Tornado

Bennett Tornado (2025) by alum Naufal Razin

oh this is awful

Hmm, I'm not sure (and now I'm wondering if I'm misinterpreting 😅)

Isn't the sample already reduced to % of obs with measurable rain?

Have these percentages changed at all over the past 50-60 years?

my hot (lol) take, based on 7 years living in Seattle, is that "cold rain" is actually anything below 50º and raining. 😅

but seriously, give me 20s or 30s and snow over 30s and 40s and rain any day.

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outlook: did you know you're emailing someone OUTSIDE your organization?
me: ...why yes, that is why I'm emailing them. if I need to chat with most people in my org I will walk to their office or slack them.

Graphic showing Michigan held its last four opponents to their worst shooting percentages of the season Sweet 16 - Alabama, 36% Elite 8 - Tennessee, 32% Final 4 - Arizona, 37% Championship - UConn, 31%

well, damn

#goblue

go blueeeeeeee!! 😁

no

I mean, it's better to stress test it now to get a sense of how it'll perform during hurricane season when you have more traffic.

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you bolstered your servers enough to publicize it broadly? 😉👏

anyone on here heading to Tropical next week???

Colorado statewide snowpack graphic, illustrating the 2026 snowpack relative to historical data. The 2026 data shows a steep drop in snow water equivalent over the past week.

Last week's record-setting heat took a major toll on Colorado's snowpack (which was already in bad shape). We're currently sitting at 44% of average with ~2 weeks to go until our average peak. Little to no precipitation is expected over the next 7 days. #cowx

stooooppppp iiiiittttttt

(the atmosphere/biosphere, not you)

Map of current CoAgMET temperatures on the afternoon of March 19, 2026. They are far above average for mid-March across the entire state. From https://coagmet.colostate.edu/

“March”

congrats, Dakota!!!

Highs yesterday:

🏔️ Aspen (elevation: 7800’): 69°
🏔️ Gunnison (elevation: 7700’): 70°
🏔️ Steamboat Springs (elevation: 6900’): 70°

🌴 Miami, Florida: (elevation: 10’): 69°

#COwx

your letter was great!

I will say, I heard his explicit comments more as "responses should be tailored to the specific questions in the DCL, not just 'NCAR is amazing.'"
...but then I also got the impression that it was a somewhat futile exercise.

Lots of previously unreported allegations in the lawsuit, including how NOAA also terminated a cooperative agreement with UCAR at the same time as the NCAR news, and how NSF demanded individual cost accounting for every UCAR employee that attended AMS with only 6 days to turn it around.

The full complaint is worth a read. There are several additional overreaches in there that I wasn't previously aware of.

Just in: UCAR has filed a lawsuit against NSF, the Commerce Dept, NOAA, and OMB to prevent the dismantling of NCAR, alleging "violations of the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act."

A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026

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I am literally at an NCAR-hosted, NCAR-led meeting where the future of U. S. radar meteorology - one of our most lifesaving enterprises - is being articulated by 180+ diverse participants. NSF NCAR is the only institution capable of convening our community so effectively.

this could be too simplistic, but didn't a similar plan backfire spectacularly in 1953/1979?

One was a farmer and a pastor (and possibly an english teacher?). The other was an electrical engineer (first half of his career he worked on remote sensing/military applications and the second half he did work with medical electronics like ultrasound machines).

it's always typos/issues like that 😂