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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After moving from the big city to the country, my stamp and personal check usage has increased like 10 fold.

Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A year's worth of kitchen scraps combined with leaves and brown paper waste from Amazon boxes went in the tumbler and yielded a few gallons of rich compost. Now it goes back to the vegetable garden for the next cycle.

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Eric Thompson @ericjthompson81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

May this meme never die. #Skol

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Daytime high of 74, cloudy and a northerly breeze. There's no weather better for an August mow.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is exactly what was needed to alleviate the Corpus Christi water emergency. Unfortunately the root of the problem is that the local politicians promised industry more water than climatology can provide.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

New (to me) snake. Eastern coachwhip. 3+ feet and fastest snake I've ever seen. Stumbled on a second equally big one a few yards away. Mating shenanigans I am sure.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It's been a year since I retired. 2 surprising findings: I was worried I would be bored without work, and most certainly have not been. I also thought I would pick up weather related activities on the side, and that desire just hasn't shown up.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Tried and true method for laying out a clear, logical argument: Intro with a thesis statement. Topic sentences followed by well-researched supporting arguments. Cite your sources. Conclusion summarizing the points you just made.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

2 days with lows in the teens and 2 days with highs in the 90s in the same week must have the plants confused.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Living amongst national forests has its benefits. Unfortunately in early spring prescribed burns can turn a nice day into a smokey apocalypse. Visibility down to 1 to 2 miles from a burn 30 miles away.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Don't much care about the Superbowl but it's an excuse to smoke some ribs.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My low last night was -11 F. Of all sites that report their data in real time, that was the coldest in Arkansas. Snow pack and river valley cold air drainage is some serious business.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Just cut down the tall grass on our hill in preparation for some sledding activities this weekend.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A few inches of snow and Central Park certainly didn't disappoint yesterday.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Great win Ags. Don't ever do that again, my heart can't handle it.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It's a good day when a tree felling goes according to plan. This was my biggest and trickiest one yet.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

My favorite weather is the summertime surprise sunshine downpour. This one came with a rainbow just a few feet away. (No pot of gold was found.)

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Since we've decided as a country not to support PBS anymore, I do want to make a plug for PBS Passport the online streaming version of PBS. It's $5 a month and we've had it for 8 years now. Nova, Frontline, nature, Ken Burns, local shows, old house, masterpiece, and more are faves in this household.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

New snake for me. A speckled King snake.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Growing tomatoes is way easier in Arkansas than DFW. The plants are over 6 feet tall now.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The wx community agrees forecasts matched our scientific skill. The end users say it wasn’t good enough. Frustratingly, we’re dismantling the ability to improve prediction science, communication services, and partner relations. Instead of blame or defense, we need to say: This WILL happen again.

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

A cottonmouth decided to take residence under my front door step. I like snakes, certainly more than rodents, but coming across it multiple times within a couple days I had to relocate it. It hissed at me but all is well now.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Yesterday, sadly, my NWS career came to an end. I started as a volunteer in '97 at Corpus Christi, my hometown, but worked most of it in Fort Worth. It was a great career and treated me better than I deserved. So fortunate to live out my childhood dream, but now it's time for the next chapter.

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Texas Climate Office @climatexas.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Howdy folks, As the most of the data and tools used by the office are currently no longer available, services provided by the Office of the Texas State Climatologist will be drastically impacted to discontinued due to the laps of federal funding for the NOAA Regional Climate Centers.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Two questions. How long does a housefly live for? And why is their fountain of youth in my home?

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Hmmm. Maybe it's time to load from a previous save and try again.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The worst part of today was I thought it was Thursday at 8 am and didn't figure it out til noon.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Timeline cleanse: Snowbirds. They are hungry.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Today the government recognizes my official start date at the NWS. It's not really a date that means anything to me (long story) but it's now up to 25 years. Kind of cool it's on national weather person's day, though.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This must be what it feels like to sign up for a timeshare.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

May you live in interesting times....

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I can't begin to describe how nice it is to watch it snow and have absolutely no investment in what the forecast was for it.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Been reading xkcd since finding it on slashdot almost 20 years ago. Been a few that touched on weather but he's getting deep into it lately!

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

For someone that was looking forward to the college football playoffs, I think I have watched a total of 2 hours worth. Wake me up when it does something interesting.

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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

classic kevin o connell vikings

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Dear brain, Please stop with the following recurring bad dream. You haven't been in school for over 20 years. There is not an exam in a math class today that you forgot to go to. You graduated. Things are good now.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

21 degrees this morning and the frost flowers bloomed.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Homemade pizza on the egg.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I didn't care about this football game until it started snowing like mad.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

After 10 inches of rain a couple weeks ago and a 20 ft flood wave, the Kings River rearranged the channel and now we get to enjoy the sounds of riffling water. I am amazed how dynamic rivers are.

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Ted Ryan @wxmanted.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Ready for winter. All of this wood was sourced from the homestead in the last year. Lots of splitting left!

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