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Impossible..

06.03.2026 03:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A weather chart showing pressure systems and rainfall over the North Atlantic and Western Europe, with coloured precipitation areas and labelled storm tracks.

A weather chart showing pressure systems and rainfall over the North Atlantic and Western Europe, with coloured precipitation areas and labelled storm tracks.

📣 OpenIFS is now open source!

The move will make it easier to collaborate and generate new ideas.

➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...

05.03.2026 09:18 👍 60 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 4
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Smoke visible from the UW-AOS/SSEC rooftop cameras

02.03.2026 18:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cloudy skies tonight during the lunar eclipse.

Cloudy skies tonight during the lunar eclipse.

If you think you're going to see tonight's lunar eclipse, you're not.

Cloudy skies abound tonight, so just sleep through it.

Solar eclipses are better anyways.

02.03.2026 16:40 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Just got confirmation for my tix for both Madison shows. Came through just before 2PM CST Wednesday. There is still hope..

25.02.2026 20:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Presale ticket order came through for both Madison Phish shows this summer. Can't wait!

25.02.2026 20:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#HigherEd #AcademicSky

*Please* amplify this risk.
The US DOE wants to implement an earnings test on all undergrads and grads--if grads of your programs do not earn a specified amount upon receiving their degrees, your programs risk losing federal funding. The earnings tests begin *this October*.

19.02.2026 19:36 👍 31 🔁 37 💬 0 📌 3
Flyer for AOS Leonard Robock Lecture with Dr. Clara Deser

Flyer for AOS Leonard Robock Lecture with Dr. Clara Deser

Join us on Tues, March 24, for our 15th annual Leonard Robock Lecture!

Dr. Clara Deser, senior scientist at NCAR, will discuss "A Range of Outcomes: The Combined Effects of Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on Local Climate.”

Register today: go.wisc.edu/pc3ui6

17.02.2026 16:37 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
UW-AOS Colloquium - February 16, 2026 - John Knox
UW-AOS Colloquium - February 16, 2026 - John Knox YouTube video by UW-AOS UW Madison

Today at 3:30 pm CT: Clear-air turbulence (CAT) research—and plenty of CAT puns—with John Knox, the recipient of the 2025 AOS Distinguished Alumni Award!

Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7AV...

16.02.2026 15:20 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Yeah, I hear influences from a lot of different bands. Should be a fun show. High Noon Saloon is a small place too, holds like 250 people.

13.02.2026 21:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Check this album on whatever streaming service you have.. good stuff!

Eggy Selects: Here and How Tour 2025

13.02.2026 04:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just bought tix to see the band Eggy @eggymusic.bsky.social at High Noon Saloon here in Madison in March. Heard good things about them, really looking forward to to the show!

13.02.2026 03:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If you're still at #AMS2026 and looking for something to see this afternoon, I'll be presenting progress we've made at the @nyswrcc.bsky.social at the 1st Annual Disaster and Emergency Management Symposium, at 2:15 in 352A.

Guest appearance by NY Governor Hochul (sort of).

29.01.2026 19:05 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

25.01.2026 00:43 👍 24925 🔁 12850 💬 200 📌 448

For #AMS2026 - John and @pamknox.bsky.social report that Elevator #14 at the headquarters Hilton should be avoided at all costs. They had to be freed from it by Houston Fire Dept after it got stuck, and the FD told them it happens regularly with that elevator.

24.01.2026 21:27 👍 36 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 5

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

22.01.2026 20:25 👍 15418 🔁 5848 💬 167 📌 239
AI-driven GFS output displayed on a 3D globe in the IDV. The display shows color-shaded mean sea level pressure, a color-filled contour vertical cross section of temperature, 500 mb height contours, and an isosurface of wind speed (roughly depicting jet stream locations).

AI-driven GFS output displayed on a 3D globe in the IDV. The display shows color-shaded mean sea level pressure, a color-filled contour vertical cross section of temperature, 500 mb height contours, and an isosurface of wind speed (roughly depicting jet stream locations).

AI-driven global model output from NCEP is now available in NSF Unidata data streams! Ready to explore? We’ve created an IDV bundle and Jupyter notebook to help you dive in. You can even try them out on the NSF Unidata Science Gateway without installing a thing! www.unidata.ucar.edu/news/ai-driv...

21.01.2026 18:07 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

13.01.2026 17:32 👍 4230 🔁 1525 💬 99 📌 142
Bob Weir And Wolf Bros: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Bob Weir And Wolf Bros: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Damn.. Ripple made me cry on this one. Love the harp on Bird Song too. RIP Bobby.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l_g...

