Jeff Masters

From my post last year, my 4 favorite sources of wildfire smoke forecasts:

1-3 day from NOAA:
airquality.weather.gov/?element=apm25…

rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/HRRRsmoke/

3-day from Environment Canada:
weather.gc.ca/firework/

5-10-day from NASA:
fluid.nccs.nasa.gov/wxmaps/chem2d/…

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/15-sou…

Project2025's justification for privatizing the NWS: "Studies have found that the forecasts and warnings provided by the private companies are more reliable than those provided by the NWS." The footnote "proof" given is a 2020 AccuWeather press release: accuweather.com/en/press/lat...

Earth's 1st major landfalling tropical cyclone of 2025 was Cyclone #Zelia in Western Australia. Fortunately, it hit a relatively sparsely populated area. Zelia was just the 19th Cat 4 or stronger cyclone to hit Australia since 1961. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/cat-4-…

A few highlights from Jan. 2025: monthly Arctic sea ice extent was the 2nd-lowest in the 46-year satellite record; on Jan. 2, 3.7% of the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet melted--the most widespread melt event of any day in the 46-year satellite record.

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/02/unexpe…

The World Weather Attribution group studied the devastating L.A. wildfires, concluding that human-caused climate change led to a 35% increase in their probability. Climate change could not be blamed for the Santa Ana winds, though.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/climat…