🎉xmACIS2Py 2.3 Released🎉
Added 1) Retrieval of multi-station data, 2) Retrieval of single-station meta-data, 3) Retrieval of multi-station meta-data. xmACIS2Py brings the xmACIS2Py Climate Analysis Tool into the Python ecosystem. #python #climate #weather
Docs & Tutorials: pypi.org/project/xmac...
I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.
Spring book tour alert! I'm hitting the road to talk about Wilder Weather in some places close to my heart! If you're in southern Michigan (Albion and Hillsdale) or central Pennsylvania (State College), come and see me!
Inspirational. Aspirational.
Satin-lined velvet cape ok?
Wilder Weather: What Laura Ingalls Wilder Teaches Us About the Weather, Climate, and Protecting What We Cherish. Connecting history, literature, and science! www.sdhspress.com/books/wilder...
CIRES scientists at NOAA’s Global Monitoring Lab (GML) in Boulder produce some of the most critical atmospheric data on Earth. Due to a federal funding pause at the agency, that work — and the positions of the people who do it — is now at risk.
Learn what GML does and why it matters ⬇️
Absolutely breathtaking view of the Artemis II launch.
Wow.
Absolutely this. We go to space and learn about the cosmos and astrophysics and all of it so that we can better understand our home, our Earth, its miraculous uniqueness in space and time
Map showing which year had the warmest March. Only years with large extents are labelled.
As highlighted in this morning's @straightarrownews.bsky.social newsletter...
On This Day
1918: President Woodrow Wilson's Standard Time Act went into effect, advancing clocks by an hour and creating what's now known as daylight saving time.
😒😒😒
But also the messaging -- "Get Your Hoe Ready" 😆
My kid walks up to the Eagles “Take It to the Limit” 😊
Don’t they all use “waitress” as a slur to @aoc.bsky.social?
The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
What might have been…
Graphic with a testimonial on the right "NSF NCAR's observational infrastructure, data management, and supercomputing resources touch every aspect of American and global Earth science. ... The public availability of its resources enables far deeper science at other institutions because they can invest in research as opposed to attempting to maintain their own siloed infrastructure. ... NSF NCAR enables me to continue asking questions that rely on orders of magnitude more compute than my own institution could ever provide.” by Daniel Hueholt, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and Science Program, Colorado College.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a shared hub of weather, water, and climate science, is under threat.
On AMS Headlines 🗞️, hear from our community about how their work relies on NCAR's shared resources: https://bit.ly/41wO91v
To really illustrate how profoundly stupid, self-absorbed, & unthinking antivaxxers are just consider the very-easily-predictable results of what would happen if they got their way & stopped other people from vaccinating. They’d suffer and die, too. Cause vaccination isn’t just an individual choice.
1. Detroit Tigers
2. Omaha Storm Chasers
3. Kansas City Royals
4. Toledo Mud Hens
5. Whoever I pick out of the College World Series teams each year
Yeah, he’s the real deal.
🚨 It’s official: 2026 had the lowest annual maximum Arctic sea ice extent on record - essentially tied with last year’s record low.
Climate change is reshaping the Arctic, and it's all throughout the year.
For more information from @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/news-analyse...
1. EV's have significantly smaller impacts on the environment than combustion vehicles
2. EV's are less likely to catch on fire
But apparently about 1/3 and 1/2 of people believe the opposite.
heated.world/p/why-smart-...
Image of wilted Christmas tree with the text of the poem “Merry…” by Shel Silverstein.
Happy March 25th! 🤣
Graph of snow water equivalent in the state of Colorado for 2026 relative to climatological statistics since the 1980s. 2026 is current a record low around peak conditions typically in March and April.
Awful. Conditions just continue to worsen for Colorado's snowpack (and across many other western U.S. states), with average snow water equivalent nosediving after the historic March heatwave. (which actually continues today with more record heat!)
Graphic: nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-p...
Every Midwestern climate person making small talk this month: "Look I am really enjoying this pleasant weather but it is CONCERNINGLY warm for late March. What a treat to be done with winter, though. But AGAIN..."
According to our research, simple text searches on ChatGPT use nearly 10 TIMES as much electricity as a non-AI Google search 😮 That’s not sustainable – especially as people are already struggling with skyrocketing electricity prices.
Do you have shifting baseline syndrome?
Yesterday's global sea-surface temperature was 5.17 standard deviations above the 1982-2011 average (first 30 years of data).
The odds of this happening by chance are about 8,500,000-to-1 against (without climate change).
Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.
Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.
Map of the lower 48 United States showing 0.25° GFS run from 18z on 20 March 2026. The variable is the 500 hPa geopotential height percentile rank considering ERA5. There is a record-breaking ridge across the Western U.S.
Honestly, this historic heat dome across the West is really hard to put into words for me. Temperatures over 110°F (43°C) in March, shattering all-time monthly records on multiple consecutive days, and not just by a little.
➡️ I can confirm this is human-caused climate change.
polarwx.com/models/
The earliest first 90-degree day in Omaha is March 25, 1907. That record is in serious jeopardy today (March 21) with a forecast high temperature >90.
Be careful outdoors today, folks. Early season heat is the most dangerous kind, because we aren't used to it yet.
I have a joke about writing, but I'm still working it out in my head before I get it on paper.
