Tom Hamill

I know that Popes aren't picked for their names, but Pope Pizzaballa rocks.

I had to check to see if there was a real Cardinal Pizzaballa; that name sounds like jokey AI caricature of an Italian name.

Downward revisions still yet to come.

I wonder if this means they shut down AFROTC Det 520 at Cornell. I am grateful to my AF scholarship to Cornell and paid it back with 6 years active duty and 21 years more service in NOAA.

or birds?

insect migration?

Not a dime of taxpayer money, and not on publicly owned property.

Pretty, but there should be snow.

It's on my bucket list, too.

The AI avatar does turn and cough really well.

Unclear whether the inner rings are corona or possibly a rare-ish 9-degree halo. See journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Stinks if you're in terminal C.

It's more complicated than that. For one, the polar regions, the predominant sources of cold-air masses, are warming, and polar ice is melting, causing ice to turn to darker colored water, with more warming. And many other complications to the simple narrative.

Clark, is there a link to the presentation somewhere? I've a business trip to Monterey this week rather than Houston, so I missed the details.

C'mon, Derek seems to be in the reality-based community, even if you don't agree with his analysis. I don't personally expect him to float the Titanic that is CBS News, however.

Alas, we won't pile up the snow like my friends in Ithaca or Boston will, but we are S+/BS here in northwest Boulder for the moment.

Median Household Income by County in the United States and Puerto Rico This data visualization shows the median household income statistics for the United States and Puerto Rico.

The outages cut a swath through some of the poorest parts of the US, which will contribute to the outages lasting longer.

www.census.gov/library/visu...

Why does the Atlantic give valuable space to this right-wing vomit?

Ok, two politicos on the rightward fringe of the Democratic party. Not a balanced portfolio of Democratic thought.

Here is an animation from The Weather Company's GRAF model, 18 UTC initial time today. GRAF is based on the NCAR MPAS model but largely runs on GPUs. Lots of ice.

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Taking a break from the depressing news in Minnesota.

If you're interested in the history of guitar effects on guitar, rock and roll, and popular culture, this little video will blow your socks off. Josh Scott is the god of guitar pedals, btw.

youtu.be/Fq8Irv_X_Kc

There is plenty of time yet for mother nature to give Nashville the icy middle finger.

I saw you quoted in Atlantic today. Good on you to flag the ice.

Maybe tilting against windmills, but contacting NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov and telling them that NCAR belongs in Boulder can't hurt.

The NYT highlights the snow storm but barely mentions the ice, which may well be the big story. And then the inadequate government response in the aftermath, which is prudent to expect.

Here's a graphic from The Weather Company's GRAF model.

AIFS looks a touch more phased, fwiw. But point taken. On behalf of all my colleagues in Atlanta hoping to fly to AMS A on Sunday, I'm watching there closely, and it's a squeaker, ZR or R+

A guide to social media. To first-order accuracy, posts about when someone said something aren't really news. Look for what people did; that's news. I wish there was a filter for that here.

We men sure are fascinated by tornadoes. Is it phallic?

Will anyone around the president tell him he's full of shit? What's the worst thing that can happen? Wouldn't you welcome being fired?