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Mike Dettinger @mdettinger
Joined November 2010
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Remember… “Better to have fought and lost [not a done deal, btw] than never fought at all.” youtu.be/BP-_6D8dg0g?si=tZlD… I don’t come here much (at all) anymore, but for Christ’s sake…stand up, push back!

Sam Ryder - Fought & Lost (lyrics)

Congratulations on your jubilationOur hearts are breaking undernea...

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Excellent wisdom-transfer, Steve! Lets hope some sticks. @showproofplease escholarship.org/uc/item/188…
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Michelle Stern, PhD@asternmichelle
21 Nov 2024
Small UAS remote sensing of soil moisture using an L-band radiometer! 💦🛰️
Frontiers - Earth Science@FrontEarthSci
20 Nov 2024
New Research: Fine-scale surficial soil moisture mapping using UAS-based L-band remote sensing in a mixed oak-grassland landscape frontiersin.org/articles/10.… #FrontiersIn #RemoteSensing
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Many of you know the AR (atmos River) scale, before that we estab’d R-Cat scale for reporting historically wettest 3-day periods at stations. An R-cat 4 is HUGE, over 500 mm (20 inch) in 3days. The past 3 days have brought RCat lvl precip to 121 stations in Calif!!!! …
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RCat scale defined in… mdettinger.com/_files/ugd/3... mdettinger.com/_files/ugd/3... Can’t recall an occasion when I’ve seen one of these alerts with more than 10-20 having stations risen to these levels; only a few days with any occur per year (by design). THIS IS AN AMAZING STORM!!

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Mike Dettinger@mdettinger
10 Nov 2024
Continuing this Thursday...the joint AMS/ASCE webinar look at AI and weather, climate & infrastructure design. ametsoc.org/WebinarAIImplica… ametsoc.org/WebinarCurrentAI…
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NWS Reno
@NWSReno
15 Nov 2024
⚠ Lake enhanced showers are beginning to blossom roughly along the CA/NV state line SE of Tahoe. Heavier snow showers may lead to rapidly changing road conditions through this afternoon. Up-to-date road conditions: quickmap.dot.ca.gov nvroads.com #cawx #nvwx
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Dear agencies: There is a remarkable migration going on over to blue sky social right now (see graph). If your social-media mandate is to communicate with the public, you really need to establish a presence over there.
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Mike Dettinger@mdettinger
13 Nov 2024
Dear agencies: There is a remarkable migration going on over to blue sky social right now (see graph). If your social-media mandate is to communicate with the public, you really need to establish a presence over there.
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Some serious (~AR 5 levels!) atmospheric-river storminess forecast for Oregon next week. (Forecasts this far ahead often moderate as their arrivals approach but even an AR4 cd be dangerous.) See more ARscale & AR forecast products @CW3E_Scripps cw3e.ucsd.edu/iwv-and-ivt-fo… 1/3
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And its thus tat time of yr when I need to remind folks of this tool which, basin by basin, shows the ensemble forecasts of precip, rain vs snow, freezing levels that are so relevant to evolving flood risks this time of year. cw3e.ucsd.edu/DSMaps/DS_free… 2/3
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And to receive automated email alerts when atmospheric rivers are forecasted to make landfall along the West Coast, please contact cw3e-website-g@ucsd.edu, and for most things atmospheric-river-ish visit, cw3e.ucsd.edu 3/3 @CW3E_Scripps

Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E)

Revolutionize the physical understanding, observations, weather predictions, seasonal outlooks and climate projections of extreme events in Western North America, including atmospheric rivers, the...

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From over on Bsky
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Remember when SCOTUS trashed the Chevron policy this summer & all seemed lost? That may turn out to be Roberts & MAGA justices' (inadvertent) gift that will slow down Trump's dismantling of environmental standards...at least until courts stop mattering. eenews.net/articles/what-the…

What the end of Chevron will mean for Trump’s presidency

Trump picked Supreme Court justices who were critical of the doctrine. Their decision to overturn it could come back to bite him.

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So what needs to be done to exploit this “opportunity” now? youtu.be/k8toJQZTUn4?si=eloZ… Well, supporting some of those environment legal defense orgs seems like a place to start…looks like they’re going to have a lot to do soon.

Supreme Court RULING BACKFIRES on Trump Agency Plan

The effort to oppose and defend against the next Trump Administrati...

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With >2 more inches snowfall forecast for CO, time to dust off the reservoir snow storage diagram for Upper Colorado R Basin 1st time this winter. Explanation & similar diagrams for Sierra Nevada, CA, at cw3e.ucsd.edu/water_storage_… 2016-20223UCRB diagrams at cnap.ucsd.edu/ucrb_storage-h…
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And, yes, the current diagram shows that reservoirs above Lake Powell are pretty much at normal as is snow for this time of year. But Powell is well below normal still. To see how we got here, check out these two figures...
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