Kyle Thiem
@kylethiem.bsky.social
• Father, Husband, Goofball
• T&E Met @ Fire Wx Testbed
• Student of Severe & Fire Wx
• ❤️ Mother Nature & Scientific Exploration
• Cursed to care about football & politics.
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• T&E Met @ Fire Wx Testbed
• Student of Severe & Fire Wx
• ❤️ Mother Nature & Scientific Exploration
• Cursed to care about football & politics.
⛈🥾🐕🌪🚵♂️🔥🍻🔬🍑🚣🏻♂️🏈🏕🏔
📸📡📊🧗♂️🎮🌳🍽🏃♂️🍁☃️🎥🌬️🌎
“Our” country?
Bro, you’re not even from here.
Bro, you’re not even from here.
I'm starting to question this guy's commitment to free speech
January 15, 2026 at 1:35 AM
“Our” country?
Bro, you’re not even from here.
Bro, you’re not even from here.
I’m waiting for them to push the nutrient slop from The Matrix as a way to cheaply feed us poors.
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 15, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I’m waiting for them to push the nutrient slop from The Matrix as a way to cheaply feed us poors.
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Among all the eye-popping numbers in the December summary linked below, it's also the first public appearance of this annual weather/climate visualization which I am quite fond of.
Larger version at climate.colostate.edu/co_cag/index... in case resolution here isn't so good. #cowx
Larger version at climate.colostate.edu/co_cag/index... in case resolution here isn't so good. #cowx
January 14, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Among all the eye-popping numbers in the December summary linked below, it's also the first public appearance of this annual weather/climate visualization which I am quite fond of.
Larger version at climate.colostate.edu/co_cag/index... in case resolution here isn't so good. #cowx
Larger version at climate.colostate.edu/co_cag/index... in case resolution here isn't so good. #cowx
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December 2025 was the driest on record for Oklahoma, 2nd driest for Arkansas, 3rd for Missouri and Texas, and 4th for Kansas. Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming had extremely wet Decembers ranking in their top 10.
#precipitation #drought 🧪
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
#precipitation #drought 🧪
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
January 13, 2026 at 5:31 PM
December 2025 was the driest on record for Oklahoma, 2nd driest for Arkansas, 3rd for Missouri and Texas, and 4th for Kansas. Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming had extremely wet Decembers ranking in their top 10.
#precipitation #drought 🧪
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
#precipitation #drought 🧪
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
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Exceptional. Record-smashing. Disturbingly warm. December 2025 was one for the record books in Colorado.
🌡️ Warmest December
🌡️ >1000 daily high temperature records
🌡️ Warmest October thru December by far
🌡️ 4th-warmest year
Read more in our monthly summary: climate.colostate.edu/monthly_summ...
🌡️ Warmest December
🌡️ >1000 daily high temperature records
🌡️ Warmest October thru December by far
🌡️ 4th-warmest year
Read more in our monthly summary: climate.colostate.edu/monthly_summ...
January 13, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Exceptional. Record-smashing. Disturbingly warm. December 2025 was one for the record books in Colorado.
🌡️ Warmest December
🌡️ >1000 daily high temperature records
🌡️ Warmest October thru December by far
🌡️ 4th-warmest year
Read more in our monthly summary: climate.colostate.edu/monthly_summ...
🌡️ Warmest December
🌡️ >1000 daily high temperature records
🌡️ Warmest October thru December by far
🌡️ 4th-warmest year
Read more in our monthly summary: climate.colostate.edu/monthly_summ...
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Hope you will join us next week! I'll be leading our next public webinar that will review 2025's global climate stats and extreme events.
We'll also be discussing the recent tally of 2025's billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. 🧪⚒️
➡️ Register in advance at climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We'll also be discussing the recent tally of 2025's billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. 🧪⚒️
➡️ Register in advance at climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Hope you will join us next week! I'll be leading our next public webinar that will review 2025's global climate stats and extreme events.
We'll also be discussing the recent tally of 2025's billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. 🧪⚒️
➡️ Register in advance at climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We'll also be discussing the recent tally of 2025's billion-dollar disasters in the U.S. 🧪⚒️
➡️ Register in advance at climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Some accounts coming out of Minneapolis are absolutely chilling.
Things you’d usually hear in countries with harsh authoritarian regimes.
Unfathomable to me that this hasn’t been stopped yet.
When the dust settles, accountability and justice NEED to be upheld or the rule of law will mean nothing.
Things you’d usually hear in countries with harsh authoritarian regimes.
Unfathomable to me that this hasn’t been stopped yet.
When the dust settles, accountability and justice NEED to be upheld or the rule of law will mean nothing.
January 13, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Some accounts coming out of Minneapolis are absolutely chilling.
Things you’d usually hear in countries with harsh authoritarian regimes.
Unfathomable to me that this hasn’t been stopped yet.
When the dust settles, accountability and justice NEED to be upheld or the rule of law will mean nothing.
Things you’d usually hear in countries with harsh authoritarian regimes.
Unfathomable to me that this hasn’t been stopped yet.
When the dust settles, accountability and justice NEED to be upheld or the rule of law will mean nothing.
At some point the goal posts will move so much that a straight, white, man who voted for Trump 3x is killed and they’ll try to justify it by saying he “liked pineapple on pizza” or “drank a milkshake with a straw”
Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"
January 8, 2026 at 1:51 PM
At some point the goal posts will move so much that a straight, white, man who voted for Trump 3x is killed and they’ll try to justify it by saying he “liked pineapple on pizza” or “drank a milkshake with a straw”
We can’t make healthcare,
or childcare,
or groceries,
or housing,
or cost of living less expensive for Americans,
but there’s $$$ to buy an entire country,
fund ICE more than Brazil’s entire military,
give huge tax breaks & subsidies to the ultra-wealthy,
& build a golden ballroom.
or childcare,
or groceries,
or housing,
or cost of living less expensive for Americans,
but there’s $$$ to buy an entire country,
fund ICE more than Brazil’s entire military,
give huge tax breaks & subsidies to the ultra-wealthy,
& build a golden ballroom.
Rubio Tells Lawmakers Trump Wants to Buy Greenland
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:39 PM
We can’t make healthcare,
or childcare,
or groceries,
or housing,
or cost of living less expensive for Americans,
but there’s $$$ to buy an entire country,
fund ICE more than Brazil’s entire military,
give huge tax breaks & subsidies to the ultra-wealthy,
& build a golden ballroom.
or childcare,
or groceries,
or housing,
or cost of living less expensive for Americans,
but there’s $$$ to buy an entire country,
fund ICE more than Brazil’s entire military,
give huge tax breaks & subsidies to the ultra-wealthy,
& build a golden ballroom.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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There will be a ton of reporting on the 1st anniversary of the LA Fires on the progress of recovery. Going to create a thread here of notable pieces as I read them:
January 7, 2026 at 5:33 PM
There will be a ton of reporting on the 1st anniversary of the LA Fires on the progress of recovery. Going to create a thread here of notable pieces as I read them:
They hide their identities.
Don’t show identification.
Start barking aggressive orders.
Expect people to comply w/o justification.
Regularly disappear people w/o warrants or legal justification.
With no consequences for use of unwarranted, unjustifiable lethal force.
Don’t show identification.
Start barking aggressive orders.
Expect people to comply w/o justification.
Regularly disappear people w/o warrants or legal justification.
With no consequences for use of unwarranted, unjustifiable lethal force.
NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed
January 7, 2026 at 6:40 PM
They hide their identities.
Don’t show identification.
Start barking aggressive orders.
Expect people to comply w/o justification.
Regularly disappear people w/o warrants or legal justification.
With no consequences for use of unwarranted, unjustifiable lethal force.
Don’t show identification.
Start barking aggressive orders.
Expect people to comply w/o justification.
Regularly disappear people w/o warrants or legal justification.
With no consequences for use of unwarranted, unjustifiable lethal force.
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This is from one month ago.
January 7, 2026 at 3:41 AM
This is from one month ago.
Article screams:
“Stop complaining you poors! Be happy with what you get!” -The Oligarchy
“Stop complaining you poors! Be happy with what you get!” -The Oligarchy
The American Dream is virtually synonymous with a larger, suburban house.
However, as the size of the average American home has nearly doubled, the people living in them aren’t any happier.
However, as the size of the average American home has nearly doubled, the people living in them aren’t any happier.
Column | Why smaller houses can lead to happier lives
It turns out asking “Are you happy with your home?” yields a very different answer than “Are you happy with your life?”
wapo.st
January 7, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Article screams:
“Stop complaining you poors! Be happy with what you get!” -The Oligarchy
“Stop complaining you poors! Be happy with what you get!” -The Oligarchy
Seems like a mountain out of a molehill mistake.
👇What likely happened👇
Forecaster used Google Slides template to update a social media graphic, hit “Beautify this slide 🍌” to make it look nice, didn’t know it could alter image text, & sent it, w/o realizing, while solo on a late shift due to cuts.
👇What likely happened👇
Forecaster used Google Slides template to update a social media graphic, hit “Beautify this slide 🍌” to make it look nice, didn’t know it could alter image text, & sent it, w/o realizing, while solo on a late shift due to cuts.
Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, the National Weather Service shared a forecast map riddled with spelling mistakes, non-existent locations and other geographical errors.
‘Whata Bod’: An AI-generated NWS map invented fake towns in Idaho
Amid a big agency push to use AI models in weather prediction, an AI-generated forecast graphic with errors was pulled from NWS sites.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Seems like a mountain out of a molehill mistake.
👇What likely happened👇
Forecaster used Google Slides template to update a social media graphic, hit “Beautify this slide 🍌” to make it look nice, didn’t know it could alter image text, & sent it, w/o realizing, while solo on a late shift due to cuts.
👇What likely happened👇
Forecaster used Google Slides template to update a social media graphic, hit “Beautify this slide 🍌” to make it look nice, didn’t know it could alter image text, & sent it, w/o realizing, while solo on a late shift due to cuts.
It’s been 13 years since I took Partial Differential Equations (PDE), and right after finishing that class I thought I would never have to use that info again… until today when I finally relied on PDE concepts to find an issue with a model calculation.
Honestly, so validating. #FeelGoodSeal
Honestly, so validating. #FeelGoodSeal
January 7, 2026 at 4:06 AM
It’s been 13 years since I took Partial Differential Equations (PDE), and right after finishing that class I thought I would never have to use that info again… until today when I finally relied on PDE concepts to find an issue with a model calculation.
Honestly, so validating. #FeelGoodSeal
Honestly, so validating. #FeelGoodSeal
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A woman found dead on a Colorado hiking trail on New Year’s Day is believed to be the victim of the state’s first fatal mountain lion attack since 1999, state authorities said.
Hiker Killed in Suspected Mountain Lion Attack, Colorado’s First in Decades
A woman’s body was found on a trail on Crosier Mountain this week, with a mountain lion nearby.
nyti.ms
January 3, 2026 at 2:20 AM
A woman found dead on a Colorado hiking trail on New Year’s Day is believed to be the victim of the state’s first fatal mountain lion attack since 1999, state authorities said.
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Very strong winds and extremely dry conditions are expected across the Front Range tomorrow (Dec. 19). Critical fire weather conditions will be in place, with the greatest risk over parts of Boulder and Jefferson counties.
Key messages below from NWS Boulder. Stay safe and weather aware! #cowx
Key messages below from NWS Boulder. Stay safe and weather aware! #cowx
December 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Very strong winds and extremely dry conditions are expected across the Front Range tomorrow (Dec. 19). Critical fire weather conditions will be in place, with the greatest risk over parts of Boulder and Jefferson counties.
Key messages below from NWS Boulder. Stay safe and weather aware! #cowx
Key messages below from NWS Boulder. Stay safe and weather aware! #cowx
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NEW: Colorado Sens Hickenlooper and Bennet announce they're putting a hold on the Senate appropriations package to demand funding for NCAR.
Bennet said today that the Trump administration's move to dismantle the climate/weather lab is retaliation for Tina Peters' imprisonment.
Bennet said today that the Trump administration's move to dismantle the climate/weather lab is retaliation for Tina Peters' imprisonment.
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
NEW: Colorado Sens Hickenlooper and Bennet announce they're putting a hold on the Senate appropriations package to demand funding for NCAR.
Bennet said today that the Trump administration's move to dismantle the climate/weather lab is retaliation for Tina Peters' imprisonment.
Bennet said today that the Trump administration's move to dismantle the climate/weather lab is retaliation for Tina Peters' imprisonment.
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Particularly Dangerous Situation Red Flag Warning for the Boulder and Jeffco foothills tomorrow, via NWS Boulder. Warning text at mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.ph... #cowx
December 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Particularly Dangerous Situation Red Flag Warning for the Boulder and Jeffco foothills tomorrow, via NWS Boulder. Warning text at mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.ph... #cowx
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😱 those gusts at the NCAR Mesa Lab! Meanwhile on the tabular display, a wind speed/gusts of "nan m/s" can never be a good thing. Not sure if that's related to the peak gusts ~90 mph.
December 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
😱 those gusts at the NCAR Mesa Lab! Meanwhile on the tabular display, a wind speed/gusts of "nan m/s" can never be a good thing. Not sure if that's related to the peak gusts ~90 mph.
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Remember, those brown plumes are blowing dust. Smoke is white/gray! Lots of blowing dust near the base of the Foothills this afternoon where winds are gusting 70-95 mph right now! #cowx
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Remember, those brown plumes are blowing dust. Smoke is white/gray! Lots of blowing dust near the base of the Foothills this afternoon where winds are gusting 70-95 mph right now! #cowx
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Gust of 88 mph just now at Boulder airport! #cowx
Boulder,CO (BDU) ASOS reports gust of 76 knots (87.5 mph) from W @ 2035Z -- KBDU 172035Z AUTO 26043G76KT 10SM CLR 17/M03 A2944 RMK AO2
Boulder,CO (BDU) ASOS reports gust of 76 knots (87.5 mph) from W @ 2035Z -- KBDU 172035Z AUTO 26043G76KT 10SM CLR 17/M03 A2944 RMK AO2
December 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Gust of 88 mph just now at Boulder airport! #cowx
Boulder,CO (BDU) ASOS reports gust of 76 knots (87.5 mph) from W @ 2035Z -- KBDU 172035Z AUTO 26043G76KT 10SM CLR 17/M03 A2944 RMK AO2
Boulder,CO (BDU) ASOS reports gust of 76 knots (87.5 mph) from W @ 2035Z -- KBDU 172035Z AUTO 26043G76KT 10SM CLR 17/M03 A2944 RMK AO2