Ian Giammanco

Its the best thing ever!

Just an absolute gut punch to American science. No modern country would do this to itself if it had competent leadership.

On 26 May, we intercepted a hail-producing storm just west of San Angelo, TX. Pictured: Dr. Anya Radler of Munich Re and @wxdocg.bsky.social and Jake Sorber from @ibhs.org. We measured and collected hail along most of the disdrometer array. @nsficechip.bsky.social

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ICECHIP involves 12 universities, 3 research departments, and other insurance institutes, government agencies, & community groups.

A global cross-disciplinary & interdisciplinary effort with these parties - promoting a high level of collaboration, coordination, & communication.

The Rapid X-band Polarimetric Radar (RaXPol) from OU'S Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC) beautifully captured the tornado near Matador, Texas last night 🌪️

At it's fastest rotation rate, RaXPol can complete a 360° spin in just 2 seconds and a full volume scan in as little as 20 seconds! #txwx

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Impressive fire activity today in New Jersey. Here is a 3D radar view of the plume structure from the #JonesFire during its peak fire intensity.

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Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump). • Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges. • Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side. • A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush. • The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

because of what we know from our nat hazards experience in today's world... people are going to have to sensibly feel the impacts or directly observe that its "real" to snap out of it. Indirectly wont do it. There will be an awful lot of suffering that will happen in the interim.

A map of tornado warning polygons in the U.S. since January 1st.

We've seen 513 tornado warning polygons in the U.S. so far this year as of 5:30 p.m today. Almost half of them have been issued since Friday.

I'm in the same boat, i cant discern what's worse off. However, i am strongly convinced a lot of people are going to have to sensibly feel the pain to snap us as country/society out of this. And yes its sucks.

I like data so i wanted to quantify our current state of buffoonery: In the last 30 days, we've lost almost half (45%) of the DOW gains that we accumulated over the last year. We are headed, in the next 30 days, to lose those DJI gains completely in 1/6th the time it took to build them.

benion Grieving a wasted life At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to re-elected in contrast to standing up for the reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades greater good? were devoted to protecting America. Sacri A compromised Supreme Court recently fices were made both by myself and my fam- trotted out a shallow token standards of Ily in military service. The tip of the spear: conduct for themselves. Apparently it's Countless weeks over the years were spent not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people? living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since. way?" The purpose: if required, be airborne Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un- in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly: of interest abound. The rule of law is situ- ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet- ational if adhered to at all. America can no nam provided a brief interlude, but overall, longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of this long line of silent sentinels stood firm power and wealth driven by unquenchable to protect America by deterring external greed has left service above self and Con- threats to our freedoms and way of life stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued Recently the VA said exposure to Agent with a sense of service. Orange is the probable cause of the can- I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than military pilots to have significantly higher founded on mere beli…

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

And like us from the weather enterprise know, people need direct evidence of the threat to them personally, not the external environment, to act and also have to suffer sensible personal impacts to change belief systems. And thats the awful part of where we are...

Potentially interesting job for the NOAA crowd - Verisk, one of the biggest modeling firms in the insurance industry, is looking for an experienced atmospheric scientist.

Charles Jackson is hiring, who was on my PhD committee and is just a delight to work with, aside from being a kickass scientist.

fortuitous wind vector...

The Eaton polygons and the CALFIRE DINS data. In both you had so few CA Bldg Code Ch7A built homes, it made no difference and wasnt close to any "herd immunity" level.

Palisades you could visualize conflagration "streaks" where ember-driven ignitions led to structure-structure. Eaton (opinion) conflagration happened so fast. We have noted using simple ember transport models, in both, all destroyed structures fall in our "ember impact zone" just from wildland fuels

Eaton though was more bi-modal, and not an exponential as you might expect... even more dense and older single-family construction with less building elements that would have been considered more fire resistant.

It certainly has its complexities. We looked at Palisades under our neighborhood framework. In an "unmitigated" environment you get this. Can we use more separation + hardening elements as a buffer to allow more dense construction elsewhere? I think we can.

TTU-wrf simulation with electrification module for today/tomorrow.

Yup... and read it for the second time @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Saw this in the office break room of NOAA NCEI today.

I’m going to take this “feel good” energy from an anonymous person and forward it to all of you, especially those that work for or alongside NOAA.

I’m proud of the work we do, and I’m grateful for all NOAA does.

Thank you.

this is today... personal singular experience, followed by confirmation bias etc. and down the hole you go. On the flip...though, we know this from natural hazards, personal experience shatters belief systems its one of the few things that do.

Pretty impressive... at least my ruptured disc and every baseball injury ive ever had thinks so.

Unfortunately large language models tend to hallucinate and don’t understand physical processes. Despite this being a trivial example (no, it’s not going to rain at those temperatures or the temperatures aloft), AI weather risk communication has a long way to go to meet the high standards of NWS.