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And also, I see what you did there…

Oh, FOX6. I’m guessing this was one of their fluff stories leading into the last weather update from Tom Wachs in the 9PM newscast?

Colorado SunFest 2026 Panel: How to prepare yourself from Colorado’s unpredictable weather Chris Bianchi and Mike Nelson will discuss the challenges of predicting weather in Colorado at Colorado SunFest 2026.

Colorado SunFest 2026 Panel: How to prepare yourself for Colorado’s unpredictable weather

Here's an example from the 0100 UTC 11 March NBM for Erie, CO, looking at high/low temperatures for next Wednesday to Saturday. The whiskers are the 10-90th percentile. The 50th percentile highs are 89-93°F, but the means are in the low-mid 80s because of a very few extreme outliers. #COwx

The NBM earlier today had 50th percentile highs in the low 90s later next week. Way too early for that.

In today's hyper-online era, I wonder if peoples' tolerance for false alarms relative to early alerts has changed, and how it varies across demographics/primary info sources. Online hyper alerts proliferate, but so too do antagonists calling out every missed forecast on every NWS WFO Facebook feed.

Weather Analysis and Forecasting / Numerical Weather Prediction Conference Student Travel Grant Awards Student presentations selected as part of the 34WAF/30NWP conferences have the option of being judged, with a $50 award going to the top 3 oral and poster presentations in each conference (12 awards total). Also, once abstracts have been submitted, the WAF/NWP committee will offer three $375 travel grants to students whose abstracts have been accepted. Students who wish to be considered for a travel grant must send the following documents to the program chairs (austin.coleman@noaa.gov, john.lind@noaa.gov, jbravo2@stevens.edu, and tomer@windbornesystems.com) no later than Friday, April 3rd, 2026: Statement of why they wish to attend the WAF/NWP conferences - Statement of commitment to attend if they receive the travel grant - Letter of support from their advisor - Ensure that you have submitted an abstract to the WAF or NWP conferences before the abstract submission deadline

Hi everyone! With the abstract submission deadlines for the 2026 AMS Madison Joint Summit coming up, wanted to advertise these student award and travel opportunities available via the AMS WAF/NWP conferences. Feel free to spread the word to any interested students!

Enjoy this photo of a bald eagle high above me earlier this afternoon!

March 7, Erie. Winter’s done - spring’s here.

The surface sensible heat flux was likely not so negative over the frozen lake, so… checkmate.

Officially official — congratulations!

Green leaves on trees outside of the Boulder NOAA facility

March 5, Boulder. Drop 0.25-0.5” of liquid into the ground tomorrow and follow it up with the predicted warm up and it’s going to get green in a hurry around here.

Some exciting news to share: very soon, NOAA Research will be hiring new federal employees into science positions across the agency! A couple of notes:

1) They will only be open on USAJobs for seven days.
2) Multiple positions at different sites may be in one posting.

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Those scientists are eligible for these positions, but I expect most to be weather-related in some form. I don’t know details of which labs can hire and how many they will be able to hire, though.

And to add, you can create saved searches on USAJobs that will alert you to matches as they are posted.

help.usajobs.gov/how-to/searc...

My lab (GSL) anticipates hiring someone well-versed (mid-ish career) in AI for numerical weather prediction. Other labs will have their own priorities for this round as well. If this interests you and you want to chat further, let me know! (And get ready to apply soon!)

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Some exciting news to share: very soon, NOAA Research will be hiring new federal employees into science positions across the agency! A couple of notes:

1) They will only be open on USAJobs for seven days.
2) Multiple positions at different sites may be in one posting.

(1/2)

Good riddance to him. He never listened to anyone below him, from Deans on down, and UWM is weaker for his tenure.

Television pioneer Fred Rogers, gone 23 years ago today.

His acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award is always worth a watch.

#RIP 💔

February 27, 2025 was a dark day. Thinking of all of the NOAA colleagues we lost one year ago today. Every time one of them makes it back to NOAA is a time to celebrate.

Lenticulars over the Sangre de Cristos. No, there’s not really snow below 9-10k ft. #COwx

If you or someone you know has interest in this open-rank position, we begin reviewing applications soon! Though the title highlights radar meteorology, we're highly interested in folks with expertise in meteorology on the mesoscale and the convective scale.

OK, a couple more notes:
-The Weather Act of 2017 only provided two years of appropriations for select activities. This would provide five.
-There’s a new section on unfunded priorities, telling NOAA to tell Congress what $ they need to fulfill statutory regs but was not in the President’s budget.

(no extra appropriations for the AR program)

-A coastal flooding and storm surge forecast improvement program (no extra appropriations).
-The National Integrated Heat Health Information System.
-Furthering aircraft turbulence and icing obs, forecasts, and warnings.

(That’s all from me tonight.)

-A new Precipitation Forecast Improvement Program, building on NOAA’s Precip Prediction Grand Challenge (but no extra appropriations for this).
-Authorizes a new next-gen NWP initiative.
-A new Atmospheric Rivers Forecast Improvement Program, building on NOAA’s Water in the West program. (3/n)

-Expands the tsunami program to include a research focus, with five years of authorized appropriations.
-Observations planning, esp. commercial data, satellites (including GeoXO), and Radar Next.
-Computing, esp. related to AI, cloud, collabs with DOE, and next-gen probabilistic modeling. (2/n)

Some highlights:
-Authorizes appropriations for five years for OAR’s weather labs and cooperative institutes, plus related weather research efforts.
-Renews and authorizes appropriations for five years for VORTEX-USA.
-Furthers HFIP, with a renewed emphasis on social sciences. (1/n)

Progress on this act has been held up while the House and Senate negotiate behind closed doors. I’m guessing it coming up now means there is likely an agreement framework in place. We’ll have to see if/when the companion House bill is introduced and how different it is from the Senate bill. (2/2)

S.3926, the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Reauthorization Act of 2026, will be marked up in committee next week. It’s a bipartisan act that should be able to pass the Senate without much issue. A comprehensive summary is available below. (1/2)

www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/2/cantw...

Map of the United States and Mexico showing the probability of accumulated precipitation greater than .10 inches for Wednesday, February 18, 2026. Highest probability (yellow color) over the west, midwest, and northeast.

Huge congrats to Daniel Abdi, a CIRES scientist @noaa.gov GSL, who received a 2025 NOAA OAR Team Member of the Year Award for exemplary leadership in spearheading the development of HRRR-Cast, a groundbreaking machine learning framework that has redefined high-resolution weather forecasting!