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Steve Nesbitt
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Professor and Head, Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois. AMS Fellow; I'm a meteorologist that brakes for interesting cloud formations. Opinions mine. #BillsMafia linktr.ee/70_dbz
Just switch over to cheaper, less healthy, and fewer products, and inflation magically goes away this year!
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
WRF had a good handle on this system - check out our forecasts, now initalized from GFS and IFS!
snesbitt.web.illinois.edu/RELAMPAGO/wr...
November 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Tomorrow is Xmas lights day. Not going to pass up 75 in mid November. Then going to the driving range!
November 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Not bad, not bad!
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I think in the case of UIUC, they are paying off debt from upgrading facilities. Last I saw it was over $300 million
October 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Cutting science funding - fewer nerds like me - more babies? Am I getting this right?

(Actually we had 3 kids)
October 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I doubt this money will go to MinCYT or CONICET, which has been devastated by Milei’s government. In some sense, Argentina was the beta test for Project 2025.
October 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Don’t worry- he cut similar grants for Baltimore, Chicago, Beaumont-Port Arthur, and Phoenix from DOE. When they get flooded it will be a similar story. $100M cut to beneoft people’s lives with climate solutions. ess.science.energy.gov/urban-ifls/
Urban Energy and Environmental Research - Urban Integrated Field Laboratories
ess.science.energy.gov
October 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM