Chris ☈ozoff
@agitatedcu.bsky.social
Cannot jump high, highly motivated by clouds, vector enthusiast, fan of wilderness. Erie, CO
An old classic from the Onion. theonion.com/cheney-waits...
Cheney Waits Until Last Minute Again To Buy Sept. 11 Gifts
WASHINGTON—Busy dealing with important paperwork and other vice presidential duties in recent weeks, Dick Cheney was forced to put off until the last minute a cherished annual tradition: gift-shopping...
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We wanted to understand the AI solution to the Navier–Stokes problem. So we talked to three unvaccinated Joe Rogan listeners at a Beef 'O' Brady's in Fort Myers.
Here are the temperature categories for summer (Jun-Aug) in the Contiguous U.S. Above Normal categories are 83.3% of the map area. Near Normal (middle tercile) areas account for 16.4% of the map area. A paltry 0.3% ended up in the Below Normal category.
Let's talk about the weather and climate changes that preceded the Nepali glacier collapse and landslide. It's well known that Nepal is warming, but we can do better and estimate the changes at the 5200m elevation site where the mass of ice and rock ultimately broke loose. A thread. 🧵🧪
This was a top-notch NCAR explorer series session. This one focuses on wildfires and their prediction and modeling and stars RAL's Jason Knievel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlMi...
Science in the Spotlight: Forecasting wildfire behavior
YouTube video by NSF NCAR & UCAR Science Education
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Hungry bear seen here rerouting me to another trail option.
These 80+ degree mornings in Boulder trail runs make me glad we are ramping up fossil fuels and shutting down wind power. #InfiniteHeatTrainings
I think I missed peak mammatus display but here’s the tail end of something that was probably more spectacular 15 minutes before I noticed it.
You can tell it’s getting closer to fall now that temperatures are in the 80s at 8:30am along the Front Range.
I forgot how good this album is and it hits just right in late summer. Perhaps for fans of the Flying Burrito Brothers and Emmylou Harris. tobaccocity.bandcamp.com/album/horses
Horses, by Tobacco City
12 track album
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“But oppositions have the illimitable range of objections at command, which need never stop short at the boundary of knowledge, but can draw for ever on the vasts of ignorance” - Middlemarch (~1871) by “George Eliot” (Mary Ann Evans; meditating on an issue that remains esp. pervasive today.)
Never good when they pull out the coffin shaped flood warnings.
Like a lot of the summer, but today especially, we have so much humidity in Erie, CO to once again give away to our neighbors for beneficial rain production.
Just like storms named "Chris" (except 2018, I guess), my Spanish storm version is also living up to its usual expectations.
Andy Snyder@wxandbiscuits.bsky.social · last mo.Throwaway-ass tropical storm
Non-hydro renewables (primarily wind and solar) are on track to pass gas this year as the second largest source of electricity generation globally. The rapid over the past 10 years is pretty remarkable! Hat tip to Michael Liebreich for the plot idea.
I had Claude put together a program to plot CO statewide daily averages of ACIS GridData with an area mean. The plot using ACIS only goes back to 1951, but the program can also go back to the 1800s using GHCN stations (with limitations in spatial coverage). You can see how warm 2026 (bold black) is.
Local Woman Just Thinks Flaming Forest Could Find More Peaceful Way to Protest Climate Change: tinyurl.com/k8dmr9d7
Curious about air quality during wildfire season and how it can impact our health? NSF NCAR scientist Forrest Lacey shares insights in our next Science in the Spotlight webinar. 📅Thursday, Aug. 13 from 3-4 p.m. MT 🌐 Virtual webinar More details: https://edec.ucar.edu/events/wildfires-AQ
This DJF El Nino-related seasonal prediction is accurate because it captures the permanent Erie, Colorado precipitation hole.
Anthony Edwards@edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · last mo.The latest @ecmwf.int seasonal forecast paints coastal California with >8 inches above normal precipitation from December–February. That would be about 170% of normal for San Francisco (~22 inches). This is just a computer prediction, but El Niño may have an outsized influence this winter. #CAwx
Urban firestorms like the one that devastated Spokane Saturday have been growing more common because of increased development in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) and climate change. In this post, I document 9 such fires since 2016 in the U.S. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/urba...
Urban firestorm devastates Spokane as dense smoke envelops the Northwest » Yale Climate Connections
Climate change, combined with development in high-risk areas, is making urban wildfires more likely.
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This is a really nice overview to share with climate change curious family members and friends.
Kate Marvel@drkatemarvel.bsky.social · last mo.Extreme weather is complicated (there are over 150 definitions of drought in the literature!), the Earth system is complex, models are imperfect, and we still have much to learn. But it's remarkable how spot-on most of our predictions have been: drawdown.org/insights/is-...
This smoke is thick enough it may mask fire radiative power that drives the smoke source info the model requires for good forecasts, and therefore, this may lead to underestimates of smoke in coming days. We saw this in the models for Sept 2020 in the same region.
Dr. Jeff Masters@drjeffmasters.bsky.social · last mo.18Z HRRR-Smoke model predicts wildfire smoke to cause "Unhealthy" (red) to "Very Unhealthy" (purple) AQI in the major population centers of the Pacific NW and SW BC on Tuesday as a ridge of high pressure brings NE winds. Also a major heat risk for Portland, OR, with temps in the upper 90s .
Here are by year and by decade plots of record lows and record highs over time in Denver. I used Claude and xmACIS2 to create this plot for the official Denver observing site (which has moved, but does not explain the monumental changes in time).
Well, it's official...Denver just hit 90° for the 28th time this month, setting a new record for most 90-degree days for any month on record. Old record: 27 days (July 1964 + 2012). #COwx
