Chris Legro

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

The Gulf of Mexico is running a severe fever... it's the warmest it has ever been for this date. 🥵

Famous? Sure. But favorite? Malacca.

If only for the fact that I don’t win bar trivia often, but I did once win by knowing Malacca (and only because we studied the prevailing sea breeze/land breeze thunderstorm cycle in tropical meteorology).

Just your typical elevated hailstorm moving into Chicago where it’s 39F at the surface but with >1000 J/kg MUCAPE

It was definitely strange showing up for orientation and having to jump in a pool, swim one length, and hop out. That might’ve been my first and last time in a pool there.

We just had the second-warmest winter in U.S. history, despite icy blasts » Yale Climate Connections Record-smashing Western warmth far outperformed a memorable Eastern stretch of cold waves and winter storms.

Folks still thawing out might be wondering: How bad a U.S. winter was it overall? Very bad – that is, if you’re concerned about long-term warming and intensified drought impacts. (2nd warmest and 5th driest on record.) @climateconnections.bsky.social

yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/we-j...

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

I am the target audience for this skeet.

Colder than normal where moose live though

At least my day is not "issuing a tornado warning for the entire forecast area" bad.

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

Sunlight reflects off of the mighty Amazon River.

Well, that's because those of us left are doing the work of those 360,000 people Kevin.

NEW STUDY: Winter downpours are getting heavier in parts of Spain, Portugal and Morocco as the region recovers from a month of relentless storms.

Between mid-January and mid-February nine named storms brought torrential rain hurricane force winds causing major damage and disruption. 1/5

The National Hurricane Center has just completed and posted the Tropical Cyclone Report for Hurricane #Melissa after the careful post-season reanalysis.

* Melissa's updated peak intensity is now tied with Hurricane Allen in 1980 as the strongest known hurricane ever in the Atlantic. *

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Locations that have seen as much snow as Providence on Monday

I checked the historical record to find places in the Northeast that have seen 35.5 inches or greater snowfall in one day like Providence did on Monday. Finding: very few.

Article on the unique and extreme nature of the storm with @bennollweather.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

Hear me out

A lifetime look at the impactful nor'easter that pounded the northeastern U.S.

Water Vapor imagery from @noaa.gov #GOESEast (GOES-19) showed the evolution of the powerful record-setting Nor'easter during the February 22-23 period -- more on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

Maybe more impressive is that 30.4" fell between midnight and 1 pm, nearly 2.5 inches per hour. That will be investigated as a new potential state 24 hour snowfall record for Rhode Island (previous 30" at Woonsocket 1978)

This snow band is an all-timer, likely producing a foot of snow in just 3-4 hrs.

Supported by incredible lift w/in the ascending branch of the frontogenetic circulation, it follows that this band won’t weaken but will contract. Whoever remains in that contraction will likely see 3+‘ of snowfall.

Official observation is 32.8 inches and still snowing heavily! 3 feet well within possibility. Smashing records from one of the most famous blizzards of all time is impressive.

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Completely unofficial, but PVD now reporting 4 inches in the last hour (after 3 inches the hour before) and 37 inches on the ground. A change of 32 inches in this storm. AT LEAST that much snow has to have fallen, meaning this storm has supplanted the blizzard of '78 at Providence.

Remark section of the Providence, RI METAR has SNINCR 2/30. Meaning 2 inches in the last hour, and 30 inches on the ground. They had 5 inches on the ground at 7 pm last night so that's AT LEAST 25 inches from this storm - good enough to slide into the top 2 (#1 is '78). Official ob coming at 1 pm.

An X-ray of a penguin showing the knees much higher up than you'd think

Turns out penguins do have knees. They're just not where you think they ought to be.

(Can you tell I'm trying to distract you from our collective sense of impending doom by putting out the most random content imaginable?!)

Some impressive winds from this blizzard so far, but even well inland from the ocean Providence is putting up a top 5 wind gust (even including bad data > 82 kt) for it's period of record.

A bit of a lightning show tonight within a raging nor'easter.

Super interesting lofted ash plume today on the Ranger Road Fire burn scar.