Kim Reid
@drkimclimate.bsky.social
Climate scientist & science communicator from Australia focusing on rainfall extremes, prediction, atmospheric rivers and other high impact weather. All ramblings my own, not my employers.
GFS Integrated Water Vapour Transport for next week. The North Island of New Zealand will cop some serious rain if this model is correct.
January 15, 2026 at 7:17 AM
GFS Integrated Water Vapour Transport for next week. The North Island of New Zealand will cop some serious rain if this model is correct.
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Mind bogglingly awful. It shouldn’t take a year+ to find out if you have a grant. This is careers and lives being messed with.
⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months!
This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.
Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.
Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
January 12, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Mind bogglingly awful. It shouldn’t take a year+ to find out if you have a grant. This is careers and lives being messed with.
Did an entire subject on bushfires in undergrad and it was drilled into us that the cool change can be the most dangerous time for this reason
Bushfires across VIC on Friday, as the state endures catastrophic fire weather. The effect of the incoming westerly wind change can be seen on the Big Desert fire in the north west - a narrow fire front suddenly becoming a broad one.
January 9, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Did an entire subject on bushfires in undergrad and it was drilled into us that the cool change can be the most dangerous time for this reason
In our Pursuit article, @lindenashcroft.bsky.social and I explore how we can balance rest and rejuvenation with staying alert and prepared during the hazardous Australian summer.
What do summer holidays look like in a changing climate?
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Wha...
What do summer holidays look like in a changing climate?
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Wha...
What do summer holidays look like in a changing climate?
The Australian summer now commonly features heatwaves, floods and bushfires. University of Melbourne experts explain how we can prepare and still enjoy the break
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
January 5, 2026 at 2:32 AM
In our Pursuit article, @lindenashcroft.bsky.social and I explore how we can balance rest and rejuvenation with staying alert and prepared during the hazardous Australian summer.
What do summer holidays look like in a changing climate?
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Wha...
What do summer holidays look like in a changing climate?
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Wha...
An active week of weather ahead for Australia with 40+C across large swathes of the country on Wednesday and the potential for a Tropical Low/Cyclone making landfall on Friday (in the GFS model).
January 5, 2026 at 2:29 AM
An active week of weather ahead for Australia with 40+C across large swathes of the country on Wednesday and the potential for a Tropical Low/Cyclone making landfall on Friday (in the GFS model).
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Another very active weather period for Pacific Coast will occur over the next 10 days, with very moist storms and a persistent (atmospheric river-associated) moisture transport corridor bringing copious rain progressively farther south into California by early next week. [Thread]
December 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Another very active weather period for Pacific Coast will occur over the next 10 days, with very moist storms and a persistent (atmospheric river-associated) moisture transport corridor bringing copious rain progressively farther south into California by early next week. [Thread]
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I'm sure the timing with CMIP7, the latest generation of climate model projections that will underpin the next IPCC report, just starting, of which NCAR is a major contributor, is no coincidence.
December 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I'm sure the timing with CMIP7, the latest generation of climate model projections that will underpin the next IPCC report, just starting, of which NCAR is a major contributor, is no coincidence.
NCAR is a major pillar in global climate and weather research. This would have disastrous impacts. International leaders who care even the slightest about understanding future climate risks ought to condemn this. @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social #climate
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
NCAR is a major pillar in global climate and weather research. This would have disastrous impacts. International leaders who care even the slightest about understanding future climate risks ought to condemn this. @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social #climate
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🌧️ How do we study #AtmosphericRivers? 🛫 By flying planes into them, obviously! @cw3escripps.bsky.social's Alex Tardy caught up with Fox Weather to share why flights are critical for understanding ARs ahead of a powerful atmospheric river headed for the Northwest. U.S. ⬇️
Powerful atmospheric river headed for the Northwest U.S. | Latest Weather Clips | FOX Weather
Project Policy Analyst and Meteorologist with the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Alex Tar
www.foxweather.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
🌧️ How do we study #AtmosphericRivers? 🛫 By flying planes into them, obviously! @cw3escripps.bsky.social's Alex Tardy caught up with Fox Weather to share why flights are critical for understanding ARs ahead of a powerful atmospheric river headed for the Northwest. U.S. ⬇️
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An atmospheric river continues to drench the Pacific Northwest in heavy rainfall, resulting in a widespread flooding threat across western Washington.
