Rick James: See I never did things just to do them. What am I gonna do, just jump up and grind my feet into somebody's couch like it's something to do, c'mon I've got a little more sense than that....
.... Yeah I remember grinding my feet in Eddie's couch.
Don't get me started on that.... Like, my goodness. I am craving originality in local TV
I want you guys to succeed. It makes me so sad to watch TV news suffer a similar fate as Local Radio.
I promise: long term success is not captured with one-off maps and big, bold font.
If you're trying to separate yourself from the pack, do it with your skill. Not your ability to follow the pack
The worst? The take: "People are seeing it from others, so we need to get our view out there too"
View? What view?
It's a single model map with flashy colors, a solid banner, bold font, a few large emojis, and zero actual value.
And I get it. There is a lot of pressure for "numbers" on social media.
While I feel bad for some of these folks who are being pressed to do things they are uncomfortable with in order to meet lofty goals... I have zero compassion for those leaning into this nonsense claiming "the new normal"
Thumbing through my Facebook feed yielded a lot of disappointment. Many (many!) TV meteorologists have given up.
Many are now posting eight-day out wind chill maps with specific temperatures at specific times citing an Arctic Blast like they have actual skill at forecasting those values.
Not sure how I missed this #l33t reference.
When will the heat dome hit my house?
When @morganabigail.bsky.social describes her soup by "pounds" it makes me chuckle...
It is impossible to keep up with the amount of misinformation being distributed right now.
Like I know we live in a "post truth" era, but like, my goodness it is exhausting.
Partial *Horse bleep* here. There is a new system.
The "new system" being "upgraded" is simply asking a ton of experienced meteorologists to quit or retire. And replacing them with raw, unchecked, model guidance while cutting funding to the teams developing better weather model guidance.
Holding the nonsense about an office being "overstaffed" aside, too.
I'm not qualified to judge the necessary staffing levels for each NWS office. But I do know that no office in this country would be classified as overstaffed with "more" people than needed.
If anyone wants to correct me on that, please do. But I'm quite certain no one is out there tallying the longest lead time on a flood for every next location on a map.
"record breaking lead times" is a made up statistic.
The screenshotted excerpt begins: "This nonlinearity in the response of precipitation extremes can beattributed to multiple physical processes. Although thermodynamicincreases in atmospheric water vapour saturation capacity of ~7% per°C (ref. 95) are associated with an increase in extreme precipitationof similar magnitude when averaged over space, time and precipita-tion intensities 96,97, global mean precipitation increases at a rate ofonly ~2–3% per °C owing to constraints set by the global atmosphericenergy budget98. Such divergence leads to a compensating decrease innon-extreme precipitation that is nearly ubiquitous at all latitudes 94,as confirmed in model simulations3 and observations23,99. In particular,there is a broad decrease in the frequency and intensity of light-to-moderate precipitation, an increase in the overall number of dry days(>30 days per year over the Mediterranean and Amazon regions on ahigh warming trajectory, but no increase in polar regions 100)..."
Given unfortunate topical relevance to numerous recent events, I'm sharing an excerpt from our 2025 review paper on "hydroclimate whiplash" that summarizes the body of research pointing to preferential intensification of the *very most extreme* rain events in a warming climate.
"Hey Sean, why didn't you go to Boise last week?"
Looks like a solid sunset highlighting the side of a storm. A lot of the clouds you're seeing you may not notice unless they are colored like they are here. Neat stuff! Great shot
Looks awesome!
worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news.
We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.
For those who don't know, "Second Alert Hurricane" is a name glossed by @stormchasernick.bsky.social over on Twitter after this happened...
This is a joke, right? Are we in an alternate reality now?! We are NOT fully staffed. Not even close. We're struggling to stay afloat. This angers me to no end. We are breaking our backs to stay afloat and are so incredibly burnt out. <screams internally>
Even if he was joking, the fact that the staff is unsure really tells you all you need to know...
The fact that I don't know if that is real or not..... Is telling.
See, it's easy to make baseless claims.
VAGASKY MARKETING NAMES NICKELBLOCK FORECASTING BEST LOCAL TORNADO PREDICTION SERVICE.
NICKELBLOCK FORECASTING FIRST METEOROLOGISTS TO SAY ALL TORNADOES ARE DANGEROUS.
