Cole Hood

Just a reminder that NWS is considered essential during a government shutdown. Meteorologists will still go to work, forecasts will still be made, watches and warnings will be issued, data will flow. We won’t be paid until the shutdown ends, but we’ll still protect life and property as always.

Ready for Day 3, here with @jakecarstens.bsky.social !

Excited for a lot of the talks today at #AMS52BC #AMS21Meso

Ready for Day 2!

Lots of talks I’m excited to hear from #AMS52BC and #AMS21Meso

Made it! #AMS21Meso

If you see me around, feel free to strike up a conversation.

Just kidding! Linton 5NW gusted to 101 mph!!

No context needed, just a bitty

Trying to find storm reports in social media amidst a sea of people just screencapping radar images is certainly something

Thunderstorms make me happy.

Figured timelines could use a sunset photo.

Took this walk while on the evening shift the other night. The NIFC campus is a good restorative break use.

Yes thank you lol

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24 years around the sun…feeling like

Fantastic news for the 68.8 million Americans that speak a language other than English at home.

The important work continues 🙌🏽

Became upper air certified today!

Sad/bad/🫠 thought that being one is now a dying breed…

NOAA just fired us, again 🤡

Retroactive to February 🤡

i’m refired!!!

Picture of my confirmation for registration.

🚨I’m in!🚨

Excited to welcome friends and soon-to-be friends to the 2025 Broadcast and Mesoscale conference here in Boise! @rhapsodyinbrown.bsky.social

THIS. I am thankful scrolling on here it is much harder to find (for me atleast) those dissenting always sounding off about everything.

US Weather Service Merges Offices as Staffing Pressure Mounts The US National Weather Service will merge two of its largest forecasting units as it prepares for the loss of as many as 1,000 staffers.

National Weather Service employees were encouraged to take early retirements at an all-hands meeting Thursday. The union believes as many as 1,000 could leave in the coming months - out of a workforce of just over 4,000.

With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift):

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A wee little thunderstorm for good ol’ Boise!

Boise is a sleeper pick for severe wx in March 🤫🤫🤫

Smol lenticular cloud?

Being an A&M fan truly is a life of hardship, but it’ll lure me back in. Time to root for softball

Another week of midnights in the books. Gotta figure out better habits when I’m working them.

Been writing long term AFD sections for a few shifts now. Issued first TAFs today too. Inner geek in me very proud.

You’ll can make it, you’ve already made it this far. Can’t give up

I’m keeping a running upperair observation status page on my website.

I have additional metadata like reason for degradation, degradation type, when the degradation began, etc. In a coming update you will be able to read those things by clicking on the site.

www.stormscale.io/spc/upperair...

Two more radiosonde sites down for the foreseeable future, and in critical areas we need them at SPC 😑😔.

My cup with UND and A&M merch on it.

Gotta let the gym folk know I’m just a humble nerd trying to get some gains too.

I truly need to, there’s just all negativity. There’s people in our field that I respect deeply and they still primarily communicate there. I wish there was a big push for the good crowd to get out.

“It was a bust”

Nope. Multiple significant tors and fatalities occurred with at least 37 tornado reports so far.

Just because you didn’t get your disaster porn in a heavily populated area doesn’t mean the forecast was a bust. Some of y’all need therapy.

I need more of this on my timeline than the opposite. That crowd and their lust for destruction is awful. I wonder if they’d be willing to sacrifice their house and all belongings just to see a number 5.