Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️
@tornatrix.bsky.social
Assoc. prof at Purdue specializing in severe wx & radar. Storm chaser since 2001. All opinions expressed here are solely mine and not my employer's. She/her
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To my new followers here: Greetings! I’m a radar meteorologist who studies tornadoes & storms. I also study field work impacts on atmospheric science students’ learning & career aspirations (Fig. 1). Outside work, I’m a mom, spouse of @meteodan.bsky.social, cyclist, painter, & ham (WX0RT).
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IMO, the proposed bill to end the shutdown to me puts NOAA in a state of limbo til Jan. 30 with little hope for clarity even then. I breakdown my admittedly pessimistic interpretation of the situation and recap the competing admin and Congressional visions for NOAA: https://tinyurl.com/49dhaf56
Recapping the 2026 budget situation facing NOAA, and what the shutdown agreement means
Record cold continues to invade the East today, but will be a distant memory by the end of the week. Fung-Wong continues the Philippines tropical cyclone woes.
tinyurl.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
IMO, the proposed bill to end the shutdown to me puts NOAA in a state of limbo til Jan. 30 with little hope for clarity even then. I breakdown my admittedly pessimistic interpretation of the situation and recap the competing admin and Congressional visions for NOAA: https://tinyurl.com/49dhaf56
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I like big fronts and I cannot lie.
A strong cold front this weekend will put the "ber" in November as frigid air spills out across the Plains and Mississippi Valley. This winter-like chill will flood across the eastern half of the country early next week, bringing the potential for record cold temperatures to the Gulf by Tuesday.
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I like big fronts and I cannot lie.
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Have you heard? The Geoscience Data Exchange platform is running and ready for community use! Designed to accelerate discovery and collaboration, GDEX ensures that scientific data are accessible and preserved for the research community, increasing discoverability and enabling collaboration.
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Have you heard? The Geoscience Data Exchange platform is running and ready for community use! Designed to accelerate discovery and collaboration, GDEX ensures that scientific data are accessible and preserved for the research community, increasing discoverability and enabling collaboration.
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Typhoon Kalmaegi strengthened as it crossed the South China Sea before making landfall earlier today in Vietnam as a Category Three equivalent storm.
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Typhoon Kalmaegi strengthened as it crossed the South China Sea before making landfall earlier today in Vietnam as a Category Three equivalent storm.
I’m organizing an education-focused session at #32SLS! I plan to showcase all the great work the community is doing to teach severe weather and use storms to motivate learning. Please submit abstracts (due 3/19/26)! Look for this session in the abstract submission portal. @ams-sls-stac.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’m organizing an education-focused session at #32SLS! I plan to showcase all the great work the community is doing to teach severe weather and use storms to motivate learning. Please submit abstracts (due 3/19/26)! Look for this session in the abstract submission portal. @ams-sls-stac.bsky.social
I spy @storm-spotter-k.bsky.social !
We're highlighting the student members of our committee! Up this week is Kristen Axon:
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I spy @storm-spotter-k.bsky.social !
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Applications are open for the @ncar-cisl.bsky.social SIParCS summer internship program! It's a great opportunity for computationally-inclined students to get experience with real-world research problems spanning computational and Earth System Science. Link: ucar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UCAR_C...
2026 SIParCS Undergraduate Student Internships
Job Description Summary: The Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science (SIParCS) program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) offers graduate students and undergraduates w...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Applications are open for the @ncar-cisl.bsky.social SIParCS summer internship program! It's a great opportunity for computationally-inclined students to get experience with real-world research problems spanning computational and Earth System Science. Link: ucar.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UCAR_C...
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I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.
November 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.
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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
Another federal contract cancelation impacts weather data, with surface observations reduced in North Carolina and Maryland
Monday tropical deep dive focuses on the western Pacific
tinyurl.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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
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Unidata had issued a public notice regarding the change in bucket name in August 2025:
www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
Important: Changes to NOAA NEXRAD AWS Archive | NSF UnidataImportant: Changes to NOAA NEXRAD AWS Archive | NSF Unidata
www.unidata.ucar.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Unidata had issued a public notice regarding the change in bucket name in August 2025:
www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...
One of my students noticed that the AWS NEXRAD Level II bucket is returning “Access Denied” errors.
s3.amazonaws.com/noaa-nexrad-...
I am really hoping this is due to the government shutdown and not something more nefarious. We’ve been watching weather and climate data disappear for months.
s3.amazonaws.com/noaa-nexrad-...
I am really hoping this is due to the government shutdown and not something more nefarious. We’ve been watching weather and climate data disappear for months.
s3.amazonaws.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
One of my students noticed that the AWS NEXRAD Level II bucket is returning “Access Denied” errors.
s3.amazonaws.com/noaa-nexrad-...
I am really hoping this is due to the government shutdown and not something more nefarious. We’ve been watching weather and climate data disappear for months.
s3.amazonaws.com/noaa-nexrad-...
I am really hoping this is due to the government shutdown and not something more nefarious. We’ve been watching weather and climate data disappear for months.
“As the federal government cancels funding streams and fires the employees in charge of overseeing special-education programs nationwide, the result will be an uneven, state-by-state patchwork of special education… That future is already playing out across the country… it’s about to get even worse.”
