Jesse Westfall
@jlebert.bsky.social
Meteorologist, BSc. At the intersection of risk comms, decision support, and Inuit Nunangat. UofA alum, extended Edmonton Fire family.
Posts are my own.
Posts are my own.
Happy heated seats in the morning, A/C in the afternoon season to all those who celebrate! 🥶🥵 #September
September 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Happy heated seats in the morning, A/C in the afternoon season to all those who celebrate! 🥶🥵 #September
Unreal match!! 🙌🇨🇦
INCROYABLE 🇨🇦 MBOKO
Canadian Victoria Mboko defeats Elena Rybakina in electrifying fashion to advance to the National Bank Open final in Montreal.
Rybakina served for the match twice. Mboko broke her twice. And now the 18-year-old is heading to the final. Outstanding tennis.
Canadian Victoria Mboko defeats Elena Rybakina in electrifying fashion to advance to the National Bank Open final in Montreal.
Rybakina served for the match twice. Mboko broke her twice. And now the 18-year-old is heading to the final. Outstanding tennis.
August 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Unreal match!! 🙌🇨🇦
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A Delta flight experienced Extreme Turbulence over Wyoming on 30 July, injuring 25 and causing a diversion to Minneapolis. AI suggested that one factor may have the presence of the ITCZ. Over Wyoming. We had questions... cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...
August 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
A Delta flight experienced Extreme Turbulence over Wyoming on 30 July, injuring 25 and causing a diversion to Minneapolis. AI suggested that one factor may have the presence of the ITCZ. Over Wyoming. We had questions... cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...
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Just to illustrate how long waves from a #tsunami can keep going, this is a tide gauge record from Crescent City CA (known for its sensitivity to tsunami waves due to bathymetric and resonance effects) showing significant wave activity still continues 24+ hours after their first arrival. 🧪⚒️
July 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Just to illustrate how long waves from a #tsunami can keep going, this is a tide gauge record from Crescent City CA (known for its sensitivity to tsunami waves due to bathymetric and resonance effects) showing significant wave activity still continues 24+ hours after their first arrival. 🧪⚒️
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A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
The Atlantic's chilling secret: A century of data reveals ocean current collapse
A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this anomaly to a long-term weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulat...
www.sciencedaily.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Doctors warn about short, long term impacts of poor air quality from wildfires 🌬️🔥
👇Important insights about the impact of wildfire smoke on health, by K.Ward via @globalnews.ca
I was pleased to contribute with Dr Weichenthal @healthsciences.mcgill.ca and others #IAQ
globalnews.ca/video/112131...
👇Important insights about the impact of wildfire smoke on health, by K.Ward via @globalnews.ca
I was pleased to contribute with Dr Weichenthal @healthsciences.mcgill.ca and others #IAQ
globalnews.ca/video/112131...
Doctors warn about short, long term impacts of poor air quality from wildfires | Watch News Videos Online
Watch Doctors warn about short, long term impacts of poor air quality from wildfires Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca
globalnews.ca
June 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Doctors warn about short, long term impacts of poor air quality from wildfires 🌬️🔥
👇Important insights about the impact of wildfire smoke on health, by K.Ward via @globalnews.ca
I was pleased to contribute with Dr Weichenthal @healthsciences.mcgill.ca and others #IAQ
globalnews.ca/video/112131...
👇Important insights about the impact of wildfire smoke on health, by K.Ward via @globalnews.ca
I was pleased to contribute with Dr Weichenthal @healthsciences.mcgill.ca and others #IAQ
globalnews.ca/video/112131...
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As you may be aware, northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba are being evacuated because of wild fires. Latest is La Ronge. My rez, Beardy’s & Okemasis, under its RezCross has spots available. A Cree welcoming. If you care, or know folks seeking a place, do share! Our information…
June 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
As you may be aware, northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba are being evacuated because of wild fires. Latest is La Ronge. My rez, Beardy’s & Okemasis, under its RezCross has spots available. A Cree welcoming. If you care, or know folks seeking a place, do share! Our information…
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Can't believe it's been a whole year since I made this. Thank you to everyone who's shared what it means to them seeing Pride represented with images from near and far, all across the universe. The original page was taken down, but can still be found on archive.org: web.archive.org/web/20250129...
June 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Can't believe it's been a whole year since I made this. Thank you to everyone who's shared what it means to them seeing Pride represented with images from near and far, all across the universe. The original page was taken down, but can still be found on archive.org: web.archive.org/web/20250129...
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If you’d like to know more about this topic: tos.org/oceanography...
FEATURE ARTICLE • Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation Approaching a Tipping Point? | Oceanography
tos.org
May 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If you’d like to know more about this topic: tos.org/oceanography...
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Couldn't have said it better myself.
Credit to @adapalmer.bsky.social
Credit to @adapalmer.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Credit to @adapalmer.bsky.social
Credit to @adapalmer.bsky.social
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The @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social & @wmo-global.bsky.social European State of the Climate 2024 report is now online!
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024
It's been a pleasure to coordinate #ESOTC2024, working with ~100 scientists to analyse the data and tell the story of Europe's climate in 2024 📈💧☀️🔥
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024
It's been a pleasure to coordinate #ESOTC2024, working with ~100 scientists to analyse the data and tell the story of Europe's climate in 2024 📈💧☀️🔥
April 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social & @wmo-global.bsky.social European State of the Climate 2024 report is now online!
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024
It's been a pleasure to coordinate #ESOTC2024, working with ~100 scientists to analyse the data and tell the story of Europe's climate in 2024 📈💧☀️🔥
🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024
It's been a pleasure to coordinate #ESOTC2024, working with ~100 scientists to analyse the data and tell the story of Europe's climate in 2024 📈💧☀️🔥
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#ESOTC2024 reports the most widespread flooding in Europe since 2013, affecting at least 413K people and contributing to an estimated €18 billion in damage caused by extreme weather events. 30% of rivers exceeded the high flood threshold, 12% exceeded the severe flood threshold. bit.ly/42t0unK
April 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#ESOTC2024 reports the most widespread flooding in Europe since 2013, affecting at least 413K people and contributing to an estimated €18 billion in damage caused by extreme weather events. 30% of rivers exceeded the high flood threshold, 12% exceeded the severe flood threshold. bit.ly/42t0unK
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I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
A very interesting read re: the dire wolf hoopla, to this non-genomicist.
Also realizing how much I've missed educated scientific discourse. Well done 👏
Also realizing how much I've missed educated scientific discourse. Well done 👏
alright i have my laptop, guess i'm livetweeting the dire wolf preprint.
so a quick reminder: this is not yet peer-reviewed, so there's some different expectations re: quality.
also let's be clear, i'm a hella biased reader, bc i don't trust the hype they're courting
so a quick reminder: this is not yet peer-reviewed, so there's some different expectations re: quality.
also let's be clear, i'm a hella biased reader, bc i don't trust the hype they're courting
Briefly read through this and...hmm. I have thoughts that may merit a deeper dive.
One big concern: while their reference method seems reasonable for research uses, I'm thinking that if you want to claim you're cloning one, I'm sorry but you've actually gotta de novo that.
One big concern: while their reference method seems reasonable for research uses, I'm thinking that if you want to claim you're cloning one, I'm sorry but you've actually gotta de novo that.
April 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A very interesting read re: the dire wolf hoopla, to this non-genomicist.
Also realizing how much I've missed educated scientific discourse. Well done 👏
Also realizing how much I've missed educated scientific discourse. Well done 👏
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"More than 50 Indigenous communities [in Canada] – with a total population of 56,000 people – depend on about 6,000km of winter roads."
..and those roads are disappearing because of climate change.
..and those roads are disappearing because of climate change.
‘The ice is not freezing as it should’: supply roads to Canada’s Indigenous communities under threat from climate crisis
Northern Ontario is seeing a ‘shorter window’ for ice roads that deliver vital supplies to remote First Nations
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"More than 50 Indigenous communities [in Canada] – with a total population of 56,000 people – depend on about 6,000km of winter roads."
..and those roads are disappearing because of climate change.
..and those roads are disappearing because of climate change.
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The Geological Survey of Canada (Pacific Geoscience Centre near Victoria, BC and Vancouver, BC) has an opening for a research scientist in Earthquake Seismology. Join a great, diverse team doing cutting edge science. ⚒️🧪
Details:
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
Apply by 25 April, 2025
Details:
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
Apply by 25 April, 2025
March 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The Geological Survey of Canada (Pacific Geoscience Centre near Victoria, BC and Vancouver, BC) has an opening for a research scientist in Earthquake Seismology. Join a great, diverse team doing cutting edge science. ⚒️🧪
Details:
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
Apply by 25 April, 2025
Details:
emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...
Apply by 25 April, 2025
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Couldn’t go to the First Ministers meeting, but can sit down with Breitbart and do a fundraiser with Ben Shapiro. But at least we now know whose side she’s on and it’s not Canada’s
www.breitbart.com/politics/202...
www.breitbart.com/politics/202...
Exclusive--Canadian Premier Danielle Smith: Trudeau Blew Tariff Negotiations in First Mar-a-Lago Meeting
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith of the United Conseravtive Party told Breitbart News Saturday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set Canada back in tariff negotiations with America during a meeting wit...
www.breitbart.com
March 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Couldn’t go to the First Ministers meeting, but can sit down with Breitbart and do a fundraiser with Ben Shapiro. But at least we now know whose side she’s on and it’s not Canada’s
www.breitbart.com/politics/202...
www.breitbart.com/politics/202...
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Call me old fashioned, but I don’t think provincial leaders should be working with hostile foreign govts to interfere in a federal election to get their preferred party elected whose “perspective would be very much in sync with, I think…the new direction in America”
This is traitorous stuff.
This is traitorous stuff.
Smith to Breitbart: “What I fear is the longer this dispute goes on, politicians posture, and it seems to be benefiting the Liberals right now. So I would hope we could put things on pause is what I’ve told administration officials. Let’s just put things on pause so we can get through an election.”
Exclusive--Canadian Premier Danielle Smith: Trudeau Blew Tariff Negotiations in First Mar-a-Lago Meeting
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith of the United Conseravtive Party told Breitbart News Saturday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set Canada back in tariff negotiations with America during a meeting wit...
www.breitbart.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Call me old fashioned, but I don’t think provincial leaders should be working with hostile foreign govts to interfere in a federal election to get their preferred party elected whose “perspective would be very much in sync with, I think…the new direction in America”
This is traitorous stuff.
This is traitorous stuff.
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It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you
March 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you
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This is a plea for people to stop misusing 'sting jet'
A somewhat pointy end to an occluded front is not a 'sting jet'
Strong winds equatorward of the low centre are not a 'sting jet'
It's a specific phenomenon with a specific definition
doi.org/10.1002/wea....
A somewhat pointy end to an occluded front is not a 'sting jet'
Strong winds equatorward of the low centre are not a 'sting jet'
It's a specific phenomenon with a specific definition
doi.org/10.1002/wea....
March 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is a plea for people to stop misusing 'sting jet'
A somewhat pointy end to an occluded front is not a 'sting jet'
Strong winds equatorward of the low centre are not a 'sting jet'
It's a specific phenomenon with a specific definition
doi.org/10.1002/wea....
A somewhat pointy end to an occluded front is not a 'sting jet'
Strong winds equatorward of the low centre are not a 'sting jet'
It's a specific phenomenon with a specific definition
doi.org/10.1002/wea....
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The clusterfuck clusters on. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Alberta’s Smith says province still working to import pain medication from Turkey
Health Canada says it has yet to receive an application from the province or any of the companies associated with the $70-million agreement
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The clusterfuck clusters on. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
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#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through February 2025 (record warm) 🔥
We need more research, not less, to understand the implications of this.
+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue)
+ Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
We need more research, not less, to understand the implications of this.
+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue)
+ Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
March 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through February 2025 (record warm) 🔥
We need more research, not less, to understand the implications of this.
+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue)
+ Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
We need more research, not less, to understand the implications of this.
+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue)
+ Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...