Colin Raymond

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨

They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us

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This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

The year 2025 and this podcast's title have partly converged, but other social, technological, etc. trends also feature prominently. As always, the new season contemplates topics that feel fresh and necessary, aiming to come to some fuller understanding. At the least, this helps preserve sanity.

A new season of Climate Quandaries is out! Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7FF7raV..., Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c.... Many thanks to excellent guests @jonathanrbuzan.bsky.social, Corey Lesk, @nicolamaher.bsky.social, @climatehuman.bsky.social

Current snapshot from NAEFS Situational Awareness Tool depicting a high likelihood of record-breaking 200mb ridge magnitude near British Columbia in a week.

Multiple model ensembles are already suggesting a broad region of record mid-tropospheric ridging over the far NE Pacific and Washington/British Columbia, with possible record-breaking late-season warmth in the same region. That's a very strong signal ~1 week out. #WAwx #ORwx #BCwx

Summer heat across the Eastern U.S. is off the charts in a new "stickiness" measurement that combines heat and humidity—and it isn’t over yet.

🔗: on.wsj.com/3Uwf7D1

2024 was another boom year for humid heat, esp. in East/South Asia. Hats off to Kate Willett and all for packing much info and definitional complexity into the kind of thing one could read over breakfast -- if one likes to start the day with multi-panel figures and intricately abbreviated variables.

This has been my second year contributing to the "Humid-Heat Extremes Over Land" section of the venerable AMS State of the Climate report. (It starts on the 48th page.) ametsoc.net/sotc2024/02G...

Engrossing meeting of the minds at the workshop this week. Nine creative yet plausible storylines were developed and a whole range of new cxns made. Thanks again to all who attended, and especially those who made it happen. We're excited to see what this format & these ideas can catalyze!

This is a perceptive question, which I forwarded along to Adrienne. Lmk if we didn't use the right email for you

There is a new CLIVAR working group focused on climate risk (I'm one of the organizers). We are having our first public webinar tomorrow 7/10 at 1 pm ET. We have some FANTASTIC speakers including @kellyhereid.bsky.social, @climatefran.bsky.social, and Zong-Liang Yang.

Working on climate-related disasters or multi-hazard risks? Submit your abstract to NH012 – Compound, Consecutive, and Cascading Events: Challenges for Risk Assessment and Management at #AGU25!
@regclimo.bsky.social @monahemmati.bsky.social @kyoungchoi.bsky.social @pravinm.bsky.social

“Which Projections Do I Use?” Strategies for Climate Model Ensemble Subset Selection Based on Regional Stakeholder Needs Within an ensemble, projected changes from individual downscaled models can differ dramatically pre and post downscaling Reliable interpretations require maximum retention of ensemble information...

...with profound implications for results (in both current and future climates) if left unaccounted for. More details in the paper: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025....

It's often assumed that the best approach for climate applications is to select the best models, downscale them, and compute statistics of interest. In fact, in new work led by Adrienne Wootten, we find the downscaling process scrambles the meaning of 'best'...

Excited to check this out! There's a real unfilled niche here.

@ajezeq.bsky.social will give the next @riskkan.bsky.social Compound Events webinar Tues Jul 1 at 14UTC, speaking about attribution of extremes with special focus on compounding interactions. Great chance to hear about & discuss a truly cutting-edge area! columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/9537980484...

Totally Cooked: The Weather & Climate Podcast The climate is changing. So is the conversation. Totally Cooked is a podcast about weather, climate change, and what it all means for life on Earth.

The first 3 eps of TOTALLY COOKED have landed!
Check it out for weather & climate in a factual, relatable & often humorous way.
Available below, & where you get your podcasts.
Like, follow & share.
Let's tackle the climate crisis together.
#totallycooked
www.21centuryweather.org.au/engage/total...

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

I strongly encourage folks to check out the rest of the event, which will feature dozens of speakers over a 5 day period. The line-up is genuinely impressive--a veritable who's who of the American #weather and #climate world in 2025--so I'll be watching! wclivestream.com/schedule

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

Compounding, cascading, and critical risks to U.S. infrastructure and security a systems-focused compound-hazard workshop

One week left to sign up for this summer's compound-event storyline workshop @cccriskworkshop25.bsky.social in Portland, OR! See cccriskworkshop2025.org for more info including the latest agenda & confirmed speakers

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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

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Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

The American Meteorological Society has issued this dire warning of "disastrous consequences" for America's ability to predict lethal weather:

"The administration's 2026 budget... would close all of NOAA’s weather, climate, and ocean Laboratories."

www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

We hope to inspire more thorough investigations, and awareness of how these elements all fit together, so that the impacts don't keep scaling up year by year with the intensity of the hazards.
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Compound weather and climate events in 2024 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - 2024 saw multiple high-impact compound events. Record-breaking global temperatures combined with regional weather variability to create compound floods,...

Quick-hitting global retrospective led by @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social on 2024's additions to the ranks of notable compound weather/climate events. We document a variety of severe impacts mostly involving heat and hydroclimatic extremes.
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Shorter than a blog write-up but longer than a Bluesky post, these annotations provide a glimpse into the research that others have been reflecting upon! H/t @afsribeiro.bsky.social & Louise Brett

Recent reads by Sha Zhou In the new “Recent Reads” series, prominent researchers describe a selection of papers from the last few years that have made an impact on their thinking about the direction of compound…

Under the auspices of @compoundnet.bsky.social, I'm pleased to be coordinating the new "Recent Reads" series, in which prominent researchers describe a selection of recent papers that have affected their thinking about the direction or implications of compound-events work. wp.me/p9wIOV-Sy

Mirror of website for "Compounding, cascading, and critical risks to U.S. infrastructure and security" workshop Compounding, cascading, and critical risks to U.S. infrastructure and security A SYSTEMS-FOCUSED COMPOUND-HAZARD WORKSHOP August 4-6, 2025 — Portland, OR ...

There have been some reports of troubles connecting to our workshop website. We've created a read-only Google Doc mirror which lacks beauty but makes up for it with functionality: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@climatechirper.bsky.social @kellyhereid.bsky.social @alexruane.bsky.social

Compound-events community! Please join us Aug 4-6 in Portland, OR for a workshop connecting research and practice through systems-focused storylines. More info at cccriskworkshop2025.org, including a chance to provide input on priority themes. We're also on Bluesky: @cccriskworkshop25.bsky.social

NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.

"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.