Jorge García Franco
@jorgelgf.bsky.social
🇲🇽 Científico del Clima
Me gustan los tacos de tripa y las nubes que giran.
Profesor Asociado de la @ENCiT_UNAM
, also Scientist @LamontEarth
Me gustan los tacos de tripa y las nubes que giran.
Profesor Asociado de la @ENCiT_UNAM
, also Scientist @LamontEarth
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Hurricane #Barbara has become the first hurricane of the 2025 Eastern Pacific season 🌀
Barbara is located southwest of Mexico and is moving northwest. It is near peak intensity but is expected to weaken and dissipate in the coming days.
Barbara is located southwest of Mexico and is moving northwest. It is near peak intensity but is expected to weaken and dissipate in the coming days.
June 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hurricane #Barbara has become the first hurricane of the 2025 Eastern Pacific season 🌀
Barbara is located southwest of Mexico and is moving northwest. It is near peak intensity but is expected to weaken and dissipate in the coming days.
Barbara is located southwest of Mexico and is moving northwest. It is near peak intensity but is expected to weaken and dissipate in the coming days.
Reposted by Jorge García Franco
Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.
A study finds, US based academic research institutes account for 50% of new medical drugs in the last 4 years. 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...
#science #savescience #stat
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...
#science #savescience #stat
We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us
From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.
www.statnews.com
June 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.
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How do a climate-scale patterns, like La Niña, influence extreme weather events, like tornado outbreaks? I break it down in this ENSO Blog post, plus discuss this hyperactive 2025 season in particular. 🌪️
Tornado activity to date has been above average. How does La Niña make tornado-friendly weather more likely? Our guest blogger explains: www.climate.gov/news-feature...
May 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
How do a climate-scale patterns, like La Niña, influence extreme weather events, like tornado outbreaks? I break it down in this ENSO Blog post, plus discuss this hyperactive 2025 season in particular. 🌪️
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New paper! 📣
More positive and less variable North Atlantic Oscillation at high CO2 forcing
led by Ivan Mitevski (Princeton), with me, Gabe Vecchi (Princeton), Clara Orbe (NASA GISS), and Lorenzo Polvani (@climate.columbia.edu)
doi.org/10.1038/s416...
More positive and less variable North Atlantic Oscillation at high CO2 forcing
led by Ivan Mitevski (Princeton), with me, Gabe Vecchi (Princeton), Clara Orbe (NASA GISS), and Lorenzo Polvani (@climate.columbia.edu)
doi.org/10.1038/s416...
More positive and less variable North Atlantic Oscillation at high CO2 forcing - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - More positive and less variable North Atlantic Oscillation at high CO2 forcing
doi.org
May 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
New paper! 📣
More positive and less variable North Atlantic Oscillation at high CO2 forcing
led by Ivan Mitevski (Princeton), with me, Gabe Vecchi (Princeton), Clara Orbe (NASA GISS), and Lorenzo Polvani (@climate.columbia.edu)
doi.org/10.1038/s416...
More positive and less variable North Atlantic Oscillation at high CO2 forcing
led by Ivan Mitevski (Princeton), with me, Gabe Vecchi (Princeton), Clara Orbe (NASA GISS), and Lorenzo Polvani (@climate.columbia.edu)
doi.org/10.1038/s416...
🌧️📉 Can we predict tropical cyclone precipitation (TCP) at subseasonal scales? Our new study shows that biases in TC occurrence forecasts limit skill in TCP (and total rainfall too!)
With @mktippett.bsky.social and @scamargo.bsky.social
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
With @mktippett.bsky.social and @scamargo.bsky.social
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org
May 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🌧️📉 Can we predict tropical cyclone precipitation (TCP) at subseasonal scales? Our new study shows that biases in TC occurrence forecasts limit skill in TCP (and total rainfall too!)
With @mktippett.bsky.social and @scamargo.bsky.social
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
With @mktippett.bsky.social and @scamargo.bsky.social
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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I usually include NOAA NCEI billion-dollar weather/climate disaster figures in my talks. Over the last couple months, I've spent extra time highlighting who makes them and why it's so valuable, including "while we still have this data..." to convey my worry. Sadly I guess my fears were warranted.
NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN
Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.
www.cnn.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I usually include NOAA NCEI billion-dollar weather/climate disaster figures in my talks. Over the last couple months, I've spent extra time highlighting who makes them and why it's so valuable, including "while we still have this data..." to convey my worry. Sadly I guess my fears were warranted.
Reposted by Jorge García Franco
NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN
Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.
www.cnn.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
Qué buena oscilación! (QBO)
Great to have a post up with @seasonedchaos.bsky.social.
Read about one of the less known, yet better behaved, oscillations in the climate system and how it impacts our surface conditions.
Great to have a post up with @seasonedchaos.bsky.social.
Read about one of the less known, yet better behaved, oscillations in the climate system and how it impacts our surface conditions.
How QBO affects weather/climate patterns can be confusing, but @jorgelgf.bsky.social tries to break down the main QBO teleconnection routes in this post. As usual, we had fun with graphics... here's an animated schematic:
May 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Qué buena oscilación! (QBO)
Great to have a post up with @seasonedchaos.bsky.social.
Read about one of the less known, yet better behaved, oscillations in the climate system and how it impacts our surface conditions.
Great to have a post up with @seasonedchaos.bsky.social.
Read about one of the less known, yet better behaved, oscillations in the climate system and how it impacts our surface conditions.
Reposted by Jorge García Franco
How QBO affects weather/climate patterns can be confusing, but @jorgelgf.bsky.social tries to break down the main QBO teleconnection routes in this post. As usual, we had fun with graphics... here's an animated schematic:
May 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
How QBO affects weather/climate patterns can be confusing, but @jorgelgf.bsky.social tries to break down the main QBO teleconnection routes in this post. As usual, we had fun with graphics... here's an animated schematic: