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Eloquent Science (Prof. David Schultz)
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Univ. of Manchester Prof of Synoptic Meteorology, educator, scientist
Author: Eloquent Science: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker, and Atmospheric Scientist
Free online climate course: "Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes"
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Halloween hike Austwick to Clapham, Yorkshire Dales. Spooky doors with Hidden Dangers and dark tunnels. 🎃👻💀
Wooden door in stone wall with sign Hidden Dangers. Hidden Dangers sign on wooden door. Stone wall leads to dark tunnel. Red, orange, and yellow leaves on ground.
October 31, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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New mural in the neighborhood, celebrating Ivory Bangle Lady. Buried in the 4th century AD, she came from North Africa to Eboracum (now York) and was buried with ivory bracelets, earrings, and blue glass jug. Found in 1901, meters from her mural. Seems York has always been welcoming to immigrants.
A painted mural on a red-brick wall. The mural features a black woman, blue bottle, bracelets that were found with her burial. Other elements of the mural include a tower along the city walls surrounding the city of York (then, Roman Eboracum) with yellow daffodils in bloom in the spring, the head of Roman Emperor Constantine statue in York, and Roman legions.
October 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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ManUniCast.com gave a good forecast of the banded precipitation now occurring over eastern Ireland. #StormAmy
Map of the precipitation over the UK and Ireland at 1600 UTC 3 October 2025, 22 hours into the forecast from ManUniCast.com. Map of the precipitation rate over the UK and Ireland at 1605 BST 3 October 2025 from the radar network.
October 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Webinar for National Weather Association members:

Flying Smart: Building Weather Awareness in the General Aviation Community

Terry Lankford, Retired, FAA
Scott Minnick, NWS AWC

Register link in the members email, posted in the member portal, and the NWA Community.

Weds Sept 24, 11:00 a.m. EDT
NWA Webinar Series Flying Smart: Building Weather Awareness in the General Aviation Community Terry Lankford, Retired, FAA Scott Minnick, NWS AWC NWA Member Event A registration link was emailed to members, and it is posted in the member portal and the NWA Community. Wednesday, Sept 24 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
September 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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If you are a member of the National Weather Association and want to improve your presentation skills, check out our webinar Thursday 28 August. Panelists Trevor Bucher, Makenzie Krocak, and Joseph Trujillo will share their expert strategies. Hosted by Kandis Boyd and David Schultz.
NWA Webinar series “Delivering Your Best Presentation at the NWA Annual Meeting" #NWAS25 Panelists Trevor Bucher, Dr. Makenzie Krocak, and Dr. Joseph Trujillo Moderators: Dr. Kandis Boyd and Dr. David Schultz NWA Member event A registration link was emailed to members, and it is posted in the member portal and the NWA Community. Thursday August 28 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
August 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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"Meteorology is somewhat peculiar as a profession in that anyone with a smattering of the terms used, access to publicly available information from the weather service, and a bit of equipment can "look and sound like" a meteorologist."

Chester Newton, 1980: doi.org/10.1175/1520....
"Meteorology is somewhat peculiar as a profession in that anyone with a smattering of the terms used, access to publicly available information from the weather service, and a bit of equipment can "look and sound like" a meteorologist. Also, forecasts and claims made by such a person may take some time to be found out for what they are, resulting in confusion of the public or cost to unsuspecting clients."
August 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Animations of forecasted strong winds from #StormFloris over the next two days from ManUniCast.com.

European and North Atlantic scale:
manunicast.seaes.manchester.ac.uk/view.php?t=2...

UK and Ireland scale:
manunicast.seaes.manchester.ac.uk/view.php?t=2...

#Floris #UKwx #EUwx #UKweather
Map of UK and Ireland 10-m wind speed forecast at 1 p.m. Monday 4 August (1200 UTC) associated with #StormFloris showing strongest onshore winds (exceeding 15 meters per second) across northern Scotland with even stronger winds (exceeding 20 meters per second) over the waters around northern Scotland.
August 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Fascinating lines of isolated convective cells today over the UK. www.netweather.tv/live-weather...
Map of the United Kingdom with weather radar data overlaid showing isolated cells of heavy precipitation running along the long length of Great Britain.
July 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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What my turntable has been asking for. This is its jam!

