Eddie Wolff
@ewolffwx.bsky.social
Meteorologist | PhD Candidate @climasuiuc.bsky.social 📡🌪🛰 | Tornadoes, updrafts, radars, storm damage, etc. | he/him
https://climas.illinois.edu/directory/profile/ecwolff3
https://climas.illinois.edu/directory/profile/ecwolff3
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Sad to see that my colleagues in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at UNL saw their combined department eliminated late this afternoon by the UNL Board of Regents. No more meteorology no more geology at UNL. Words escape me!
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sad to see that my colleagues in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at UNL saw their combined department eliminated late this afternoon by the UNL Board of Regents. No more meteorology no more geology at UNL. Words escape me!
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Aviation accidents “receive an intense investigation by the NTSB with specific recommendations to improve safety, while events like the July 4th flash flood with 119 fatalities rely on entities like Camp Mystic self-policing themselves and developing their own plans to try to improve safety.”
The release of new safety plans by Camp Mystic shows the laissez-faire approach our society has to weather disasters compared to much lower probability risks such as commercial airline accidents. If we truly want to limit these tragedies, that has to change. https://tinyurl.com/527djxk3
BalancedWx Special: Camp Mystic reveals new flash flood safety plans
And why this demonstrates how much more we need to be doing as a society to reduce weather fatalities
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December 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Aviation accidents “receive an intense investigation by the NTSB with specific recommendations to improve safety, while events like the July 4th flash flood with 119 fatalities rely on entities like Camp Mystic self-policing themselves and developing their own plans to try to improve safety.”
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As villages across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta clean up from remnants of Typhoon Halong, they face another loss. Public radio and television station KYUK has lost federal funding and plans to make cuts in January. My @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...
Alaska station that covered devastating storm cuts jobs
A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
As villages across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta clean up from remnants of Typhoon Halong, they face another loss. Public radio and television station KYUK has lost federal funding and plans to make cuts in January. My @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...
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From UNL Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Chair, Clint Rowe, on how the community can help make the case to the Univ. of Nebraska Board of Regents as to why their department should be retained:
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
From UNL Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Chair, Clint Rowe, on how the community can help make the case to the Univ. of Nebraska Board of Regents as to why their department should be retained:
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But they captured some historic data including the 893mb center drop, cementing #Melissa as the 3rd most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic. Mission for the ages.
October 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
But they captured some historic data including the 893mb center drop, cementing #Melissa as the 3rd most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic. Mission for the ages.
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That’s…not at all how this works. As the NHC’s wind field image shows, Jamaica is only experiencing tropical storm-force winds right now, with weaker winds elsewhere. The most widespread and longest-lasting impact has and will be extreme rain - for which the prep is rather different than wind.
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
That’s…not at all how this works. As the NHC’s wind field image shows, Jamaica is only experiencing tropical storm-force winds right now, with weaker winds elsewhere. The most widespread and longest-lasting impact has and will be extreme rain - for which the prep is rather different than wind.
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
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Atlantic Hurricane Melissa Intermediate Advisory Number 25a
...CATEGORY 5 MELISSA MOVING SLOWLY WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AND EXPECTED TO TURN NORTHWARD LATER TODAY... ...CATASTROPHIC AND LIFE-THREATENING WINDS, FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE EXPECTED ON JAMAICA TONIGHT AND EA...
Additional Details Here.
...CATEGORY 5 MELISSA MOVING SLOWLY WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AND EXPECTED TO TURN NORTHWARD LATER TODAY... ...CATASTROPHIC AND LIFE-THREATENING WINDS, FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE EXPECTED ON JAMAICA TONIGHT AND EA...
Additional Details Here.
October 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Atlantic Hurricane Melissa Intermediate Advisory Number 25a
...CATEGORY 5 MELISSA MOVING SLOWLY WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AND EXPECTED TO TURN NORTHWARD LATER TODAY... ...CATASTROPHIC AND LIFE-THREATENING WINDS, FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE EXPECTED ON JAMAICA TONIGHT AND EA...
Additional Details Here.
...CATEGORY 5 MELISSA MOVING SLOWLY WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AND EXPECTED TO TURN NORTHWARD LATER TODAY... ...CATASTROPHIC AND LIFE-THREATENING WINDS, FLOODING, AND STORM SURGE EXPECTED ON JAMAICA TONIGHT AND EA...
Additional Details Here.
We needed a way to quickly plot skew-ts from our balloon launches out in the field, so I was able to put this together... UI-Sonde is a lightweight GUI modeled after the import sounding functionality of the SHARPpy GUI. I also tried to capture the look of the classic SHARPpy format with a few tweaks
October 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
We needed a way to quickly plot skew-ts from our balloon launches out in the field, so I was able to put this together... UI-Sonde is a lightweight GUI modeled after the import sounding functionality of the SHARPpy GUI. I also tried to capture the look of the classic SHARPpy format with a few tweaks
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Calling all prospective grad students! 🚨
Come learn about CliMAS during our annual Prospective Graduate Student Webinar - featuring our internationally recognized on campus and online MS and PhD programs.
RSVP here to receive a Zoom link: forms.gle/CYsLWz5uoRNm....
Come learn about CliMAS during our annual Prospective Graduate Student Webinar - featuring our internationally recognized on campus and online MS and PhD programs.
RSVP here to receive a Zoom link: forms.gle/CYsLWz5uoRNm....
October 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Calling all prospective grad students! 🚨
Come learn about CliMAS during our annual Prospective Graduate Student Webinar - featuring our internationally recognized on campus and online MS and PhD programs.
RSVP here to receive a Zoom link: forms.gle/CYsLWz5uoRNm....
