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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 · 28/02/2025

Y'all, the outpouring of support from complete strangers on here (as well as friends) has been amazing! I am truly blessed to be in an industry that is so supportive of everyone. Thank you all for the messages of support! ❤️

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

Maybe I'll just go take pictures, post them, and get paid nothing as my next role! 😂

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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 · 25/02/2025

When we lived in DC, I went through the whole process to legally register the gun that my granddad left me. It was honestly not that bad. Had to go to a range in Maryland to do a shooting evaluation, take a written test and have ballistics captured. All in all, sort of a model for other places IMO

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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

Did you use Doordash or Uber Eats?

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

Potential for same sort of fan draw like Las Vegas, maybe? Obviously large local population, but with the parks, potential for families to tack on MLB?

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

We live on the route that southern planes take as they turn to head down the river, so when I see something out of the ordinary, I'm curious. We had a go around come over us around 2000ft one time and I thought the TV was gonna shake off the wall 😂

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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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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I wonder if the proximity of the new AA terminal at the far, left end of runway 33 has increased frequency. Gets planes off the runway quicker - less taxi? I've come in on that approach over the wastewater treatment plant and it is definitely an interesting approach.

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I'm honestly more scared of Clear Air Turbulence and in flight icing as a result of flying through super cooled liquid water, than I am of something random like what happened last night.

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

When you have little kids, the train and people movers are a feature and not a bug! 😂

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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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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I was telling my wife that this is definitely a RMK that you never expect to see 😢

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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 · 30/01/2025

We choose IAD because it is just as close as DCA time wise for us, but IAD has plenty of space for parking and navigating terminals, especially with 2 young kids. Also, less scary as you mention.

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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 · 25/01/2025

I'm ready to get back on my bike outside, but with the amount of salt on the roads and me being too lazy to deep clean my bike after every ride, I fear it won't be until April before I am back outside 😢

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

Such a beautiful part of Italy. Remember the ride into Orvieto being quite steep! The hike around the external wall was pretty fun as well.

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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 · 23/01/2025

Yeah I just want some consistency. Seems like we constantly move the goal posts on closures. If the policy is "Cold weather advisory" = delay, that works.

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Richard Barnhill @wolfpackwx.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

What is interesting about this outbreak is the use of the "Cold Weather Advisory". Arlington Schools used this product to justify doing a 2-hour delay on Wednesday morning, but arguably, Tuesday and especially today were as cold or colder. Really want to know the thought process for the Wed call.

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

Not sure what the line was, but I would not have taken the under

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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 · 18/01/2025

Same. This was after I watched it sort of stalk a guy walking a tiny dog for a bit

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

It was in the 20s for Obama's first and that crowd was large. I think you're on to something.

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

Something, something, snow flakes...

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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 · 14/01/2025

We had 6 inches last Sunday into Monday. Arlington schools stayed closed through Wednesday, despite even my tier 3 road being clear. Their message was like "there are still some dangerous sidewalks". It's not just the south 😂

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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

Could have used the thaw a bit sooner. The solar panels finally shed their snow today after getting basically 5kWh for the last week It was a bit shocking when the house rumbled and an avalanche hit the back deck.

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

And the video of the run on the left

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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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