Michael Allen

Mariah is melting.

A Coal-Processing Plant Closed. Local E.R. Visits Dropped Sharply.

In the (not) shocking news column….
Health. Climate. Economics.
So long as we exploit those people, it’s fine though, AmiRiGhT?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Halloween, cars, and kids.
Keeping kids safe since…

www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/28/heres-why-halloween-is-deadliest-day-year-child-pedestrians/

After cycling to campus, I can confirm water is indeed wet. #bikecommute

Surface analysis map from 13 years ago today as former Hurricane Sandy moved inland. I thickened the "outermost closed isobar" to highlight the size of that enormous low pressure system.

But the best way to kill someone is to hit them with your car.
Zero accountability.
Pathetic really.
(A cyclist’s TED talk)

Road rage is a human problem.
And this BCP officer should be fired and charged with attempted assault.

🥴

Opinion | In 40 Years of Forecasting, I’ve Never Seen a Hurricane Like Melissa

Appreciate @elizabarclay.bsky.social and NYT inviting me to share my perspectives about #Melissa. Between climate change and expanding bullseye, we need to be redoubling our efforts to be able forecast, mitigate and respond to these disastrous weather and water events www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Del. Bouchat seeks to end Maryland’s vehicle emissions inspection program Del. Christopher Bouchat plans to introduce legislation in the 2026 General Assembly session to eliminate Maryland’s Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program, also known as VEIP, calling the decades-ol…

Breathe that air. The air is too clean! Maryland GOP delegate wants to Make America Smoggy Again: (www.businessinsider.com/what-us-citi...).

www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/28/d...

UNESCO launches the World’s First Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Three years after its announcement at MONDIACULT 2022, UNESCO is launching an innovative initiative: the Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. This global platform harnesses cutting-edge digital

Fascinating - Unesco has launched a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, presented in a futuristic, dreamlike virtual exhibition. Worth exploring (although they don't tell much about how/where things were stolen, and its a very curious juxtaposition of items): museum.unesco.org

Thanks to some vigilant friends out there, I have a nearly-complete 87-hour radar loop of #Melissa 's approach to #Jamaica. The loop abruptly ends when the radar is lost (either loss of communication with it or loss of the actual structure).
bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/radar/

Incredible imagery.
Saved. Favorited. Shared.

Jim’s South Street has the chance to do the funniest thing.

The late owner of Geno's, Joey Vento, was a notorious xenophobe and anti-immigrant hardliner.

You’ll see me @ Geno’s as often as you’ve seen the Flyers win a Stanley Cup.

28 October 2014.
Antares rocket explodes as it launches from Wallops Island, VA.
Shows up on radar

Satellite loop of #Melissa reorganizing after exiting Jamaica

I talked about Dvorak technique today in class.
Hard to believe we have this resolution.
Also. Bad

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 polar-orbiting satellite made an extremely fortuitous pass over Hurricane Melissa right before it made landfall in Jamaica to provide these stunning images of one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in history

If you've ever wanted to teach someone how water fuels a hurricane, here's the only satellite loop you'll ever need.

Can we please call Selina Meyer and not Sean?

Homewood Museum Architecture Lecture: Restoring Fells Point's Ship Caulkers' Houses | Johns Hopkins Events

Extremely cool talk TOMORROW for anyone who went on our Frederick Douglass' Fell's Point tour and wanted to hear more about the free Black caulkers' houses 👀 events.jhu.edu/form/homewoo...

Building Better Weather Networks - Eos A lack of weather data often leaves African communities vulnerable. Convergent efforts to improve observational networks throughout the continent are slowly filling the gaps.

Better weather and climate data in Africa could save lives and improve livelihoods. Multiple international efforts are at work improving these networks.

Strong wording from NOAA NHC professionals. #Melissa

But I am genuinely curious who is logging onto Blue Sky in Jamaica with pending landfall. Sometimes, I think we are in an echo chamber.

Map of Jamaica showing percentage of population living in poverty in 2012, which is minimal near the coasts (a few %) and maximized in the hilly interior (~40%). There isn’t even a major highway running that far west. Map source: https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/236781584080916414

Echoing colleagues: Think before you (re)post. #Melissa is about to impact a relatively poor part of Jamaica. I doubt we will know the true extent of the devastation for days or weeks.

Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.

Map source: World Bank

My uncle passed away this morning.
A firefighter and staunch Bostonian, he was one of the first responders who traveled and stayed at WTC September 11, 2001.
He will be missed.

🥴 game 4

Python Software Foundation withdraws bid for $1.5m grant from US gov, because the terms require they do not "operate any programs that advance or promote DEI", and "it would be a betrayal of our mission and our community." Applause. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room with a calendar on the wall ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room with a calendar on the wall

Just woke up.
Almost caught the end of game 3, er 2 of the World Series

John Boehner said the same thing in 2014….