Come learn about CliMAS during our annual Prospective Graduate Student Webinar - featuring our internationally recognized on campus and online MS and PhD programs.
RSVP here to receive a Zoom link: forms.gle/CYsLWz5uoRNm....
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Excited to share our new BAMS publication w/ the field!
From Facebook to TikTok, weather and climate information has become increasingly digital. Our new BAMS paper charts the rise of digital meteorology, the AMS CDM Seal, and how universities are evolving to meet it. 🌪️🌩️📲
doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
From Facebook to TikTok, weather and climate information has become increasingly digital. Our new BAMS paper charts the rise of digital meteorology, the AMS CDM Seal, and how universities are evolving to meet it. 🌪️🌩️📲
doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
doi.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Excited to share our new BAMS publication w/ the field!
From Facebook to TikTok, weather and climate information has become increasingly digital. Our new BAMS paper charts the rise of digital meteorology, the AMS CDM Seal, and how universities are evolving to meet it. 🌪️🌩️📲
doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
From Facebook to TikTok, weather and climate information has become increasingly digital. Our new BAMS paper charts the rise of digital meteorology, the AMS CDM Seal, and how universities are evolving to meet it. 🌪️🌩️📲
doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
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Anticipating steep cuts to its budget, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate research centers, has laid off 29 employees and decided not to fill 21 vacant positions. https://scim.ag/46yaM9g
Renowned U.S. climate center trims staff ahead of expected budget cuts
NSF-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research is already shuttered during shutdown
scim.ag
October 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Anticipating steep cuts to its budget, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate research centers, has laid off 29 employees and decided not to fill 21 vacant positions. https://scim.ag/46yaM9g
Inevitable result of a drought during harvest: field fire near St. Joseph, IL this afternoon
October 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Inevitable result of a drought during harvest: field fire near St. Joseph, IL this afternoon
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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Adding my 2 cents to the discussion on Google DeepMind’s performance for Imelda… 🧵
You might see a map like this and be impressed that at no point did it predict landfall in the US. But there is a lot of context lost by simplifying it to just one image.
You might see a map like this and be impressed that at no point did it predict landfall in the US. But there is a lot of context lost by simplifying it to just one image.
September 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Adding my 2 cents to the discussion on Google DeepMind’s performance for Imelda… 🧵
You might see a map like this and be impressed that at no point did it predict landfall in the US. But there is a lot of context lost by simplifying it to just one image.
You might see a map like this and be impressed that at no point did it predict landfall in the US. But there is a lot of context lost by simplifying it to just one image.
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Check out this promo video promoting our College, featuring Assistant Professor Joseph Trujillo-Falcón and many of our students! youtu.be/ZRgExF7r1gE?...
The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences: Where curiosity drives impact
YouTube video by Liberal Arts & Sciences at Illinois
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September 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Check out this promo video promoting our College, featuring Assistant Professor Joseph Trujillo-Falcón and many of our students! youtu.be/ZRgExF7r1gE?...
Take a few minutes to help support our fellow atmospheric scientists at UNL ⬇️
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is proposing to eliminate the entire Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. I strongly encourage you to voice opposition to this cut at the appropriate link in the thread below. More details are available here: budgetprocess.unl.edu/proposed-bud...
Proposed Budget Reductions | Budget Process | Nebraska
budgetprocess.unl.edu
September 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Take a few minutes to help support our fellow atmospheric scientists at UNL ⬇️
The most relatable meme I've ever seen lol
September 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The most relatable meme I've ever seen lol
We had the Champaign County EM in class last week and another big concern they have is dust storms once harvest begins. Lots to keep an eye on this Fall...
DROUGHT + FIRE RISK: An abrupt shift to a drier pattern with no obvious return to wetter conditions is leading to concerns about increased drought + fire weather risks.
Farmers/ag folks: It's time to start thinking fire safety as we head into harvest. ag-wx.com
Farmers/ag folks: It's time to start thinking fire safety as we head into harvest. ag-wx.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
We had the Champaign County EM in class last week and another big concern they have is dust storms once harvest begins. Lots to keep an eye on this Fall...
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COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
September 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
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Greetings from the CliMAS Fall 2025 Welcome BBQ!
August 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Greetings from the CliMAS Fall 2025 Welcome BBQ!
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New AMS statement outlines five foundational flaws that make the Department of Energy's Climate Synthesis Report "inconsistent with scientific principles and practices."
Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/3UQRC82
Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/3UQRC82
The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report
Adopted by the Executive Committee of the AMS Council on 27 August 2025
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August 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
New AMS statement outlines five foundational flaws that make the Department of Energy's Climate Synthesis Report "inconsistent with scientific principles and practices."
Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/3UQRC82
Read the full statement: https://bit.ly/3UQRC82
On today's addition of "things that are objectively terrible ideas": the largest owner of local TV stations in the US (Nexstar) is planning to merge with another massive station group (Tegna)
www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/m...
Nexstar agrees to buy Tegna for $6.2 billion, a massive consolidation of local TV stations | CNN Business
The biggest owner of US TV stations is trying to get even bigger, believing the Trump administration will allow it to do so.
www.cnn.com
August 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
On today's addition of "things that are objectively terrible ideas": the largest owner of local TV stations in the US (Nexstar) is planning to merge with another massive station group (Tegna)
www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/m...
Don't think the hospital staff believed me when I said I would definitely pass out during the blood draw. But don't worry, I proved them wrong 😂
a close up of a cartoon sheep with big eyes making a face .
ALT: a close up of a cartoon sheep with big eyes making a face .
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August 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Don't think the hospital staff believed me when I said I would definitely pass out during the blood draw. But don't worry, I proved them wrong 😂