Richard Barnhill

Its been a week since the NOAA/NWS layoffs. I haven't mentioned it to the kids. This morning, my daughter (6) asked "Dad, you're a weather man, right? I told Ms. (Teacher) and she thought it was cool!" I replied "I will always be a weather man!" Despite what is next, my heart will always be with Wx.

Y'all, the outpouring of support from complete strangers on here (as well as friends) has been amazing! I am truly blessed to be in an industry that is so supportive of everyone. Thank you all for the messages of support! ❤️

Maybe I'll just go take pictures, post them, and get paid nothing as my next role! 😂

Welp, I too was one of the NWS probationary folks that got terminated today. 8 years as an AWIPS contractor previously, I finally got the Fed job I had been wanting. Worked on implementing the next generation of capabilities for AWIPS. A lot of promising stuff coming that is now up in the air...

When we lived in DC, I went through the whole process to legally register the gun that my granddad left me. It was honestly not that bad. Had to go to a range in Maryland to do a shooting evaluation, take a written test and have ballistics captured. All in all, sort of a model for other places IMO

Mammatus clouds behind the storms in eastern NC!

Somehow, it got better!

Awesome sun pillar sunset tonight @capitalweather.bsky.social

The moon and Venus tonight

Sure, it's a fire pit kind of night

Did you use Doordash or Uber Eats?

Potential for same sort of fan draw like Las Vegas, maybe? Obviously large local population, but with the parks, potential for families to tack on MLB?

We live on the route that southern planes take as they turn to head down the river, so when I see something out of the ordinary, I'm curious. We had a go around come over us around 2000ft one time and I thought the TV was gonna shake off the wall 😂

This plane performed a go around near the Kennedy center and looks pretty close to the Jet Blue plane setting up for their final. < 1500 ft of vertical separation. I assume this is standard with very low ceilings and rain @josephgruber.com ?

I wonder if the proximity of the new AA terminal at the far, left end of runway 33 has increased frequency. Gets planes off the runway quicker - less taxi? I've come in on that approach over the wastewater treatment plant and it is definitely an interesting approach.

I'm honestly more scared of Clear Air Turbulence and in flight icing as a result of flying through super cooled liquid water, than I am of something random like what happened last night.

When you have little kids, the train and people movers are a feature and not a bug! 😂

Gut-renching remark “ACFT MSHP” in the weather obs at DCA tonight.

I was telling my wife that this is definitely a RMK that you never expect to see 😢

Yikes! I just listened to the DC Heli freq on @liveatc.bsky.social and PAT25 was cleared for visual separation from the CRJ. 😔

We choose IAD because it is just as close as DCA time wise for us, but IAD has plenty of space for parking and navigating terminals, especially with 2 young kids. Also, less scary as you mention.

So, we all are ready to buy the dip?

I'm ready to get back on my bike outside, but with the amount of salt on the roads and me being too lazy to deep clean my bike after every ride, I fear it won't be until April before I am back outside 😢

Such a beautiful part of Italy. Remember the ride into Orvieto being quite steep! The hike around the external wall was pretty fun as well.

Walked outside around lunch. It is 38. Sort of wanted to put on shorts! Feels like a heatwave.

A graphic produced by C3i e-magazine that includes the following text next to a black and white photograph of one of the B39 thermonuclear bombs involved in this Broken Arrow accident (the one found hanging by its parachute from a tree): "24 January 1961 | Goldsboro, North Carolina B-52 Crash | 2 Mark 39 Nuclear Bombs The 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash was an accident that occurred near Goldsboro, North Carolina, on 24 January 1961. A B-52 Stratofortress carrying two Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload in the process. The captain ordered the crew to eject, which they did at 9,000 feet (2,700 m). Five men ejected and landed safely. Another ejected but did not survive the landing, and two died in the crash. The size of each bomb was 3.8 megatons, more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb. In 2013, investigative journalist Eric Schlosser published a book, Command and Control, in which he presented a declassified 1969 document obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. In the report, entitled 'Goldsboro Revisited,' written by Parker F. Jones, a supervisor of nuclear safety at Sandia National Laboratories, Jones says that 'one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe,' and concludes that, 'The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the B-52.'"

Today in 1961—less than four days after President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration—a B-52G bomber on airborne alert over North Carolina suffered a massive fuel leak, caught fire, and exploded on approach to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. As it broke up, two 3.8-Megaton B39 Mod 2 H-bombs fell out.

For my home state followers, here's a close-up of the North Carolina snowpack.

It appears that Kerr Lake provided a lake-enhanced band that almost reached into Raleigh.

#wx #wxsky #ncwx #snow

Yeah I just want some consistency. Seems like we constantly move the goal posts on closures. If the policy is "Cold weather advisory" = delay, that works.

What is interesting about this outbreak is the use of the "Cold Weather Advisory". Arlington Schools used this product to justify doing a 2-hour delay on Wednesday morning, but arguably, Tuesday and especially today were as cold or colder. Really want to know the thought process for the Wed call.