@jlebert.bsky.social
Meteorologist, BSc. At the intersection of risk comms, decision support, and Inuit Nunangat. UofA alum, extended Edmonton Fire family. Posts are my own.
Unreal match!! 🙌🇨🇦
07.08.2025 01:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Delta flight experienced Extreme Turbulence over Wyoming on 30 July, injuring 25 and causing a diversion to Minneapolis. AI suggested that one factor may have the presence of the ITCZ. Over Wyoming. We had questions... cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...
03.08.2025 02:46 — 👍 58 🔁 15 💬 10 📌 8
Crescent city river gauge record
Just to illustrate how long waves from a #tsunami can keep going, this is a tide gauge record from Crescent City CA (known for its sensitivity to tsunami waves due to bathymetric and resonance effects) showing significant wave activity still continues 24+ hours after their first arrival. 🧪⚒️
31.07.2025 10:41 — 👍 75 🔁 29 💬 3 📌 4Can confirm. I bought a new Tory Burch on a whim and they gave me champagne to drink while I was paying 🥂💸💅
09.07.2025 22:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Doctors warn about short, long term impacts of poor air quality from wildfires 🌬️🔥
👇Important insights about the impact of wildfire smoke on health, by K.Ward via @globalnews.ca
I was pleased to contribute with Dr Weichenthal @healthsciences.mcgill.ca and others #IAQ
globalnews.ca/video/112131...
Emergency shelters for wildlife evacuees.
As you may be aware, northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba are being evacuated because of wild fires. Latest is La Ronge. My rez, Beardy’s & Okemasis, under its RezCross has spots available. A Cree welcoming. If you care, or know folks seeking a place, do share! Our information…
03.06.2025 00:50 — 👍 357 🔁 201 💬 10 📌 11Can't believe it's been a whole year since I made this. Thank you to everyone who's shared what it means to them seeing Pride represented with images from near and far, all across the universe. The original page was taken down, but can still be found on archive.org: web.archive.org/web/20250129...
02.06.2025 03:25 — 👍 912 🔁 364 💬 23 📌 13If you’d like to know more about this topic: tos.org/oceanography...
01.05.2025 21:33 — 👍 41 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1200 charges — good grief!
www.canada.ca/en/environme...
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Credit to @adapalmer.bsky.social
The @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social & @wmo-global.bsky.social European State of the Climate 2024 report is now online!
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024
It's been a pleasure to coordinate #ESOTC2024, working with ~100 scientists to analyse the data and tell the story of Europe's climate in 2024 📈💧☀️🔥
#ESOTC2024 reports the most widespread flooding in Europe since 2013, affecting at least 413K people and contributing to an estimated €18 billion in damage caused by extreme weather events. 30% of rivers exceeded the high flood threshold, 12% exceeded the severe flood threshold. bit.ly/42t0unK
15.04.2025 12:05 — 👍 52 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 5I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
13.04.2025 23:10 — 👍 7171 🔁 3353 💬 129 📌 195Stealing their "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" quote. Perfect.
12.04.2025 14:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A very interesting read re: the dire wolf hoopla, to this non-genomicist.
Also realizing how much I've missed educated scientific discourse. Well done 👏
"More than 50 Indigenous communities [in Canada] – with a total population of 56,000 people – depend on about 6,000km of winter roads."
..and those roads are disappearing because of climate change.
Photo showing buildings of the Pacific Geoscience Centre and Institute of Ocean Sciences located between farmland and the Pacific Ocean (Patricia Bay, near Victoria, British Columbia, Canada). Coast Guard docks are also visible in the photo.
The Geological Survey of Canada (Pacific Geoscience Centre near Victoria, BC and Vancouver, BC) has an opening for a research scientist in Earthquake Seismology. Join a great, diverse team doing cutting edge science. ⚒️🧪
Details:
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
Apply by 25 April, 2025
Couldn’t go to the First Ministers meeting, but can sit down with Breitbart and do a fundraiser with Ben Shapiro. But at least we now know whose side she’s on and it’s not Canada’s
www.breitbart.com/politics/202...
Call me old fashioned, but I don’t think provincial leaders should be working with hostile foreign govts to interfere in a federal election to get their preferred party elected whose “perspective would be very much in sync with, I think…the new direction in America”
This is traitorous stuff.
It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you
16.03.2025 01:33 — 👍 18764 🔁 5726 💬 816 📌 492
A tweet from NWS Lubbock saying "Check out this #GOESEast true color image of the storm system that moved across the Great Plains yesterday. It was particularly intense, with a rare scorpion-tail appearance (sting jet), and produced very high winds, a dust storm, severe storms, and significant wildfires" with an accompanying satellite image of a storm with a lot of dust entrained in it.
This is a plea for people to stop misusing 'sting jet'
A somewhat pointy end to an occluded front is not a 'sting jet'
Strong winds equatorward of the low centre are not a 'sting jet'
It's a specific phenomenon with a specific definition
doi.org/10.1002/wea....
The clusterfuck clusters on. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
16.03.2025 22:40 — 👍 224 🔁 58 💬 22 📌 4
Heat map-style graphic showing monthly air temperature rankings in the Arctic at the 925 hPa level for each month from January 1979 to February 2025. There is a long-term warming trend evident in each month. Blue shading is shown for colder months, and red shading is shown for warmer months. A yellow number is shown for each grid box to display the actual temperature ranking. February 2025 was the warmest February on record.
#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through February 2025 (record warm) 🔥
We need more research, not less, to understand the implications of this.
+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue)
+ Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
Webpage for NOAA's external affairs team. At top is pink salmon colored box with text that says all external affairs people were fired.
Check out the external affairs page at NOAA right now. That's right. Everyone at NOAA external affairs was fired.
www.noaa.gov/external-aff...
A serene image of a vast ocean under a colorful sky, with calm waters reflecting the light hues of the sky and a small boat visible in the distance. Photo credit: 2024 Weather Band Photo Contest submission "Sunrise at Suva Point" by Viniana Bau.
The AMS stands in support of federal employees impacted by layoffs across agencies including NOAA. Many are vital members of our community who do invaluable work.
As we work to respond, here are a few AMS resources available to everyone who needs them: bit.ly/4kgQvK5
An extraordinary display of public support for Ukraine, yes--and also an unprecedented public rebuke of the United States by virtually all of its allies.
01.03.2025 00:20 — 👍 79 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 2
