Michelle
@harrold.bsky.social
aficionado of ☕️ ,🏔️ , and ⛈️ | front range
From the Northern Lights last night to the sunrise today, the sky is really showing its full range of beauty.
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
From the Northern Lights last night to the sunrise today, the sky is really showing its full range of beauty.
Joining the crowds in posting — but these are the best Northern Lights I’ve seen in Colorado!
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Joining the crowds in posting — but these are the best Northern Lights I’ve seen in Colorado!
A lovely weekend of stratocumulus, seals, and sea lions 🦭
October 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
A lovely weekend of stratocumulus, seals, and sea lions 🦭
The v6.1 METplus coordinated release is out and full of new features and enhancements 🥳 📈. Oh and did I mention that MET and the METplus wrappers are available via conda now?!
🤩 The latest METplus release is here - a comprehensive, multi-component, open-source, verification framework! ☀️ METplus features a suite of Python wrappers and ancillary scripts designed to streamline the setup and execution of MET (Model Evaluation Tools). Learn more! dtcenter.org/news/metplus...
August 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The v6.1 METplus coordinated release is out and full of new features and enhancements 🥳 📈. Oh and did I mention that MET and the METplus wrappers are available via conda now?!
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this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
Celebrating Colorado’s 149th birthday! 🎉
August 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Celebrating Colorado’s 149th birthday! 🎉
Unplugged Colorado weekend 🏔️🫎
July 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Unplugged Colorado weekend 🏔️🫎
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But! See that gap between the red and blue lines? While we can quibble over where exactly the blue line should be, closing the gap to the blue line is what NOAA Research (plus that from NSF, NASA, and DOE) is working to do — directly reducing death, injury, and property damage… (1/2)
I always come back to this image from NCAR when seeking to introduce the idea that predictability is a function of the scale of the event. Individual thunderstorms have low practical and inherent predictability; we simply cannot *reliably* predict when and where they will occur beyond a few hours.
July 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
But! See that gap between the red and blue lines? While we can quibble over where exactly the blue line should be, closing the gap to the blue line is what NOAA Research (plus that from NSF, NASA, and DOE) is working to do — directly reducing death, injury, and property damage… (1/2)
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“I represent 67,000 pediatricians, and let me be clear: this bill will devastate children’s health,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, President of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social “Kids are 22% of our population—but 100% of our future. We cannot afford to fail them.”
Call your senators and demand a NO vote.
Call your senators and demand a NO vote.
June 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“I represent 67,000 pediatricians, and let me be clear: this bill will devastate children’s health,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, President of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social “Kids are 22% of our population—but 100% of our future. We cannot afford to fail them.”
Call your senators and demand a NO vote.
Call your senators and demand a NO vote.
Always a good day when you find a shooting star 🤩
June 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Always a good day when you find a shooting star 🤩
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We're excited to be a part of next week's 🤩S2S Predictability Workshop🤩 Cohosted by NSF NCAR & NOAA WPO’s S2S ncarprojects.ucar.edu/S2S-workshop... Check out Daniel Adriaansen's poster presentation: New Capabilities for Evaluating Land-Atmosphere Coupling using METplus dtcenter.org/community-co...
June 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
We're excited to be a part of next week's 🤩S2S Predictability Workshop🤩 Cohosted by NSF NCAR & NOAA WPO’s S2S ncarprojects.ucar.edu/S2S-workshop... Check out Daniel Adriaansen's poster presentation: New Capabilities for Evaluating Land-Atmosphere Coupling using METplus dtcenter.org/community-co...
@nycoloradan.bsky.social dropping some knowledge on the latest and greatest METplus capabilities for WRF, MPAS, and JEDI 🌎📈
June 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
@nycoloradan.bsky.social dropping some knowledge on the latest and greatest METplus capabilities for WRF, MPAS, and JEDI 🌎📈
A little touch some grass timeline cleanse.
P.S. I could get used to conferences in Bozeman.
P.S. I could get used to conferences in Bozeman.
May 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A little touch some grass timeline cleanse.
P.S. I could get used to conferences in Bozeman.
P.S. I could get used to conferences in Bozeman.
The man, the myth, the legend. So proud and lucky to get to work with Jeff on the daily. Congrats, Jeff 🥳
🎉 Please join us in Congratulating DTC PROUD Awardee 🤩 Jeff Beck, Research Physical Scientist with the NOAA Global Systems Laboratory (GSL), serving as Deputy Director of the DTC. Thank you Jeff! 👏 Performance Recognition for OUtstanding DTC achievements (PROUD) Award 👏 Read More! lnkd.in/gExMKn2V
May 21, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The man, the myth, the legend. So proud and lucky to get to work with Jeff on the daily. Congrats, Jeff 🥳
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"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."
The National Science Foundation was established 75 years ago this week, but as Professor Scott L. Greer writes in this commentary, it’s “been a bit of a rough birthday party.”
michiganadvance.com/2025/05/13/a...
michiganadvance.com/2025/05/13/a...
A troubled birthday for the National Science Foundation • Michigan Advance
Happy 75th birthday, National Science Foundation! On May 10, 1950, Congress established one of the world’s best value, highest impact, and, frankly, coolest science agencies. The NSF finances federal ...
michiganadvance.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."
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Unidata is responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting software such as:
NetCDF4
MetPy
LDM
AWIPS2 Public version
GEMPAK
THREDDS
They also support realtime data access via a public EDEX server, THREDDS, and more.
NetCDF4
MetPy
LDM
AWIPS2 Public version
GEMPAK
THREDDS
They also support realtime data access via a public EDEX server, THREDDS, and more.
Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
www.unidata.ucar.edu
May 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Unidata is responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting software such as:
NetCDF4
MetPy
LDM
AWIPS2 Public version
GEMPAK
THREDDS
They also support realtime data access via a public EDEX server, THREDDS, and more.
NetCDF4
MetPy
LDM
AWIPS2 Public version
GEMPAK
THREDDS
They also support realtime data access via a public EDEX server, THREDDS, and more.
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Days off school (and correspondingly work) are a good reminder to get out and explore. ☀️
April 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Days off school (and correspondingly work) are a good reminder to get out and explore. ☀️
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The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences.
Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC
Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC
Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
bit.ly
April 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences.
Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC
Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC
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Oh no! Several of the Regional Climate Centers have had their funding lapse through DOC/NOAA. These institutes are critical for connecting weather and climate data and services to local communities across the United States.
Spread the word to drive attention and support!
Spread the word to drive attention and support!
April 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Oh no! Several of the Regional Climate Centers have had their funding lapse through DOC/NOAA. These institutes are critical for connecting weather and climate data and services to local communities across the United States.
Spread the word to drive attention and support!
Spread the word to drive attention and support!
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This would kill all weather model development - RRFS, HAFS, and WoFS - in NOAA. These are activities that the private sector can’t support; they leverage these models to train & benchmark their own.
I wish the headline didn’t just focus on climate as it limits the audience who will listen.
I wish the headline didn’t just focus on climate as it limits the audience who will listen.
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This would kill all weather model development - RRFS, HAFS, and WoFS - in NOAA. These are activities that the private sector can’t support; they leverage these models to train & benchmark their own.
I wish the headline didn’t just focus on climate as it limits the audience who will listen.
I wish the headline didn’t just focus on climate as it limits the audience who will listen.