Jami Boettcher
@jamiboettch.bsky.social
All about weather radar science at NSSL, keeping the research NWS-focused, and kindness ❤️
Here we go again 😡
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Here we go again 😡
So much loss…including my mother in December 2020. COVID is personal for me.
6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
So much loss…including my mother in December 2020. COVID is personal for me.
Another high level achievement for weather nerdery ❤️
3D printed hailstones make great Christmas tree ornaments.
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Another high level achievement for weather nerdery ❤️
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Good time to download the free mPING app and become a citizen scientist by submitting precip and other types of reports to the National Weather Service and greater weather-interested community.
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Good time to download the free mPING app and become a citizen scientist by submitting precip and other types of reports to the National Weather Service and greater weather-interested community.
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Just a reminder that there are people that sadly believe this among us....Carry on.....#scienceliteracyplease
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Just a reminder that there are people that sadly believe this among us....Carry on.....#scienceliteracyplease
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A $3 million settlement is major victory, but it can’t undo the damage to press freedom from the illegal raid on the Marion County Record.
If other communities don’t want to learn First Amendment law the expensive way, they must train police and prosecutors to respect press rights.
If other communities don’t want to learn First Amendment law the expensive way, they must train police and prosecutors to respect press rights.
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A $3 million settlement is major victory, but it can’t undo the damage to press freedom from the illegal raid on the Marion County Record.
If other communities don’t want to learn First Amendment law the expensive way, they must train police and prosecutors to respect press rights.
If other communities don’t want to learn First Amendment law the expensive way, they must train police and prosecutors to respect press rights.
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Today we honor those who served, are serving, and those beginning their journey at basic training. We also recognize the families who stand behind them, and we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Thank you to our Veterans for your service! 🫡 #VeteransDay2025
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Today we honor those who served, are serving, and those beginning their journey at basic training. We also recognize the families who stand behind them, and we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Thank you to our Veterans for your service! 🫡 #VeteransDay2025
“I’m not a member of any organized political party. I’m a Democrat.”
How many know the author of this quote?
How many know the author of this quote?
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“I’m not a member of any organized political party. I’m a Democrat.”
How many know the author of this quote?
How many know the author of this quote?
Even by Oklahoma standards, this was a stunner 😍
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Even by Oklahoma standards, this was a stunner 😍
Agree completely 😡
"Show up. It's their job"
The gall sometimes. We're all short 5 weeks pay, and the House continues their extended, paid vacation. In any functional government, if you don't have the votes to pass your agenda you compromise to get the important pieces. You don't take your ball and go home.
The gall sometimes. We're all short 5 weeks pay, and the House continues their extended, paid vacation. In any functional government, if you don't have the votes to pass your agenda you compromise to get the important pieces. You don't take your ball and go home.
If you just cancel flights, then they're actually not late! Brilliant stuff from Sean Duffy here
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Agree completely 😡
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The Nashville radar is down. But, the good people who serve you every day at the NWS finally received the 130lb palette with the part on it. Their two techs are now lugging that part to the top of the radar tower to try and get the radar operational before SVR arrives. All while not being paid.
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Nashville radar is down. But, the good people who serve you every day at the NWS finally received the 130lb palette with the part on it. Their two techs are now lugging that part to the top of the radar tower to try and get the radar operational before SVR arrives. All while not being paid.
Amen to this! 👇
i am much more concerned with falling behind the rest of the world in this than i am falling behind in chatbot technology
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Amen to this! 👇
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Traffic fatalities for kids rise on Halloween. Drive carefully.
Study of 42 years of Halloweens and 1 ,580,608 traffic crashes reveals relative risk of a pedestrian fatality is 43% higher on Halloween compared with control evenings. A typical Halloween results in 4 additional pedestrian deaths.
Study of 42 years of Halloweens and 1 ,580,608 traffic crashes reveals relative risk of a pedestrian fatality is 43% higher on Halloween compared with control evenings. A typical Halloween results in 4 additional pedestrian deaths.
Pedestrian Fatalities Associated With Halloween in the United States
This study examines 42 years of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data to establish whether Halloween is associated with an increased rate of pedestrian fatalities.
jamanetwork.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
😢
I felt a moment of peace just looking at this image ❤️
Amongst all going on tonight, I post this radar velocity image. No weather, just the last of bird migration. The radar is the little black circle in the middle. All the birds in green above where the radar is are heading south. Those below it in red are also heading south.
October 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I felt a moment of peace just looking at this image ❤️
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Echoing colleagues: Think before you (re)post. #Melissa is about to impact a relatively poor part of Jamaica. I doubt we will know the true extent of the devastation for days or weeks.
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
October 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Echoing colleagues: Think before you (re)post. #Melissa is about to impact a relatively poor part of Jamaica. I doubt we will know the true extent of the devastation for days or weeks.
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
This quote captures our meteorology community emotions so well, though few of us get to experience this kind of front row seat. 😳
That stark combination of scientific wonder and deep concern for those on the ground. Given this is during a shutdown, extra hard to concentrate these days. 💔
That stark combination of scientific wonder and deep concern for those on the ground. Given this is during a shutdown, extra hard to concentrate these days. 💔
Meteorologist Matthew Cappucci flew into the eye of Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm that is projected to hit Jamaica.
