Jami Boettcher
@jamiboettch.bsky.social
All about weather radar science at NSSL, keeping the research NWS-focused, and kindness ❤️
Even by Oklahoma standards, this was a stunner 😍
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Even by Oklahoma standards, this was a stunner 😍
Agree completely 😡
"Show up. It's their job"
The gall sometimes. We're all short 5 weeks pay, and the House continues their extended, paid vacation. In any functional government, if you don't have the votes to pass your agenda you compromise to get the important pieces. You don't take your ball and go home.
The gall sometimes. We're all short 5 weeks pay, and the House continues their extended, paid vacation. In any functional government, if you don't have the votes to pass your agenda you compromise to get the important pieces. You don't take your ball and go home.
If you just cancel flights, then they're actually not late! Brilliant stuff from Sean Duffy here
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Agree completely 😡
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The Nashville radar is down. But, the good people who serve you every day at the NWS finally received the 130lb palette with the part on it. Their two techs are now lugging that part to the top of the radar tower to try and get the radar operational before SVR arrives. All while not being paid.
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Nashville radar is down. But, the good people who serve you every day at the NWS finally received the 130lb palette with the part on it. Their two techs are now lugging that part to the top of the radar tower to try and get the radar operational before SVR arrives. All while not being paid.
Amen to this! 👇
i am much more concerned with falling behind the rest of the world in this than i am falling behind in chatbot technology
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Amen to this! 👇
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Traffic fatalities for kids rise on Halloween. Drive carefully.
Study of 42 years of Halloweens and 1 ,580,608 traffic crashes reveals relative risk of a pedestrian fatality is 43% higher on Halloween compared with control evenings. A typical Halloween results in 4 additional pedestrian deaths.
Study of 42 years of Halloweens and 1 ,580,608 traffic crashes reveals relative risk of a pedestrian fatality is 43% higher on Halloween compared with control evenings. A typical Halloween results in 4 additional pedestrian deaths.
Pedestrian Fatalities Associated With Halloween in the United States
This study examines 42 years of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data to establish whether Halloween is associated with an increased rate of pedestrian fatalities.
jamanetwork.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I felt a moment of peace just looking at this image ❤️
Amongst all going on tonight, I post this radar velocity image. No weather, just the last of bird migration. The radar is the little black circle in the middle. All the birds in green above where the radar is are heading south. Those below it in red are also heading south.
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I felt a moment of peace just looking at this image ❤️
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Echoing colleagues: Think before you (re)post. #Melissa is about to impact a relatively poor part of Jamaica. I doubt we will know the true extent of the devastation for days or weeks.
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
October 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Echoing colleagues: Think before you (re)post. #Melissa is about to impact a relatively poor part of Jamaica. I doubt we will know the true extent of the devastation for days or weeks.
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
This quote captures our meteorology community emotions so well, though few of us get to experience this kind of front row seat. 😳
That stark combination of scientific wonder and deep concern for those on the ground. Given this is during a shutdown, extra hard to concentrate these days. 💔
That stark combination of scientific wonder and deep concern for those on the ground. Given this is during a shutdown, extra hard to concentrate these days. 💔
Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci flew into the eye of Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm that is projected to hit Jamaica.
“It was equal parts scientifically stunning and horrifying from a humanitarian standpoint,” he wrote, flying in one of two groups of hurricane hunters. https://wapo.st/42XpWmq
“It was equal parts scientifically stunning and horrifying from a humanitarian standpoint,” he wrote, flying in one of two groups of hurricane hunters. https://wapo.st/42XpWmq
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This quote captures our meteorology community emotions so well, though few of us get to experience this kind of front row seat. 😳
That stark combination of scientific wonder and deep concern for those on the ground. Given this is during a shutdown, extra hard to concentrate these days. 💔
That stark combination of scientific wonder and deep concern for those on the ground. Given this is during a shutdown, extra hard to concentrate these days. 💔
Where is FEMA, indeed 😡
October 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Where is FEMA, indeed 😡
Being born before the measles vaccine, my immunity is “natural”. Yes, I survived but haven’t forgotten how miserably sick I was. Denying this vaccine for your kids exposes them to at minimum a miserable experience. How can parents be OK with that?
Our grandparents would have crawled across broken glass to get vaccinated, they saw what these diseases did — firsthand.
