It's really the red states that need to pray most...or move.
'There will be chaos': Extreme weather expert says Trump cutting 'backbone of everything'
https://www.alternet.org/trump-weather-budget-cuts/
At least 40 people were killed as dozens of tornadoes, storms swept across the U.S. over the weekend.
@abc reports: "An EF-2 tornado that tore through Tylertown, Mississippi, with wind speeds up to 111 miles per hour killed at least three people."
DOGE Is Making It Harder to Track Extreme Weather. What Could Go Wrong?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/weather-service-doge-cuts.html
"These cuts threaten your budget, too. #Insurance companies rely heavily on #data gathered by #NOAA and the #US Geological Survey to assess wildfire, flood, wind and other risks. Some firms are warning that any interruption in data availability could drive insurance premiums for customers even higher."
Who DOGE Hurts: Gutting NOAA
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/who-doge-hurts-gutting-noaa
"the #NOAA was preparing to lay off more than 1,000 workers...
People who live in #hurricane & #tornado country keep their “NOAA #weather radios” handy...
In theory, it sounds like one more bad thing to worry about. In practice, it’s much worse. We’ve just had a demonstration of precisely how effective NOAA is & what we stand to lose without it."
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.
Looks like a fun day ahead for us here in Winston Salem and other parts of NC.
Glad it's a day off and we got all of our errands run yesterday so today, it's stay inside and play video games.
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 (https://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! 
@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)
@edinburgh (Edinburgh - FediMeteo)
@exeter (Exeter - FediMeteo)
@fort_william (Fort William - FediMeteo)
@glasgow (Glasgow - FediMeteo)
@hastings (Hastings - FediMeteo)
@holyhead (Holyhead - FediMeteo)
@hugh_town (Hugh Town - FediMeteo)
@hull (Hull - FediMeteo)
@inverness (Inverness - FediMeteo)
@ipswich (Ipswich - FediMeteo)
@kirkwall (Kirkwall - FediMeteo)
@lamlash (Lamlash - FediMeteo)
@leeds (Leeds - FediMeteo)
@leicester (Leicester - FediMeteo)
@lerwick (Lerwick - FediMeteo)
@liverpool (Liverpool - FediMeteo)
@london (London - FediMeteo)
@londonderry (Londonderry - FediMeteo)
@manchester (Manchester - FediMeteo)
@monmouth (Monmouth - FediMeteo)
@newcastle (Newcastle - FediMeteo)
@newport (Newport - FediMeteo)
@norwich (Norwich - FediMeteo)
@nottingham (Nottingham - FediMeteo)
@omagh (Omagh - FediMeteo)
@oxford (Oxford - FediMeteo)
@peterborough (Peterborough - FediMeteo)
@plymouth (Plymouth - FediMeteo)
@port_ellen (Port Ellen - FediMeteo)
@portree (Portree - FediMeteo)
@portsmouth (Portsmouth - FediMeteo)
@reading (Reading - FediMeteo)
@shanklin (Shanklin - FediMeteo)
@sheffield (Sheffield - FediMeteo)
@southampton (Southampton - FediMeteo)
@st_davids (St David's - FediMeteo)
@stoke_on_trent (Stoke on Trent - FediMeteo)
@sunderland (Sunderland - FediMeteo)
@swansea (Swansea - FediMeteo)
@tarbert (Tarbert - FediMeteo)
@thurso (Thurso - FediMeteo)
@truro (Truro - FediMeteo)
@wakefield (Wakefield - FediMeteo)
@wimborne_minster (Wimborne Minster - FediMeteo)
@wolverhampton (Wolverhampton - FediMeteo)
@wrexham (Wrexham - FediMeteo)
Near Dillon (Montana) #1, 1998. Michael Eastman. #photography #landscape #clouds #weather #nature #geography
What is UV Radiation and how does it impact your health? - UK Met Office
11-minute video: https://youtu.be/3JwC7syMzFY
It’s nice out. 
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.
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.
http://michaelallaby.com/pages/books/the_gardeners_guide_to_weather_and_climate.htm
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?
Shoutout to #FediMeteo @admin and @stefano for the #RSS and #ActivityPub #federated #weather service. Finally, a reliable weather tool across platforms.
A week or so ago I reached out and they added my community. Every time the new weather report post or RSS feed comes through, I appreciate it so much.
Thanks again! #WX #Fediverse
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.
Due to clouds, rain & snow, we likely won't see much of the total lunar eclipse in Montana and Wyoming overnight (~12:30 to ~1:30). Instead, here is a delicious-looking Oreo cookie eclipse!
