Mastodawn

This is, of course, total gibberish. The US gets no #water from Canada (other than some natural flows in the shared Columbia River) and Trump's had zero influence on that.
Also, we only measure three things in "barrels:" oil, laughs, and monkeys. Not water.

Carrie Nash Feb 7

Rick Thoman Feb 7

Incredibly high precipitation totals over most of mainland Alaska for January 2025. In ERA5 reanalysis, over 40 percent (!!) of Alaska had the highest January precipitation since 1950. Prior to that, only January 1937 is comparable. #akwx #Climate @Climatologist49

Carrie Nash Feb 6

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-engineer-noaa-data-google-musk-climate-project-2025/

This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force access to all of the agency’s Google sites by the end of business on Wednesday.

WIRED

Carrie Nash Feb 5

Bill Witte Jan 19

If cleared roadways, power line easements, section line easements, trail clearings, or similar linear “trenches” in terrain are aligned with local winds they can focus winds and become a pathway for fire ignitions. https://www.frames.gov/catalog/11631 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_effect?wprov=sfti1#

The trench effect and eruptive wildfires: lessons from the King's Cross Underground disaster | Fire Research and Management Exchange System

Fire eruption (also known as blow-up or flare-up) is a very dangerous aspect of wildland fire behaviour. It poses a significant threat to the safety of wildland fire-fighters and complicates the broader problem of wildfire risk management in complex terrain. Despite the seriousness of eruptive fire events, operational wildland fire spread models generally do not account for the possibility of these events occurring and there is little in the literature devoted to obtaining a model that consistently describes the phenomenon.

Carrie Nash Feb 5

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Anne Fuller (Sʼaachtlʼéiḵ)Feb 3

@AlaskaWx @transitionalaspect
Ax̲ yís x'áan aya.óo. That person has anger toward me
Ax̲ tuwáa kliháach'. It is embarrassing to me.
kei naldzéen it's getting difficult
Ax̲ toowú x̲'ool yáx̲ aya.óo. Itʼs frustrating me
tlél ax̲ tooshgú I am not happy
Alaskans-x̱ haa sitee. We are Alaskans. #HaaX̱'anx' #TlingítAaní #Alaska #SoutheastAlaska #Language #IndigenousLanguages

Carrie Nash Feb 5

Parts of NOAA climate pages inaccessible.

Carrie Nash Feb 5

Genuinely Gary 🌤️Feb 5

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters

(Next up: you can only get your weather warnings and forecasts from Grok? 😡 )

Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats

Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

The Guardian

Carrie Nash Jan 12

Rick Thoman Jan 10

Alaska 2024 average temperature was typical for recent years in NOAA/NCEI data. Since 1925, this was the 16th warmest year, but all but five of the warmer years have occurred since 2002. @Climatologist49

#akwx #Climate #ClimateChange

Carrie Nash Jan 12

Rick Thoman Jan 12

Fairbanks Airport at 8am AKST Sunday 41F (+5.0C). This is a new record high temperature for January 12, breaking the previous record of 39F (+3.9C) in 1984. January record is 52F (11.1C) set in 2009. #akwx #Climate @Climatologist49 @CarrieinFbx @anisian

Carrie Nash Jan 4

Rick Thoman Jan 3

For me, today is the first important marker in the return of the sun. Sunset in Fairbanks is after 300pm for the first time since the end of November. The next marker is around January 20, when the sun will be high enough in the sky for a period of “white light”, around solar noon, as opposed to the continuous sunrise/sunset orange that we have now. #akwx @anisian @mivox