For years, I've long said that climate.gov's team of remarkable communicators (& their amazing blogs, which were accessible but did not "dumb down" the science!) was NOAA's best (& most cost effective!) public-facing extreme #weather / #climate education effort to date. This will be a huge loss.

11.06.2025 15:18 — 👍 444    🔁 205    💬 7    📌 10

Tired in Tornado Alley A crucial National Weather Service office, battered by cuts, is trying to put on a brave face as tornado season peaks.

This is one the most authentic, frustrating, and alarming inside looks at what pressure, cuts and "forced" retirement have done to a critical National Weather Service forecast office. Worth a read to illustrate what many of us have been saying
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

07.06.2025 11:24 — 👍 249    🔁 145    💬 8    📌 9

EXCLUSIVE: Bipartisan bill aims to restore National Weather Service ravaged by cuts The National Weather Service is down 560 employees since the Trump administration and DOGE fired workers and offered buyouts and early retirements to others. Now, a bipartisan group of legislators is ...

Breaking News: Reps Flood (R-NE) and Sorensen (D-IL) to introduce legislation to classify NWS employees as public safety employees like air traffic controllers and FBI agents.

www.nbcchicago.com/news/nationa...

05.06.2025 21:42 — 👍 170    🔁 60    💬 4    📌 9

On warnings, communication, Monday morning quarterbacking, or how Ryan Hall won me over, y'all The "Twitchification" of weather coverage is messy, but some people are doing it well and reaching millions of people in the process.

Strap yourselves in folks, I have a quasi-hot take to share.

mattlanza.substack.com/p/on-warning...

21.05.2025 00:57 — 👍 130    🔁 20    💬 26    📌 17

St. Louis Tornadoes Highlight Weather Service’s Life-Saving Mission Tornadoes striking densely-populated St. Louis is a reminder of why the National Weather Service is so vital even as they struggle with understaffed offices.

“We must not forget what the “S” in NWS stands for - Service. Whether you are in a rural community or a big city, their service is unwavering when they have the appropriate resources.

No your app can’t replace them. Your app depends on their service too.”

— @drshepherd2013.bsky.social

18.05.2025 12:29 — 👍 317    🔁 100    💬 4    📌 7

It’s important to contextualize this. That it was staffed fully is good. That the employees even have to worry about staffing is terrible. NWS Offices should be empowered to do their job to the fullest, not scramble to staff up hours or days ahead of crisis. That is NO way to run an organization.

17.05.2025 20:46 — 👍 72    🔁 13    💬 7    📌 0

National Weather Service seeks to fill 155 ‘critical’ vacancies ahead of hurricane season | CNN The scale of the voluntary reassignments shows how depleted the National Weather Service is as it heads into hurricane season, which begins June 1.

Sigh
www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/w...

15.05.2025 02:50 — 👍 53    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 1

www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/w...

15.05.2025 00:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sharing an open letter from all of the former National Weather Service Directors (Louis Uccellini, Jack Hayes, Brigadier General D.L. Johnson, Brigadier General John J. Kelly Jr., E.W. (Joe) Friday, Ph.D.) on the importance of NOAA/NWS and the implications of budget/staff cuts on the NOAA mission:

03.05.2025 03:49 — 👍 130    🔁 69    💬 3    📌 4

The thing about tools like cli-MATE and ACIS is not that the data won't exist (not yet at least). It's that they make getting the information you want so...efficient.

Can I write some code to do the same task? Sure, but not everyone can, and why should we need to when a great tool already exists?

16.04.2025 21:32 — 👍 63    🔁 26    💬 3    📌 2

Well there's no point in saying good morning, because it certainly isn't one.

17.04.2025 10:07 — 👍 46    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 3

46,000 users are registered for cli-MATE. As of tomorrow, those 46,000 users will no longer have access to this tool for data analyzation.

16.04.2025 22:17 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

This turned into a 2-hour (!) livestream, and was (as always) recorded for later viewing. It's available via the same link below. If you found this valuable, please share widely!

15.04.2025 01:12 — 👍 98    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 1

I appreciate perspectives like this because it helps me inform how I approach my representatives. Perhaps you’ll find that too.

12.04.2025 19:30 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

One of a meteorologist’s biggest pet peeves is “my app says it’ll be ____”. Weather apps can miss so many details that a meteorologist will know.

Let’s use tomorrow in NYC — my app says it’ll be 78 degrees but rainy. But is that the full story? Spoiler alert… no, it’s not!

28.03.2025 23:38 — 👍 81    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 3