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Don’t tell anyone, but according to NCEI records, the US has endured 403 weather & climate disasters since 1980. The total damage? A jaw-dropping $2.915 trillion.

And 2024? It wasn’t pretty. The country saw 27 confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each.

So, good luck in 2025—when Elon Musk and his DOGE-funded emergency response team will be in charge. Hope you like your disaster relief in crypto.

open.substack.com/pub/theclima

open.substack.comExtreme Weather is Surging, But Hey, Who Needs NOAA Anyway?Diary: Sunday, 26 March 2025

UK friends of the #Fediverse
During these days of uncertain weather, you might find it useful to receive weather forecasts directly in your timeline! 🌦️

#FediMeteo (fedimeteo.com - @admin ) is a project that processes #OpenMeteo data and publishes them, country by country and city by city, in the Fediverse, on the individual city's web page and via RSS.

Every 6 hours, a friendly bot updates and publishes the weather data.

How does it work?
➡️ Follow your city's page in the Fediverse.
➡️ If you don't see the forecasts yet, probably no one is following it yet.
➡️ Start following it and, at the next cycle, you'll receive the updates!

🔗 Below, the link for the UK and the list of currently supported cities.

🌍 Decentralised, open-source weather forecasts in the Fediverse! 🌱

uk.fedimeteo.com

@aberdeen (Aberdeen - FediMeteo)
@aberystwyth (Aberystwyth - FediMeteo)
@armagh (Armagh - FediMeteo)
@bangor (Bangor (Wales) - FediMeteo)
@bangor_ireland (Bangor (Northern Ireland) - FediMeteo)
@belfast (Belfast - FediMeteo)
@berwick (Berwick - FediMeteo)
@birmingham (Birmingham - FediMeteo)
@blackpool (Blackpool - FediMeteo)
@bournemouth (Bournemouth - FediMeteo)
@bradford (Bradford - FediMeteo)
@brighton (Brighton - FediMeteo)
@bristol (Bristol - FediMeteo)
@caernarfon (Caernarfon - FediMeteo)
@cambridge (Cambridge - FediMeteo)
@canterbury (Canterbury - FediMeteo)
@cardiff (Cardiff - FediMeteo)
@carlisle (Carlisle - FediMeteo)
@carmarthen (Carmarthen - FediMeteo)
@chelmsford (Chelmsford - FediMeteo)
@colchester (Colchester - FediMeteo)
@coventry (Coventry - FediMeteo)
@derby (Derby - FediMeteo)
@dundee (Dundee - FediMeteo)
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@exeter (Exeter - FediMeteo)
@fort_william (Fort William - FediMeteo)
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@inverness (Inverness - FediMeteo)
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@wolverhampton (Wolverhampton - FediMeteo)
@wrexham (Wrexham - FediMeteo)

fedimeteo.comFediMeteo - Weather Forecasts on the FediverseFediMeteo brings real-time weather updates to the Fediverse with country-specific sites and RSS feeds. Explore country-specific weather forecasts and RSS feeds.
#UK#Weather#Meteo

Wildfires in Texas and Oklahoma.

It’ll be interesting to see if the twerps who were quick to comment from afar about the Los Angeles wildfires will also be as vocal about the supposed “failures” of elected officials in these states.

It’ll probably depend on whether impacted counties are Democrat controlled or not.

abcnews.go.com/US/wildfires-ok

ABC News · Wildfires erupt in Oklahoma, Texas amid extreme fire weather conditionsBy Meredith Deliso

The Gardener’s Guide to Weather and Climate by Michael Allaby, 2015

This is a 313-page book about weather and climate written specifically for gardeners. It explains weather phenomena, describes how the weather produces soils, how plants adapt to climate, and much more.

michaelallaby.com/pages/books/

archive.org/details/gardenersg

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#weather
#gardening

This article in the FT today about the astronomical valuations of a lot of #AI start-ups - most of which seem to have little idea of how they will make revenue let alone profits made me wonder: Google Graphcast , WeatherNext and other NWP applications of #MachineLearning have presumably cost hundreds of millions of dollars too, what could we have done with that money in the #weather and #climate space? Never mind the publicly funded weather services, who provided most of the training data for these services?

Who needs revenue when you’re a multibillion-dollar AI start-up?

on.ft.com/3FGvFUA

A wild afternoon storm here in "sunny Arizona." It's raining like absolute stink, blowing hard, thunder and lightning. I've stopped work in the event I lose electricity.

There's been hardly any rain this winter, so I'm not complaining.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is laying off over 1,000 more employees.

@USAToday reports: "The agency, which includes the National Weather Service, forecasts weather, monitors oceanic and atmospheric conditions and conducts deep-sea exploration, among other responsibilities."

flip.it/nOFD2m

USA TODAY · NOAA laying off another 1,000 employees as part of Trump federal cuts: Live updatesBy , USA TODAY
#NOAA#Trump#News