One of the neatest observations made by lightning mappers: we clocked this meteor fireball at ~57 kilometers per second (125,000 mph). That is FAST!
Multi-sensor Observations of a High-velocity Fireball over the South Atlantic on 2026 April 1
Multi-sensor Observations of a High-velocity Fireball over the South Atlantic on 2026 April 1, Silber, Elizabeth A., Rubbrecht, Niels, Tillier, Clemens E., Cano, Juan L., Landis, Rob R., Longenbaugh, ...
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We did some science last night! (Phased-Array Polarimetry for Electrification and Lightning)
MetPy Mondays is back! John Leeman from NSF Unidata introduces what’s new in MetPy and previews a new 15-part MetPy Mondays series focused on practical meteorological data analysis, remote data access, and case study plotting. buff.ly/BQitB7I
MetPy Mondays #329 - What's New in MetPy? | NSF Unidata
This MetPy Monday episode introduces a new series focused on the latest features in MetPy and practical workflows for meteorological data analysis in Python. John highlights improvements to core…
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This is on the Saturday after the @ametsoc.org Madison meeting. Disappointed I will be on the road to another thing!
SportsLogos.Net@sportslogos.net · 4mo agoThe Madison Mallards are organizing the world's largest Euchre game as they play one this summer as the "Right Bowers" 🃏 Full pics and details ⬇️ news.sportslogos.net/2026/04/29/m...
The Madison Mallards are organizing the world's largest Euchre game as they play one this summer as the "Right Bowers" 🃏 Full pics and details ⬇️ news.sportslogos.net/2026/04/29/m...
Madison Mallards to play as Right Bowers for Euchre-themed promotion
The Madison Mallards, a collegiate summer level team who are keeping this minor league baseball correspondent busy with a slew of alternate identities, will rebrand in tribute to a uniquely…
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excuse me? I wrote the code for this commit using nano. I then used @vscode.dev to publish this commit, because I couldn't be bothered to find my personal access token wanted to use the github extension for login. NONE OF THE CODE WAS WRITTEN BY COPILOT. IT INJECTED THIS INTO THE COMMIT MESSAGE.
GLM has been game-changing for the community that monitors meteors. Great example! It’s also one of the many new capabilities that would be lost in the current plan to stop flying a GLM-like instrument after the current fleet reaches end of life.
Dakota Smith@weatherdak.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe loud boom heard in Cleveland and the light seen across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic... it was a meteor! GOES-19's geostationary lightning mapper picked up the brief flash of light.
The full complaint is worth a read. There are several additional overreaches in there that I wasn't previously aware of.
Paul Voosen@voosen.me · 6mo agoJust in: UCAR has filed a lawsuit against NSF, the Commerce Dept, NOAA, and OMB to prevent the dismantling of NCAR, alleging "violations of the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act."
My latest for @science.org on the fraught future of NCAR as NSF's deadline nears. It can still go so many ways.
White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward
Bidders have lined up to take over pieces of the National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.
What the National Center for Atmospheric Research means to the atmospheric sciences
Born out of a time of great need for the federal government, NCAR plays a role with few analogues.
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Running a grad student code sprint tonight with a spaghetti meal. We have this sauce for fans of the history of weather radar color maps. @pyart.bsky.social
As the AMS Annual Meeting approaches, don’t forget that TTU Atmospheric Science is hiring for two faculty positions. We’ll be at the meeting and can visit if you have any questions in advance of the application deadline.
Texas Tech Geosciences is hiring two open-rank Atmospheric Science faculty positions in Precipitation Hazards, and in Data Science; part of an interdisciplinary, multi-year Atmospheric Hazards Strategic Hire. See the details for the Precipitation and Data Science positions and join us in fall 2026!
Wrote a summary of a great keynote by @zey.bsky.social at NeurIPS, arguing that we’re having the wrong nightmares about AI: not AGI or superhuman benchmarks, but good-enough genAI at scale threatens "load bearing frictions" society relies on to signal effort, authenticity, sincerity, credibility.
Zeynep Tufecki on having the wrong nightmares about generative AI
I was writing a blog post where I was going to reference Zeynep Tufecki’s 2025 NeurIPS keynote, and realized there isn’t a solid synopsis online.
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🚨 METEOROLOGICAL JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 In response to the deadly flooding event that occurred in the Texas Hill Country this past summer, TTU has received $24M from the state legislature to develop and implement a weather measurement and modeling system to serve the state.
Second game in a row where the lock screen score is opposite the in-app score. You’ve got a bug, @espn.com!
Do you love to write code or teach others about data-centered Earth Systems Science? Interested in the interplay of science and data? The NSF Unidata Summer Internship program is looking for you! Apply by February 6, 2026 to work with us next summer: buff.ly/5nsLdRu
Took advantage of being sick today to make a joke about amplitude and phase shifts to my voice as part of an exam review on the frequency domain. 😎
Calling all ensemble forecast system enthusiasts! The State of Texas is funding development of a new ensemble prediction system (100 members, 2km grid spacing) with an embedded WoFS interface, to be developed at Texas Tech! Passing along 3 open research scientist positions towards that development:
Texas Tech Geosciences is hiring two open-rank Atmospheric Science faculty positions in Precipitation Hazards, and in Data Science; part of an interdisciplinary, multi-year Atmospheric Hazards Strategic Hire. See the details for the Precipitation and Data Science positions and join us in fall 2026!
I have been wondering what is the driving philosophy of the present political moment. Focus here is placed on a particular philosophy of apocalyptic thinking, not the politics of WWII Germany.
WIRED@wired.com · 12mo agoThirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Carl Schmitt, the German legal theorist tapped by the Nazi's to justify Germany's slip from democracy to dictatorship. Those theories have been a roadmap for the billionaire ever since.
Good read on an advancement in the fundamental mathematical physics that we use to quantify the atmosphere. Fun to imagine how the result might also apply to improved statistical representations of cloud and precipitation particle interactions.
WIRED@wired.com · last yr.By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.
🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨 Please RT this so as many people see it as possible. forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...
DOE climate report response form
We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.
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“If the U.S. is no longer the world’s technoscientific superpower, it will almost certainly suffer for the change. … Science itself, in the global sense, will be fine. The deep human curiosities that drive it do not belong to any nation-state. An American abdication will only hurt America.”
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last yr.The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:
Passed my @ttu.edu Atmospheric Science M.S. defense today! Excited to continue on to a PhD with my advisor, @deeplycloudy.bsky.social, looking at lightning with phased array radars
Hi All - We are convening a session at AGU this December, please share with your groups and consider submitting to our session! @ltgbug.bsky.social #lightning #AGU2025
This is @persistent.info’s post with some more technical details – and some further twists like using an LLM to a control an old computer! blog.persistent.info/2025/07/infi...
Infinite Mac Construction Set
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I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways? aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...
Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
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Come for the UI history, stay for the fully usable and complete app and game nostalgia. Really remarkable.
kottke.org@kottke.org · last yr.From Marcin Wichary, a history of Mac settings (1984-2004). The article includes several embedded emulators, so you can actually use the setting panels under discussion. Amazing. [aresluna.org]
From Marcin Wichary, a history of Mac settings (1984-2004). The article includes several embedded emulators, so you can actually use the setting panels under discussion. Amazing. [aresluna.org]
Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
aresluna.org
Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)