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Mother Jones: Trump Cuts to Weather Data May Make Forecasts Less Reliable, Experts Warn. “As the United States prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and weather data programming could make the federal government’s weather forecasts less reliable when they are needed most.”

Mother Jones: Trump Cuts to Weather Data May Make Forecasts Less Reliable, Experts Warn. “As the United States prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and weather data programming could make the federal government’s weather forecasts less reliable when they are needed most.”

Mother Jones: Trump Cuts to Weather Data May Make Forecasts Less Reliable, Experts Warn. “As the United States prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and weather data programming could make the federal government’s weather forecasts less reliable when they are needed most.”

Mother Jones: Trump Cuts to Weather Data May Make Forecasts Less Reliable, Experts Warn. “As the United States prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and weather data programming could make the federal government’s weather forecasts less reliable when they are needed most.”

Mother Jones: Trump Cuts to Weather Data May Make Forecasts Less Reliable, Experts Warn. “As the United States prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear the Trump administration’s cuts to climate and weather data programming could make the federal government’s weather forecasts less reliable when they are needed most.”

Saw this last Tuesday (2/24) while moored off Culebrita in the Spanish Virgin Islands. Photo is taken looking generally north, around 7:15PM local time. It was very bright, easily the brightest thing in the sky in that direction.

Our best guess: sunlight striking high altitude clouds from the SpaceX launch from Florida that evening.

Other (reasonable) theories welcome...
#meterology #clouds #space #weather

The view from central North Carolina.

Seriously, every single forecast for this alleged disaster has been wrong, at least where I live. We went from 2 foot snow totals in the forecast to maybe a quarter inch of ice, and it will likely all melt before Monday morning.

Has #Enshitification reached weather forecasting as well?

#snowmageddon #meterology #weather #forecast

Proper cold at the end of the month into February. Wrap up for Biddy's Day...

❄️😍❄️😍❄️
#weather #climate #meterology #metnerd

WGCU: State Archives adding ‘Weather, Disaster and Recovery’ collection, and seeking photos. “The State Archives of Florida is seeking photographs for its newest photographic collection, ‘Weather, Disaster and Recovery.’”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/wgcu-state-archives-adding-weather-disaster-and-recovery-collection-and-seeking-photos/

WGCU: State Archives adding ‘Weather, Disaster and Recovery’ collection, and seeking photos. “The State Archives of Florida is seeking photographs for its newest photographic collection, ‘Weather, Disaster and Recovery.’”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/wgcu-state-archives-adding-weather-disaster-and-recovery-collection-and-seeking-photos/

WGCU: State Archives adding ‘Weather, Disaster and Recovery’ collection, and seeking photos. “The State Archives of Florida is seeking photographs for its newest photographic collection, ‘Weather, Disaster and Recovery.’”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/wgcu-state-archives-adding-weather-disaster-and-recovery-collection-and-seeking-photos/

WGCU: State Archives adding ‘Weather, Disaster and Recovery’ collection, and seeking photos. “The State Archives of Florida is seeking photographs for its newest photographic collection, ‘Weather, Disaster and Recovery.’”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/30/wgcu-state-archives-adding-weather-disaster-and-recovery-collection-and-seeking-photos/

Google Blog: Weather Lab is an interactive website for sharing Google’s AI weather models.. “Today Google DeepMind and Google Research are launching a public preview of Weather Lab, an interactive website for sharing our AIweather models, and debuting our newest experimental AI-based cyclone predictions. While still experimental, our goal is to continue to work on this technology to help […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/16/google-blog-weather-lab-is-an-interactive-website-for-sharing-googles-ai-weather-models/

The University of Vermont (UVM) Water Resources Institute (WRI) is hiring a Senior Meteorlogical Technician to help establish a network of meteorological monitoring stations. This initiative aims to address critical gaps in weather observation identified by the National Weather Service and state partners.

