Frank Brody

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Tech people think we want AI, robots, and a colony on Mars but what I actually want is a home printer that simply works.

This meso loop of #Melissa from CIRA is absolutely stunning at it makes its closes in on landfall in southwestern Jamaica.

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#hurricanemelissa

How is the Google DeepMind model doing so far this Atlantic hurricane season?
My *preliminary* homogeneous verification shows that the DeepMind ensemble mean "GDMN" is dominating in both track and intensity, beating the revered "HCCA" consensus and the NHC ("OFCL") at all/most lead times.

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Interesting to us Wx peeps but otherwise “buried” in the daily insanity of our slide into authoritarianism :(

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Simple. News media is conditioned (live Pavlov’s dog) to insert trump into every headline as clickbait.

There's no mechanism in US Law to classify anything American a "terrorist organization". The KKK hasn't even received this honor.

Yet, Trump is going to name a non-existent entity as one, so he can claim anyone he doesn't like a member and have ICE put them on ice.

Puget Sound WA sunset extraordinaire

Just flip the script: “330 million people having nice weather…”

September 10 is the climatological peak of hurricane season, but no tropical systems in sight per NHC:

Yet - that’s how Challenger and Columbia space shuttle fatal accidents happened: broken safety cultures.

Dr. Susan Monarez, recently removed as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the Trump administration is deliberately weakening the country’s public health and vaccine protections. This is a danger that should concern us all.

Want to work for National Weather Service? Be ready to explain how you agree with Trump As the National Weather Service scrambles to hire up to 450 people to restore deep cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency, potential applicants are being asked to explain how they would advan...

“I’d rather have a great forecaster who’s never read an EO than a policy muck who’s taken one meteorology class.” — Rick Spinrad, former NOAA director
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Sen Patty Murray (D-WA):

“If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

Call me crazy but a current / former operational meteorologist - vs. an academic type - would be refreshing.

NOAA cancels procurement of new phased array weather radar test article Further stalls important weather research program

Important weather science news tonight: NOAA has canceled procurement of the next phased array weather radar R&D instrument. Along with the obvious blow to PAR weather research, it is consistent with other moves by admin to push forward quickly with NOAA cuts. More: https://tinyurl.com/my8hx8j6

Employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent a letter to Congress, warning that the Trump administration has undone much of the progress in disaster response and recovery achieved since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast nearly twenty years ago.

Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."

Remember when people said this was just hyperbole and a candidate saying it made them unelectable…

This used to be funny/not funny. Now it’s infuriating.

As I have shouted into the wind for 10 years now - Dems are bringing a paper knife to a sword fight 😠

It is real and its spectacular #Erin

A lone cumulonimbus fades into the sunset #pawx

Thank you. Photo taken near Tacoma WA.

GOES West captured von Kármán vortices streaming around Guadalupe Island this morning. These cloud formations typically occur when the prevailing wind is diverted by elevated land features such as islands, mountaintops, or volcanoes. More cloud science at: noaa.gov/jetstream/clouds