Kim Reid

Q. Should I wear shorts or a raincoat in Melbourne summer?
A. Yes

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

YouTube video by Dr Kim Weather and Climate Day 2: Come to the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic conference with me.

AMOS2026 snapshots Day 2

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Jaeger Medal recognises outstanding career in earth sciences (including oceans) - only awarded every 2 years. Never been awarded to a woman!!! #nominateher

YouTube video by Dr Kim Weather and Climate Come to the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic conference with me. Day 1

AMOS 2026 Day 1 snapshot

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The 2026 International Atmospheric River Conference (𝗜𝗔𝗥𝗖𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) is coming to Porto, Portugal!

📅 19–23 October 2026 | 📍 Alfândega Congress Centre + virtual option

Join the conversation on atmospheric rivers and their impact on water, weather extremes, and climate resilience.

Oh and have some friends in the audience who will laugh loudly because laughter is contagious 😉

...and then watch some beginners and note what doesn't. But importantly have fun and good luck. It was terrifying but so much fun when I did it!

Start with big energy. Make yourself big when you walk on stage. It's easier to return to big energy if you start with it than to reach that point from a low energy point (people will laugh more if they feel pumped). Watch your fave comedians and note what works...

The usual scicomm tips apply like a strong hook and narrative. The best jokes are ones that surprise the audience and require a teeny bit of brain power from the audience (we were told to avoid puns and dad jokes for stand up). Ending by circling back to an earlier reference is a strong finish.

Sounds like the next iteration of "edgelord", but yes definitely scarier when it's done by world leaders instead of kids on 4chan.

Incredible: ~2500mm (78 inches) in 20 days - 1.5X the normal yearly rainfall in Grazalema, Spain and it’s only February. How? A 5000 mile Tropical Atmospheric River lifted by terrain in Southern Spain. H/T Nahel Belgherze #europe #flood #spain #weather

For those familiar w/ "ARkStorm/ARk2.0" flood scenarios for California, a comparable event has been unfolding on the Iberian Peninsula. These ridiculous rainfall accumulations, caused by a long series of extremely moist atmospheric rivers, have brought widespread severe flooding to Spain & Portugal.

This was part of a science communication program I did. Happy to share the tips we learnt. But understanding the structure of a joke is important. There is a difference between telling a joke and talking in a joking way and it matters.

Yes....https://youtu.be/5MoaG0Hwgd0

YouTube video by DSC Learning and Teaching Video 1 (5:39) - Dr Kim Reid busts five common climate myths

A little while ago, I collabed with the RMIT Information Integrity Hub to fact-check 5 common #climate and #energy myths.
Check out the vid and their other great #misinformation resources.

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An intense race against time: will my code finish running before the multiday supercomputer maintenance shut down in 50min?

If you think it's been dry in Melbourne, you're not wrong. Melbourne (Olympic Park) has only recorded 1.6mm of rain so far this year. Not the lowest (0.3mm in 1932), but could end up in the bottom 5 Januarys.

Stop Press. Pooncarie (NSW) Post Office has read its manual thermometer at 9am and its maximum temperature for yesterday (Tue 27 Jan 026) was 49.7C
Equal second hottest temperature in the reliable BoM records for NSW.
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Portugal and Spain are looking at tremendous precipitation from an onslaught of atmospheric rivers over the next 14-days. Flooding will certainly be a very real threat if these numbers materialize.

Hey, don't give him ideas!

GFS Integrated Water Vapour Transport for next week. The North Island of New Zealand will cop some serious rain if this model is correct.

Mind bogglingly awful. It shouldn’t take a year+ to find out if you have a grant. This is careers and lives being messed with.

Oh no 🤨

Did an entire subject on bushfires in undergrad and it was drilled into us that the cool change can be the most dangerous time for this reason

Thanks Val!

What do summer holidays look like in a changing climate? The Australian summer now commonly features heatwaves, floods and bushfires. University of Melbourne experts explain how we can prepare and still enjoy the break

In our Pursuit article, @lindenashcroft.bsky.social and I explore how we can balance rest and rejuvenation with staying alert and prepared during the hazardous Australian summer.
What do summer holidays look like in a changing climate?
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An active week of weather ahead for Australia with 40+C across large swathes of the country on Wednesday and the potential for a Tropical Low/Cyclone making landfall on Friday (in the GFS model).

Snapshot of total cumulative 16-day precipitation prediction from ECMWF ensemble. It shows substantial accumulations along the entire Pacific Coast, heaviest from central CA northward into British Columbia. In some favored mountain regions, accumulations exceeding 10-12 inches of liquid equivalent are depicted.

Another very active weather period for Pacific Coast will occur over the next 10 days, with very moist storms and a persistent (atmospheric river-associated) moisture transport corridor bringing copious rain progressively farther south into California by early next week. [Thread]

What's NCAR? and 8 ways it has helped you

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