This is the most infuriating part of data center and water discourse. Alfalfa exports use way more water than data centers, and no one cares.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · last wk.

talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet

Had some flash flooding last night in Grants. The ripple marks are in sediment deposited on the road above a culvert. We had 1+ inches of rain in less than an hour on top of the mesa. Gravity took charge after that. #nmwx

So, my games are just a little old. I think the median release date is the 1990’s. my9games.com/en/s/56c7bb0...

That was the culmination of a brutal summer forecasting TC’s for Loon, we had a launch site on the eastern shore of PR at former NAS Roosevelt Roads, and I had to forecast the likelihood of tropical storm force winds 72 hours out since that was how long it took to button up the site.

Brian McNoldy@bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of the most infamous and violent hurricane landfalls in recent memory occurred 9 years ago today: Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico (September 20, 2017). The animation ends abruptly when the radar was obliterated by the upper-end Category 4 hurricane.

Completely befuddled. Especially when I answer the question, “Well, how did you get here?” Letting the days go by…

Beaux 🕋@obsidian.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Would 20 y/o you be impressed or disappointed by you today?

In ye olden days this would be a gargantuan pair of county warnings including both Grants and Rio Rancho. Kids these days have no idea.

IEMBOT ABQ@abq.weather.im · 3w ago

ABQ continues Severe Thunderstorm Warning [wind: 60 MPH (RADAR INDICATED), hail: 1.00 IN (RADAR INDICATED)] for Cibola, Sandoval [NM] till 5:45 PM MDT Link

This is a really good paper and fits the strengths of the coding LLMs (independent oracles keep the agents in line). Whats going to be hilarious is when Reviewer 2 uses your toolchain to prove you’re wrong.

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This linear storm in Grants is LOUD: malpais.app#v=3&s=KABX&m... #nmwx

Just to add on to this, Malpais.app started because I wanted to see if using the ICDs, could Claude write a L2 parser. And now it’s my daily driver for keeping track of my local weather.

Kelton Halbert@stormscale.io · 3w ago

Finally (for real): Consider it for things you would’ve never had the time or energy to try. That’s where these tools shine. One off, throwaway scripts and tools are a great place to start. I will also hazard a half-prediction and say that I think this could be the era of personal software.

A brief word about naming conventions for Malpais.app. Though bodies of water are not currently labeled, the canonical names include the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. And my state is New Mexico. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Ooh, I’m retired now, so I can say that this was not great for the geosciences either. I didn’t understand how switching from a quantified metric with known issues to unquantifiable metrics that could be gamed would be an improvement.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I would say that of the things that ‘woke 1’ actually resulted in being made into policy this might legitimately be one of the worst

This little pipsqueak made the first thunder of the day in Grants. #nmwx

I've heard reports of snow on Mauna Kea as #Lala passes through. This cross section of reflectivity from PHKM on the north side suggests that's it's snowing HARD. We now have terrain in malpais.app thanks to @mapterhorn.com malpais.app#v=3&s=PHKM&m...

RHI of the eyewall of TS #Lala as it's passing south of the Big Island of Hawaii. #wx #hiwx malpais.app#v=3&s=PHWA&m...

someone is gonna need to write this book

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Jerry Hendrix shouldn't be able to show his face in public without someone yelling at him about this

This thread is an exemplar of the failure modes of Bluesky. A historian posts a history paper created by Fable 5 as a benchmark of the current state of the art. The result: General AI rage, users raging without reading the thread or linked material, and overall just lack of good faith engagement.

Jim Clifford@jimclifford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Are we ready for machine written history? When given access to a well structured large historical dataset, Claude’s Fable 5 can identify a topic, complete the research and write a strong and original draft research paper. This has the potential to break peer review, graduate school, & job searches.

@stormscale.io Since there's a live Flash Flood Emergency, I thought I'd share how my app handles the IBW tags. Basically, Emergencies float to the top of the warning list and the borders are very thick. I'm open to suggestions/comments since I'm not a UX guru. malpais.app#v=3&s=KJKL&m...

I've added the TIGER road shapefile to malpais.app to help people track the #Spokane wildland fire. #wa #wawildfire #wawx malpais.app#v=3&s=KOTX&m...

I've been watching this storm from the kitchen window for the past hour or so, it's been a great lightning producer. On the 3D radar view from malpais.app, you can clearly see how multiple updrafts are feeding the same stratiform layer. Really neat. #nmwx

One of the papers I was working on back in my Google days is finally out: High-resolution simulations reveal positive global warming feedback from Pacific low clouds | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

High-resolution simulations reveal positive global warming feedback from Pacific low clouds

High-resolution simulations reveal that direct carbon dioxide effects nonlinearly amplify positive low-cloud feedbacks.

science.org

We have a gorgeous monsoon thunderstorm SW of Grants right now. It looks great in the 3D radar visualization I'm working on for malpais.app

For my peeps still in academia, only 3 mentions of weather in the report and ZERO climate mentions.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ahead of a hearing before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee tomorrow, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a 120-pg report, "Science: A New Golden Age" www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... Here's the summary from the press release:

Velocity/Reflectivity panels of the TOR warned storm near Munsfordville, KY. malpais.app#v=3&s=KLVX&m...

Now that TS #Bertha is active in the Gulf of Mexico, I've added some new features to malpais to help track tropical storms. We now have links to NHC products, tropical watches/warnings, and peak storm surge forecasts. malpais.app#v=3&s=KMOB&m...

Well, I'm under a flash flood warning thanks to the first storm of the day firing off of Mt Taylor. Look at how good the polygon boundary matches the precip extent. #nmwx Permalink: malpais.app#v=3&s=KABX&m...

Last night was some pretty bad flash flooding in Gallup, NM, the El Rancho Hotel reported 4 feet of water in the basement. The moisture is still hanging around, KGUP's dewpoint is a muggy 53F. This is the view I'm using to maintain situational awareness: malpais.app#v=3&s=KABX&m...

First monsoon season in Grants, and I’ve already got my first rainbow over Mt Taylor.

Monsoon thunderstorm near Mt Taylor at 237 MDT. Radar and photo are valid at the same time. Link goes directly to archived scan. malpais.app#v=3&s=KABX&m...

New update for malpais.app: permalinks. Every scan resolves to a URL, everything's encoded in a fragment: site, timestamp, tilt, layout, even warnings/LSRs. Doesn't go to the server, so it doesn't get logged. No more re-navigating to show someone what you saw. A few from this year's worst days:🧵

Virga at sunset in Grants, NM.