Thank you, @floatingmen.bsky.social.

All the way from Asheville to Yorkshire, UK.
LP album by The Floating Men called #Reoverimagined with hand-drawn depictions of the 7 band members. Holmes (lead singer and songwriter) has a light bulb over his head. Scot Evans (bass player) asks, "Wait, what?!?" The album poses in my front of my lonely turntable, waiting to be played.
May 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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I've seen these guys before...
The Beatles in their Sgt Pepper attire, long colored overcoats and horizontal decorations, similar to those in the original post.
May 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Historic moment 65 years ago: The first weather satellite was launched, TIROS-1.

www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/celebra...
First television picture from space: TIROS-1 satellite, April 1, 1960. The image shows an image of the Earth from space with clouds.
April 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Because of their regular wave-like appearance, these misovortices have been linked to horizontal shearing instability (HSI) of vorticity by researchers. Good hypothesis and easy to claim, but science requires testing to be sure the instability really is present and responsible in these situations.
Modeled absolute vorticity at approximately 500 m height (per second; colored, according to scale) from the domain with 1 km horizontal grid spacing. Vorticity is plotted every 10 min from 0800 UTC to 1300 UTC 29 November 2011, to capture the breakdown of the vortex sheet into discrete misovortices. The rectangular region is expanded in the bottom panel and focuses on a pair of discrete misovortices, where their centers (black circles), distance between the centers (dashed line), and width of the absolute-vorticity contour prior to the breakdown of the vortex sheet are used to calculate the ratio of the wavelength of misovortices to the shear-zone width.
April 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Fronts that produce tornadoes often show this signature of misovortices (also known as core-and-gap regions in the radar signatures) before tornadoes form. Thus, to understand tornadoes in these situations, we need to understand the misovortices preceding the tornadoes.
Radar reflectivity of a cold front with precipitation cores (red and yellow elongated regions) with gaps in the precipitation. From 1820 UTC 14 January 2020 over the United Kingdom.
April 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Hey meteorologists! University of Wyoming upgraded their upper-air sounding web site for more stability.

www.weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sou...

Big thanks!
The new University of Wyoming Radiosonde Archive web site. Shows a Mercator projection of the world with all the radiosonde locations on it. You can zoom in to a specific region for more detail. The web site reads the following: This new web page should be faster than the legacy interface and generate fewer 503 errors. One noticeable difference is that wind speeds are now reported in m/s rather than knots. This web page merges data available from the two common distribution formats. One of the output formats available are CSV files which should be easier to import into other software. The legacy interface is still available at sounding_legacy.html.
March 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Eloquent Science is in LibGen, along with a bunch of my articles from Monthly Weather Review. 💩
Screenshot of a search for "David M. Schultz" in LibGen. 161 Results. The first result is Eloquent Science: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer, Speaker, and Atmospheric Scientist David M. Schultz
March 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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This is how you support your scientific community, @ametsoc.org. Excellent work! 🧪🌊