12.01.2026 04:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bob Weir And Wolf Bros: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Bob Weir And Wolf Bros: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

RIP Bobby…

youtu.be/4l_gUwdPrNY?...

11.01.2026 06:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AOS professor Fraser King

AOS professor Fraser King

We're thrilled to welcome Fraser King to our faculty as an assistant professor. Learn more in a brief Q&A with Fraser about his background, research, and what excites him about UW–Madison and AOS: www.aos.wisc.edu/news/q&a_fra...

08.01.2026 19:42 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

I promised myself that I would finish the BUFR blog series before the new year. Not cutting it quite as close as my university assignments, but still, pretty close. The code was done a while ago, the writeup, not so much!

Join me in one last descent into madness?

www.stormscale.io/blog/so-I-am...

31.12.2025 18:19 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Research Internships – Clark Evans, Ph.D.

Students in the atmospheric and related sciences: are you looking for a summer internship? I've just updated my listing of summer internships for the 2026 application cycle. Most deadlines are coming up in January & February!

#weather #climate #reu #research

clarkevanswx.github.io/education/un...

01.01.2026 23:21 👍 22 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1
An image of a robot DJ playing music from speakers. This was the al;bum cover from a K-Tel album of several hit songs from 1977

Tracklist:

A1	Andy Gibb–	I Just Want To Be Your Everything
A2	KC & The Sunshine Band–	Keep It Comin' Love
A3	David Soul–	Don't Give Up On Us
A4	Peter McCann–	Do You Wanna Make Love
A5	The Sylvers–	Hot Line
A6	Marvin Gaye–	Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1)
A7	Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.–	You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)
A8	Wild Cherry–	Play That Funky Music
A9	Bill Conti–	Gonna Fly Now (Theme From "Rocky")
B1	Abba–	Dancing Queen
B2	Kiss–	Beth
B3	Manfred Mann's Earth Band–	Blinded By The Light
B4	Rose Royce–	Car Wash
B5	Kenny Rogers–	Lucille
B6	Kenny Nolan–	I Like Dreamin'
B7	Elton John–	Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
B8	Alice Cooper –	You And Me
B9	Foreigner–	Feels Like The First Time

An image of a robot DJ playing music from speakers. This was the al;bum cover from a K-Tel album of several hit songs from 1977 Tracklist: A1 Andy Gibb– I Just Want To Be Your Everything A2 KC & The Sunshine Band– Keep It Comin' Love A3 David Soul– Don't Give Up On Us A4 Peter McCann– Do You Wanna Make Love A5 The Sylvers– Hot Line A6 Marvin Gaye– Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1) A7 Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.– You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show) A8 Wild Cherry– Play That Funky Music A9 Bill Conti– Gonna Fly Now (Theme From "Rocky") B1 Abba– Dancing Queen B2 Kiss– Beth B3 Manfred Mann's Earth Band– Blinded By The Light B4 Rose Royce– Car Wash B5 Kenny Rogers– Lucille B6 Kenny Nolan– I Like Dreamin' B7 Elton John– Goodbye Yellow Brick Road B8 Alice Cooper – You And Me B9 Foreigner– Feels Like The First Time

Prescient...

29.12.2025 06:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

S.A.N.T.O.S for one of them. PPPP is a good choice!

21.12.2025 04:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Primary time scale failure at NIST Boulder campus; significant impact on NTP services

“In short, the atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due to a prolonged utility power outage. One impact is that the Boulder Internet Time Services no longer have an accurate time reference.”

groups.google.com/a/list.nist....

20.12.2025 15:01 👍 29 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 8

Saw Rush on the Grace Under Pressure tour too. Probably paid like $10 haha. Those were the days..

20.12.2025 15:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The soundtrack to my senior year in HS. Saw them twice on that tour too.

20.12.2025 15:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
TDS Catalog

Looking to check out the new AI GFS output? @pth1.bsky.social is making it available via the @uwmad-aos.bsky.social THREDDS Data Server! thredds.aos.wisc.edu/thredds/cata...

19.12.2025 19:36 👍 10 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
New Wisconsin State Precipitation Record

Wisconsin has a new 24-hour precipitation record: 14.55"

This was recorded by a rain gauge in Milwaukee during the August flooding event and shatters the previous record of 11.72" that was measured on June 24, 1946.

www.weather.gov/mkx/NewWisco...

19.12.2025 15:19 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 3