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Transitioning NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center operations The U.S. National Science Foundation has informed the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) that management and operations of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center are expected to…

NSF is following through with their plans to transfer the lifeblood of NCAR's work (the supercomputing center) to a "third party": www.nsf.gov/news/transit...
Not sure what that'll mean for our access to it, but it shows they are serious about following through with their dismantling plans.

Some fresh snow has been descried on the venerable Meeker this morning, as seen from a bedroom window.

*choose (ugh)

Adding to some optimistic posts on the topic, last night's ECMWF ensemble suggested a substantial amount of water for the parched CO mountains over the next two weeks. The plains show more modest figures, but if I had to chose between the two in distributing the water...

Promising look to the 10-14 day storm cycle for the mountains. Wednesday-Saturday storm will help, and models (long) advertising a very active week next week with several potentially potent mountain storms.

Fingers crossed.

#COwx

To be clear, they are fully justified in doing "Gulag Archipelago"-like exposés on the current deplorable situation.

"(We were) cuffed and shackled...and shuttled on to a plane in the middle of the night" Seamus Culleton, detained by ICE, calls us live from a detention centre in El Paso, Texas. His wife Tiffany and sister Caroline also speak to Kieran about Seamus' plight.

Probably not great for US tourism when European media are doing ‘Gulag Archipelago’ episodes for the US. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

A nice thread on the bleak news surrounding CO2 politics.

I think if you convert this data to July 9, it works out to something like 250 F or so.

How does this year compare to the snow droughts of the past? - Colorado Climate Blog Colorado’s mountain snowpack is in bad shape this year. It’s been extremely warm, and snowstorms have been few and far between. Based on data from the SNOTEL network, the amount of water stored in the...

The mountain snowpack so far this winter is in bad shape. Long-time Coloradans might remember two other terrible winters for snow: 1976-77 and 1980-81. Our latest blog post takes a look at how this year compares to those snow droughts of the past. #cowx

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.

She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.

She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

"Brave Hearted", a book we picked up at a shop in our western US travels, turned out to be an excellent read on the westward migration of white settlers. Its poignant accounts of atrocities against the indigenous took a toll on me; we see the same dark threads of oppression in today's politics.

How does this compare with Sebag Montefiore's biography of Stalin (which I enjoyed, though not as much as his Romanovs book)?

I'm distracted by the spectacular (likely) cloud hole punch/fallstreak.

Probably too few samples in the human dataset that can probabilistically account for such an extreme outlier.

I hope this doesn't need to be plotted on a logarithmic scale by the end of February. :-/

I much prefer the President Camacho form of idiocracy to whatever we've become.

When my eyes first saw the graph, I thought it was a picture of this year's awful snow/water content of the western US, but then realized it's just a graphic of a major source of funding for my career field that studies things like this year's awful western snows.

One of them already quit after two minutes of work.

CatGPT code assistants can be unreliable but this morning they showed up to do work.

The 12-month running average temperature is now at a record high for both Utah and Colorado. Seems bad. 🔥

Ha! I was just nostalgic for real weather.

Politicians using polls as guidance reminds me of AI training on AI produced data. It waters down the output to the point of garbage.

No tornadic storms yesterday in OK/KS but it was far from a bust. The mammatus clouds and lightning were exceptional. Here’s a timelapse of the two phenomena, which includes a cameo from lightning bugs at the very end. Set to Stars of the Lid music.

It was a delight having breakfast this morning with the winner of the 2026 Carl-Gustaf Rossby research medal, Wayne Schubert, this morning, along with some of his former grad students. Although long retired, Wayne wielded his notebook of unsolved problems in PV dynamics for lively discussion.

Please let it be so. --Signed, parched westerner.

Photos of Cara in the last 24 hours.

That flow tho.

Why would anyone advocate violence when the folks of MSP are winning the long game through peaceful protest? (Rhetorical question, but thank you for knocking some sense into the boneheads.)

Wtf gaze

Big yawn

Snoring

Fully asleep

A camera trap picked up a mountain lion waking up and falling asleep next to it