Great news! New fact sheet posted by @WhiteHouse highlights @NWS employees as an example of a public safety exemption, where filling vacancies/creating new ones will not need approval from agency leadership. I’m assuming we will be receiving more guidance on this soon.

Big news: Neil Jacobs (NOAA Administrator/Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere nominee) officially has his nomination hearing on July 9th. Based on past nominations, hearing>cloture>confirmation is about a 1-1.5 month process.

Perhaps the most documented storm of 2025? Arnett OK was stellar, and so were the chaser vibes. Let’s see what tomorrow brings! #okwx

New action shots! We have roughly six Radar & Applications Course (RAC) workshops each year, and these are the weeks I look forward to most. Teaching brand new, bright NWS meteorologists hungry for knowledge and guiding their skills toward warning ops is a dream.

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A recurring nightmare: overnight severe threat with QLCS tornado potential. I do not sleep on nights like this.

My first post here has to be Penny, look at how cute she is