Kacie

NOAA’s budget is too small. That’s costing the US billions of dollars Opinion: With a fiscal year 2024 budget of $6.3 billion, the nation’s leading weather and climate agency remains significantly underfunded.

$1.38 billion spent on NWS.
$102.1 billion returned in estimated public value.
Those values produce a return on investment (ROI) of 73.98.
Full report (135 pages): doi.org/10.1175/cofu...

(Yet NOAA has long been **underfunded** as Scott Rayder noted last year: www.federaltimes.com/opinions/202...)

The best boy is 7 today 🥺

While I’m not sure if it’s still sold, I bought this a few years ago and really liked it for how deep it is. Do wish the edge was a little easier to set stuff on. Don’t recall the contractor saying there were any issues with install. www.lowes.com/pd/KOHLER-Ba...

A little groundhog throwback.

Ready for that 3-peat 👆🏻

It’s crazy to think that 8 years ago this would’ve been me and many others. There wasn’t a rescinding of jobs last time, thankfully, but I started the equivalent to the day after this term’s cutoff date. Thinking of all the hopeful public servants in this situation.

"Hope is not blind optimism, but a grounded belief in our ability to persevere. By focusing on what we can control and reframing challenges as opportunities, we cultivate both resilience + clarity."

Every Wed the mindfulness coach on our team sends us helpful quotes; this one, based on the Stoics.