Following the ongoing winter storm across the Upper Midwest, another storm system is forecast to impact parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes with wintry weather this weekend. Keep an eye on the forecast and check weather.gov for more information. ❄️

News: Another fed contract cancelation, this time by the FAA, looks to mean the loss of surface weather observations from dozens of sites, primarily in NC and MD. More: https://tinyurl.com/yp57f2ck

I’m proud to say that @noaa.gov and NCEI has released a 1 year retrospective on #Helene using ESRI Story Maps.

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Here is a brief thread of how this came to be and how NOAA can still do good things (even while wearing pajamas).

News: Trump administration has reportedly terminated collective bargaining agreement with NWS employees union. I talk about implications and my concerns about our federal readiness for our next major weather event. Also wildfires today in West & tropical concerns. More: https://tinyurl.com/yahvx7yz

For years, I've long said that climate.gov's team of remarkable communicators (& their amazing blogs, which were accessible but did not "dumb down" the science!) was NOAA's best (& most cost effective!) public-facing extreme #weather / #climate education effort to date. This will be a huge loss.

This is one the most authentic, frustrating, and alarming inside looks at what pressure, cuts and "forced" retirement have done to a critical National Weather Service forecast office. Worth a read to illustrate what many of us have been saying
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Breaking News: Reps Flood (R-NE) and Sorensen (D-IL) to introduce legislation to classify NWS employees as public safety employees like air traffic controllers and FBI agents.

www.nbcchicago.com/news/nationa...

Strap yourselves in folks, I have a quasi-hot take to share.

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“We must not forget what the “S” in NWS stands for - Service. Whether you are in a rural community or a big city, their service is unwavering when they have the appropriate resources.

No your app can’t replace them. Your app depends on their service too.”

— @drshepherd2013.bsky.social

It’s important to contextualize this. That it was staffed fully is good. That the employees even have to worry about staffing is terrible. NWS Offices should be empowered to do their job to the fullest, not scramble to staff up hours or days ahead of crisis. That is NO way to run an organization.

Sigh
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Sharing an open letter from all of the former National Weather Service Directors (Louis Uccellini, Jack Hayes, Brigadier General D.L. Johnson, Brigadier General John J. Kelly Jr., E.W. (Joe) Friday, Ph.D.) on the importance of NOAA/NWS and the implications of budget/staff cuts on the NOAA mission:

The thing about tools like cli-MATE and ACIS is not that the data won't exist (not yet at least). It's that they make getting the information you want so...efficient.

Can I write some code to do the same task? Sure, but not everyone can, and why should we need to when a great tool already exists?

Well there's no point in saying good morning, because it certainly isn't one.

46,000 users are registered for cli-MATE. As of tomorrow, those 46,000 users will no longer have access to this tool for data analyzation.

This turned into a 2-hour (!) livestream, and was (as always) recorded for later viewing. It's available via the same link below. If you found this valuable, please share widely!

I appreciate perspectives like this because it helps me inform how I approach my representatives. Perhaps you’ll find that too.

One of a meteorologist’s biggest pet peeves is “my app says it’ll be ____”. Weather apps can miss so many details that a meteorologist will know.

Let’s use tomorrow in NYC — my app says it’ll be 78 degrees but rainy. But is that the full story? Spoiler alert… no, it’s not!