“It was equal parts scientifically stunning and horrifying from a humanitarian standpoint,” he wrote, flying in one of two groups of hurricane hunters. https://wapo.st/42XpWmq
“It was equal parts scientifically stunning and horrifying from a humanitarian standpoint,” he wrote, flying in one of two groups of hurricane hunters. https://wapo.st/42XpWmq
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This quote captures our meteorology community emotions so well, though few of us get to experience this kind of front row seat. 😳
That stark combination of scientific wonder and deep concern for those on the ground. Given this is during a shutdown, extra hard to concentrate these days. 💔
That stark combination of scientific wonder and deep concern for those on the ground. Given this is during a shutdown, extra hard to concentrate these days. 💔
Where is FEMA, indeed 😡
October 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Where is FEMA, indeed 😡
Being born before the measles vaccine, my immunity is “natural”. Yes, I survived but haven’t forgotten how miserably sick I was. Denying this vaccine for your kids exposes them to at minimum a miserable experience. How can parents be OK with that?
Our grandparents would have crawled across broken glass to get vaccinated, they saw what these diseases did — firsthand.
Many of us have no personal frame of reference for how bad these diseases are, until it is too late.
Preferring to believe some batsh*t crazy stuff online.
Get vaccinated.
Many of us have no personal frame of reference for how bad these diseases are, until it is too late.
Preferring to believe some batsh*t crazy stuff online.
Get vaccinated.
US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts
The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther north
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Being born before the measles vaccine, my immunity is “natural”. Yes, I survived but haven’t forgotten how miserably sick I was. Denying this vaccine for your kids exposes them to at minimum a miserable experience. How can parents be OK with that?
Just noting this is not a “full” government shutdown. A real shutdown would mean lights out for ATC; no weather radar or satellite data. No weather forecast modeling output. No SS checks. This is just a slice of everyday federal services Americans take for granted.
PIMCO, on the #shutdown:
“.. At this point, this standoff feels like a war of attrition with neither side suggesting they will blink .. we think is likely to last until November and possibly extend to Thanksgiving.
“.. we are on the precipice of the longest full government shutdown in history.”
“.. At this point, this standoff feels like a war of attrition with neither side suggesting they will blink .. we think is likely to last until November and possibly extend to Thanksgiving.
“.. we are on the precipice of the longest full government shutdown in history.”
October 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Just noting this is not a “full” government shutdown. A real shutdown would mean lights out for ATC; no weather radar or satellite data. No weather forecast modeling output. No SS checks. This is just a slice of everyday federal services Americans take for granted.
Shutdown for me means working from home. Yes, I am fortunate; just miss interacting with colleagues SO MUCH 😞
Also pandemic memories are lurking and I feel a bit trapped. My colleagues who are working without pay are trapped in a different way. May we have some sanity in Congress soon. 🙏
Also pandemic memories are lurking and I feel a bit trapped. My colleagues who are working without pay are trapped in a different way. May we have some sanity in Congress soon. 🙏
a small rat is in a jar with a green lid
Alt: a small rat is in a jar with a green lid
media.tenor.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Shutdown for me means working from home. Yes, I am fortunate; just miss interacting with colleagues SO MUCH 😞
Also pandemic memories are lurking and I feel a bit trapped. My colleagues who are working without pay are trapped in a different way. May we have some sanity in Congress soon. 🙏
Also pandemic memories are lurking and I feel a bit trapped. My colleagues who are working without pay are trapped in a different way. May we have some sanity in Congress soon. 🙏
Another failed bull gear
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
"The bathroom. It's... bad."
"The bathroom. It's... bad."
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
Mandatory mid-semester LMS migration.
Mandatory mid-semester LMS migration.
October 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Another failed bull gear
American humans: we are all more at risk from weather-induced disasters. While the remaining scientists run to the rooftops slamming pots and pans, any loss of messaging costs lives and horrific disruption for survivors. #NotADrill 💔
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
October 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
American humans: we are all more at risk from weather-induced disasters. While the remaining scientists run to the rooftops slamming pots and pans, any loss of messaging costs lives and horrific disruption for survivors. #NotADrill 💔
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Chaos continues at the CDC as now HHS says some firings were "mistakes." I talk about why all of this matters for those concerned about weather and climate science. Also, serious coastal impacts along the East Coast today while flash flooding continues in areas of Southwest. tinyurl.com/bdf3tfjw
Looking at the chaos at the CDC and why it matters for federal meteorological science
In weather, significant coastal impacts peak on the East Coast next 36 hours, while flash flooding continues to impact parts of the Southwest
tinyurl.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Chaos continues at the CDC as now HHS says some firings were "mistakes." I talk about why all of this matters for those concerned about weather and climate science. Also, serious coastal impacts along the East Coast today while flash flooding continues in areas of Southwest. tinyurl.com/bdf3tfjw
I haven’t been in a convenience store in ages, but can empathize with this 🤣
Every time I stop in a 7/11, I get stuck behind someone who has A System™ for the Powerball, MegaMillions and three other random lotteries, barking out their tried-and-true sequence of numbers to the cashier like he's trying to keep the island on LOST from exploding.
October 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I haven’t been in a convenience store in ages, but can empathize with this 🤣
Still greatly recommend #EverythingWeather even when the forecast itself continues to suck. #MakeItStop 🤓🤣
October 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Still greatly recommend #EverythingWeather even when the forecast itself continues to suck. #MakeItStop 🤓🤣