@MacadayWX

Emmy-winning Meteorologist @ Sacramento Bee - @Univmiami 19 🙌 - Exploring/protecting 🌎 - Fan of deep dish and deep dives

 Sacramento, CA
Joined February 2018
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America’s newest national park is rock solid! Chiricahua is officially our 64th national park. Welcome to the "Wonderland of Rocks."
Lightning strikes beneath dark storm clouds over the rocky landscape of Chiricahua. Green vegetation surrounds clusters of towering rock formations, with a pink glow along the distant horizon.

ALT Lightning strikes beneath dark storm clouds over the rocky landscape of Chiricahua. Green vegetation surrounds clusters of towering rock formations, with a pink glow along the distant horizon.

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The area burning today in San Clemente received over 1.60" of rain 5 days ago. So why is it burning? Answer: Highly invasive black mustard, a CA non-native. It dies each summer, leaving dry, highly flammable kindling that rainfall cannot revive. Remove and plant natives.
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Edgar McGregor@edgarrmcgregorOct 1
Posts have recently been circulating online claiming that it has "always been 100°F in October in Los Angeles." These claims are misleading. Historically, 100°F October days only occurred on 3-6 afternoons per decade. (1% - 2% of days) Lately, they've gotten much more common.
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Replying to @californiapost
This storm is not coming to SoCal. Stop lying.
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Edgar McGregor@edgarrmcgregorSep 1
My hope was wrong this morning. Since the center of #MARIE has formed, I was hoping today's 12z suite would bring more clarity to the forecast track. It has not. It has just about as much discrepancy as ever. There is still very low forecast confidence with this thing.
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Matt Lanza@mattlanzaAug 12
“Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.” - Teddy Roosevelt (Republican)
Texas Monthly
@TexasMonthlyAug 12
On the morning of August 4, contractors began moving heavy equipment into Big Bend National Park, a major development in the months-long standoff between the federal government and local officials and residents over the construction of a border barrier in the park. More photos by photographer Brian Finke: texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
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Colin McCarthy
@US_StormwatchJul 22
2026's developing Super El Niño is neck and neck with 1997 as the strongest El Niño for late July on record, using the relative Oceanic Niño Index (RONI), which takes into account warming relative to the rest of the ocean. Using the raw Oceanic Niño Index (ONI), 2026 is blowing every other year completely out of the water for mid-July. Because climate change has already warmed the ocean's overall baseline temperature, NOAA has switched its monitoring of El Niño strength from ONI, which compares only to a fixed historical average, to RONI, which compares Niño 3.4 warming relative to the rest of the tropical ocean. The current ensemble forecast has El Niño peaking at 3.0°C (RONI) in November (h/t @hausfath), which would be the strongest El Niño on record since records began in 1850.
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Alex Boreham
@cyclonicwxJul 10
Niño 3.4 has hit +2°C, earlier than any other year, including 1997 which took until the end of August! However, RONI shows isn't so far from the old records, and is on track with 1997. Very impressive with stronger -ENSO in January, and even in RONI terms could surpass 1997
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Seth Abramson
@SethAbramsonJul 2
(🚨) So to be very clear, FIFA rules do *not* allow the USMNT to appeal the Balogun red card *on the basis of claiming the referee erred*. But. Under the circumstances, the USMNT should appeal on the very different grounds ESPN just reported on: misapplication of VAR protocols.
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Opening Statement. 🇺🇸
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ChaseWithHamz
@Ham_BklynWxApr 17
Tornado Footage captured by Jim in his backyard in Marion, Minnesota #mnwx #tornado #minnesota facebook.com/share/v/1Cf9xZL…
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Insane video coming in from the tornado that impacted parts of Marion, MN. It does seem like there was a lot of debris in the air, hopefully everyone is alright. Credit: Emily Ann (On Facebook)
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NASA
@NASAApr 3
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman

ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman

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Daniel Swain
@Weather_WestMar 21
Incredibly, even *more* locations across U.S. are today experiencing their warmest March temperatures on record--many by a wide margin, with some even breaking April records. This includes most or all of: AZ, UT, CO, NM, WY, NE, KS, MO, IA, plus portions of many other states. 🫠
Map of U.S., from coolwx.com, showing locations currently experiencing record-breaking temperatures. There are countless such locations in the Western U.S., with hundreds of red dots (locations breaking daily record highs) and countless pink dots (locations breaking March monthly record highs). The region of record heat extends from the Pacific Coast to east the Mississippi River, and from Canada to Mexico. The region of red and pink dots is vastly larger even than yesterday's (or the day before, or the day before, or the day before, same as it ever was, same...as it ever was...).

ALT Map of U.S., from coolwx.com, showing locations currently experiencing record-breaking temperatures. There are countless such locations in the Western U.S., with hundreds of red dots (locations breaking daily record highs) and countless pink dots (locations breaking March monthly record highs). The region of record heat extends from the Pacific Coast to east the Mississippi River, and from Canada to Mexico. The region of red and pink dots is vastly larger even than yesterday's (or the day before, or the day before, or the day before, same as it ever was, same...as it ever was...).

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A major winter storm is heading our way on Sunday. In addition to the forecast on @FOX9 tonight, @MacadayWX and I will stream storm updates and road conditions on FOX Local every half hour Sunday afternoon.
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Snow is moving into the Twin Cities and will start affecting your holiday weekend travel plans. We're expecting 4-8". We'll be updating the storm and road conditions every half hour on FOX Local. @FOX9
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We invite you join our living streaming coverage of our winter storm on the FOX Local app. @MacadayWX is tracking the storm and the snow totals. We’ll also have the snow emergencies that we know of including Minneapolis.
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The roads are NOT good as our winter storm rolls through the Twin Cities. @FOX9 Meteorologist @MacadayWX and I will be on FOX Local all afternoon updating you on the roads and the storm. We’ll see you there.
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‼️TRAVEL NOT ADVISED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA ‼️ Travel conditions are deteriorating rapidly as strong winds and falling snow are leading to whiteouts. Postpone all travel until conditions improve. For road conditions in MN: 511mn.org. #mnwx
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