Cyclone #HORACIO in the SW Indian Ocean has strengthened into the world’s first Category 5 hurricane of 2026. It has winds of 140 kts (160 mph) and pressure of 920 mb. It’s expected to remain over the open ocean.

NYC blizzard is over.Went for a walk in Central Park and checked Le Bernardin and Aldo Sohm Wine Bar ... All fine and we will reopen tomorrow Tuesday 24 .

Breaking News! Code Yikes! In case you haven't been paying attention, global sea-surface temperatures have been spiking for the last week and may soon set a new all-time record. Massively overheated oceans are not healthy for children and other living things.

So how is the fight against global warming going? Well, compared to predictions made 30 years ago, we have slightly slowed the rate at which carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere. Technically that's progress, I guess, but we need it to stop increasing entirely.

Last week, the US Department of Agriculture all but finished a decades long, cruel bipartisan project: Speeding up the kill lines at America's slaughterhouses. The draft rules have received almost no media attn but will impact hundreds of millions of workers & animals.

NHC has completed its post-analysis and Tropical Cyclone Report for Hurricane #Melissa. Melissa, one of the strongest hurricanes on record in the Atlantic basin, reached category 5 intensity (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) with a minimum central pressure of 892 mb

Here's the reasoning for the #Melissa upgrade to 165 knots. Very solid and maybe even conservative IMO. It's a blend of the obs and satellite estimates, and also accounts for undersampling (we didn't fly in the eastern eyewall on the final flight, and the Air Force mission only

Max winds at 190 mph. Tied for strongest Atlantic hurricane (wind speed) on record!

Thornton just escaped an absolute tragedy thanks for firefighters. This seriously could have been the Marshall fire 2.0 had the winds been stronger. Unreal stop despite losing a lot of vehicles and a couple small structures at what appears to be a salvage yard. Amazing stop

China added more solar capacity in 2025 than the United States has built, total, in its entire history. We are not building solar fast enough in America.

Sad state of affairs for canning peach growers in California. The closure of the Del Monte cannery ripples through the community, from farmers, workers, suppliers, truckers, and more.

From my cold dead legs

2/26/26 10:50am: As expected, the ~1.7" increase in SWE* from this week's rain was temporary and exited through the bottom of the snowpack. In fact, the warm storm melted some of the snowpack, so we are now at 19" rather than the 19.7" at the end of last week's snowfall. 1/2

Exclusive: Pollution from U.S. power plants rose last year, a rare uptick in an otherwise long-term downward trend, partly because of more coal being burned to generate electricity on.wsj.com/4qUc8C5

This La Nina might be the first without measurable snow in recorded History for Seattle

Windy conditions and low humidity, paired with very dry vegetation, continue today, and NWS Boulder has issued another Red Flag Warning. To mitigate wildfire risk, we have implemented Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS), which makes power lines more sensitive and can stop

NASA will increase the cadence of the Artemis missions to successfully return humans to the Moon and sustain a lunar presence. Artemis III will test systems in low Earth orbit to prepare for an Artemis IV Moon landing in 2028. go.nasa.gov/4aGEGua

Northern Japan is home to some of the snowiest cities in the world 🌨️ The city of Sapporo, on the island of Hokkaido, gets nearly 20 feet of snow per year on average! @nasa’s Terra satellite captured this image of Hokkaido on February 5, 2026.

Happy 30 years Pokémon! #PokemonDay #Pokemon30

DWR today conducted the third Phillips Station snow survey of the season. The manual survey recorded 28 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent of 11 inches, which is 47 percent average for today's date. Statewide, the snowpack is 66 percent of average for this date.