Rob Carver

Jeff on the TV

Awesome to see one of my groomsmen, @vortexjeff.bsky.social , talking about synoptic meteorology on tv

KH billows in altocumulus

KH billows in altocumulus

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability near Grants, NM #nmwx

Sounds like a fun project.

Pretty much. Im curious to see how far Julia gets. After ten years in the Alphabet ecosystem, I’m inclined to investigate anything whose developers aren’t beholden to the promo cycle. (Jax, tensorflow, etc)

Well, I’ll throw out something to provoke debate. With all of the modeling papers and tech reports, there’s enough info to write a detailed spec for an agentic AI and see what it can produce using each language/toolchain. Probably a better use of GPU cores than yet another ERA5 trained model.

All of the climate scientists and academic mets did jump to bsky. And most of the operational mets followed.

We got tired of dealing with climate change deniers.

In the misty distant past of my academic career, most of the private sector-relevant material was either “Get a CCM” or broadcast tv related. Both of which are booming sectors of the AMS membership.

67. Hypocrisy On the whiplash of this chaotic moment

I wrote about how the people who mourn Vicki Weaver and Lavoy Finicum are not, for the most part, mourning Renee Good or Alex Pretti.

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Wasn’t his nickname among the students “Big Red” or something like that? (Ken Minschwaner was my undergraduate research advisor)

* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible for an extended period of time, including areas along I-40 from Tijeras Canyon to Grants. The weight of accumulating snow will stress the power grid, potentially creating outages. An extended period of cold temperatures will increase the risk of frostbite and hypothermia.

It’s never good when @abq.weather.im uses your location as a landmark in the winter storm watch.

As we speak, DFW ground crews are frantically looking for the five deicers that were last seen near the old Braniff HQ. God speed to everyone going to #AMS2026

Ahh, I remember the ice storm for AMS in San Antonio. Good times were had by all.

Mount Taylor/Tsoodzil east of Grants.

So I’ve got a major life announcement that I’m rolling out on all my socials. After a serious health scare last year, I have decided to retire and relocate to New Mexico. My job now is to make sure that my family gets to work and school. Hopefully I’ll be able to work on my landscape photography.

Have to add autumnplot-gl to my personal backlog for Q1.

NCL for my grad school work, at Wunderground we used GrADS for interactive model maps.

Obviously a rough draft since Flower Mound and Southlake haven’t been renamed, and they really deserve it.

Without Unidata, the company I co-founded, Weather Underground, would never have come to be.

If you’re taking requests, I’d love to see a random simulation slide to see how they visualized the sims Back In The Day.

Did Bob W take these? Or just part of his research collection?

My list of programs does not include Michigan because Michigan is always #1 for this competition.

It's that time of the year when all college football fans show their spite towards their rival fanbases by trying to give the most money to @newap-georgia.bsky.social #weathersky here is how some of the better known met programs are doing www.moneycannon.org?t=head-to-he...

The CI.

Will there be more students than professionals at AMS2026? I mean , Princeton’s CI is probably the first domino for the other CI’s, NCAR is probably toast, the drama about EESM shows DOE programs are at risk, and NASA is going to give all their money to SpaceX. #strictlymypersonalopinion

There are days when I wonder about the future of our discipline.

But not that unusual given TX-26’s history. Dick Armey was Michael Burgess’s predecessor.

The results were bad enough to forestall the proposed cuts. I’m not particularly eager to run that experiment again.

This may be a sea story, but there is a tale that in the 90’s, NWS was considering slashing radiosonde launch frequency/locations. Ron McPherson, then head of NMC/NCEP ran an experiment showing the impact of the proposed cuts on forecast quality. (1/x)