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Brian McNoldy
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Univ. of Miami hurricane researcher 🌀 living in New Mexico 🏜.
Husband and dog dad. 🏳️‍🌈
https://bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/
I just added 2025 to the domain-averaged ocean heat content climatology for several sectors in the tropical Atlantic (the averages now span 2013-2025) -- available at bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/ohc/

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January 5, 2026 at 7:53 PM
A pretty start to the week.
January 5, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Reposted by Brian McNoldy
The aging pedophile who wants to be a king has kidnapped the leader of a sovereign nation without congressional approval.

If the United States had an opposition party, they would treat this as an illegitimate act and start impeachment proceedings immediately.
January 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Happy Perihelion! ☀️

Today is a big day for our little planet: it makes its closest approach to the sun of the entire year! This point in the orbit is called #perihelion. Then, on July 6, it will be at its most distant point in its orbit, which is called aphelion.
January 3, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Tide predictions for 2026 in southeast Florida feature two primary peaks centered on the new and full moons on October 10 and 26. Note that tide predictions are only astronomical/climatological in nature, and do not account for actual weather or ocean conditions which can be significant. [1/3] 🌊🧪
January 2, 2026 at 12:53 PM
The classic French 75.
January 1, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Welcome to 2026. 🥳😮‍💨
December 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Reposted by Brian McNoldy
December 31, 2025 at 9:19 PM
2025 will end up as the warmest year by a substantial 0.8°F margin in #Albuquerque.
The last time the record high was broken by a larger margin was 1950. Important difference: in 1950 there were 57 years in the historical record to compete against... in 2025 there were 132 years to compete against.
December 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
#Albuquerque will *obliterate* the record high average monthly temperature for December by a seemingly-impossible margin.
December 2025 will end up at an average temperature of 47.0°F, which is 4.7°F above the previous record high. This would be a typical March, not December.
December 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We just had our coldest morning since moving to Bernalillo NM in April: 19.7°F.
The high of the year was 102.5°F (on June 16).
These data are from the weather station in our back yard: www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pw...
December 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Trying a lavender-rose martini for this Martini Friday. The rose water, lavender gin, and sanding sugar were all recent gifts, so it was fun to combine them!
December 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
We just had the warmest #Christmas on record in #Albuquerque: the new record high temperature is 64°F and the new record warm low temperature is 44°F. (previous records were 63° and 39°)
The average high/low on Christmas is 46°/26°, and the record coldest Christmas is 21°/-8° (set in 1924).

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December 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Had a great time at the Santa Fe Plaza and Canyon Road for Christmas Eve!
December 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Tables are dressed up around the house...
December 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Christmas Eve #sunrise from my front door.
December 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Happy #Solstice!
This is the first day of winter and has the least amount of daylight in the northern hemisphere, and it's the first day of summer with the most amount of daylight in the southern hemisphere.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Happy #YuleEve!
December 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Looking pretty at twilight!
December 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
With three weeks left in the year, 2025 is still the warmest on record in #Albuquerque (Jan1-Dec10)... but it's close.
2025 is at an average temperature of 61.6°F, followed closely by 2012 at 61.5° (third place is 2017 at 61.3°).
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December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The bright Fall colors might be gone, but the view is just as beautiful!
(Bernalillo NM)
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The periodic reminder that #Christmas week is typically hot, warm, or at least above freezing for the large majority of the inhabited world.
Many Christmas songs & carols would have you think otherwise.
December 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
December 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A really nice analysis of the strange 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.
Lots of excellent data-packed figures.
Here's 10 different views on the 2025 hurricane season from a report we did at Oak Global.

1) ACE was pretty much bang-on average, but the number of hours of Cat 4s was almost double the usual: these contributed nearly all the ACE as we had so few weak Cat 1-2s this year.
December 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It's not much, but it's our first snow at this house, and it's Rocco's first snow ever!
December 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM