Alan Gerard
@wxmanms1.bsky.social
35 year meteorologist in warning/forecast provision and research, now CEO of Balanced Weather LLC, Disney/Peanuts fan, golfer, sports fan, TK Little. For more weather info go to https://balancedweather.substack.com/about
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January 6, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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Couldn’t imagine a more painful way to lose a national championship game.
Couldn’t imagine a more painful way to win a national championship game.
Couldn’t imagine a more painful way to win a national championship game.
January 6, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Couldn’t imagine a more painful way to lose a national championship game.
Couldn’t imagine a more painful way to win a national championship game.
Couldn’t imagine a more painful way to win a national championship game.
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🚨 "Canada, for several months now, has been developing a military strategy for how they will respond if there is an incursion over their southern border...that is now a real thing that the Canadian military is thinking about. Didn't use to be."
– @economist.com's Hal Hodson
(Sorry, no 🎁🔗 avail.)
– @economist.com's Hal Hodson
(Sorry, no 🎁🔗 avail.)
Donald Trump says America will “run” Venezuela. What happens now? | The Economist Insider
Donald Trump says Venezuela’s people are “free again”, now that its dictator has been removed. But freedom remains far from certain. Join Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, Edward Carr, deputy...
www.economist.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:11 AM
🚨 "Canada, for several months now, has been developing a military strategy for how they will respond if there is an incursion over their southern border...that is now a real thing that the Canadian military is thinking about. Didn't use to be."
– @economist.com's Hal Hodson
(Sorry, no 🎁🔗 avail.)
– @economist.com's Hal Hodson
(Sorry, no 🎁🔗 avail.)
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@libradunn1.bsky.social reflects on 1/6: Nearly five years after the Jan. 6 attack, former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, a key figure in defending the Capitol on January 6, 2021, joins The Weeknight.
January 6, 2026 at 3:47 AM
@libradunn1.bsky.social reflects on 1/6: Nearly five years after the Jan. 6 attack, former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, a key figure in defending the Capitol on January 6, 2021, joins The Weeknight.
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NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OVERTIME
January 6, 2026 at 3:46 AM
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OVERTIME
Let's be clear - that was not on the kicker. That was on the long snapper and the offensive line.
January 6, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Let's be clear - that was not on the kicker. That was on the long snapper and the offensive line.
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Breaking News!
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December, 2025, Arctic sea-ice volume data just came in from PIOMAS, and this last December just set a new record low for December sea-ice volume.
Grateful for this data: psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp...
Code UFB!!!
December, 2025, Arctic sea-ice volume data just came in from PIOMAS, and this last December just set a new record low for December sea-ice volume.
Grateful for this data: psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp...
January 6, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!
December, 2025, Arctic sea-ice volume data just came in from PIOMAS, and this last December just set a new record low for December sea-ice volume.
Grateful for this data: psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp...
Code UFB!!!
December, 2025, Arctic sea-ice volume data just came in from PIOMAS, and this last December just set a new record low for December sea-ice volume.
Grateful for this data: psc.apl.uw.edu/wordpress/wp...
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Illinois State TOTALLY drew it up like that
January 6, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Illinois State TOTALLY drew it up like that
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The GOP didn't have the votes for many years but that didn't stop them from pulling out every procedural trick possible while screaming at Dems on TV. And now they're in charge.
Lot of people yelling recently "but we don't have the votes!" True! That doesn't mean "immediately quit." (Also not what propter is saying here, to be clear.) It means create a spectacle, make things cause celebres, make the Republican position untenable.
Create bargaining position and force votes.
Create bargaining position and force votes.
January 6, 2026 at 1:31 AM
The GOP didn't have the votes for many years but that didn't stop them from pulling out every procedural trick possible while screaming at Dems on TV. And now they're in charge.
ICYMI: House released FY26 budget directive doc for science agencies. Rejects elimination of NOAA Research, but moves key weather research programs including phased array radar to NWS. Also directs NOAA to report on the need for a new “extreme weather” federal R&D center. tinyurl.com/5hyvs9fj
Breaking News: House FY2026 science budget explanatory statement released
Now that the holidays are in the rear view mirror, Congress is working again on the budget for those agencies and departments that still do not have a Fiscal Year 2026 budget.
tinyurl.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:28 AM
ICYMI: House released FY26 budget directive doc for science agencies. Rejects elimination of NOAA Research, but moves key weather research programs including phased array radar to NWS. Also directs NOAA to report on the need for a new “extreme weather” federal R&D center. tinyurl.com/5hyvs9fj
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"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
On the first day back following the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro & first lady Cilia Flores, 6 Senate Democrats vote yea to confirm Keith Bass as an Assistant Secretary of Defense by a vote of 50-35.
January 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
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A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
Breaking: House releases FY26 budget directive doc for science agencies. Rejects elimination of NOAA Research, but moves key Wx research programs including phased array radar to NWS. Also directs NOAA to report on need for new “extreme weather” federal R&D center. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
Breaking News: House FY2026 science budget explanatory statement released
Now that the holidays are in the rear view mirror, Congress is working again on the budget for those agencies and departments that still do not have a Fiscal Year 2026 budget.
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Breaking: House releases FY26 budget directive doc for science agencies. Rejects elimination of NOAA Research, but moves key Wx research programs including phased array radar to NWS. Also directs NOAA to report on need for new “extreme weather” federal R&D center. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
Recapping a weekend of more flooding in CA and looking at unseasonable warmth and the first severe weather risk of 2026 farther east. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
A warm and unsettled first full week of 2026
After a weekend of more flooding in California, active weather along with record warmth spreads east through the week.
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Recapping a weekend of more flooding in CA and looking at unseasonable warmth and the first severe weather risk of 2026 farther east. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
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Jesus Christ. Every Sunday host should be asking every Republican if they think Tim Walz murdered Melissa Hortman. And when they say no, ask what it says about this president that he’s amplifying this garbage.
January 4, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Jesus Christ. Every Sunday host should be asking every Republican if they think Tim Walz murdered Melissa Hortman. And when they say no, ask what it says about this president that he’s amplifying this garbage.
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When I said last year that the average American MAGA supporter closely resembles a Russian vatnik in both mindset and ideology, I meant it seriously.
January 5, 2026 at 5:01 AM
When I said last year that the average American MAGA supporter closely resembles a Russian vatnik in both mindset and ideology, I meant it seriously.
What a gutless pile of flesh
GS: “Sen. Warner said you can’t argue drug trafficking charges demand invasion in one case while issuing a pardon in another…”🤔
@marcorubio: “Maduro was indicted.”
GS: “Hernandez was CONVICTED.”
RUBIO: “I wasn't involved in the pardon… I've got other things going on.” 🤷🏽♂️
@marcorubio: “Maduro was indicted.”
GS: “Hernandez was CONVICTED.”
RUBIO: “I wasn't involved in the pardon… I've got other things going on.” 🤷🏽♂️
January 5, 2026 at 5:16 AM
What a gutless pile of flesh
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And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 AM
And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations
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The average temperature at the Fairbanks Intl Airport the last 7 days is -43.7F. This is the coldest week in Fairbanks since Dec, 1975 (-47.1). Also, it hit -50F this morning for the first time this season. @alaskawx.bsky.social
January 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM
The average temperature at the Fairbanks Intl Airport the last 7 days is -43.7F. This is the coldest week in Fairbanks since Dec, 1975 (-47.1). Also, it hit -50F this morning for the first time this season. @alaskawx.bsky.social
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Another insanely mild day in GREENLAND
with almost +12C in Paamiut.
Paamiut hasn' freezed this 2026 yet, not even for 1 minute.
Greenland has lived weeks of freakish abnormally mild weather,often much warmer than most of Europe.
with almost +12C in Paamiut.
Paamiut hasn' freezed this 2026 yet, not even for 1 minute.
Greenland has lived weeks of freakish abnormally mild weather,often much warmer than most of Europe.
January 4, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Another insanely mild day in GREENLAND
with almost +12C in Paamiut.
Paamiut hasn' freezed this 2026 yet, not even for 1 minute.
Greenland has lived weeks of freakish abnormally mild weather,often much warmer than most of Europe.
with almost +12C in Paamiut.
Paamiut hasn' freezed this 2026 yet, not even for 1 minute.
Greenland has lived weeks of freakish abnormally mild weather,often much warmer than most of Europe.
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The mayor of New York City is doing more than the senate and house minority leaders
Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, called President Trump on Saturday to personally object to strikes the U.S. had conducted in Venezuela and to the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. Mamdani accused Trump of violating international law.
Zohran Mamdani Called President Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York accused President Trump of violating international law. It was the first time he had criticized the president since their White House meeting.
nyti.ms
January 4, 2026 at 4:09 AM
The mayor of New York City is doing more than the senate and house minority leaders
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This is a lie. Not a single US petroleum company is going to waste any resources trying to bring Venezuela’s petroleum infrastructure up to 21st century standards because they’ll never recover the expenditures given the low grade petroleum Venezuela has & the cost to refine it.
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
This is a lie. Not a single US petroleum company is going to waste any resources trying to bring Venezuela’s petroleum infrastructure up to 21st century standards because they’ll never recover the expenditures given the low grade petroleum Venezuela has & the cost to refine it.
ICYMI: Early morning snow squall warnings on New Year's Day awakened a number of people in the DC area and generated discussion about the pros/cons of cell phone alerts when most are sleeping. My sense is clearer public criteria based on social science are needed. More: tinyurl.com/4dsdpxw9
Early morning snow squall warnings in the DC area generate debate
Looking at the pros and cons of Wireless Emergency Alerts during the nighttime hours
tinyurl.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:06 AM
ICYMI: Early morning snow squall warnings on New Year's Day awakened a number of people in the DC area and generated discussion about the pros/cons of cell phone alerts when most are sleeping. My sense is clearer public criteria based on social science are needed. More: tinyurl.com/4dsdpxw9
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In the old days, we would seek comment on stories about climate change from experts in the field who have spent decades studying evidence of the effects of greenhouse gases and findingsolutions. That ends today. Now we'll get your uncle Rooster who you had that big argument with at Thanksgiving.
January 3, 2026 at 12:47 AM
In the old days, we would seek comment on stories about climate change from experts in the field who have spent decades studying evidence of the effects of greenhouse gases and findingsolutions. That ends today. Now we'll get your uncle Rooster who you had that big argument with at Thanksgiving.