Michael Watkins 🇺🇦

Technical paper re: Google ML hurricane forecast methodology: storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media…

@wxjerdman Johnathan great writeup re: the coming massive El Nino event! Great to see your ever expanding/positive and, most importantly, science-based approach to weather com! weather.com/news/climate/n…

@Google your playoff bracket formatting is off, awarding the home team the win in the score section but advancing the actual team that won the series? I guess not using Deepmind and counting on huirestics?

Math works! Amazing mission happening now - physics in action too. Love it - this is one of the most special missions of anything I’ve ever known about nasa.gov/blogs/missions…

If we get a “super El Niño”? 1. How will the Atlantic Hurricane Season evolve? I vividly remember 1997 after the Atlantic “sprung to life” in 1995/96. 2. What will the “twitter official weather sites” do for content? Will that event separate garbage from actual science?

I don’t know of any followers I have from Hawaii, but this is a serious and incredibly rare event occurring right now. Hope everyone heeds these warnings and that they stay safe.

@hurricanetrack Meteorology is a probabilistic discipline, predominantly inhabited by people who communicate risk too deterministically. Remember all of those amazing mets who were sure Katrina was heading to the FL panhandle as a cat 1? #rememberhumberto

Seeing a lot on here about today being a "bust". How could something that was not 100% guaranteed be a bust? Numerous credible meteorologists did extremely well communicating several days ago that there was POTENTIAL for a big severe weather day today. That potential was not realized. And? That's a good thing. No funerals planned for next week. No insurance companies to deal with. No regrets in my book. You owe the Internet and Social Media nothing. You did your jobs; people were aware. Next play.

What? A certain, predicted deterministic weather event didn't actually happen yesterday? The overriding, guiding tenant of weather communication is first and always: convey the reality of uncertainty. Turns out we still don't "know" anything. #science #wxcom #probability

1:09am CDT #SPC Day2 Outlook Moderate Risk: from northern South Carolina across North Carolina and into Virginia and Maryland spc.noaa.gov/products/outlo…

Wow east coast be ready and have multiple ways to get storm warning info on Monday, big severe weather day expected spc.noaa.gov/products/outlo…

That noise outside our tent was this young racoon stealing potato chips from our neighbors camp site.

We've been experiencing big time locally induced fog (pictured) here at Jekyll Island. The environment is saturated and the island seems to be acting as a local lift mechanism via cold water and land interaction #gawx

Full moon peeking through the tree canopy at the north end of Jekyl Island, GA just now. Amazing and unusual weather here, foggy for 4 straight nights and counting #gawx

@JakeMorrisonNBA Uhm, no. #clickbait

BREAKING: Darryn Peterson will sit out the remainder of the season to prepare for the NBA draft.

@hurricanetrack Going through a pile of hurricane paperwork. I remember doing that training for Sprint, but I had no idea I still had the presentation lol. I also found my official storm spotter letter!

@watkinstrack Where you find that? Wow. Historic.

@hurricanetrack lol remember this from, 2005 I think?

As seen from our upstairs bedroom, yet another beautiful South Florida winter sunset after the cold front rolled through today! #sfwx

@CraigSetzer We got this one in Oakland Park last night

Florida Friday sunsets in January. Just off Deerfield Beech.

@Jerryjones85027 @NFL Again! This time another TERRIBLE PI call against @Panthers

@watkinstrack @NFL

@nfl officiating is out of control bad. QB throws a backwards pass. Ball bounces off receiver, in bounds, play is blown dead and signaled incomplete. Referee announces ruling on the field was a backwards pass that went out of bounds, except ball never went out of bounds. Carolina loses 6 yards even though receiver had plenty of time and space to advance the ball. Instead of 2nd and 10 it was 2nd and 16. And the game just goes on from there ZERO accountability and of course the NFL mouthpiece @espn didn't bother pointing out it was a horrible call because of journalism. CORRUPT organization gets more corrupt and nobody cares.

League must want the #carolinapanthers to lose this game. This year has had so many easy and obvious bad calls, it absolutely is time to hold NFL officials accountable for their job performance. Are they still getting paid? Do they not even care if they make the right call? Not even talking about subjective calls like pass interference. Administrative calls like this one are getting blown one after another, and this is allegedly a virtual playoff game. 🗑 🚮 🗑 🚮 🗑