This is a huge disappointment. It’s impossible to overstate how important this REU program has been to our community. I hope that the program will return. 🧪🌊

I always leave NWA Board Meetings energized. We sharpened our strategic focus, engaged in thoughtful discussion and healthy debate, and explored new opportunities to better serve members in a rapidly evolving weather enterprise. We’re moving forward with clarity and conviction.

Lots of selfies coming in! Join our NWS offices across the country, and share YOUR #SafePlaceSelfie from your safe place from extreme weather!

Today is the day to share your #SafePlaceSelfie!

Here is ours! Let's see your safe place selfies. Feel free to comment, tag us and use the hashtag "SafePlaceSelfie" so we can find and share your posts.

Let's work together to bring awareness to the importance of preparedness.

Taking a selfie in an interior closet, which is my safe place from tornadoes and strong winds. Also featured is my weather radio and headlamp.

🤳 Today is #SafePlaceSelfie Day!

I'm usually at the office during hazardous weather. But if I happen to be off work, my safe place is an interior closet with no windows on the bottom floor with my NOAA Weather Radio, headlamp, helmet, and...shoes. 👠

TOMORROW is #SafePlaceSelfie Day!

If there was one extreme weather preparedness action to take if would be knowing ahead of time where your safe place is located.

Join us in bringing awareness to the importance of preparedness. Follow these steps if you would like to participate!

Join us for #SafePlaceSelfie on April 8!

This is the 10 year anniversary of this campaign, & we would like YOU, your friends, your family, your dog, to participate. Watch this video to find out how.

Spread the word. Get creative. You won’t want to miss out on Wednesday! noaa.gov/safeplaceselfie.

We are asking anyone and everyone to participate! Think out of the box, make it fun. :)

HURREVAC has long been a practical and trusted part of hurricane operations, especially in supporting training, evacuation planning, and readiness along the Gulf Coast.

I had no idea when I decided to post about the release of a fed employee survey showing abysmal morale that there would be a plane crash this morning - but I urge you to read my post about NWS morale along with Adam K.'s post about the crash. We are not in a good place. tinyurl.com/j9p3x752

Weather radio FTW. So glad my mom woke up and got to shelter as soon as she was alerted to the Tornado Warning on her weather radio 🙌

Spring Break - Beach Safety. Only swim at beaches with lifeguards. Know how to swim. Never swim alone. If in doubt, don't go out.

Stay safe this Spring Break with these beach safety tips! More info here: weather.gov/safety/ripcurrent-beach

Dr. Bieda shared an X post from Mark Fox (Meteorologist-in-Charge in Norman, OK) conveying a request for help to major media sources, asking that calls to the NWS should not be about radar interpretation.

Amplifying an important message about what folks SHOULD NOT call an @nws.noaa.gov office concerning radar interpretation during a severe weather outbreak, as #meteorologists at the office are assuredly doing so and it takes time valuable time from such interrogation to warn about actual #tornadoes.

Social media, YouTube, and the “golden age” of meteorology A growing number of meteorologists are taking a non-traditional path, making a name and a living, doing the weather online.

www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0... Good, balanced reporting on the current state of “digital meteorologists” - popular and not going anywhere in our current media landscape!

Today is SPC's first explicit forecast of significant tornadoes possible (CIG1) in a tornado probability less than 10%. Based on radar data and environment a significant tornado may have occurred in parts of that forecast area. SPC could not have explicitly forecast this kind of scenario previously.

NHC has completed its post-analysis and Tropical Cyclone Report for Hurricane #Melissa. Melissa, one of the strongest hurricanes on record in the Atlantic basin, reached category 5 intensity (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) with a ... https://x.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/2026690187632210181

2025 IN REWIND: A Year of NSSL Innovation in Severe Storm Science YouTube video by NOAA Weather Partners

NSSL did a few things in 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSUA...

🗣️NEW: In collaboration with our SPC/CIWRO
research scientists, the new Severe Hazards Data Viewer is available: spc.noaa.gov/climo/datavi.... On this webpage you can view a 30-yr record for severe storms, wildfires, and lightning in the dynamic and customizable data display.

What sits with me after this week of #AMS2026 is that despite everything we’ve seen over the last 12 months, the science is resilient. It is hurt and handicapped and hamstrung but it endures. And the students, despite EVERYTHING **still** want to work for NWS or in broadcasting.

Good grief: According to research from Brenda Philips, info in flash flood warnings don’t necessarily influence people’s response and reaction during a flood. It’s their immediate situation and circumstance and the pre-event warning information. This is incredibly challenging. #AMS2026

What on earth did I just witness #AMS2026

“Risk benefits are very relative to a situation, within a context. It’s easier to make a decision when it affects you personally… we need to be careful to say that there is a golden rule, because it doesn’t exist.”

#AMS2026

This is an amazing panel 👏

I came hoping to ask about local restaurant recommendations afterwards, and got 3 before it started. Come learn and get some yourself from literally the pros in Room 340A! #ams2026

Re: Burnout

“The next disaster doesn’t wait for recovery… our stress hormones stay high… our sleep cycles are broken or fragmented… over time, the body stops sending alarms and instead the body starts forcing things… what we can do is become aware of our symptoms.”

#AMS2026

“If you care about too many things at the same time, that leads to burnout. There are only some things that you can control… ask yourself, ‘what can I control?’ That is why, professionally, I use social media as a tool.” - @jjrennie.bsky.social #AMS2026

“Prioritize your life. When you are on your death bed (hopefully not anytime soon), is your career what is going to matter, or is it the people and connections you’ve cultivated along the way? #AMS2026

It’s currently snowing out in Houston, meaning #AMS2026 in Houston got more snow than when AMS was held in Boston or in Baltimore

Zach Covey summarizing his presentation in the #AMS2026 #AMSStudent2026 Science Communications breakout session:

"People don't experience forecasts. They experience impacts."

I dig that. That's good.