Steve Nesbitt

Thank you @lcdsoundsystem.bsky.social for the timeline cleanse

Having a rechunked zarr archive where the chunks are the the pressure levels would be the way to go. BTW here you go @mikespehn.bsky.social - fits nicely on my windows laptop now

The skewt is ported from github.com/dfelix/skewt...

hacked at this a little bit

Illini Blue it is…when I get to my laptop

Thanks, I have only been checking Edge, Chrome, and Safari

That would require a donation :)

Muhahahaha :)

I have only 2 GB of free space on the cPanel server, but having a local zarr store chunked with vertical profiles would be the way to go.

Yes, other models are on the roadmap. I’d have to look at the computational cost of the interactive parcel! Running on minimal hardware right now.

I’m often asked “did you see the storm over X - what’s going on?” I would then scramble to one of the many wx sites to make a sounding. What if there was a site that specialized in soundings?

Look no further…announcing the beta launch of illiniweather.web.illinois.edu/skewt-intera...

Feedback plz!

“Weird” is doing a lot of work here

FOMO destroying any semblance of financial transparency and traditional assets 🤣

Levis not Levi’s, but perhaps corporate sponsors are indeed in need!

I went to the real UW faculty club (different after COVID I hear), was quite nice. UCLA’s was also awesome. UIUC’s closed before I arrived - ah the warming brutalism of the Levi’s Center. But in the old days!

These days, are people sitting at the Inn minding their AI agents over a pint?

Come work with us as Illinois deploys a 3D Mesonet in a state increasingly vulnerable to high-impact weather!

Pushing people into a crypto economy

New bill would have IDOT plan for hourly rail service from Chicago to Champaign If residents of Champaign-Urbana are tired of driving over two hours — plus traffic — to get to Chicago, now’s the time to let state legislators know, says High Speed

This would be a game changer!

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Greetings from the Midwest

That’ll do it

Timeline cleanse

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

In the part of this is that I’m also the Department Head who has had to deal with the other side of all of these issues, impacting many faculty. Of course I have the benefit of having a (hopefully) permanent position, and feel terrible for all those who have lost their jobs due to this madness.

These research topics seem very aligned with administration priorities, but unfortunately these cuts are harming almost everything related to our ability to research how to build resilience in a changing climate. Really upsetting and the consequences for our nation will be felt for a long time.

4 PhD students won’t be funded, and no new AI/machine learning techniques for remote sensing producing estimates of Arctic snowfall, no reducing water and energy risk in cities, and no measurements for seasonal to subseasonal predictions of water extremes in the US from the tropics.

$1,005,000

That is the amount of federal funding that was already funded and withdrawn, plus the funds recommended by peer review and would have been awarded to my research group if the status quo were in place at NSF, NOAA, DOE.

Sweatshirt was left at home today!

This week on the Weather Realness podcast, it’s U of I System President Tim Killeen. Timely interview on the importance and future of NCAR, science and higher ed policy, his career, and his views on the future. Available on YouTube this weekend and on WILL AM 580 at 11 a Sat/8p Sun.

Question in a few months, if the slope doesn’t increase, will be where are the funds going? They had a CR and now have a healthy budget. I don’t think it is business as usual (we’ll see).

After a very low year, few new NSF awards in Geosciences in 2026. There is a budget in place now, hopefully there is some recovery.