The year 2025 and this podcast's title have partly converged, but other social, technological, etc. trends also feature prominently. As always, the new season contemplates topics that feel fresh and necessary, aiming to come to some fuller understanding. At the least, this helps preserve sanity.

Multiple model ensembles are already suggesting a broad region of record mid-tropospheric ridging over the far NE Pacific and Washington/British Columbia, with possible record-breaking late-season warmth in the same region. That's a very strong signal ~1 week out. #WAwx #ORwx #BCwx

2024 was another boom year for humid heat, esp. in East/South Asia. Hats off to Kate Willett and all for packing much info and definitional complexity into the kind of thing one could read over breakfast -- if one likes to start the day with multi-panel figures and intricately abbreviated variables.

This is a perceptive question, which I forwarded along to Adrienne. Lmk if we didn't use the right email for you

...with profound implications for results (in both current and future climates) if left unaccounted for. More details in the paper: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025....

Excited to check this out! There's a real unfilled niche here.

I strongly encourage folks to check out the rest of the event, which will feature dozens of speakers over a 5 day period. The line-up is genuinely impressive--a veritable who's who of the American #weather and #climate world in 2025--so I'll be watching! wclivestream.com/schedule

The American Meteorological Society has issued this dire warning of "disastrous consequences" for America's ability to predict lethal weather:

"The administration's 2026 budget... would close all of NOAA’s weather, climate, and ocean Laboratories."

www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

We hope to inspire more thorough investigations, and awareness of how these elements all fit together, so that the impacts don't keep scaling up year by year with the intensity of the hazards.
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