WFLA-TV (Tampa Bay) Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist. BS Atmospheric Sciences Cornell U. MA Climate Columbia U. Past CBS News NY and Miami, Tampa, WPB
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Jeff Berardelli retweeted
Tuesday's election results will have sweeping impacts on America's data center boom.
Our team at Cleanview analyzed the data and found that newly elected governors could pause 41% of America’s planned data centers.
Here are some more takeaways from last night's results:
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Jeff Berardelli retweeted
Montana voters approved a ballot measure to ban corporations, nonprofits and labor unions from doing business in the state if they made political contributions. State's rights v. Citizens United. Will be fun to see SCOTUS deal with that one. Bravo Montana!!!
Jeff Berardelli retweeted
Sam Altman thinks RAM sitting in personal computers is a waste when it could be put to better use in data centers.
Weird. I was just thinking that all those billions sitting in billionaires’ bank accounts could be put to much better use in our communities.
No major SSW has occurred before November 28th since records began in 1959, so an event in the first week of November would beat the record by roughly three weeks.
The most likely outcome is the vortex elongates and briefly splits but then quickly merges back into one vortex - but a polar vortex that is displaced.
Could lead to high latitude blocking later in November and risk of colder spells in Northern Europe, but depends where the displacement ends up. Since this would be an extremely early event, with the vortex not yet fully set up, there’s little historical precedent to judge how it might play out.
Jeff Berardelli retweeted
Several factors made this Atlantic hurricane season one of the least active on record but one in particular stands out. Wind shear wasn't just high, it was record-shattering high. Today's newsletter is packed with all the details ⬇️
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Jeff Berardelli retweeted
86% of runs in the latest ECMWF ensemble have a major sudden stratospheric warming event around 6th Nov, which AFAIK would be the earliest on record (WRT Nov-Mar).
It appears it'll be a mainly wave-1 driven event if it occurs, greatly displacing & distorting the polar vortex.
Jeff Berardelli retweeted
This is going to be a generational winter for coastal flooding and erosion along California’s coast.
A marine heatwave plus a Kelvin Wave from El Niño have already rapidly raised water levels in recent weeks. Combined with king tides this winter, it’s likely every coastal city from the Bay Area to SoCal will see their highest water levels in recorded history.
Jeff Berardelli retweeted
Matt, here is the dirty weather content you ordered. Please tip appropriately, this is my only income source.
Jeff Berardelli retweeted
Subsurface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific have soared 12°C (21.6°F) above average, the highest of this El Niño, with actual temperatures reaching 33.4°C (92.1°F).
The y-axis maximum was raised again to accommodate this extreme warmth.
We are witnessing climate history.
Jeff Berardelli retweeted
“The best climate change documentary I’ve ever seen.”
That’s what Jeff Masters wrote about Weather Under Fire in Yale Climate Connections, and I’m still trying to find the words for how much that means to me. Jeff co-founded Weather Underground and flew into hurricanes with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters, and I grew up reading his work as a weather geek, so hearing that from him is something I am blown away by.
I may be the one on the film poster, but this film is much bigger than my story. It’s about the meteorologists across the country who are being threatened and silenced for explaining the science, and about the cuts to the National Weather Service that leave all of us less safe. It’s also about what happens to a nation when the people trying to warn us about extreme weather are pushed out.
The film is complete - what’s left are the final touches. We’re raising this last bit of money now, because keeping Weather Under Fire independently funded has been a goal from the start so that we never had to give up our editorial independence. If you’d like to help get it over the finish line, contributions are tax-deductible: donate.mazloweb.com/donate/t…
This Wednesday, October 21, at 7:30 PM ET (4:30 PM PT, 6:30 PM CT), director Sarah Gibson, Jeff and I are hosting a 30-minute Zoom. We’ll share clips from the film and take your questions live, and Jeff will close with a preview of what the strengthening Super El Niño could mean for California this winter.
To get your invite, RSVP at WeatherUnderFire@gmail.com
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Jeff Berardelli retweeted
Appears to be absolutely MASSIVE protests all across the US yesterday and this platform is so skewed to the Trump/Putin side that this is the first I've seen or heard of it.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The montage uses recycled footage from larger 2025 and March 2026 No Kings protests, not Oct 17 2026 Vote Early events. Those were smaller localized gatherings (hundreds to thousands per city) focused on early voting, not the massive crowds shown.
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Jeff Berardelli retweeted
And that’s a hard miss. A near miss—but a hard miss. #Typhoon #CHAMPI’s intense core passed just S of #Guam, sparing the island a direct impact. But it'll be a soggy, messy start to your Sunday, so have your umbrellas handy. & have caution near large puddles & fallen branches.
Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level on record as pivotal vote looms for President Lula
New data shows forest clearance fell by 71.2% since 2022, the final year of Bolsonaro administration.
Story by me
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Jeff Berardelli retweeted
This map ranks U.S. counties by quality of life for families using 108 indicators, including crime rates, schools, housing affordability, child care costs, health care, jobs, air quality, and other risks.
How does your county compare?
Jeff Berardelli retweeted
OHC: +3.35 Subsurface: +12C Surface: 30C isotherm strengthening/expanding even more at 140W. Record-breaking WWB/DWKW in progress and yet we still have people downplaying this El Niño. Pure comedy
Jeff Berardelli retweeted
A new study identifies "a statistically significant doubling of the global warming rate during 2011–25 (0.40 °C per decade) compared to 1971–2025 (0.20 °C per decade)."
It claims that "the ensemble mean of 26 climate models fails to capture the observed doubling of the warming."
Jeff Berardelli retweeted
Overall that was one of the more wild missions of my career… the eye was crazy shaped and closed on the first pass and then open on the second. On the third pass we had a call from the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center about a boat with an emergency beacon that was transmitting just outside the eye. We dropped down and searched for them for a bit. That’s all the wind arrows clumped together sorta in the middle. The beacon was loud but we didn’t get any response on the radio or see anything visually or with radar. Coast Guard was headed out in a helo but storm was well north by the time they made it on scene so no idea what happened with that. Then there was a bunch of severe turbulence on the open south side of the eye, clear air with nothing on radar but pilots had to do all their pilot stuff to keep us flying. Took a radar fix because the turbulence was too violent on the fourth pass. Then made it back in for one final fix before calling it a day. Pics and vids tomorrow… Our PA office got a bunch of them up on DVIDs if anybody wants to use them.
Jeff Berardelli retweeted
This is crazy man. Starting to think damage might be worse in this isolated area than those in the #Isaias’s eyewall. Finally got my hands on velocity & it’s clear as day. Sting jet ripped through far western Santa Rosa & northeast Escambia, & parts of SW AL. Biggest reported gust so far is Jay, FL (118mph), which is NW of Milton, FL.
I tried to go out & explore some in Pace, FL, and roads are impassable. Tree damage is bad. I knew this “sting jet” scenario was possible, but to see it come to fruition is wicked. These places were 20-30 miles west of the eyewall. Just insane stuff.