Note to other professional societies. Speak out, yes. But, words are not enough in these times. Help your members, and that includes those in underrepresented groups.
Starting next week, AMS will be temporarily opening a variety of services to the entire community regardless of 2025 membership status. These will include: • AMS job board and early access to job announcements, • AMS Career Portal, • access to AMS career and other webinars, and • access to AMS journals online content. For those who are impacted by job loss as a result of any changes across the government, AMS will also temporarily provide: • significant reduction in virtual and in-person meeting registration fee and • waivers of 2025 AMS membership dues.
February 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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More 💩 from Google AI. 75 hPa is 18 km in the Standard Atmosphere, not 5 km.
AI Overview According to the standard atmosphere model, a pressure of 75 hPa roughly corresponds to an altitude of around 5,000 meters (approximately 16,400 feet) above sea level).
February 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Two specific groups of items in this document pertain to weather forecasting and research.
SCIENCE, SPACE, and TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE Inflation Reduction Act Repeal IRA spending under jurisdiction Up to $232 million in 10-year savings VIABILITY : HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW • This policy would repeal IRA Title IV measures under the jurisdiction of the Science, Space, and Technology committee. Title IV measures include: Alternative Fuel and Low-Emission Aviation Technology Program ($123 million ) Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and Forecasting for Weather and Climate Budget Authority ($47 million) Computing Capacity and Research for Weather, Oceans, and Climate ($4 million) Acquisition of Hurricane Forecasting Aircraft ($22 million) Rescind IRA Funds $1.943 billion in 10-year savings VIABILITY : HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW Title IV savings include: Investing in Coastal Communities and Climate Resilience ($ 1.3 billion) Title V savings include: National Parks and Public Lands Conservation and Resilience ($132 million) US Geological Survey 3D Evaluation Program ($7 million) Bureau of Reclamation Domestic Water Supply Projects ($487 million) Department of Interior Oversight ($3 million) National Parks Service Employees ($267 million) Title VI savings: Endangered Species Act Recovery Plans ($50 million) Funding for USFWS to Address Weather Events ($40 million) Title VIII savings Tribal Climate Resilience ($ 195 million) Native Hawaiian Climate Resilience ($1 million) Tribal Electrification Program ($ 115 million) Emergency Drought Relief for Tribes ($11 million)
February 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Back up now. Yay!
Example of visible satellite imagery of Earth from the GIBBS website.
February 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Is there any reason why satellite imagery from the NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Prediction/GIBBS site is not available? This is the whole archive going back to December 1966. Three different browsers. www.ncdc.noaa.gov/gibbs/
This page isn’t working www.ncdc.noaa.gov is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 503 The image cannot be displayed because it contains errors.
February 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Google AI Overview says, "A 6–6.5 kg stuffed turkey should be cooked for 48–52 hours at 190°C./fan 170°C". "A general rule of thumb is to allow 20 minutes per kg, plus 90 minutes for a turkey that weights 4–10 kg."
January 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Forecasts of pressure and 10-m wind speed for #StormÉowyn on Friday morning. #NeedToChangeDefaultColorScale #UKwx

Sources: manunicast.com

manunicast.seaes.manchester.ac.uk/view.php?t=2...

manunicast.seaes.manchester.ac.uk/view.php?t=2...
Map of sea-level pressure field showcasing a 940-hPa low center north of Ireland with wind speeds over 30 m/s. Domain displayed over the North Atlantic and western Europe. Map of sea-level pressure field showcasing a 940-hPa low center north of Ireland with wind speeds over 30 m/s. Domain displayed for Ireland and the UK.
January 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Congratulations to Eve Gruntfest for her Mentorship Award from @ametsoc.bsky.social.

Eve was an important influence early in my career, encouraging me and supporting me in the growing realization that meteorologists needed social scientists to help improve forecasts. A well deserved award!
#AMS2025
"THE ROBERT H. AND JOANNE SIMPSON MENTORSHIP AWARD Eve Gruntfest For building a community of hundreds of social and physical scientists across the enterprise who continue to collaborate and mentor younger generations." Photo of Eve.
January 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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We looked at biases in precipitation forecasts in WRF model simulations. We used GPT-4 Turbo to "read" the articles and tell us the answers to 8 different questions about how the models were configured and performed, looking at the nine most common microphysics schemes. #AMS2025 #AI 🌊🧪
Boxplots of root mean square error in journal articles about WRF model simulations. There are nine boxplots, one for each of nine different microphysical parameterizations, ranging from median errors of 2.4 mm per day to 8.8 mm per day. The caption says "Come to the presentation to find out which one [box plot] is which [corresponding microphysical parameterization]."
January 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Email from Advance HE, a higher-education charity in the UK, keeping their employees at work until 5 p.m. on Christmas Eve.

Their vision statement: "Higher education providers and systems that are inclusive, sustainable and high-performing in all they do."
Warmest wishes from Advance HE At this time of year, we wanted to wish you, your families and loved ones a restful break. We would like to thank you for your continued support and partnership in 2024. Please note that we will close at 17:00 (GMT) on 24 December 2024 and re-open at 9:00 (GMT) on 2 January 2025.
December 19, 2024 at 10:43 AM