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Andy Snyder @wxandbiscuits.bsky.social · 22h

Talk about hydroclimate whiplash - Amarillo has had more rain in the last week than all of December 2025 - August 2026 combined. This will also be the city’s wettest September on record. Weekly totals are over 9” in parts of the panhandle, and it’s still raining.

West Texas mesonet showing weekly rainfall totals ranging from a few hundredths of an inch in central Texas to over 9” southwest of amarilllo.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 29/09/2026

there needs to be an emoji that is widely agreed upon to mean “clanker”, to describe people/code/etc that depend on LLMs to function. Something like 🤖 but more derogatory

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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 27/09/2026

That's not what you want

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 27/09/2026

Some lightning on tonight’s long run, which was more entertaining than the aggie’s radio call while we were getting demolished.

A distant thunderstorm cluster at night time, with lightning illuminating two separate updrafts. The picture is taken from a hill, with a field of wind turbines between me and the storm

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 27/09/2026

we lost, and we lost BAD, but I’m taking a moral victory in saying that at least we didn’t do this:

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tennessee grabs the onside kick

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Texas Rangers (to be clear, law enforcement, not baseball) are engaged in a criminal investigation into Camp Mystic and the tragic flash flood deaths there on July 4 2025.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 22/09/2026

everyone posting the new RadarScope update with the CarPlay support… I did it in 2021 via CarBridge (jailbreak tweak) on a screen that had backported CarPlay through the reversing camera input 😎 This worked better than you might expect, but still not great.

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IEMBot Lubbock @lub.weather.im · 19/09/2026

LUB continues Severe Thunderstorm Warning [wind: 60 MPH (RADAR INDICATED), hail: <.75 IN (RADAR INDICATED)] for Hockley, Lubbock [TX] till 6:00 PM CDT Link

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 19/09/2026

bluesky needs a dislike button

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 19/09/2026

I have no idea why they didn’t just punt

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 16/09/2026

literal lol

FLOCK camera's API key is indexed and searchable by google

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 15/09/2026

*all six cows and four people that live there, that is

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 12/09/2026

I thought this game ended hours ago, happily surprised

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 12/09/2026

I hate this sport. My heart rate laying on the couch has been over 100. We’re winning by 4 touchdowns.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 12/09/2026

Marcel needs to chill he’s too nervous

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 12/09/2026

So what I'm seeing is Western Michigan > Oklahoma.

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Daniel S Helman, PhD @helmandaniel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NSF is consolidating its geoscience research grants into a new program, GEOcore and reducing annual grants to $110 million total in 200-350 awards. Typical was about $300 million in 1,200 awards. Not including institutional grants ($1.3 billion/yr) and those may be gone. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Geosciences Core Research: Atmospheric, Geospace, Earth and Ocean Sciences (GEO Core)

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Micah Warren @micah541.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

cloak and dagger navier stokes cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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kevin @redsoxredshoes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I can't FanDuel imagine why Kalshi Michigan got a PolyMarket second opportunity there brought to you by DraftKings

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 06/09/2026

It wasn't even particularly close.

Time is expired and nobody has touched the ball.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 01/09/2026

well I was warned about this, and my side project my have some life left in it yet. but I for one will be sad to see the end of NOAAPort/SBN. www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

My feedback on the end of NOAAPort/SBN survey:

I am an atmospheric science graduate student and I'm currently planning a side project involving trying to downlink NOAAPort data, and hopefully, eventually post process the data into products for a personal web site.

I've acquired a 12 foot diameter reflector and I am currently designing a solution for mounting it in the limited available outdoor space that I have. I've also acquired a novra downconverter box (from ebay) and a software defined radio capable of digitizing its output. I have learned a lot along the way so far, about communications, radio, mechanical engineering, etc.

I'm fully aware that I could use the internet to download NOAA data and post-process it and achieve the result of having a website, but I wanted to do it "the old fashioned way" for educational purposes and I'd say that's been success so far.