The Senior Meteorological Technician will play a central role in this project, starting with the engagement of partners and the installation of a high-end prototype station. This position is ideal for a skilled technician eager to contribute to an impactful statewide weather monitoring initiative that will make the State of Vermont more resilient against flooding and other extreme weather events.

https://bit.ly/4hAAGMl

#science #meterology #ClimateChange

@RadicalEcologist

Ok... another napkin. 2/2
Federated #weather #meterology system.

Per Station Data Points:
- Temperature, humidity, pressure: 3 points
- Wind speed/direction: 2 points
- Precipitation: 1 point
- Cloud camera (low-res sky photos): ~1MB per image
- Sampling rate: Every 5 minutes
- Daily data per station: ~300MB (mostly images)
- Total daily data: ~30PB (sic!)

NWP Distributed Computing required;
- Grid resolution: 4km spacing (practical for regional)
- Vertical layers: 50
- Total grid points: ~6 million grid cells
- Computations per grid point: ~1000 operations
- Update frequency: Every 15 minutes

Distributed Computing Model:
- Comparable to Folding@Home which peaks at ~2.4 exaFLOPS
- For 24hr forecast:
* Each client needs ~4GB RAM
* ~1 hour computation time per client per grid section
* Minimum active clients needed: ~50,000
* Network bandwidth per client: ~1GB/day
* Central coordination server: ~100TB storage, 40Gbps network
(That's beefy...but not "let's drain the rivers beefy") I just priced the NAS the other day. And the storage would cost maybe $8000. Which is a pittance.

@RadicalEcologist

Ok... I'm using the other side of the Napkin. 1/2
Federated #weather #meterology system.

Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
is the least resource intensive model.
- Divides atmosphere into 3D grid cells
- Solves fluid dynamics equations for each cell

Resolution/Scale trade-off:
- Global models: ~9-13km grid spacing
- Regional models: ~1-4km grid spacing
- Each halving of grid spacing requires ~8x more computing power 😑

For continental USA you need about 1 station for 100km/sq or 53.51 hectopascals per imperial Troy tonne in freedom units.
For meaningful resolution.

You need to abandon satellite data (unless it's free). There may be possibility to gather maritime weather data if this takes off.

#PSA
Getting out ahead of some #Misinformation...

#Jews do not control the #weather.

There is no known device that can engage in "#CloudTheft" to cause #drought.

There is no "#JewMagic" controlling the #hurricanes to hit states where Harris is campaigning.

#Israel does not have a squad of pegasus ponies controlling the skies.

This is basic #meterology and #climatology, and is the very well understood and long-predicted result of #GlobalWarming / #ClimateChange, which is a fully-understood phenomenon, and was warned about in the 70s and 80s, where reports predicted the conditions we are seeing now at the time we are seeing them, well before any of the current people were in power.

There is no group controlling the weather, Jewish or otherwise. The people claiming that are using Jews as a #scapegoat, which is neither new nor based in any sort of reality.

- TechHub #Moderation

#PSA
Getting out ahead of some #Misinformation...

#Jews do not control the #weather.

There is no known device that can engage in "#CloudTheft" to cause #drought.

There is no "#JewMagic" controlling the #hurricanes to hit states where Harris is campaigning.

#Israel does not have a squad of pegasus ponies controlling the skies.

This is basic #meterology and #climatology, and is the very well understood and long-predicted result of #GlobalWarming / #ClimateChange, which is a fully-understood phenomenon, and was warned about in the 70s and 80s, where reports predicted the conditions we are seeing now at the time we are seeing them, well before any of the current people were in power.

There is no group controlling the weather, Jewish or otherwise. The people claiming that are using Jews as a #scapegoat, which is neither new nor based in any sort of reality.

- TechHub #Moderation

#PSA
Getting out ahead of some #Misinformation...

#Jews do not control the #weather.

There is no known device that can engage in "#CloudTheft" to cause #drought.

