 1961. A B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The captain ordered the crew to eject, which they did at 9,000 feet (2,700 m). Five men ejected and landed safely. Another ejected but did not survive the landing, and two died in the crash. The size of each bomb was 3.8 megatons, more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb.

In 2013, investigative journalist Eric Schlosser published a book, Command and Control, in which he presented a declassified 1969 document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. In the report, entitled 'Goldsboro Revisited,' written by Parker F. Jones, a supervisor of nuclear safety at Sandia National Laboratories, Jones says that 'one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe,' and concludes that, 'The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the B-52.'"

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Chuck Copeland 🌀 @chuckcopelandwx.com · 23/01/2025

For my home state followers, here's a close-up of the North Carolina snowpack. It appears that Kerr Lake provided a lake-enhanced band that almost reached into Raleigh. #wx #wxsky #ncwx #snow

Satellite image of eastern NC showing snow.

#wx #wxsky #weather #snow #snOMG #ncwx

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Harvey is both monitor and king of the sled runs!

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I'm starting to think this Sunday snow storm is gonna be a bust

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Just missed the flurry jackpot! ❄️

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Another cold, colorful sunrise over the DC area! 🌄🥶

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Nice sunset after a week of cold and snow!

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Sled runs iced up overnight and the kids were into it first thing this morning!

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Been doing some backyard engineering. One upside of a sloped yard!

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Love the easy to clear snow! And the best part is my neighbors can't complain because it is an electric leaf blower and because of that, it doesn't matter when I use it, right?!? 😂😎

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Several inches of snow were reported along parts of the East Coast, including in Baltimore and Washington D.C., which saw the most snow since 2022. To the west, gravity wave clouds cascaded over the Appalachian Mountains.

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Our Boarder Collie mix, living his best life in the snow!

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

As of 7am, 5 inches in west Arlington with some sleet starting to mix in @capitalweather.bsky.social

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I have a feeling that because of the deep cold after the storm that the kids won't have school until at least Thursday...😳

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The message that all parents dread, just as kids are about to go back after 2 weeks off 😂

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Lindsey Graham does not know what under attack is until he goes to a DC area Costco the day before a big winter storm. We did this morning and I'm just glad we made it out and didn't lose the children! 😂

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Won my first Zwift race today! Took a categorized event, completely flat course and perfect sprint timing, but I will take it! Loving the new Zwift ride as well! @gozwift.bsky.social @zwiftrides.bsky.social

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Twisteddoodles @twisteddoodles.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

January weather

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

And just like that, the snow squalls are over!

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

You'd think that being a meteorologist for my day job would result in me NOT being caught in the middle of a snow squall / blizzard like storm unprepared, yet here we are... Gotta admit, it was fun. Roads in Arlington caved so quickly, I thought 4x4 was gonna be in the cards!

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Weather History @weatherhistory.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

January 1st, 1871: One of the National Weather Service’s oldest products, the Daily Weather Map, debuted on January 1st, 1871. However, given the sparse number of stations and the inexperience of the new forecasters, the initial maps were quite limited in their display.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/01/2025

Skew-T Log-P xkcd.com/3032

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Dave Statter @statter911.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Watch: Lightning hit the U.S. Capitol at 5:36 pm, simultaneously to - or a few seconds after - lightning hit the Washington Monument. Happy New Year. @capitalweather.bsky.social @stormhour.bsky.social @arlnow.bsky.social #weather #stormhour #DC

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Oh nothing to see here, just a severe thunderstorm on *checks calendar* December 31st 😳 in Arlington, VA (Volume ⬆️)

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Thunder in winter = snow in 10 days, book it! (I hope) 🤞

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

We just can't understand why people don't want to come back to the office! Workers: It's not "being in the office" necessarily. It's this... I live 8 miles as the crow flies from my office. I have to take a 20 mile route because it's the fastest, until it isn't. 50 min one way commute today...🙄

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Nice halo around the moon tonight, with Jupiter just below, over DC tonight @capitalweather.bsky.social

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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Portage-effect snow is falling over Columbia County again! A power plant in Portage causes snow as steam rises and adds moisture to the cloud layer.

Radar image of Columbia and Dane counties in Wisconsin showing a small area of snow falling from Portage to Otsego.

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