This timelapse since the beginning of the week shows the relentless plume of moisture that has soaked the region.
This timelapse since the beginning of the week shows the relentless plume of moisture that has soaked the region.
December 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
An atmospheric river continues to drench the Pacific Northwest in heavy rainfall, resulting in a widespread flooding threat across western Washington.
This timelapse since the beginning of the week shows the relentless plume of moisture that has soaked the region.
This timelapse since the beginning of the week shows the relentless plume of moisture that has soaked the region.
Tule fog - thick radiation fog (that's the typical fog you get on a still morning) that settles in California's Central Valley
California's Central Valley has been shrouded in Tule fog for the last 16 days.
December 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Tule fog - thick radiation fog (that's the typical fog you get on a still morning) that settles in California's Central Valley
Congratulations Ocean colleagues 🌊
🚨 #CentresOfExcellence #CE26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for ARC Centres of Excellence 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/288
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for ARC Centres of Excellence 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/288
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December 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Congratulations Ocean colleagues 🌊
Up to Category 4 Atmospheric River conditions forecast for the NW USA from this delightfully textbook looking AR.
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Up to Category 4 Atmospheric River conditions forecast for the NW USA from this delightfully textbook looking AR.
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Great BBC article on the psychology of why the BoM website update flopped. The site redesign revealed a ‘cultural blindness’ as to why Australians had a love for the old clunky site and the information it provided.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bom: Why Australians are furious with their beloved weather website
Nicknamed the Bom, the country's weather agency has been heavily criticised over a recent redesign.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Great BBC article on the psychology of why the BoM website update flopped. The site redesign revealed a ‘cultural blindness’ as to why Australians had a love for the old clunky site and the information it provided.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
You can even request the library buys a book so win-win-win for author-library-you
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
You can even request the library buys a book so win-win-win for author-library-you
I would love to calculate (somehow) the cost (in salary) of preparing DECRA applications vs funding received. Is it even net positive.
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I would love to calculate (somehow) the cost (in salary) of preparing DECRA applications vs funding received. Is it even net positive.
The fact that below average temps is notable is notable itself. I wouldn't mind some sun, though 😬
For once a plot about cold temperatures. If you're in Melbourne and think its been a whacky November, temperature wise, you're not wrong. That's 20C difference between the months coldest day and months hottest day.
www.baywx.com.au/melbmeantemp...
www.baywx.com.au/melbmeantemp...
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The fact that below average temps is notable is notable itself. I wouldn't mind some sun, though 😬
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Had the opportunity to speak at the Senate Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy yesterday. We had many questions, including from Malcolm Roberts (ironically). You can see how that turned out, below. Huge props to Alex Dunne, a PhD student in our team who also spoke.
Climate scientists Ailie Gallant & Alex Dunne educate RWNJ Malcolm Roberts on science, & explain that “in the case of climate change there is not strong disagreement” among scientists.
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
Roberts “There isn’t?”
It’s like he was born yesterday.🤔 #Estimates
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Had the opportunity to speak at the Senate Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy yesterday. We had many questions, including from Malcolm Roberts (ironically). You can see how that turned out, below. Huge props to Alex Dunne, a PhD student in our team who also spoke.
Reposted by Kim Reid
Behold the atmospheric river rolling into California today.. a firehose of moisture wrapped into the rotation of an extratropical cyclone. 🌀🌧️🌧️🌧️
November 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Behold the atmospheric river rolling into California today.. a firehose of moisture wrapped into the rotation of an extratropical cyclone. 🌀🌧️🌧️🌧️
Yeah lack of specific details is a big giveaway, I like the horoscope analogy. Also, vocabulary that would make Merriam-Webster blush because they've told it to sound 'academic'.
November 6, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Yeah lack of specific details is a big giveaway, I like the horoscope analogy. Also, vocabulary that would make Merriam-Webster blush because they've told it to sound 'academic'.