Sam Gardner

DOE climate report response form We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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Passed my @ttu.edu Atmospheric Science M.S. defense today!

Excited to continue on to a PhD with my advisor, @deeplycloudy.bsky.social, looking at lightning with phased array radars

“If you don't understand the code, your only recourse is to ask AI to fix it for you, which is like paying off credit card debt with another credit card.”

boo DOOT wind SHEAR!

communities that use discord as a forum annoy me. I get why, it’s easy, but the fact that you can’t easily google for answers stinks

I have no idea if that channel is official or not but the upload about an episode a day and it’s fantastic. I credit the show with getting me into science

Image of the NWS logo. Cloud with a lightning bolt and the lettering "National Weather Service"

NWS is hiring! The first of several top-priority, mission-critical positions posted Friday on USAJobs.gov! Others will follow soon. Visit USAJobs.gov and search “NWS” to learn more.

The first set of vacancy announcements for the @nws.noaa.gov since the exception was granted are now out for the #ElectronicsTechnician positions (0856 series), with announcements open through #August 8th. More announcements are expected in the weeks ahead. #hiring

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July 25-26th, 1979:
Tropical Storm Claudette stalled over Alvin, Texas, inundating the town with 45 inches of rain in 42 hours. The total included 43 inches in 24 hours, which is the 24-hour rainfall record for the mainland U.S.

Would love to see the WFOs come over as well

A few (at least one in Houston ish) that has ThorGuard… which does a pretty good job of detecting lightning, but they also claim to be able to predict lightning, and tornadoes, based on their sensor data… which I have a hard time believing

YouTube video by Dan Robinson Clear-air lightning bolts-from-the-blue - timelapse and slow motion!

Outstanding captures of bolt-from-the-blue lightning flashes by Dan Robinson @stormhighway.bsky.social showing the negative end of the bipolar leader typically exits the upper positive charge region and travels to ground outside the storm causing a -CG return stroke. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1c...

PSA: if you’re going to apply to this, make sure you know what time zone the interview is in

…not speaking from experience or anything here 🫣

Trump admin to proceed with groundbreaking flash flood risk database, reversing course after media reports | CNN The Trump administration has changed course and is moving ahead with work to develop a new database that would provide Americans with precise estimates of their flash flood risk in a warming world.

NOAA is now clear to proceed with both volumes of what is known as Atlas 15, which will show people their flash flood risk now and in a warming world, through FY 2026. www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/w...

🧪 Good news, for now at least.

Senate Appropriations Committee passes the Commerce, Justice and Science Bill.

NSF: flat funding, not -55% as requested by Trump!

NIST, NOAA, NASA get strong support, R's push back cuts requested by Trump.

Summary:

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Hi All - We are convening a session at AGU this December, please share with your groups and consider submitting to our session! @ltgbug.bsky.social #lightning #AGU2025

We have reached peak work life balance. Good thing it’s Microsoft Teams exclusive, so it’ll never work.

I really love the concept of “realtimeness” being a word that actually exists

a man is talking on a phone and saying hello , it , have you tried turning it off and on again . ALT: a man is talking on a phone and saying hello , it , have you tried turning it off and on again .

Seems extremely odd that software at the RDA site would all fail at the same time across multiple sites, but not everywhere?

I am trying to find the center of the ridge can anyone please tell me where it is I cannot find it

I still can't get over the fact that "panels you point at sky and make electricity from sunlight with no fuel is the cheapest source of energy" needed explanation.

Oh wow!

I’m assuming most of the longitudinal differences are due to orography, why does the Gulf of Water have differences? Ellipsoid quirks?

I’m gonna go google this now!

Some of the experimental products that we are developing at the WPC to track heavy precip objects (precipitation regions of interest above a certain threshold) for the region on the the hourly and sub-hourly timescales using the HRRR: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ensemble-qpf...

what tracking algorithm does this use? (please say tobac. It will make my heart happy if you say tobac)

this is something I’ve thought about building for a while now. If I save this to my browser’s bookmarks, does that make me a boomer?

excellent. I’ve gotten zero responses to my calls. Glad to see OK reps are doing something.

thanks so so much!