@carlparker.bsky.social
On-Camera Meteorologist, The Weather Channel / Allen Media since 1999 | broadcast met since 1991 | AMS certified | Master’s in Climate Change and Society | sometime musician | DMV native
St. Helena Island, SC last night
16.06.2025 15:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Massive, violent tornado on Brandon Copic's livestream near Lake City AR. Holy crap.
02.04.2025 23:41 — 👍 54 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 5
A rotational velocity signature of 113 kt and a deep tornado debris signature indicates this is likely an EF 3+ tornado in progress across northeast Arkansas. 100+ kt rotational velocity signatures are historically in the upper echelons of intense tornadoes.
02.04.2025 23:45 — 👍 149 🔁 35 💬 6 📌 3
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.
A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.
Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed
13.03.2025 14:47 — 👍 20258 🔁 7197 💬 692 📌 544
Yet another dedicated scientist and public servant, this time from US Fish and Wildlife, showing up unpaid after she was fired to volunteer to protect an endangered species.
What are we even doing here.
🎁 link: 🧪
Check out our new Polar Vortex Blog! Though parts of the US have been very cold and snowy, experts do not think there's much evidence that the polar vortex is the main driver of our winter weather so far this year. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
24.02.2025 14:34 — 👍 269 🔁 49 💬 4 📌 5
Chart showing global temperature in every January since 1950.
Wow. Last month wasn't just a usual hottest January on record. Despite cool La Niña conditions, it was *even hotter* than last years record-breaking El Niño January!
Graph by @hausfath.bsky.social
Is it hurricane season already?
It's January 26 and the ocean heat content in the Caribbean Sea is presently as high as it normally would be on June 1.
🧐🌊
Granted, the climatological annual minimum is still 6 weeks away so it *should* fall a bit more. We'll see.
bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/ohc/
Particularly prescient line in recent paper on cold air outbreaks and high-latitude warming:
“Even if CAOs become less frequent and/or less intense overall, their impacts can be more significant as society… becomes increasingly less prepared as CAOs penetrate into regions ill-equipped to respond.”
What did you think of this paper, which connected some polar vortex disruption to North Pacific warming and Arctic sea ice loss? agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
21.01.2025 20:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
According to NWS Los Angeles:
“A Particularly Dangerous Situation Red Flag Warning is in effect for the coasts, valleys and mountains in the #SantaAnaWind prone corridor of Los Angeles/Ventura Counties, Monday night into Tuesday.
Red Flag warnings are in effect for portions of SoCal Mon-Wed.”
News for the record books: US installed 32GW of solar PV in 2024. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 electrek.co/2024/11/29/2...
29.11.2024 22:53 — 👍 244 🔁 59 💬 6 📌 11
This supercell absolutely made the second day of chasing worth it. Stout little storm coming off the Capitans. #nmwx
21.10.2024 01:40 — 👍 94 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0
IEA chart showing global oil demand from road transport 2010-2035, in which steady growth in the past is projected into the future, but the peak is being shaved off due to demand avoided by EVs
Why the IEA says peak oil* really is coming this time, in one simple chart
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On The Climate Brink, a guest post by Kevin Trenberth on "Why have hurricanes gone crazy?"
www.theclimatebrink....
Almost a Cat 5 already 😮 Milton is gathering strength at a breakneck speed, as several intensity models suggested it would. Even if it weakens a bit prior to the FL west coast, it will be pushing an immense and likely catastrophic storm surge.
www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh...
An insidious effect of decades of climate science denialism is that it seeped false info and doubt into the public consciousness. Observed warming is ~100% due to human activity, yet media coverage, poll questions, etc. talk about humans "mostly" causing" or "contributing to" climate change.
10.09.2024 17:21 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Global temperatures have remained persistently high over the past few months despite fading El Nino conditions in the tropical Pacific. We saw records tied or set in May, June, July, and August.
Its only in September 2024 that we are likely to move out of record territory:
Despite today's grim milestone with the world passing 1.5C over the past 12 months, I see some reasons for cautious climate hope.
We stand both on the brink of severe climate impacts, but also on the brink of a rapid energy transition away from fossil fuels.
Wisconsin. February 8th. NOT NORMAL!
(For reference - Wisconsin has *never* had a recorded tornado in February.)
#wiwx
This right here.
As experts like @katharinehayhoe.com and others have pointed out, the knowledge deficit model simply does not work.
COVID, climate change, Jan 6, it doesn't matter.
This should be a foundational piece of knowledge for any academic, advocacy, and journalistic work.
THREAD
My annual deep-dive on IEA #WEO23
🔊Clean energy "unstoppable"
📉Global CO2 cld peak *AS SOON AS 2023*
⛰️Global fossil fuel peak in 2025
🇨🇳China fossil fuel peak in 2024 (!)
🌅Solar outlook for 2050 up 69% vs last yr (!)
🌡️Warming 2.4C ( 🔽2.6C 2021 ⏬3.5C 2015)
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...
