My latest for @science.org on the fraught future of NCAR as NSF's deadline nears. It can still go so many ways.
10.03.2026 21:38
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My latest for @science.org on the fraught future of NCAR as NSF's deadline nears. It can still go so many ways.
Share your feedback on the future of NCAR Provide feedback to shape the future of NCAR by 13 March.
Last week, NSF released a Dear Colleague Letter seeking input on restructuring critical weather infrastructure housed at NCAR. Your feedback is critical to shape the future of NCAR. Our tool makes it easy to submit comment today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...
We are thrilled and proud to share that AOS prof Ángel F. Adames Corraliza has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow!
Congrats, Ángel! The department is ecstatic for you. In addition to the MacArthur announcement linked below, check out the UW–Madison news release here: go.wisc.edu/r0ff84
Student Delián Colón-Burgos recently returned from a visit to the Max-Plank-Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany hosted by scientist Daniel Klocke and working with Professor Michael Bell.
Read more www.atmos.colostate.edu/2025/07/depa...
As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc
Master Of Her Heat Dome
Unidata maintains a lot of key weather data infrastructure, including the netCDF data standard and libraries, metpy. data dissemination servers for accessing models and observations from NOAA, and educational resources for the university community. Now everyone is furloughed b/c of Trump and DOGE.
Image with text: "Funding for the Regional Climate Center program lapsed on April 17, 2025 due to a suspension of federal funding from NOAA through the Department of Commerce. It is unknown if or when funding will resume. All data and services offered under the HPRCC contract, including this website, are unavailable."
You may see messages like this on parts of our website, including the drought page. We rely heavily on maps & data from the High Plains Regional Climate Center, which no longer has funding. We'll do our best to point to alternative data sources, but many of these products are not easy to replicate.
Cool seeing the eclipse crescents. It’s a cloudless day here and starting to get notably dimmer.
Gorgeous end to the evening
Photo of the new Colorado record hailstone in terms of maximum diameter, measured with calipers at 5.25". Photo courtesy of Dan Fitts.
We've officially established a new Colorado state record for hailstone diameter: 5.25" on August 8, northeast of Kirk in Yuma County. Full report at ncei.noaa.gov/monitoring-c... (photo credit: Dan Fitts)
CSU Atmospheric Science is seeking a new faculty colleague in the broad area of surface-atmosphere interactions, the first of several hires over the coming years. Please reach out to me with any questions. More details can be found at this link: drive.google.com/file/d/179fE...