I'm aware NOAAPort/SBN's primary objective is to be an operational product dissemination, and not an educational tool, and that I'm probably one of maybe a dozen interested parties. I was even aware that NOAAPort/SBN might be cancelled before I could complete my project. But I'll be sad to see it go.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 21/08/2026

3D printer peeps: I'm interested in getting a printer that can do multi-material, preferably something with multiple tool heads to avoid waste. I'm a bit confused about what a "prime tower" is and how it differs from "poops" that fire out a waste chute. I've seen demos of multi-head printers..(1/2)

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Remember how power bricks used to be bigger, heavier, hotter, and less powerful than power modern power supplies? The SNES power supply can provide 8.5W and this much smaller GaN USB-PD can supply 65W, at greater efficiency. Well, the same thing is probably going to happen to grid transformers. 🧵

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 19/08/2026

this is a bit disappointing, but I’m glad they tried

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There has been a lot of finger-pointing in the weather community recently about NWS problems. The recent comms outage during severe wx spurred me to write about the issues the agency has - and the need to understand it's not just DOGE/OPM to "blame." balancedweather.substack.com/p/balancedwx...

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BalancedWx Special: Challenges for the NWS

The recent IT/comms outage during a severe weather outbreak helps reveal the difficulties the agency is facing

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 17/08/2026

Unsurprisingly, users on The Other Site are melting down over Anthropic’s new watermark on LLM (large language model) output

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Andy Snyder @wxandbiscuits.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Two new fires immediately emerged from dry lightning in the Everglades this afternoon. Water levels remain near historic lows in parts of South Florida.

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Josef Aschbacher @josefaschbacher.esa.int · 27/07/2026

Latest Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite imagery from 26 July shows some encouraging signs around the Cebreros ground station, where wildfire activity has subsided.

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National Lightning Safety Council @lightningsafety.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

There was a lightning mass casualty incident on Mt. Blue Sky in Colorado this afternoon. There were nearly 100 lightning events detected within 15 miles of the summit between noon and 1:30 pm MT today. Colorado ranks 5th in the country for lightning fatalities in the last 10 years.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 27/07/2026

A friend recently described bluesky as “where all the millennials went after Elon bought Twitter” and this only further reinforces my belief that I was born ~6 years too late

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UIS Observatory @uisobservatory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I’d like to make it clear for all the people following me what the sheer gravity of the news is. Without this facility we can’t ensure constant communication with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. If this facility is off-line, the Artemis program cannot send a crew to the Moon.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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Senate Commerce Dems @commerce.senate.gov · 23/07/2026

Big bipartisan win: The Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Recapitalization Act unanimously passed the Commerce Committee. NOAA's Hurricane Hunter fleet is over 50 years old. This bill authorizes $2.5B for up to 9 new aircraft to keep communities safe. www.commerce.senate.gov/press/dem/re...

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Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Recapitalization Act Passes Senate Commerce Committee - U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation

Today, the Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Recapitalization Act unanimously passed the Commerce Committee. Led by U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Committee, and Chairman Ted Cr...

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 22/07/2026

why aren’t these tests run on fully air gapped systems

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 10/07/2026

the price of consumer RF electronics continues to plummet and I’m here for it

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Absolutely essential read for all — and further affirmation that if you haven’t switched from Google to DuckDuckGo you should without a second’s further delay.

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 08/07/2026

In real life, there's no extra lives. Heed the warning, remember the phrase: #TurnAroundDontDrown #NationalVideoGameDay

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 08/07/2026

Same senator that killed the amendment that would have protected NCAR, if anyone was beginning to think she actually cared.

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IEMBot Lubbock @lub.weather.im · 06/07/2026

At 5:59 PM CDT, 8 NE Floydada [Floyd Co, TX] Storm Chaser reports Hail of ping pong ball size (M1.50 Inch). Time estimated. #txwx Link

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

ppl are so desp to hang out irl they're out there playing pickleball ffs

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 03/07/2026

I’m so happy IODP/Joides Resolution got a mention. Rest in peace.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/06/2026

We applaud SCOTUS' decision in Chatrie v. United States. The Court reaffirmed that you have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and that even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment. (1/3)

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 29/06/2026

My review of the annual TTU "Awareness of AI training": its much more accurate on "what 'AI' is" than last year, but there's a lot of focus on "ask your AI to explain its reasoning for its decisions, and if it doesn't make sense to you, then take action" which is incredibly flawed.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 26/06/2026

Find the high pressure center

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Pat Hyland @hylandwx.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

You can view real-time World Cup seismographs from the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network sensors at Lumen Field in Seattle here: pnsn.org/experiment/2...

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 19/06/2026

Incredible things happening in England

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