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@capitalweather Can you help me understand the meteorology behind it being 16F outside right now, yet the snow is clearly wet and will transition to sleet/freezing rain shortly? Isn't it plenty cold to be all snow?

Snow totals mounting as sleet line reaches DC's southern suburbs (7a) Snow amounts around the region have climbed to 2.5 to 5 inches; the most common amounts are between 3 and 4 inches. Washington Dulles International Airport has received 4 inches while Reagan National Airport picked up one inch in the last hour and has at least 3 inches on the ground. The sleet line is advancing north, however. Radar suggests it stretches from near Waldorf to Manassas to Front Royal. We’ve received reports of sleet near Middleburg, in northern Stafford County, around Fredericksburg and even as far north as Springfield. The Beltway area will probably transition to sleet over the next hour or so but another inch or so of snow could fall before the switch. Snow is falling heavily in some areas — or at a clip of more than one inch per hour. Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport recently reported visibility of one-eighth quarter mile in heavy snow. The limited visibility and snow-covered roads will make driving hazardous.

we are NOT celebrating Carbon Management Day here in the office i can't say I am surprised

"no we aren't putting Murray's in our daughters hair"

@CityofGreenbelt crayfish

Just when I thought I'd seen it all, a resident sends me this photo of a lobster, or similar crustacean, walking around Buddy Attick Park Lake! I've heard of shell-shocked, but this is a whole new level. Any idea for a name?

@mattyglesias yes the important thing to note here is that we should all just chill out because this isn’t that bad

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@NateSilver538 this is some of the dumbest shit I've read in a while.

You ran some cool regression analysis OK great. Make some nice graphics and put it on a Substack. Engaging headline, 1500-2500 well-written words. That's literally 100x faster than trying to publish in a journal and it's better peer review anyway.

Academic journals might be a lost cause but they'd probably be better if you had some non-academic practitioners serving as reviewers. Journalists have their problems too but they have much better bullshit detectors, for instance.

⚡ Remember this? On this day 13 years ago, a ferocious derecho ripped across DC area w/ hurricane-force winds, leaving widespread damage & millions without power. 📹 Relive the storm in this gripping footage from @dcstormchaser who captured the derecho barreling into DC:

ok Google how many bass per month can i eat from the potomac

A lot of smart people who really cared about their work lost their jobs yesterday for no good reason. This country is worse off for it.

Wizards undefeated this year

@JoeSagues Future cost-share looking you right in the face

Today is a glorious day. The Biological & Agricultrual Engineering Department at NC State finally has compost service!

@JamesHewettDC @drvolts @rorypjacobson there can be only one

@PowerhouseRowe @drvolts She’s no @rorypjacobson

Dirty hippies like me sometimes point to technologies like CCS (carbon capture + sequestration) & DAC (direct air capture) & worry that they are being used as a pretext to allow Big Oil to continue business-as-usual. We are often scolded for this. "No one serious believes that!"

Girls5eva. that's the tweet.

Summer24

@Very__Regular we have fallen so far from god's light

@TheBTI @atrembath @wang_seaver are we sure about this?

"Loosening the regulations on hydrogen prioritizes long-term energy abundance and innovative dynamism over short-term mitigation and technocratic control." @atrembath and @wang_seaver write on the nuances of the hydrogen industry for the @TheBTI journal

@noahqk so what do we do to make sure a new 100MW electrolyzer load on the grid that buys a PPA that was previously providing juice to a data center (and now switches to NG) doesn’t actually increase overall emissions? b/c that’s what we’re probably going to get…

A reasonable proposal for the H2 45V subsidy here -- I think there is no clear right answer for balancing the tradeoffs between deployment and near term emissions -- and they may be missing the most important justification: an "additionality" pillar is not remotely administrable