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Retired NWS SOO, STN>DEN>DVN meteorologist/climatologist, Master Gardener🌱Conservationist, Chicago and ISU Cyclone sports, classic movies, trains, foodie, favors red and white flags. Zone 5b and 320 ppm. Upper Mississippi River Valley USA
It’s the Minnow. 🤣
This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.
You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
Yeah. I’m good with everything on the table so you can be more flexible, but with all the new stuff coming, I still see a role for the SOO.
“Relief and recovery stuff” what a bunch of 🤡.
Hearing rumors that SOOs are going to be cut at some offices. That surely won’t help.
Welcome to spring weather in the Midwest.
That’s piece prize, as in piece of…
Save mine for July.
Once in a lifetime you need to check this out. Music + science
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/11/d...
3D structure of the tornado warned storm northeast of Peoria, IL. Core is pushing 50kft with another interesting low-level core based ~5ft. View is looking toward the storm from the south. #ilwx
3D reflectivity view of the supercell between Iowa City and the Quad Cities at 745 pm. The elevated core is quite impressive, and I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end when the updraft collapses.
I can’t directly remember the specifics, but it vaguely reminds me a bit of the SPC missed event in Indiana several years ago.
That’s a low bar for who is proving to be a great global leader.
That Chicago Zone 6 thing never ceases to amaze me compared to my Zone 5 just to the west in eastern Iowa.
So as to make time to address ongoing and recent past US and Israeli war crimes. 😮
The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office.
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more: https://scim.ag/4boPkq8
Here is my latest column: We need divided government.
www.stormlake.com/stories/iowa...
#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through February 2026 (a rare unusually cold month compared to recent years)...
+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 47/48=coldest (blue)
+ Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
I always thought the Wet Mountain Valley would be a good place to live.
Two modes of transportation, rail and barge. On the Ohio River in Maysville KY. Not seeing as much coal as in the “old” days.
Great way to take power out of the hands of inept and corrupt politicians.
As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org
They don’t care about random home users. It’s all about corporate systems. I’m still on Win10 and not switching. LibreOffice works reasonably well too.
I guessing the vast majority of the audience did not catch the error, which circles back to the discussion of what is the most effective way to graphically depict a general forecast for the majority of viewers.
There is merit to that idea. But it would be an interesting sociological study to see what people actually want in a forecast and how they interpret various graphics toward their decisions. Extreme events get this sort of attention, but I'd be curious to see more regarding basic weather forecasts.
Seems an appropriate multicultural post as we languish in the Second Gilded Age. #oligarchs
The approach of showing frontal and high and low pressure systems is a classic, multi-generational example of graphical jargon. Many viewers don't really understand (or even have interest) in this. Just give them graphics of sensible weather and the forecast with appropriate explanations. 😀
That’s quite a bump in the road ahead. 🙀
