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FOUR!
FOUR police on I83 with cars pulled over for speeding!
Maybe we should have construction zones all the time…

*taller 😵

Warm air columns (heights) are warmer than cold. If you measure the distance from the surface (~1000mb), 500-mb is about halfway up the atmosphere. Why important? Learn more.
Historic heat forthcoming.
www.atmo.arizona.edu/students/courselinks/fall16/atmo336s2/lectures/sec1/info500mb_2ndpass.html

California’s ‘unprecedented’ snowmelt will only get worse from heat wave Lake Tahoe went from blizzard to dirt in weeks amid rates of snowmelt that hydrologists described as historic. And now comes a record-shattering March heat wave.

March heat dome.
Low snowpack.
Water resources.
Tick tock goes the climate clock.
www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

No Mean City: Baltimore 1966
@danrodricks.bsky.social

No (Baltimore) Pope

The first class I ever taught was in Constant Hall @ ODU.

AMS Responds to NSF Regarding the Future of National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) YouTube video by American Meteorological Society

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a cornerstone of U.S. weather science. AMS urges a transparent, community-driven review before restructuring such critical infrastructure.

Read our response to NSF's "Dear Colleague Letter": https://bit.ly/4bglx16

a little girl is sitting in the back seat of a car talking . ALT: a little girl is sitting in the back seat of a car talking .

"We live in a country where people care more about guns than they care about 6-year-old children. They care more about guns than they do about synagogue worshippers. & they care more about guns than they do about college students."

Norfolk Commonwealth's Attorney Fatehi following ODU shooting

Physically sick to my stomach.
Thinking of 757.

Because BGE et al. don’t want to lose their strangle hold on your money.

This is from 1975.

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Facts.

Tornado Warning expired.
Back to my regularly scheduled local tv hiatus.

We might be talking about a different hail record than just the Illinois state record…

Local media driving through tornado warning area…. While telling viewers to stay home. 🤡
Irony is dead.
#Baltimore

Swirling rain @ Cold Spring Ln.

Sky is nasty to the north.
Lightning. Some rotation.
Local TV stations chasing 😳🙄

Tornado warning.
Baltimore County.
Northern Baltimore City

US military spent $9 million on crab legs and lobster in the months before Iran war Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, according to a watchdog report

Crabs for me but not for thee.
Probably not even local crabs to support Chesapeake Bay (or Gulf) communities.
Hashtag grifters.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Tornado watch in Maryland 👀

White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward Bidders have lined up to take over pieces of the National Center for Atmospheric Research

You scatch my back, er commune my friend's criminal record, I'll scratch yours...
Drumpf admin plans to break up NCAR unless....
www.science.org/content/arti...

“But it’s cold” climate crowd always disappears when it’s 84F in early March.

Mid-July temps.

In 2025, solar and wind produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the European Union Just a decade ago, almost three times as much electricity in the European Union was coming from fossil fuels as from solar and wind.

Make Fossil Fuels Fossils again.
Renewables surpass fossil fuels in EU.
More work to do, but climate solutions exist, if you look.
ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

Rand Paul is right about military budget.

As transit, healthcare, and educational systems scrape the barrel… Curious if he or others have the appetite to challenge the status quo.

Where’s the “How will we pay for it?” crowd?

Reminder.
It’s March.
Proceed with caution.

We just had the second-warmest winter in U.S. history, despite icy blasts » Yale Climate Connections Record-smashing Western warmth far outperformed a memorable Eastern stretch of cold waves and winter storms.

Boiled out west, brisk out east.
U.S. experiences second warmest winter on record.
Cue “but it was cold outside” experts.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/we-j...

Who else is old enough to remember….