Many of us have no personal frame of reference for how bad these diseases are, until it is too late.
Preferring to believe some batsh*t crazy stuff online.
Get vaccinated.
Many of us have no personal frame of reference for how bad these diseases are, until it is too late.
Preferring to believe some batsh*t crazy stuff online.
Get vaccinated.
US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts
The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther north
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Being born before the measles vaccine, my immunity is “natural”. Yes, I survived but haven’t forgotten how miserably sick I was. Denying this vaccine for your kids exposes them to at minimum a miserable experience. How can parents be OK with that?
Just noting this is not a “full” government shutdown. A real shutdown would mean lights out for ATC; no weather radar or satellite data. No weather forecast modeling output. No SS checks. This is just a slice of everyday federal services Americans take for granted.
PIMCO, on the #shutdown:
“.. At this point, this standoff feels like a war of attrition with neither side suggesting they will blink .. we think is likely to last until November and possibly extend to Thanksgiving.
“.. we are on the precipice of the longest full government shutdown in history.”
“.. At this point, this standoff feels like a war of attrition with neither side suggesting they will blink .. we think is likely to last until November and possibly extend to Thanksgiving.
“.. we are on the precipice of the longest full government shutdown in history.”
October 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Just noting this is not a “full” government shutdown. A real shutdown would mean lights out for ATC; no weather radar or satellite data. No weather forecast modeling output. No SS checks. This is just a slice of everyday federal services Americans take for granted.
Shutdown for me means working from home. Yes, I am fortunate; just miss interacting with colleagues SO MUCH 😞
Also pandemic memories are lurking and I feel a bit trapped. My colleagues who are working without pay are trapped in a different way. May we have some sanity in Congress soon. 🙏
Also pandemic memories are lurking and I feel a bit trapped. My colleagues who are working without pay are trapped in a different way. May we have some sanity in Congress soon. 🙏
a small rat is in a jar with a green lid
Alt: a small rat is in a jar with a green lid
media.tenor.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Shutdown for me means working from home. Yes, I am fortunate; just miss interacting with colleagues SO MUCH 😞
Also pandemic memories are lurking and I feel a bit trapped. My colleagues who are working without pay are trapped in a different way. May we have some sanity in Congress soon. 🙏
Also pandemic memories are lurking and I feel a bit trapped. My colleagues who are working without pay are trapped in a different way. May we have some sanity in Congress soon. 🙏
Another failed bull gear
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
"The bathroom. It's... bad."
"The bathroom. It's... bad."
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
Mandatory mid-semester LMS migration.
Mandatory mid-semester LMS migration.
October 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Another failed bull gear
American humans: we are all more at risk from weather-induced disasters. While the remaining scientists run to the rooftops slamming pots and pans, any loss of messaging costs lives and horrific disruption for survivors. #NotADrill 💔
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
October 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
American humans: we are all more at risk from weather-induced disasters. While the remaining scientists run to the rooftops slamming pots and pans, any loss of messaging costs lives and horrific disruption for survivors. #NotADrill 💔
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Chaos continues at the CDC as now HHS says some firings were "mistakes." I talk about why all of this matters for those concerned about weather and climate science. Also, serious coastal impacts along the East Coast today while flash flooding continues in areas of Southwest. tinyurl.com/bdf3tfjw
Looking at the chaos at the CDC and why it matters for federal meteorological science
In weather, significant coastal impacts peak on the East Coast next 36 hours, while flash flooding continues to impact parts of the Southwest
tinyurl.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Chaos continues at the CDC as now HHS says some firings were "mistakes." I talk about why all of this matters for those concerned about weather and climate science. Also, serious coastal impacts along the East Coast today while flash flooding continues in areas of Southwest. tinyurl.com/bdf3tfjw
I haven’t been in a convenience store in ages, but can empathize with this 🤣
Every time I stop in a 7/11, I get stuck behind someone who has A System™ for the Powerball, MegaMillions and three other random lotteries, barking out their tried-and-true sequence of numbers to the cashier like he's trying to keep the island on LOST from exploding.
October 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I haven’t been in a convenience store in ages, but can empathize with this 🤣
Still greatly recommend #EverythingWeather even when the forecast itself continues to suck. #MakeItStop 🤓🤣
October 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Still greatly recommend #EverythingWeather even when the forecast itself continues to suck. #MakeItStop 🤓🤣
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12 years is a long time. A good stretch. But the EF-5 “drought” has ended.
