The award for terrible weather UI design goes to this prompt from Gemini. 69°C|°F, whatever that means.
K Griffin
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Meteorologist, homebrewer, Forward Madison, Chelsea, USA, AFC Wimbledon. Data data data.
I hear some of y'all are gonna be hanging out with this cool cat later this week.
The Fourth of July fireworks show on the National Mall could be the world’s largest ever, which means the possibility of record-breaking levels of pollution — levels so high, people could get sick.
‘I'm going to Maryland': 12,000% increase in fireworks could make Mall-goers sick
The Fourth of July fireworks show on the National Mall could be the world’s largest ever, which means the possibility of record-breaking levels of pollution — levels so high, people could get sick. Sc...
nbcwashington.com
This Magic School Bus publication from the late 90s leaves a lot to be desired. Or maybe I just don't know my, ahem, "Fujito" scale 🫠
Sometimes "no" is hard to define, especially for large and powerful organizations.
If you didn't know any better, you might look at this corner of the ORD departure queue and think that Fort Wayne and Madison must be very important, busy destinations.
These are insane statistics. For NSF Geosciences, there have been just 74 grants awarded in the ~6mo of FY26 so far, 19.6% of FY21-24 avg 377. The obligations ($) are larger per grant, but the comparison even to FY25 is even more striking. With only $75M awarded, it's long way to the floor of $1.2B.
Noam Ross@noamross.net · 4mo agoFor #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
Extreme Cold Warning for lows of 21F. Don't mind me being out there in short sleeves on Monday and Tuesday... (I know, I know...)
Some of the coolest science I've heard in a while. Pretty solid evidence given the lack of ability to directly measure the environment on Mars. www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
At long last, the mystery of lightning on Mars is solved
A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected for decades but never seen.
npr.org
The dozens (?) of NVDOT traffic cameras along the strip are a fun way to watch F1 qualifying without worrying about your ESPN subscription - all have real-time video feeds. www.nvroads.com
Another sign of an intense event - when SWPC goes _hard_ down. Reminds of the NHC site during big events way back in the day.
I already got some great clear-sky shots earlier this evening before the clouds came back in a second time, but views like this of the current substorm are just a tease
This photo from Sept 2022 was surfaced to me and, uhm, I think we're going to need more of this beverage all too soon...
Nauseatingly intense winds. That ML150 value is likely what supported the 10a ET bump to 160kt. Remember dropsonde winds are the equivalent of gusts, but 172kt gust at the surface is beyond insane.
Finally a dropsonde message got out. 892mb. Lightning continues across much of the western semicircle.
Must've been some mess that got made on the way through the eyewall to have this long of a hold inside the eye. Typically it's either a cleanup or, on occasion, an equipment check. The up-and-down blue lines and low red line values in the top left chart indicates the time spent circling in the eye.
The satellite images remain unparalleled - yet also utterly sickening when you see the outline of Jamaica just a half degree of latitude (so, ~30 miles) north of the northern edge of the pink truck tire.
Lightning only now beginning to encompass the entire eyewall of Melissa, or at least an uptick in lightning counts if you don't fully trust the GOES lightning mappers.
I've seen a lot of dropsondes over my years, and a peak wind of 210kt - even at the top of/just beyond the boundary layer - is wild to see. Might be up there in the ranks of all-time strongest dropsonde-measured gusts as well.
The chargers on the AF 223 fleet has a leg up on the KLM 195s. Also makes sense given that AF bans all in-flight use of power banks.
