Lejo Flores, Ph.D.
@hydrolejo.bsky.social
Professor of Hydrology at Boise State. Focused on the intersection of climate, critical zone, and computing.
We'll see if it holds, but another proposed data center in rural, heavily Republican America has gone down after massive pushback.
Pocatello AI data center proposal denied
A public hearing on May 14 resulted in a packed room, with over 90 individuals providing testimony. Gus Schultz had his request for a conditional use permit denied.
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Not to bro out or anything, but from appearances this dude would have trouble repping Sprite mini cans for lateral raises
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhite House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka says anyone asking how the Iran War isn't another forever war is "either low-T" or "mentally challenged"
1. My late Gen Z/early Gen Alpha daughter’s peers throw around “what in the ChatGPT” whenever someone isn’t making sense, and 2. Winning politicos will be the ones that can articulate the inherent worth of an actual human doing/creating - even and perhaps especially when it could be automated
Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 3mo agothis graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
lol… he rage watched it. And presumably skipped the other thing
Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6mo agoImagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH. Good god what a child
Holy shit! Is this true? If so, that’s awesome!
Adam@adubyab.bsky.social · 6mo agoCause that's what heroes do.
One of the domino players in the half time show looked like my 75 year old PhD advisor (who’s Borinqueño)… which was a little heartwarming
At long last: a Super Bowl ad where Bayes’ Theorem makes a cameo #SuperBowlLX
Statewide snowpack remains the worst on record, and it's not even close. It's barely half of where it should be. Again...zero pleasure delivering this news. There are outs, but we're gonna need a railroad track of storms in late February-April to get us out of this. #COwx
If you’re not from Idaho or the West, do yourself a favor and forego reading the Atlantic’s puff piece on Ammon Bundy. There’s nothing to be learned (not surprised he doesn’t like ICE), but it does show the MSM’s continuing failure to understand and take seriously extremist movements in these parts
I remember it like yesterday. I was a space-obsessed 1st grader at Earl Johnson in Golden. My teacher applied for the teacher in space program and was inconsolable. McCauliffe’s backup, from McCall ,did go to space later - and had a huge impact in my early career at Boise State. Spacetime is tiny
NPR@npr.org · 6mo agoForty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today.
Welp. Colorado's snowpack is the worst on record, and there's barely any snow on the way for the mountains for the next 14 days. Northern mountains get a bit on Thursday, but it's a drop in the bucket. This pattern stinks. This winter stinks. #COwx
Unplayable and unwatchable for who, exactly? I’m guessing Broncos and Patriots fans loved it (outcome notwithstanding, from a Broncos’ fan perspective)
ProFootballTalk@profootballtalk.bsky.social · 6mo agoEveryone hates the idea of neutral-site conference championship games. Until the fourth quarter of Patriots-Broncos, which was unplayable -- and unwatchable.
CW3E has prepared a detailed event summary discussing the multiple #AtmosphericRivers that produced heavy precipitation, significant snowfall, and widespread impacts over the US West Coast between 18–27 Dec 2025. Read our extensive analysis here: cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-event-s...
~ 7% global forests is plantation (young) Young (Y) vs Old forests (O): How do water + carbon (C) processes belowground differ? Y: less streamflow & deep gw % O: higher DOC + DIC; deep roots Y&O: can have contrasting DOC CQ; consistent DIC dilution agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Congrats to Fiona Liu, first first authored paper! & a great team @devonkerins.bsky.social Shreya Ramesh Pamela L. Sullivan @billingslab.bsky.social Daniel R. Hirmas @hooriajami.bsky.social @hydrolejo.bsky.social @segura-lab.bsky.social
“Are you afraid now?” This pastor likely knows well that in the Gospels, Jesus’ most intense fear in the Garden of Gethsamane is *not* what he would endure, but rather that he would run from it
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 7mo agoA Minneapolis pastor of an MCC church — a denomination rooted in LGBTQ equality — recounts being detained by ICE. Says an ICE officer walked up to him as he was chanting “we are not afraid.” The agent, he says, raised his gun and said “are you afraid now?” m.youtube.com/watch?v=lcSO...
A large December storm hit the mountains of the Pacific Northwest – and left snow conditions in the Yakima Basin worse off in its wake. How might this event be a harbinger of winters to come? I offer this perspective piece, published today in @theconversation.com #snow #drought #climatechange
The western US is in a snow drought, and storms have been making it worse
A major atmospheric river brought record precipitation to the Pacific Northwest, yet the snow and water supply still suffered. It’s a growing problem.
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UPDATE: Renee Good's family tells 9NEWS she was a widow with a young child
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 7mo agoNEW: A family member confirms to 9NEWS that Renee Good, the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis today, was originally from the Colorado Springs area.
AFC WEST CHAMPS‼️‼️‼️ Goal No. 1 ✅ And we’re still climbing.
This is a really important paper and such a privilege to be involved moving it forward. Sharon did a masterful job of synthesizing data from a diverse array of sites and drawing some super important conclusions for Critical Zone science. I’m confident the community will be interested in this paper
Sharon Billings@billingslab.bsky.social · 8mo agoA whole team helped make this shine: Pamela Sullivan, @lireactivewater.bsky.social @hooriajami.bsky.social Daniel Hirmas, Jesse Nippert, Kamini Singha, @hydrolejo.bsky.social Emma Aronson & the CZNetwork Geomicro team and many others! @cznews.bsky.social @aguadvances.bsky.social
As this article alludes to, while Vought has likely coveted theatrical chance to do this, the timing of this is not at all happenstance. It is inextricably linked to Trump’s ham handed attempt to get Polis to release his state-convicted, election-denying lackey Tina Peters from jail
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo agoExclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
I first learned the term "snow drought" in 2015, when we received normal amounts of winter precipitation in the Northwest but record winter warmth left us with very little snowpack. That summer saw dire outcomes for fish and agriculture due to record low stream flows. "Water, water everywhere..."
The Great Western Snow Drought of 2015
The winter of 2015 brought unusually warm temperatures to the western United States and serves as a classic example of how warm temperatures can cause snow drought. By April 1, not a single basin in t...
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Brooke Jarvis@brookejarvis.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe've gotten absolutely pummeled with rain in the PNW, but all that water is running right out again (through houses and farms and towns...). What we really need is snow, to hold the moisture in place and get us through our dry summers, but that will get more and more rare as the climate warms.
Jesus, I can hear the game at my house, more than 3 miles away
Stoked for the first pub of Stanley Akor’s PhD work in @agu.org Water Resources Research! We examine joint influences of the choose of microphysics scheme and lateral boundary condition dataset in WRF on simulated snowpack in the Rockies of Idaho. #OpenAccess #WRR #WRF #Snow
Impact of Cloud Microphysics Schemes and Boundary Conditions on Modeled Snowpack in the Central Idaho Rocky Mountains, USA
Snowpack simulations in the Central Idaho Rockies are highly sensitive to the choice of microphysics scheme and boundary forcing data set European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast Reanaly...
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