Mark Bove

One for the record books.

Here's the entire radar run of the February 22-23 2026 Blizzard, using @noaa.gov's MRMS dataset.

#snOMG @spann.bsky.social

Best access to my house today is by ski or hoof.

The Pupnado is ready for convective storm season.

Should be in Orlando with my fellow catastrophe risk nerds but instead I’m buried under 18” of snow with no power. Hoping to get out of town tomorrow.

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

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Thanks!

Just tie everything to GDP and it’ll all be ok. </sarcasm>

Any chance I could receive a copy of this gif for work purposes? Good visualization for presentations. Will credit of course.

Cranbury NJ. #ICEOUT

Quite a sting jet

Glad to see you’re coping with boreal daylight increasing in the best way you can.

Remembering the Palisades & Eaton #wildfires / urban conflagrations, 1 year ago today. Pics taken by me in April 2025.

NCAR’s Vin Lally (1922-2005, under the balloon) was a pioneer in the field of atmospheric measurements, and a generous mentor to me when I was a green NOAA lad learning about dropwindsondes. Few were more important to my career development than Vin. Thank you, Vin, and thank you NCAR.

The United States of America Needs the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

A statement from @ametsoc.org on @ncar-ucar.bsky.social
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Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.

Trump Is Mad at Jared Polis. Now He’s Dismantling Colorado’s Leading Weather Research Institution. “If Colorado had a governor who actually wanted to work with President Trump, his constituents would be better served,” a senior White House official told NOTUS.

Nice world class climate research center ya got there. It’d be a shame if something happened to it if you don’t release my convicted felon buddy from jail.

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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.

Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.

Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.

Unbelievable.

I can’t adequately express what a deeply stupid and bad idea this is by the administration.

The damage being done to America’s world class scientific institutions like will have material impacts on American quality of life for decades to come.

Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:

STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food

RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor

SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise

PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification

The western end of Jamaica where #Melissa is projected to make landfall has the least well-built structures of anyplace on the island. Graphic is from a 2021 paper, "Poverty and hurricane risk exposure in Jamaica": www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Received a few questions regarding insurance in Jamaica. Roughly 20% of residential properties currently have insurance. However. Of that ~20%, a remarkable 95% of those properties are "underinsured" -- or not insured for the full value of their home. #Melissa

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There are some remarkable stories & lore that came out of the Labor Day hurricane. Sure Melissa will be similar.

#Melissa: It is not hyperbolic to say that parts of western and central Jamaica will be unrecognizable once the storm passes. This is one of the strongest known tropical cyclones to make landfall anywhere in the world.

And.

Yet another example of a strengthening storm up to the point of landfall.

For @catinsight.bsky.social: here are my full results using 4 RI thresholds by decade. If you want underlying data send me an email.

North Atlantic TCs achieving 150-kt maximum winds since 1966 (the satellite era):

Camille (1969): 150 kt, 905 hPa
Anita (1977): 150 kt, 926 hPa
David (1979): 150 kt, 924 hPa
Allen (1980): 165 kt, 899 hPa
Gilbert (1988): 160 kt, 888 hPa
Andrew (1992): 150 kt, 922 hPa
Mitch (1998): 155 kt, 905 hPa

My jaw dropped. Frightening display of power tonight by Melissa. Please stay safe Jamaica.

Good question Richard. Might be hard with the dearth of major TCs in the first 15 years of this record. When was SFMR introduced operationally? Legit chance that with that tech 50 years ago there might be a few more cases that reach 60kt/24 hrs.