
Jim Steenburgh
@ProfessorPowder
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Prof @UUtah @UofUATMOS. Fulbright Scholar. Author, Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth. Blog, Wasatch Weather Weenies (https://t.co/yFxBKRUyIr). Tweets my own.
University of Utah
Joined December 2014
Since people have contacted me with concerns, let me clarify that I am merely leaving X & reducing social media activities You can find me on Bluesky, although I'm cutting back there too. Blog continues: https://t.co/UbyzWHgEiD. Thank you for your love of weather and snow.
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Dear Friends: I hope I have helped you understand snow But now it's time for me to go I leave having learned this In the end, The Beatles were wrong The love you take Is GREATER than the love you make Think snow, ski fast, and take chances, Professor Powder
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We remain deeply divided on many issues...
🔗: https://t.co/TCsvnxpOS9 A new Deseret News/@hinckleyinst poll reveals the name people prefer for Utah's NHL team. If Utahns had their druthers, they would go with Outlaws, according to a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll. But it’s by no means a majority
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"Two of the probationary employees who had been on the job for less than two years were flight director...This is particularly problematic since every hurricane hunter mission is required to carry a flight director." https://t.co/ICC5a5qBsS
yaleclimateconnections.org
A gap in flight director staffing could keep the planes earthbound at crucial times.
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And so it begins...
Backcountry Closure, LCC Full North Side, (3/5) 10:00 PM tonight to 08:30 AM (3/6), Gate B to Grizzly @UACwasatch , @UTavy , @UDOTcottonwoods , @AltaCentral, @WasatchBCAlli
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The included Bennett Building also includes the offices for National Weather Service Western Region Headquarters, including key scientific and technology support personnel
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This is horrible news for numerical weather prediction in this country. The data that comes from these key parts of our weather enterprise saves lives. DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings
axios.com
NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.
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Just released statement from the American Meteorological Society urging strong support of NOAA and federal science agencies for the continued success of the weather enterprise and American people.
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MY OPINION: There was a plan to dismember and partially privatize NOAA and the National Weather Service in 1995. It was a bad idea then, and weakening those critical public-safety agencies is a worse idea now. More at
hurricaneintel.com
Dismantling and privatizing NOAA and the National Weather Service was a bad idea in 1995, and it’s a worse idea now. In the summer of 1995, a bad idea was circulating in Washington, D.C. The broad-...
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And to clarify as this post is ambiguous, itwas not fulfilled for reasons not related to the cuts.
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The NOAA G-IV recon flight was not fulfilled due to the cuts. I've taken that post down.
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Maty Wilke cemented herself in BYU-Utah lore after this phenomenal shot
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Appreciate Jim's perspective here. He's as good as they get.
This is deeply troubling. NWS forecasters don't just come in and put a forecast together. They make processes for all forecasters so much better. I encourage you to read @mammatusman last forecast discussion he wrote to see how deep this cut really is. This is just one
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NOAA firings are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Adm Tim Gallaudet told AP. President Trump appointed Gallaudet as acting NOAA chief during his last administration. “Lives are at risk for sure.”
apnews.com
The people who once ran the federal weather and oceans agency say it touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways and that massive firings there could cause needless deaths and a big hit to...
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Private sector meteorology is flourishing and there are lots of weather and weather-adjacent jobs. Despite what some claim, we do not compete with NWS; we heavily utilize the data and repurpose it for business continuity needs. EVERYONE is hurt by understaffed and underfunded NWS
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