Wendi Flynn

Are you in NE Colorado? Want to help out the #ICECHIP effort? We would deeply appreciate very large hailstones found by chasers or the community to be bagged & tagged and handed off to one of our teams!

For labeling, please:
• Write time, lat, and lon of collection!

Want to see more learning opportunities like this in the future? Interested in furthering your machine learning skills? Let us know by filling out the 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey!

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Unidata maintains a lot of key weather data infrastructure, including the netCDF data standard and libraries, metpy. data dissemination servers for accessing models and observations from NOAA, and educational resources for the university community. Now everyone is furloughed b/c of Trump and DOGE.

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

The hits keep coming...

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations (@unidata.bsky.social): www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...

"As a result of the freeze, NSF Unidata faces a significant current funding gap."

NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.

NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.

The dismantling of NOAA is the dismantling of the United States
www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

As I read comments on social media posts about NOAA, I am calling on all of my broadcast media friends to do a story about everything that NOAA does for the public.

The official AMS logo.

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government.

Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Maybe you're interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by January 24, 2025 to work with us next summer: www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...

Local meteorologists could face layoffs amid new initiative with The Weather Channel The new initiative will be rolled out across 27 stations and feature "additional visual storytelling capabilities," Allen Media Group says.

'Excuse to cut costs' may be right on track... not sure if you've seen this in the news but I might assume outsourcing local weather coverage could save a buck or two. www.npr.org/2025/01/19/n...

In the Atmospheric Science Education Research (ASER) Presidential Session at #AMS2025, ASER rockstars in the audience post about ASER rockstars on the panel! Great opportunity to build community & chart paths forward. AMS BHE past(me) + incoming Chairs are part of this effort! @ametsoc.bsky.social

Next up - some (of many!) highlights of the #AMS2025 Conference on Education!

Next - a town hall at #AMS2025 focused on discussing considerations for potential proposed changes to the Meteorology 1340 series!

We're thrilled to highlight some of the many exciting education sessions at #AMS2025! First up: an *interactive* special session focusing on challenges and opportunities in atmospheric science education research! @ametsoc.bsky.social

The American Meteorological Society Board of Higher Ed is thrilled to finally be on social media! In the coming weeks and months, we'll highlight education-related talks and events at the 2025 @ametsoc.bsky.social Annual Meeting, as well as the many overall efforts our Board is involved in!

Application — paleoCAMP

The application is now open for paleoCAMP 2025 (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies)! For graduate students in any area of paleoclimatology, our 2 week summer school is timescale agnostic and multidisciplinary - please apply or share widely! paleoclimate.camp/apply

Just past golden hour and just past peak colors this evening on the Poudre. Half the town was out to get their family pictures taken amongst the weeds, gnats, and what's left of the changing leaves.

Dubious activity at the airport

Looking westward yesterday... rain finally headed our way. Of course most of it evaporates by the time it gets to Greeley! Nice to have that reminder of what rain smells like though, maybe after our 52-day dry streak, some will actually reach the ground today.

Very cool! Since there's no way to track changes... what was the motivation for the update?