Stephen Eckhardt ☀️

Just like the internet, the most ambitious forecasts will wildly underestimate the impact of AI

Temperature departures from average 1st quarter of 2026 in the books CONUS at +4.28 F

@AquinasGlen 40 and sunny this time of year will almost assuredly come with a lot of wind. 2-4 weeks ago could perhaps pull that off. Not in April

@seckhardt Wish it were 40 and sunny but 80 is a lot for March.

It’ll be 40 degrees colder this afternoon in places near Philly

This looks like one of those ‘Sea Level rise by 2030’ maps

In 1968, RFK was assassinated. MLK was assassinated. We had major race riots. Massive DNC chaos in Chicago. America was on fire. Politics were a disaster. It was probably horrible to live through. An excruciatingly bad year for our nation. Yet we sent 3 men around the moon. One year later we would land on it. What’s the lesson you need to learn? That even as things around you seem to be falling apart, humanity advances. We make strides into the future regardless of whats in the news. It’s why optimism about the future will always win. We are the greatest species to ever exist, even with all our faults.

Bradford Pear trees definitely started blooming in Philly today because the whole city smells bad

@DavidElder1987 Your AC unit won't last long if it's running on a day like today, especially the colder it is below 60 degrees.

@seckhardt AC is on until mid-October...one or two cool days doesn't warrant the process of opening everything up only to close it all up again.....

From the west, from the north, from the east. I don’t care which one gets here first. It’s 80 degrees in the house 😓

Nice little storm complex rolling in

Now that’s an April fools prank 😂

@WeatherNut27 We need a Nor’easter

@seckhardt Feels like we picked up where we left off last summer. Waiting for rain for past 2 days and it never comes. #NeedABubblePopper

@FrannyForecast The weather is a lot more interesting there than it used to be ⛈️

@seckhardt If I have to experience one more day in Happy Valley with a temperature below 45 for a high until Oct I think I will explode

I'm actually looking forward to this tomorrow afternoon

April is prime back-door season. Temps the next 3 days are all over the place.

@JetStreamJP I'm up for change. Plus I'm off from work 😎

@seckhardt After seeing this, I’m looking forward to Friday afternoon 😎

@NWSEastern @NOAANCEI Why is the January 2026 storm still not in the database?

The Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale (NESIS) is a scale that was developed in 2004 to rank high impact Northeast snows. @NOAANCEI maintains an updated list for these storms at ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitor… which also explains the methodology. This February's storm was recently added.

You're watching right?

People are really asking why when this is the temperature in the house on April 1st

@FrannyForecast No. Not at all

@seckhardt April fools!

These things all popped out in the last day or so and you can see that they are everywhere. Terrible