There is no "#JewMagic" controlling the #hurricanes to hit states where Harris is campaigning.

#Israel does not have a squad of pegasus ponies controlling the skies.

This is basic #meterology and #climatology, and is the very well understood and long-predicted result of #GlobalWarming / #ClimateChange, which is a fully-understood phenomenon, and was warned about in the 70s and 80s, where reports predicted the conditions we are seeing now at the time we are seeing them, well before any of the current people were in power.

There is no group controlling the weather, Jewish or otherwise. The people claiming that are using Jews as a #scapegoat, which is neither new nor based in any sort of reality.

- TechHub #Moderation

#PSA
Getting out ahead of some #Misinformation...

#Jews do not control the #weather.

There is no known device that can engage in "#CloudTheft" to cause #drought.

There is no "#JewMagic" controlling the #hurricanes to hit states where Harris is campaigning.

#Israel does not have a squad of pegasus ponies controlling the skies.

This is basic #meterology and #climatology, and is the very well understood and long-predicted result of #GlobalWarming / #ClimateChange, which is a fully-understood phenomenon, and was warned about in the 70s and 80s, where reports predicted the conditions we are seeing now at the time we are seeing them, well before any of the current people were in power.

There is no group controlling the weather, Jewish or otherwise. The people claiming that are using Jews as a #scapegoat, which is neither new nor based in any sort of reality.

- TechHub #Moderation

#PSA
Getting out ahead of some #Misinformation...

#Jews do not control the #weather.

There is no known device that can engage in "#CloudTheft" to cause #drought.

There is no "#JewMagic" controlling the #hurricanes to hit states where Harris is campaigning.

#Israel does not have a squad of pegasus ponies controlling the skies.

This is basic #meterology and #climatology, and is the very well understood and long-predicted result of #GlobalWarming / #ClimateChange, which is a fully-understood phenomenon, and was warned about in the 70s and 80s, where reports predicted the conditions we are seeing now at the time we are seeing them, well before any of the current people were in power.

There is no group controlling the weather, Jewish or otherwise. The people claiming that are using Jews as a #scapegoat, which is neither new nor based in any sort of reality.

- TechHub #Moderation

Why does it look like Eastern #Canada, and maybe even #Ontario may get this #hurricane ? #meterology
https://weather.gc.ca/hurricane/track_e.html

Did the #UKMET ever publish the actual size of their system in #Azure?

#HPC #meterology #MET

Cool new tech for weather radar is coming using a phased array dual polarized radar system called Horus But the current Nexrad system's planned end of life isn't until 2040 so don't expect to see near real time images of storms for quite a few years yet.

https://youtu.be/3759hphJLkA?si=hDWlSOk1ZtNkC5A7

#Horus #Nexrad #Weather radar #Meterology

Mackerel Sky 🙂

#Clouds #Meterology #Weather #Wales

Surface pressure record, north Wales, for the past several weeks (recorded by Raspberry Pi and BMP280 sensor).

#weather #meterology

TIL that someone invented a barometer in the mid-19th century that used leeches. Yes, leeches!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_prognosticator

#weird #history #meterology

My big question about this news is when this AI driven forecasting goes wrong how badly off the rails does it go? With weather we are seldom interested in averages - no one cares if it was 86F instead of 85F, it's all about nailing the outliers. So does it predict tornadoes when there aren't any, or fail to predict them when it should have?

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-weather-graphcast-ai-deepmind-forecast/

#ai #weather #forecasting #meterology

It’s remarkable how the Met Office predicted the extreme weather from Storm Ciarán so far in advance. Before the low pressure system it developed from was anything special.

I highly recommend subscribing to the Met Office YouTube channel and watching their weekly Deep Dive and 10-Day Trend videos. I watch every video they put out 😊

https://youtube.com/@metoffice?si=1ZZakAXg5ECwpKiu

#Weather #Meterology #MetOffice #Science #SciComm

UK Met Office 10-day trend.

