Sorry to hear about your Dad - my Dad is having some major health issues too...

The intense racial and gender segregation of science funding will be even more pronounced going forward. This was always the intent.

BTW. If you’re a scientist and are feeling hollowed out, depressed, fried, frustrated, confused, and simply exhausted by everything, I understand you. You are perfectly sane and you are not alone.

And he was the CIO of NOAA's satellite service (NESDIS) for many years before that. I used to work with him there.

BERKSHIRE STATEMENT: “There are reports currently circulating on social media (including Twitter, Facebook and Tik Tok) regarding comments allegedly made by Warren E. Buffett. All such reports are false.”

@cnbc.com $BRK
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/b...

Tell me again why we’re letting a 78 year old, legit smelly, odorous, frail, loser old man who bankrupted a CASINO bankrupt the country?

Congress? Any answers?

I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too.

“Fear has a way of being contagious… courage is also contagious.” — Kamala Harris

Man, I miss her.

The NWS office in Paducah, which has to handle some of the most frequent and impactful weather in America and was nearly taken out by a tornado tonight ahead of a catastrophic flood event has to use a parking lot porta potty because they can’t fix plumbing due to the govt funding freeze.

chef’s kiss

Yup. I share that big time. It's so so bad.

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

When a Tesla dealership gets shot at they send ICE. When a school gets shot at they send thoughts and prayers.

Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.

Circling back on this…

This is absolutely ridiculous and it’s going to be dangerous if we continue playing this game deep into spring and into Hurricane season. While there are ways to replicate a lot of this, the lack of quality upper air data at this growing scale will absolutely impact weather forecast accuracy.

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

Weather balloon cuts at Omaha NE and Rapid City SD

Balloon launches suspended to once per day at six locations in the middle of the U.S.

NWS just announced a major reduction in upper-air (weather balloon) observations due to staffing shortages.

Omaha and Rapid City losing balloon launches altogether, with launches cut in half at 6 other sites.

Losing this many launches could affect severe weather forecasting and computer models.

Read the #Helene report tonight and I need to say:

- Props to @NHC_Atlantic and @NWSWPC for verifying forecasts

- Obs from all facets (ground, air, satellite, radar) are SO IMPORTANT to better understand these systems

- Yes people perished, but @nws.noaa.gov actions saved lives.

Pro tip for Democrats: if Trump is congratulating you, you fucked up.

Twice per day at various locations throughout this country (and the world), a meteorologist walks outside and let's go of a balloon with an instrument pack attached to it that radios back info it observed as it ascended. That info is mission critical to the success of our economy. 🧵

Smh

Program that monitors New England waterways, drinking water threatened by Trump cuts The director of the U.S. Geological Survey's New England Water Science Center said cuts to staff, leases and funding may make it "almost impossible" to collect critical water data. The center maintain...

The director of the U.S. Geological Survey's New England Water Science Center said that federal cuts to staff and leases may make it "almost impossible" to collect critical water data.

A public information statement announcing the end of some weather balloon launches due to staffing issues.

More fallout from the indiscriminate NWS firings:

"Effective immediately, and until further notice, the [NWS] is temporarily suspending some weather balloon launches in Albany, New York, and Gray, Maine, due to a lack of Weather Forecast Office (WFO) staffing."

www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

I feel more rage than humor when reading this...

“The NOAA cuts followed layoffs at the U.S. Geological Survey that resulted in all earthquakes being tracked by observing the sudden rattling of a glass of water set on a table.”

….I can’t even laugh.

And not just today...

NWS is already understaffed, and this mass firing is only going to increase the chance that warnings are not issued in a timely manner and that key equipment like radars and IT systems will fail at the worst time.

Please enjoy my last ever post at Climate.gov/ENSO Blog. This afternoon I was fired by the Trump Administration 15 days before my 2yr probationary period ended on March 13.
I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.

Physically sickened by mass firings at NOAA and NWS...especially as severe weather peak months approaching and hurricane season lurks...and climate changes