The Trump administration has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children, Pepper Stetler argues. But this attack isn’t new—Congress has been weakening the transformative law that governs education for disabled students for decades:
The Slow Death of Special Education
The government has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children—if it ever had one.
bit.ly
November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“As the federal government cancels funding streams and fires the employees in charge of overseeing special-education programs nationwide, the result will be an uneven, state-by-state patchwork of special education… That future is already playing out across the country… it’s about to get even worse.”
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Not what people ANYWHERE on the Pacific coast need. #akwx #AlaskaSky
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is halting a contract that makes it possible for the federal agency to…monitor for potential tsunamis…and quickly warn at-risk communities."
alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-...
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is halting a contract that makes it possible for the federal agency to…monitor for potential tsunamis…and quickly warn at-risk communities."
alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-...
NOAA cancels funding for data collection crucial to tsunami warning systems
The Alaska Earthquake Center has long provided NOAA with seismic data for tsunami monitoring and warning purposes. That work will wind down in November, after the federal agency said it can no longer ...
alaskapublic.org
November 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Not what people ANYWHERE on the Pacific coast need. #akwx #AlaskaSky
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is halting a contract that makes it possible for the federal agency to…monitor for potential tsunamis…and quickly warn at-risk communities."
alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-...
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is halting a contract that makes it possible for the federal agency to…monitor for potential tsunamis…and quickly warn at-risk communities."
alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-...
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The death toll in Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa rose to 28 on Saturday. Authorities and humanitarian workers acknowledged that they had yet to reach dozens of communities that were hardest hit by the devastating storm.
Communities in Hurricane-Ravaged Jamaica Still Cut Off as Death Toll Climbs
The authorities have yet to reach dozens of areas in Jamaica, raising the question of how many people really died in last week’s storm.
nyti.ms
November 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The death toll in Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa rose to 28 on Saturday. Authorities and humanitarian workers acknowledged that they had yet to reach dozens of communities that were hardest hit by the devastating storm.
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The magnitude of the #Melissa disaster is becoming clearer: BBC reporting that food and water are becoming scarce in parts of devastated Jamaica. How will the US respond without USAID - and how you can help those impacted. Also, a warm Oct for much of US closes. https://tinyurl.com/m5a8dfdt
Magnitude of disaster in Jamaica and Haiti becoming clearer
BBC reports food and water becoming scarce in areas of western Jamaica as US mounts relief efforts for first time without USAID. In weather, a warm October gives way to a warm start to November.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The magnitude of the #Melissa disaster is becoming clearer: BBC reporting that food and water are becoming scarce in parts of devastated Jamaica. How will the US respond without USAID - and how you can help those impacted. Also, a warm Oct for much of US closes. https://tinyurl.com/m5a8dfdt
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Today marks 60 years of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) at the Met Office.
This marked the transition of the Met Office into the world-leader in weather science and forecasting that it is today.
bit.ly/4nOqrH3
This marked the transition of the Met Office into the world-leader in weather science and forecasting that it is today.
bit.ly/4nOqrH3
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Today marks 60 years of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) at the Met Office.
This marked the transition of the Met Office into the world-leader in weather science and forecasting that it is today.
bit.ly/4nOqrH3
This marked the transition of the Met Office into the world-leader in weather science and forecasting that it is today.
bit.ly/4nOqrH3
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PSA: This time of day this week won’t be the same time of day next week. #DaylightSavingTime
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
PSA: This time of day this week won’t be the same time of day next week. #DaylightSavingTime
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ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
STORM CHASER SQUID GAME: Teams that successfully intercept tornadoes will advance to the next round. Any teams that bust will be eliminated.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
STORM CHASER SQUID GAME: Teams that successfully intercept tornadoes will advance to the next round. Any teams that bust will be eliminated.
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NOAA’s hurricane research division staff has been cut from 52 in 2020 to 28 in 2025, almost a 50% cut. They’ve resorted to using volunteers to man the critical radar and dropsonde stations on Hurricane Hunter flights. Senseless cuts in an era of climate change making the strongest storms stronger.
Volunteers Step In to Help Understaffed NOAA Track Hurricane Melissa
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
NOAA’s hurricane research division staff has been cut from 52 in 2020 to 28 in 2025, almost a 50% cut. They’ve resorted to using volunteers to man the critical radar and dropsonde stations on Hurricane Hunter flights. Senseless cuts in an era of climate change making the strongest storms stronger.
“I’ll admit, it gives me a certain sadistic pleasure to watch you all completely lose hold of basic reality. I can feel a warm, quivering tingle deep in my footnotes.”
"A lot can change in a couple of decades, huh? Used to be, it was hard to keep up with all you nerds decrying me as the downfall of truth and human inquiry."
Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“I’ll admit, it gives me a certain sadistic pleasure to watch you all completely lose hold of basic reality. I can feel a warm, quivering tingle deep in my footnotes.”
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Regarding the sonde from yesterday morning with the 219-kt spot wind, highest dropsonde wind ever seen in a TC, AOML/HRD shared the raw data and I took a look this morning. They’ll have the final call, but I see nothing wrong with the ob and I suspect it’s going to hold up.
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Regarding the sonde from yesterday morning with the 219-kt spot wind, highest dropsonde wind ever seen in a TC, AOML/HRD shared the raw data and I took a look this morning. They’ll have the final call, but I see nothing wrong with the ob and I suspect it’s going to hold up.