Pete Pokrandt

If you're still at #AMS2026 and looking for something to see this afternoon, I'll be presenting progress we've made at the @nyswrcc.bsky.social at the 1st Annual Disaster and Emergency Management Symposium, at 2:15 in 352A.

Guest appearance by NY Governor Hochul (sort of).

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

For #AMS2026 - John and @pamknox.bsky.social report that Elevator #14 at the headquarters Hilton should be avoided at all costs. They had to be freed from it by Houston Fire Dept after it got stuck, and the FD told them it happens regularly with that elevator.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

AI-driven GFS output displayed on a 3D globe in the IDV. The display shows color-shaded mean sea level pressure, a color-filled contour vertical cross section of temperature, 500 mb height contours, and an isosurface of wind speed (roughly depicting jet stream locations).

AI-driven global model output from NCEP is now available in NSF Unidata data streams! Ready to explore? We’ve created an IDV bundle and Jupyter notebook to help you dive in. You can even try them out on the NSF Unidata Science Gateway without installing a thing! www.unidata.ucar.edu/news/ai-driv...

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

YouTube video by NPR Music Bob Weir And Wolf Bros: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Damn.. Ripple made me cry on this one. Love the harp on Bird Song too. RIP Bobby.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l_g...

YouTube video by NPR Music Bob Weir And Wolf Bros: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

RIP Bobby…

youtu.be/4l_gUwdPrNY?...

AOS professor Fraser King

We're thrilled to welcome Fraser King to our faculty as an assistant professor. Learn more in a brief Q&A with Fraser about his background, research, and what excites him about UW–Madison and AOS: www.aos.wisc.edu/news/q&a_fra...

I promised myself that I would finish the BUFR blog series before the new year. Not cutting it quite as close as my university assignments, but still, pretty close. The code was done a while ago, the writeup, not so much!

Join me in one last descent into madness?

www.stormscale.io/blog/so-I-am...

Students in the atmospheric and related sciences: are you looking for a summer internship? I've just updated my listing of summer internships for the 2026 application cycle. Most deadlines are coming up in January & February!

#weather #climate #reu #research

clarkevanswx.github.io/education/un...

An image of a robot DJ playing music from speakers. This was the al;bum cover from a K-Tel album of several hit songs from 1977 Tracklist: A1 Andy Gibb– I Just Want To Be Your Everything A2 KC & The Sunshine Band– Keep It Comin' Love A3 David Soul– Don't Give Up On Us A4 Peter McCann– Do You Wanna Make Love A5 The Sylvers– Hot Line A6 Marvin Gaye– Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1) A7 Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.– You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show) A8 Wild Cherry– Play That Funky Music A9 Bill Conti– Gonna Fly Now (Theme From "Rocky") B1 Abba– Dancing Queen B2 Kiss– Beth B3 Manfred Mann's Earth Band– Blinded By The Light B4 Rose Royce– Car Wash B5 Kenny Rogers– Lucille B6 Kenny Nolan– I Like Dreamin' B7 Elton John– Goodbye Yellow Brick Road B8 Alice Cooper – You And Me B9 Foreigner– Feels Like The First Time

Prescient...

S.A.N.T.O.S for one of them. PPPP is a good choice!

“In short, the atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due to a prolonged utility power outage. One impact is that the Boulder Internet Time Services no longer have an accurate time reference.”

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Saw Rush on the Grace Under Pressure tour too. Probably paid like $10 haha. Those were the days..

The soundtrack to my senior year in HS. Saw them twice on that tour too.

Looking to check out the new AI GFS output? @pth1.bsky.social is making it available via the @uwmad-aos.bsky.social THREDDS Data Server! thredds.aos.wisc.edu/thredds/cata...

Wisconsin has a new 24-hour precipitation record: 14.55"

This was recorded by a rain gauge in Milwaukee during the August flooding event and shatters the previous record of 11.72" that was measured on June 24, 1946.

www.weather.gov/mkx/NewWisco...

The Weather & Climate Livestream Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

For those at #agu25 #saveNCAR

12:15pm - Group Photo/Video at the "science strong" wall across from the Plenary Hall at the entrance to the convention center

1:30-5:30pm - drop in interviews at PJs Coffee in front of Hall C - look for the person with the "We ❤️ NCAR" sign.

More info:

#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

Note: NCAR/UCAR websites will be offline most of the day today due to unrelated power issues.

NCAR and UCAR have released a statement. NSF has not provided any guidance to UCAR or NCAR leadership about this whole situation. news.ucar.edu/133054/ucar-...

Trump Administration Threatens to Dismantle Leading Climate and Weather Research Center The Trump administration is threatening to dismantle one of the U.S.’ leading weather and climate research institutions.

Devastating and dangerous blow to the weather and climate community tonight, as 20,000 earth and space scientists meet at #AGU25.

New @ucs.org statement from @carlonimbus.bsky.social on the Trump administration plans to dismantle @ncar-ucar.bsky.social:

www.ucs.org/about/news/t...

Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly.

Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them.

Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

I'm not sure most folks are aware of the immense magnitude of loss this would entail for the global weather and climate community, and beyond. NCAR has played a greater cumulative role in advancing weather prediction and atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world.

Key misunderstanding I want to get ahead of: NCAR isn't really a government agency like NIH or NSF. It's one of the largest NSF grants in history, and is given to a non-profit org called UCAR, whose job is to make NCAR exist (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). That means the buck stops with NSF right now

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.

A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration.

NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday.

We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.

Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by February 6, 2026 to work with us next summer: buff.ly/5nsLdRu