David Roth

December 2025 through February 2026 was the 2nd warmest winter on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to Prism climate data. The widespread record to near record warmth in the west easily outweighed the cool temps in the east. 🔥🔥🔥

Probably none.

CPC has always been part of the National Weather Service…. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A still satellite image of the blizzard of 2026 in the Northeast United States. This image contains the GeoColor product from the GOES-19 weather satellite from the evening of 2026-02-23.

A view we will not soon forget.

The Blizzard of 2026.

It’s been 26 days since the snow/sleet. It remains in some areas shadowed from the sun and in piles, but it has become quite patchy. :)

Our snow/sleet fell 23 days ago. Temperatures rising into the 40s and 50s lately have aided the melt, but work continues.

The evolving situation

How things are going so far

@aliciambentley.bsky.social’s standardized anomalies in the sea level pressure for 0600 UTC tell the tale quite well. A large area of 3 to 4+ sigmas below climatology for this time of year.

Many February low pressure records could be set over the next 24 hours in and near ID as well as northwest NE/western SD.

Happy Valentine’s Day. ☺️

Urban backyard covered in dirty calf-deep snow.

Weather forecast for columbus Ohio showing that we’re finally getting a break from this colder air— it’s 30 Fahrenheit now with a low of 6, all below freezing, but on Tuesday the high is 51 Fahrenheit, or 10.6 Celsius.

Whispering “your days are numbered” to the many inches of snow that have plagued us for weeks here

When in “Nome”…

Dawn

Today, something completely different.

Our neighbor works on cars and likes to rev his upon start up. This afternoon, he revved his car for a half hour. The cats were not amused.

The result was an uncomfortably close car-b-que, which was being put out as I got home.

Oh wow. I’m more impressed then.

Gen X figured this stuff out on AOL in the early to mid 90s.

You’re welcome. 😉

“fun”

From 11 years ago, January 7, 2015.

It turns out even the shorter POR sites were higher in some other year, such as 2005 or 1984. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ll check the January pressure records. I believe only eastern IA, southeast MN, and short POR sites of WI stood any chance of setting January records this morning. This is near the border of records set in 2015 and 1927 (for longer POR sites).

Is this coming? 🐻⌚️

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Green and pink are visible in a night sky with stars, viewed thru the beams of a navigational marker near the beach

A night sky with some stars and a pulsing mixture of purple and green aurora

The Big Dipper asterism of stars is visible in a view of the night sky with Aurora that is about half magenta pink and half tinged with purple and green

A view from mountain point looking southeast over Revilla channel. Lights from boats and homes are visible, as well as a distinct lightening of the horizon due to the approaching sunrise. In the sky above are green and purple aurora

Views of the Aurora from mountain point (south of Ketchikan) at 5:30 am on Jan 20. It covered the entire sky and was flickering and pulsing. Incredible 😍

#AlaskaSky

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Second year in a row of measurable snow? Impressive.

The well-defined low-level circulation becoming apparent Saturday afternoon.

The disturbance continues to show organization. Yesterday afternoon, a well-defined low-level circulation popped out of the system.

Development has occurred and it still looks decent.

The disturbance is still looking interesting south of Baja California.

The disturbance offshore Mexico this morning. Some improvement from yesterday.

Probably not much. Simply having something to look at in January there is unique. Why not pay attention in case the unexpected happens? :)