Dig out the winter clothes!

https://youtu.be/pcjiIYoQOaw?si=wYvb8-vq56YUxWl9

#Weather #MetOffice #Meterology

UK Met Office weekly deep dive.

https://youtu.be/QV6rGk1eiBk?si=aL4qvyrAtqY878Sj

#Weather #Meterology #Science

It’s always amazed me how extreme the weather is on Mt Washington in New Hampshire. I learned about it in Julian May’s Galactic Milieu novels, wherein the mountain and the weather play parts in the plot.

This PBS Terra episode discusses it after covering the driest, wettest, hottest, and windiest places on Earth.

https://youtu.be/3hXSgRSIHMU?si=HhaF3w_vV5GjYSnm

#Science #Meterology #Weather #Extremes

The Met Office forecast from Monday that there could be thunderstorms and localised heavy rain over Northern Ireland on Thursday was spot on.

Meteorology is a wonderful thing. My second favourite science after chemistry 😊

#Weather #Meterology #Chemistry

@mcnees

#climatechange
#ClimateCrisis
#Meterology
#Seismology

simultaneous #hurricane and #earthquake in #California

Yes, I've been wondering:
what are the real statistical chances for this happening

a) in the US South and

b) in California?

I hope we have some folks here you can calculate this statistically on a professional level. :)

Det är söndag, inte Torsdag. Bristfälligt.
Avgå SMHI!

#Hans #meterology #lightning #blixtarochdunder

Can soneone explain the logic with which weather services choose preview icons for weather / day?

Like the icon for Wednesday is "mostly cloudly" but if you open the day up in the app it has 4 hours of heavy snow in the afternoon.

I bet I'm not the only one regarding those 4 hours the most important event that day?

#SMHI #Weather #Meterology #FuckSnow

Can soneone explain the logic with which weather services choose preview icons for weather / day?

Like the icon for Wednesday is "mostly cloudly" but if you open the day up in the app it has 4 hours of heavy snow in the afternoon.

I bet I'm not the only one regarding those 4 hours the most important event that day?

#SMHI #Weather #Meterology #FuckSnow

Can soneone explain the logic with which weather services choose preview icons for weather / day?

Like the icon for Wednesday is "mostly cloudly" but if you open the day up in the app it has 4 hours of heavy snow in the afternoon.

I bet I'm not the only one regarding those 4 hours the most important event that day?

#SMHI #Weather #Meterology #FuckSnow

Some of the world's heaviest hailstones fell on 14th April 1986. A hailstorm hit the town of Gopalganj, Bangladesh, where 92 people were killed and injuring about 400. Some of the hailstones were the size of grapefruits with them weighing about 1.02 kg (2.25 lb) each. #Meterology

Jet streams and global circulation patterns - A cross section of the circulation of air within the troposphere including the polar and subtropical jet streams.

#stem #elearing #science #atpl #meterology #earth #3d #ar #sketchfab

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/jet-streams-and-global-circulation-patterns-3b6e8e6edc5e46258eeb43ee7c53673c

Jet streams and global circulation patterns - A cross section of the circulation of air within the troposphere including the polar and subtropical jet streams.

#stem #elearing #science #atpl #meterology #earth #3d #ar #sketchfab

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/jet-streams-and-global-circulation-patterns-3b6e8e6edc5e46258eeb43ee7c53673c

Jet streams and global circulation patterns - A cross section of the circulation of air within the troposphere including the polar and subtropical jet streams.

#stem #elearing #science #atpl #meterology #earth #3d #ar #sketchfab

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/jet-streams-and-global-circulation-patterns-3b6e8e6edc5e46258eeb43ee7c53673c

Snowflakes are a geometric wonder. All snowflakes are hexagonal or have six shapes, however no two snowflakes are actually identical. The possible shapes a snowflake could form is infinite. #Meterology

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