Shoutout to Dmitri Kalashnikov, John Abatzoglou, Nicholas Nauslar, Daniel Swain, Danielle Touma and Deepti Singh for their fantastic study of California dry lightning patterns that helped with forecast confidence ahead of today’s lightning siege and associated wildfires.

Engrossing meeting of the minds at the workshop this week. Nine creative yet plausible storylines were developed and a whole range of new cxns made. Thanks again to all who attended, and especially those who made it happen. We're excited to see what this format & these ideas can catalyze!

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I read EPA’s 302-page proposal to nuke the endangered endangerment finding so that you don’t have to, and wrote about what the insanity all means for @climateconnections.bsky.social. Thanks to @gregdotson.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social for the input. Article & 🧵(1/14):

Every country is warming.

Every country is experiencing more extreme weather events because of climate change, mainly caused by burning fossil fuels. www.ShowYourStripes.info

Time to #ShowYourStripes and start climate conversations to prompt actions to reduce emissions, personally & collectively.

Extreme heat is the most deadly weather event in the US.
Images are critical pieces of any news story — they draw readers in and help to communicate the story itself. However, publications continue to publish photos that fail to convey the severity and danger of extreme heat.

Happening now! Tune-in.

Question from a livestream viewer: “How many lives are collectively impacted by [NOAA's] monitoring and rapid response work.”

John Cortinas: “I don’t have any exact numbers, but I would probably start by saying the entire population of the United States…"

Federal weather & climate science is under threat. Starting TODAY at 3:00 PM ET, join a coalition of scientists--including AMS leaders--for a 100-hour livestream. Learn what federal science does for you, ask questions, and help build awareness to "Save Our Forecasts": wclivestream.com

fantastic news!!! Congratulations.

Our 2024 climate chronicles have just been published!

Check out the Collection: www.nature.com/collections/...

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Jha et al. assess 2024 extreme land heat, finding:

- Many record-shattering events globally
- >150 heatwave days in large swathes of S. America

www.nature.com/articles/s43... (rdcu.be/ehobs)

@roshanjha.bsky.social, @climatechirper.bsky.social per.bsky.social, @sarahinscience.bsky.social

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Climate change continued to have unpredictable impacts on wildfire in 2024. Unexpected shifts, like the Americas producing 40% of C emissions (normally it's <25%), and anomalous events, like the fatal Feb '24 Chile fire or the Pantanal wetlands burning, occur more often.

I'm devastated and heartbroken. Staff at the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) got the ax. Most likely means the Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA6) is also cooked. USGCRP was the glue across the Federal family on all things climate - reducing duplication and making efficiencies.

Come join us this summer in Portland, OR for a workshop on compounding and cascading risks.

This is a really good article that clearly connects the firing of hazard scientists to the ability of emergency managers to be able to do their jobs.

www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

An integrated, interactive, and extensible platform for detecting and visualizing compound events. Our new paper in Scientific Data is now available: doi.org/10.1038/s415....
Thanks to my coauthors Mingfang Ting, @kornhuber.bsky.social, Radley M. Horton, Yaping Yang, and Yelin Jiang!

I don’t think a lot of people outside science understand the symbiotic relationship we have between public, private, and educational sectors. We all lean on each other for help, support, and R&D. In most cases, we aren’t competing so much as all rowing different boats in the same direction.

This hurts new and early career investigators (like me) the hardest. Most of us finished our postdocs & started our labs during the COVID-19 pandemic with shutdowns and supply issues at that time. Now we’re being hit with ::all of this::

www.science.org/content/arti...

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

New work with Dimitr Kalashnikov, Deepti Singh (@climatechirper.bsky.social) and Mingfang Ting!

We demonstrate that record low soil moisture and global warming were major contributors to a record breaking heatwave in Mexico+Texas in 2023

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A statement I must make: