Richard Romkee

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. 🔥🔥🔥

Meteorological winter is done. It was top 5. Maybe top 3 warmest when the numbers are finalized. You wouldn’t know it or even believe it if you live in the East.
We heard lots about the cold and snow in the East, but the West BAKED as the warmest winter on record… 1/

Tonight, on Where's My Liquor: the Colorado Rockies are indeed back

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

Iran is facing a very severe drought. The nationwide 12-month running standardized precipitation index (SPI) is the lowest since at least 1950.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Witnessing evidence of US/Israeli war crimes on Reddit while my coworker watches brainrot across the room

2026 is magical y'all

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Benjamin Netanyahu is going to have a wing of hell's 13th circle named after him whenever he finally gets down there

I pray they name the doormat after Donald Trump

Israel attacked someone? Boy, it's always the ones you most suspect

Lu Dort hip checks Nikola Jokic and things get spirited

Golden Age

Zac "Barry Bonds" Veen

Elevated risk of heavy precipitation and flooding across the South-central and East-central U.S. next week continues, visit cpc.ncep.noaa.gov

This is the way

The NWS Storm Prediction Center's severe weather outlooks will be changing slightly next week.

Meteorologists Evan Bentley and Liz Leitman, our experts at SPC, provide an update about the new conditional intensity outlook.

Being a Rockies fan is fun, I *swear*

Denver's had more 60° days this winter than Myrtle Beach. Yes, you read that right.

60-degree days since Dec. 1:

Denver: 40 (average: 12)
Huntsville, AL: 35 (avg: 32)
Nashville: 31 (avg: 24)
Myrtle Beach, SC: 31 (avg: 40)
Charlotte: 26 (avg: 26)

Bonkers.

#COwx

D.C. finds itself in a snow hole (again)

These maps tell the story... Places north and south of us have seen above average snow this winter. We're a bit below normal in DC -- mainly because we missed out two big storms that passed to our north and south. (1/2)

Incredible. Another one for the "these idiots always take every word literally" files. They think "climate prediction" means "climate change forecasts".

Denver just hit 60° for the 40th time this winter season (since Dec. 1).

That means 45% of our winter days have been 60°+.

Also by far Denver’s most 60°+ winter days on record. Old record: 34 days, 1980-81.

#COwx

Where was Xi back in 2024? Updating his Bumble profile?

Say it with me: EOs aren't laws and these clowns constantly lose in court

The White House posting a fake AI video of a gold medal athlete would be an insane scandal in the old times. www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

My "the worst people you knew in high school run the world now" theory gains new legs every day

I'd rather have a well functioning NWS and a worlds-best postal service than fossil fuel subsidies and bailouts for venture capitalists

the NYPD is spending my money to hunt three people to charge them with crimes from a snowball fight

S.3926, the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026, will be marked up in committee next week. It’s a bipartisan act that should be able to pass the Senate without much issue. A comprehensive summary is available below. (1/2)

www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/2/cantw...