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Matt Lanza @mattlanza.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Just an absolute gut punch to American science. No modern country would do this to itself if it had competent leadership.

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Mark Bove @mcb-wxclimaterisk.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

On 26 May, we intercepted a hail-producing storm just west of San Angelo, TX. Pictured: Dr. Anya Radler of Munich Re and @wxdocg.bsky.social and Jake Sorber from @ibhs.org. We measured and collected hail along most of the disdrometer array. @nsficechip.bsky.social

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ICECHIP @nsficechip.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Thank you to everyone who came out to our field day to see the instruments! We hope you enjoyed, learned, and got excited about science! Including the communities that our work will serve has been important for us.

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ICECHIP @nsficechip.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

What’s inside of a hailsonde? Scroll to see! Designed at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

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ICECHIP @nsficechip.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

ICECHIP involves 12 universities, 3 research departments, and other insurance institutes, government agencies, & community groups. A global cross-disciplinary & interdisciplinary effort with these parties - promoting a high level of collaboration, coordination, & communication.

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Pat Hyland @hylandwx.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The Rapid X-band Polarimetric Radar (RaXPol) from OU'S Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC) beautifully captured the tornado near Matador, Texas last night 🌪️ At it's fastest rotation rate, RaXPol can complete a 360° spin in just 2 seconds and a full volume scan in as little as 20 seconds! #txwx

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Second'd my wife got me a bird buddy feeder for valentines day, best valentines day present ever!

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Neil Lareau @neillareau.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Impressive fire activity today in New Jersey. Here is a 3D radar view of the plume structure from the #JonesFire during its peak fire intensity.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

PROFESSIONAL NEWS: I am looking to hire our program's first ever postdoc this summer! NSF project on extreme heat and precipitation. Will also get the opportunity to teach one course/semester starting in January 2026. Apply here and my DMs are open: embryriddle.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump
Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump).
• Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges.
• Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side.
• A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush.
• The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

because of what we know from our nat hazards experience in today's world... people are going to have to sensibly feel the impacts or directly observe that its "real" to snap out of it. Indirectly wont do it. There will be an awful lot of suffering that will happen in the interim.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 16/03/2025

We've seen 513 tornado warning polygons in the U.S. so far this year as of 5:30 p.m today. Almost half of them have been issued since Friday.

A map of tornado warning polygons in the U.S. since January 1st.

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I'm in the same boat, i cant discern what's worse off. However, i am strongly convinced a lot of people are going to have to sensibly feel the pain to snap us as country/society out of this. And yes its sucks.

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I like data so i wanted to quantify our current state of buffoonery: In the last 30 days, we've lost almost half (45%) of the DOW gains that we accumulated over the last year. We are headed, in the next 30 days, to lose those DJI gains completely in 1/6th the time it took to build them.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

And like us from the weather enterprise know, people need direct evidence of the threat to them personally, not the external environment, to act and also have to suffer sensible personal impacts to change belief systems. And thats the awful part of where we are...

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Potentially interesting job for the NOAA crowd - Verisk, one of the biggest modeling firms in the insurance industry, is looking for an experienced atmospheric scientist. Charles Jackson is hiring, who was on my PhD committee and is just a delight to work with, aside from being a kickass scientist.

linkedin.com

Verisk hiring Senior Atmospheric Scientist in Boston, MA | LinkedIn

Posted 12:45:15 AM. Job DescriptionVerisk’s Extreme Event Solutions Research Department in Boston is seeking a…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The Eaton polygons and the CALFIRE DINS data. In both you had so few CA Bldg Code Ch7A built homes, it made no difference and wasnt close to any "herd immunity" level.

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Palisades you could visualize conflagration "streaks" where ember-driven ignitions led to structure-structure. Eaton (opinion) conflagration happened so fast. We have noted using simple ember transport models, in both, all destroyed structures fall in our "ember impact zone" just from wildland fuels

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Eaton though was more bi-modal, and not an exponential as you might expect... even more dense and older single-family construction with less building elements that would have been considered more fire resistant.

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It certainly has its complexities. We looked at Palisades under our neighborhood framework. In an "unmitigated" environment you get this. Can we use more separation + hardening elements as a buffer to allow more dense construction elsewhere? I think we can.

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Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · 02/03/2025

TTU-wrf simulation with electrification module for today/tomorrow.

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Jared Rennie @jjrennie.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Saw this in the office break room of NOAA NCEI today. I’m going to take this “feel good” energy from an anonymous person and forward it to all of you, especially those that work for or alongside NOAA. I’m proud of the work we do, and I’m grateful for all NOAA does. Thank you.

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

this is today... personal singular experience, followed by confirmation bias etc. and down the hole you go. On the flip...though, we know this from natural hazards, personal experience shatters belief systems its one of the few things that do.

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Pretty impressive... at least my ruptured disc and every baseball injury ive ever had thinks so.

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Steve Nesbitt @70dbz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Unfortunately large language models tend to hallucinate and don’t understand physical processes. Despite this being a trivial example (no, it’s not going to rain at those temperatures or the temperatures aloft), AI weather risk communication has a long way to go to meet the high standards of NWS.

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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

DC area is a champion of snow measuring. More on how the storm happened, how the forecast did and where we stand this winter: 🎁 wapo.st/4aVfHl0

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Finished up with 4.2 storm total snow, bringing our season total here 1 E of Gaithersburg to an even 15 inches. Still short of the average for us. #snomg #mdwx #dmvwx

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The French Quarter looks absolutely amazing in the pregame coverage on this #SuperBowlSunday #nola

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

29F and moderate rain...thats up there in the land of winter grossness #mdwx

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

ICECHIP preps... the wrong frozen hydrometeor. What evs... lets get it #hail #hailscience

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Its the willingness to do it and work to get better at it... and that often means putting our pedantic nature down for the good of the message. Also as someone who tries to do it all its exhausting.

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Yesterday was thinking we could make 4, even just seeing our sfc ob at the house this morning, killed that hope. That with the slow phase change i wondered if we could even make 2.

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

So Im at my daughters swim class, only to be splashed by people swimming laps and their god awful attempts at flip turns 🤦"looks like we got a real Mike Phelps over there dont we"

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A big shout out to my wife Tanya, check out the panel she is on in the Helene Impacts session right now! For our early career AMS women in STEM, chat her up! She has exec leadership experience at IBHS & now runs the Disaster and Failure Studies program at NIST. She's a great role model. #AMS2025

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Jason Keeler @chasinjason.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Come see me at booth T28 at the #AMS2025 career fair tonight (5-7 pm CT) to learn about opportunities to conduct research related to the ICECHIP campaign!

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

From a paper of mine on wildland fire exposure changes (1940 to 2010). Panel C illustrates that the areas where the LA #fires have occurred have also witnessed some of the largest increases in fire counts, size, and housing density over the 70-yr period... www.stephenmstrader.org/_files/ugd/f...

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Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Please do not legitimately quote AccuWeather's financial loss estimates for the ongoing California wildfires or for any natural catastrophe event. Ever.

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

and what a piece of the structure to structure fire spread can look like in high wind conditions.

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

For my science colleagues out there in the wx enterprise who would like to learn more about the chain of events unfolding tonight in SoCal, please take a look at this piece of work we did in 2023 ibhs.org/wp-content/u...

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Snow plus Mardi Gras colors! Just passed 7 inches here in Gaithersburg #mdwx

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Right at 5 inches so far 1 E of Gaithersburg #mdwx #dmvwx

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Ian Giammanco @wxdocg.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Lol, i took all the xmas lights down today... so why not fire pit, chill and a beer.

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