The owner of coolwx.com has shut down the website in response to the arbitrary firing of NOAA employees (up to 10% of workforce) yesterday.

A stormy day at Milford Sound in New Zealand

This post from one of the most respected meteorologists in the South (James Spann) is very disheartening, but I think most representative of the MASSIVE disinformation environment on the birdsite (ex-Twitter) and Facebook. I've seen a lot of this from MANY disaster and weather folks over on what-was-Twitter (which they really should abandon, it's literally a get-whacked-in-the-face-by-trolls farm).

(ps. his bashing of the left is his attempt to avoid being labeled as a "liberal" by his red state viewers, IMHO).

https://spann.substack.com/p/weather-disasters-politics-and-mental

#Project2025 would defund, privatize, and cripple the public #weather and disaster response efforts of the federal government, including the National Weather Service and NOAA.

But, until then, you might be interested in this (free) image from NOAA satellites of the swath of power outages caused by

Whoa, looks like the east coast is getting pounded.