Mike Montefusco

I often reference Gloria as my “why” for becoming interested in meteorology. Fewer and fewer people can give me anything other than confused, polite smiles. I'm not expecting that to get better with time, either. 🫠😂

Indeed. I could happily, or unhappily, pin this for the entirety of summer.

My "the shot" from the Matador, TX tornado

The captain with the Dagger !!!!!! Our #NYKnicks win the series in 6 ! #Knickswin ! #KnicksSky #Knickstape #NBAPlayoffs 💯🔥🏀 Jalen Brunson !

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Lot of @noaa.gov folks leaving us this week, since those choosing to retire have to be out by May 3rd.

Thank you for your service.

You should probably wait til the knicks actually defeat the pistons in # games before you write it.

Don't want to hear the complaining. No calls all day long for anyone. Can't just decide to start on the last play of the game. Big win! #NYK

Star Trek title card for “Infinite Regress”

no one:
The White House:

That’s a Sears catalog waiting to happen.

St. John's Red Storm captures its first Big East title in 25 years 🏆

With a 27-point performance, RJ Luis Jr. broke the Big East Tournament Championship game record (1985).

So sorry, man.

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Please stop comparing the deepening cyclone forecast over the Plains on Friday to a category 2 hurricane. 😭

Shenanigans!

Same.

✅

I’m so sorry. Gutted and angry for all of you.

Crowdsourcing advice for federal employees DO NOT: Preemptively resign. Force your employer to lay you off and give a reason. If you are laid off in a RIF you have rights, possible severance pay, and the right to receive unemployment benefits ...

NOAA family, please share:
Linked is a crowdsourced document via r/fednews on Reddit with advice for terminated employees. Not perfect, but it’s at least something. Some kind of guidance in this horrible time.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I’m so sorry. This isn’t right.

Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

Dear Manager,

1. I drank a whiskey drink.
2. I drank a vodka drink.
3. I drank a lager drink.
4. I drank a cider drink.
5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.

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So how's your day going?

Separately, on Musk's email, a point I think is not being made enough is that federal payroll makes up less than 5% of US government spending.

Federal workers are 1.4% of all workers, but they're responsible for how 25% of US GDP is spent.

This has *nothing* to do with saving money

Heartbroken and pissed off. I never again want to hear that I’m overreacting.

Perhaps the fix isn’t in and the officiating is just really uneven in this era? Not as satisfying, I’m sure 😜

Everyone is freaking out about a bad OPI, I’m still over here complaining about the Fox score bug on the bottom of the screen. Just bad.

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I…just don’t even know where to go from here.

It’s curious to me that the only people celebrating TikTok’s (apparently temporary) ouster are those that had never used it. Why not just let people be?

And Steve Cohen and the mets the problem with baseball, right guys? 😅