Also, this is a lesson to the Monday morning quarterbacks that this took *3 months* to confirm. Good analysis takes time. So save your hot takes immediately after an event.
Also, this is a lesson to the Monday morning quarterbacks that this took *3 months* to confirm. Good analysis takes time. So save your hot takes immediately after an event.
#FGF issues Public Information Statement (PNS) at Oct 6, 9:30 AM CDT ...Enderlin Tornado #1 Upgraded to EF-5... Link
October 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
12 years is a long time. A good stretch. But the EF-5 “drought” has ended.
Also, this is a lesson to the Monday morning quarterbacks that this took *3 months* to confirm. Good analysis takes time. So save your hot takes immediately after an event.
Also, this is a lesson to the Monday morning quarterbacks that this took *3 months* to confirm. Good analysis takes time. So save your hot takes immediately after an event.
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Wind turbines do not explode when they fail.
Neither do solar energy panels.
Industrial iron-air batteries, now being built in West Virginia, can store power for 4 days.
For when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine.
Neither do solar energy panels.
Industrial iron-air batteries, now being built in West Virginia, can store power for 4 days.
For when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine.
A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW
October 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Wind turbines do not explode when they fail.
Neither do solar energy panels.
Industrial iron-air batteries, now being built in West Virginia, can store power for 4 days.
For when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine.
Neither do solar energy panels.
Industrial iron-air batteries, now being built in West Virginia, can store power for 4 days.
For when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine.
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Oklahoma (and others places) weather PSA: October entrenched ridge sucks (science term); only good news is it’s not a July entrenched ridge.
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Oklahoma (and others places) weather PSA: October entrenched ridge sucks (science term); only good news is it’s not a July entrenched ridge.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Oklahoma (and others places) weather PSA: October entrenched ridge sucks (science term); only good news is it’s not a July entrenched ridge.
🤓😞
Oklahoma (and others places) weather PSA: October entrenched ridge sucks (science term); only good news is it’s not a July entrenched ridge.
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I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
Republicans in Washington did this.
This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.
So many federal heroes ❤️🩹
Just a reminder that NWS is considered essential during a government shutdown. Meteorologists will still go to work, forecasts will still be made, watches and warnings will be issued, data will flow. We won’t be paid until the shutdown ends, but we’ll still protect life and property as always.
October 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
So many federal heroes ❤️🩹
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🗳️ AMS Members: Have you voted yet?
Elections for President-Elect and Council are now underway!
Don't miss this chance to make your voice heard 🔊 Read candidate statements and cast your vote before 26 November: bit.ly/3UfSBvK
Elections for President-Elect and Council are now underway!
Don't miss this chance to make your voice heard 🔊 Read candidate statements and cast your vote before 26 November: bit.ly/3UfSBvK
October 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🗳️ AMS Members: Have you voted yet?
Elections for President-Elect and Council are now underway!
Don't miss this chance to make your voice heard 🔊 Read candidate statements and cast your vote before 26 November: bit.ly/3UfSBvK
Elections for President-Elect and Council are now underway!
Don't miss this chance to make your voice heard 🔊 Read candidate statements and cast your vote before 26 November: bit.ly/3UfSBvK
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Some of us (like in the @nws.noaa.gov) are excepted, still working without pay. Others are furloughed, sent home and unable to perform work. Grateful for all my federal colleagues showing resilience in tough times. Here’s hoping this shutdown is short. #GovernmentShutdown
October 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Some of us (like in the @nws.noaa.gov) are excepted, still working without pay. Others are furloughed, sent home and unable to perform work. Grateful for all my federal colleagues showing resilience in tough times. Here’s hoping this shutdown is short. #GovernmentShutdown
Some feds work through shutdowns. For the millions of others (feds and affiliates), hours will be spent tomorrow in planning meetings. Then hours preparing to work remotely (me) or to be unable to work for an unknown period of time. Wasting taxpayers dollars thanks to a dysfunctional Congress. 😡
September 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Some feds work through shutdowns. For the millions of others (feds and affiliates), hours will be spent tomorrow in planning meetings. Then hours preparing to work remotely (me) or to be unable to work for an unknown period of time. Wasting taxpayers dollars thanks to a dysfunctional Congress. 😡