Jason Keeler

KH and some turbulence on this sunny first day of meteorological spring.

The Trump administration plans to dismantle NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research, potentially closing its main lab in Boulder.

UCS's @carlonimbus.bsky.social explains how NCAR keeps us safe and how you can help protect it.

Take action: act.ucsusa.org/4ceWei9

I'm easily entertained by patterns in melting snow.

It's an interesting subject! My husband is also a professor, and his research is in differential geometry and topology.

Merlin is stealthily trying to learn about geometry. I am surrounded by nerds.

What so many seem not to understand is that if you start breaking everything into separate entities, you lose any efficiency and additive benefits you had by having them all as a single NCAR.

It's worse than shooting ourselves in the foot. It's significant amputations when there's no infection.

NSF NCAR Stories As part of its coverage of, and response to, federal plans to break up the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), the American Meteorological Society is collecting testimonials from ...

If you have personal testimonials about how @ncar-ucar.bsky.social has benefited your career, submit your story to @ametsoc.org via this web form. #SaveNCAR docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If only I could spend a few days back home in NY! Check out the 72 hour 50th percentile snowfall forecast from WPC.

Happy Birthday!

Major actuarial professional organization submits letter opposing proposed dismantling of NCAR Calls NCAR a "cornerstone of the nation’s open, scientific infrastructure for tracking and understanding weather and climate risk" and asks administration to reconsider its plans

A major insurance industry professional organization submitted a letter in support of the Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research, calling it crucial infrastructure for understanding weather & climate risk, and saying dismantling it threatens US insurance coverage. tinyurl.com/4aaxh22d

We have a super easy letter campaign to save NCAR. Takes 30 seconds to yell at your Congress Critters and you’ll can do it every day!

@standupforscience.bsky.social

fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/152...

I agree! There's been plenty of it with the recent snowmelt.

Freezing fog rolling in this morning in Mount Pleasant, MI.

What the National Center for Atmospheric Research means to the atmospheric sciences Born out of a time of great need for the federal government, NCAR plays a role with few analogues.

Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.

At #AMS2026, Tom Fahy said to expect pain with respect to NCAR.

It’s only going to get worse.

I’ve never seen a government so consistently try to make things incrementally worse.

Share your comments on NCAR with NSF Tell NSF the future that you want for NCAR by 13 March

Now is the moment to speak up for NCAR.

@aguscipolicy.bsky.social has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on why NCAR matters for science, public safety, and preparedness.

Submit: buff.ly/Q0I8rs0

#SaveNCAR

A table showing snowfall data for the November through January period in Midland, MI for winters starting in 2015-2025. Statistics included are the mean, median, 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, plus the minimum and maximum.

Out of curiosity, I took a quick look at CoCoRaHS snowfall data for the November - January period in Midland, MI going back to 2015. This is the snowiest start to winter for Midland during that period and the first year with Nov-Jan snowfall over 2 feet since the winter of 2019-2020.

There are several power plants in the area, but I believe that the one on the left is nuclear and the one on the right is coal. I'm not sure about the plant in the background.

To Catherine!

❤️

An appropriately nerdy way for a boundary layer meteorologist to return home from #AMS2026. It was a wonderful week learning about outstanding science!

What sits with me after this week of #AMS2026 is that despite everything we’ve seen over the last 12 months, the science is resilient. It is hurt and handicapped and hamstrung but it endures. And the students, despite EVERYTHING **still** want to work for NWS or in broadcasting.

As the Trump administration targets NCAR, scientists rally to defend the ‘mothership’ of atmospheric research A letter published by the National Science Foundation asks for ideas to dismantle the research hub. Scientists are responding en masse.

#SaveNCAR
www.cpr.org/2026/01/28/s...

After the #AMS2026 emergency town hall regarding NCAR, it is ***imperative*** that folks contact their senators and representatives. IN PARTICULAR:

Maine: Susan Collins (Chair - Senate Approps.)
Oklahoma: Tom Cole (Chair - House Approps.)
Colorado: John Hickenlooper and Joe Neguse

#SaveNCAR

Great talks ahead in the Coastal Meteorological Processes session today, 4:30–6 pm in room 360D!

Two feature MITTEN-CI data: Kyle Brooks on lake-breeze thermodynamic evolution, and Cassie Isenberger on frontal slope and misovortices. #AMS2026

Abstract available here:
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Attrition in meteorology programs is high - especially in the sophomore year. What if immersive field experiences early in the major could help?

I’ll be talking about STORM, a paid, week-long, post-freshman field experience and its impact on students.

Tuesday at 9:45 am in room 350D at #AMS2026.

Interested in UAS observations of hail swaths and cold pools? Check out this morning's talk led by Andrew Mord of CU Boulder. The talk is at 11:15 am in room 340B. It was great coordinating with the CU team during ICECHIP - excited to see the results! #AMS2026
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Check out poster S217 tonight from 7-9 pm in the Mesoscale Processes section of #AMSStudent2026 to see research by my students examining thermodynamic evolution of a thunderstorm outflow airmass. #AMS2026
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