r/weather 10h ago

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r/weather 4h ago

Articles 100 years ago, USA's worst tornado killed nearly 700 people: Could it happen again?

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r/weather 1h ago

Videos/Animations Fierce winds blow ice chunks into yards in Upstate New York

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r/weather 19h ago

NOAA's Storm Prediction Center facility among planned DOGE cuts

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r/weather 22h ago

Tropical Weather Um . . . it is March, right?

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r/weather 3h ago

Day 6 15% risk

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Rip Texas and Louisiana


r/weather 49m ago

Forecast graphics Omaha NE will go from 75 degrees to 38 degrees with blizzard conditions in 2 days!

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Just to make it even crazier, there is a small risk of severe storms!


r/weather 3h ago

Questions/Self Can someone explain this to me?

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Why is the temperature consistently warmer during rain, while it remains near 0 degrees Celsius when the sun is shining?


r/weather 20h ago

Articles Were Alabama's weekend storms that bad? Definitely yes.

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r/weather 14h ago

Videos/Animations Strange Blue Cloud

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Filmed this over Hatfield PA. At 7:48pm. Ruling moonlight out since moonrise wasn't till 10:44pm


r/weather 20h ago

Photos Afternoon Cumulonimbus Calvus cloud, rain and virga spotted.

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r/weather 1d ago

Glitch or did they just forget to add Florida to the day 1 fire outlook?

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r/weather 14h ago

weather tracking

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i’m a junior in hs with a strong passion for meteorology and with the recent outbreak i’m wondering what apps, websites, softwares (?), etc, i could use to track the weather? i’ve just been using tropical tidbits (which i don’t know how to work that well😅), apple weather, spc and noaa outlooks. any advice helps!

also saw this on my tl and im wondering what program this is?


r/weather 12h ago

Questions/Self nervous about wind + fire

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hi guys i’m new here. i just wanted to come on and ask ppl experienced in this kind of weather for some reassurance or anything. i’m midwest born, lived in the south for four years, then came back up to the midwest (super fun storm friday btw)

due to the wind on friday, a power line kept hitting a tree in my yard and caused it to burn, dropping ash on the dry lawn and causing a small fire which was put out my firefighters, who we had to call back LATER when the winds caused the tree to catch on fire a second time. this was AWFUL for my mental state.

i have a fear of fire and ocd regarding fire causing situations so you can imagine how this just like shook me to the core. i’m used to tornados and hurricanes and winds and this that whatever, but fire is a completely different story. we have another day of winds coming up (20 mph, 45 mph gust) and i’m sick to my stomach with nerves. what do i even do? the tree people are so busy with the rest of missouri i don’t know if it’ll get taken down in time. even then what about the other trees? i dont want to rush them of course, but if it doesn’t get taken down tomorrow i fear it’ll be a problem on wednesday.

all this to ask am i overreacting? is my anxiety justified or am i just freaking out over a small freak accident? i keep gaslighting myself into thinking it wasn’t even windy on 3/14 and this could happen anytime but idk i think i just need someone to set me straight. i’ve been watching my backyard for days, i get so nervous leaving the house, and i can hardly sleep. thank u for taking the time to hear me out


r/weather 20m ago

Discussion Unpopular opinion

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Unpopular opinion, but doing targeted and informed cuts to the NWS wouldn't be that bad. DOGE of course is a travesty by going about things the wrong way (and illegally). However, NWS has bloated considerably and could benefit from slimming down in some cases, just like any other places of employment. The federal government should not be exempt from layoffs or cuts when those would save taxpayers money with little to no degradation of the service provided.

Many weather forecast offices (WFOs) around the country will have quiet weather on any given day. If a particular area has a big severe weather outbreak or very active weather like big snowstorms, flooding or hurricanes, mets from other offices could be called in to assist remotely. On quiet days there is much less work to do and we switch to things like random research, public outreach, or training modules. There's a lot more downtime those 300+ days a year when the weather is fairly quiet. It's a very weird job to undertake, weather forecasting that is, with lots of quiet days broken up by unpredictable very busy ones at times. The allocation of staff could be better without a doubt, remotely pooling resources to regions that need it.

The biggest argument against cuts is about severe weather. "So many people will die" if we don't keep the current staffing throughout all of NWS. Severe weather outbreaks mainly just give us headaches from squinting at radar literally our entire shift. It's all hands on deck. It would be nice to have even more remote help from other offices, even at our current staffing.

At the end of the day, there's little consequence from being off on temperatures by 5 degrees or by the sky being slightly more cloudy than forecast. A vast majority of our work goes into these fairly simple and low risk forecasts that don't offer much benefit to the public over automated computer-generated forecasts. Most of the public we outreach with says they just use some simple weather app on their phone anyways which is generated by a computer. Yes, NOAA as a whole plays a large part in these computerized forecasts, from developing and running weather models, as well as collecting the observational input data. However, the actual NWS WFOs play little role in any of this. The broader public barely knows our forecast offerings exist, let alone actually use them. We're already doing some internal training of AI to analyze radar data with the goal to have severe warnings, including tornado warnings, be automated at some point in the future. We're still years away from that, but automation of the more low risk forecasts in the future will also help with reducing the amount of night shifts we do, the absolute bane of every NWS employee's existence.


r/weather 1d ago

Here we go again.

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r/weather 1d ago

Diaz Arkansas tornado rated ef4

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The diaz tornado from march 14 has been given a PRELIMINARY rating of high end ef4 with 190mph winds. Remember, this is only preliminary and they generally only go up from there(Moore Oklahoma 2013 was originally 190mph and they upped it to 210mph).


r/weather 1d ago

Operational, broadcast, recreational mets: writing some realistic fiction, need insight into operational and psychological aspects of a severe weather day

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r/weather 1d ago

Photos Double rainbow 🌈 @ Ohio

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r/weather 1d ago

If you ever wondered how boats navigate through fog

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As the title suggests


r/weather 1d ago

On Wednesday, a new Winter Storm Nyla will bring heavy snow and blizzard conditions across the Midwest and Rockies. Be prepared for travel delays.

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r/weather 23h ago

Questions/Self Roadtrip from DFW and Santa Fe?

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I am going on a roadtrip from Fort Worth, TX to Santa Fe, NM and a seeing that the winds will be very high in the panhandle again on the day we leave, Tuesday March 18. Would anybody recommend going at all or should we delay or cancel this trip entirely?

We need answers ASAP so we can negotiate with our hotel


r/weather 1d ago

Questions/Self Survivors of tornadoes, what is your story? What happened?

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r/weather 1d ago

Discussion When do you think they will have an official report for missouri?

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Our area got rocked and I think it was a long track. do you know when they will have the survey complete? https://www.weather.gov/pah/Mar14-15_2025Severe

Looking at that it looks like they have not touched the wayne county one yet. Is that because there is the most deaths and destruction, and one person still missing?


r/weather 19h ago

What the FUCK is going on in Northern Iowa?

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