Andrew Harty 🌾🌾

KSU Turf Alum - Colbert Hills - Links at Spanish Bay and Pebble Beach Co. - AIT at Cypress Point

[Andrew Harty 🌾🌾 @AndrewHarty3]

Wanted to take a minute to thank @PB_CGCS @swartz_paxson @rsiegfried28 and the great crew at the Links at Spanish Bay for a fantastic summer. I hope to eventually come back to what you guys made feel like a second home

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

Have weather forecasts seemed less accurate lately? There's a major contributing factor: nearly half the morning weather balloons in the Lower 48 are "missing."

This is an ongoing crisis that is degrading critical severe weather forecasts that we all rely on. It's having real, tangible impacts on degrading forecast quality.

If you work in transportation, agriculture or commerce, this should matter to you.

Regardless of the causes, this negatively affects people of ALL political backgrounds. Weather affects everyone. And it's impacting ALL of us negatively.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

This is especially concerning for severe weather forecasts. We can't go 18 hours without ascertaining how the atmosphere is layered, how much storm fuel has built up and if severe thunderstorms are going to erupt. The Storm Prediction Center has even acknowledged forecasting frustrations in at least one public bulletin.

As an atmospheric scientist myself, I can say firsthand – the forecasts I'm able to offer you are less accurate than they would otherwise be. I'm not able to predict severe weather with the confidence I normally would. That is extremely concerning.

The United States is "supposed" to launch balloons at 0Z and 12Z ideally – a.k.a. around 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Eastern time. That's not happening. Many sites, due to staffing issues stemming from broader political and organizational issues, have pushed to 18Z, or early afternoon. That's not helpful for morning severe weather forecasts. In other words, you get less lead time. Less advanced notice. Quicker ramp-ups and ramp-downs to the forecast.

We're not able to get jet stream, temperature, moisture or wind profiles of the atmosphere each morning like we otherwise would.

Moreover, the World Meteorological Organization encourages 12Z soundings; that data is shared via the Global Observing System (GOS) under the World Weather Watch (WWW). That's not happening.

[GL @gldivittorio]

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism” 🧡💙

[Alex Kane @alexbkane]

A New York Times investigation indicates that it was a US strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, mostly children. https://t.co/YoR5WY3bWn

[Popüler Gazete @populergazete]

ABD-İsrail'in Minab şehrine saldırısında hayatını kaybeden İranlı Mikael'in annesine veda ettiği son fotoğraf paylaşıldı.

[Kalle📸 @KalleSorbo]

It is absolutely insane that the absolute BEST case scenario is that our President knew about a child sex trafficking ring and did nothing about it, and the most likely scenario is that he was directly involved.

[Steve Peoples @sppeoples]

ICE agents initially claimed Mondragón had tried to flee while handcuffed and “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

But staff members at Hennepin County Medical Center determined that could not possibly account for the fractures and bleeding throughout the man’s 31-year-old’s brain. ... A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain.

Mondragón entered the U.S. in 2022 with valid immigration documents. Minnesota incorporation filings show he founded a company called Castaneda Construction the following year with an address listed in St. Paul. He appears to have no criminal record.
https://t.co/IpO4pBmATe

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I don’t think you can say he was “resisting arrest” bc there is no effort to actually arrest him or say “you are under arrest.” The agent shoved a woman to the ground, he helped her out and was sprayed, thrown to the ground and beaten. The natural human response is to try to cover your face and protect your body as you’re being assaulted. Interpreting that body movement as “resisting arrest” is too much of a leap.

The agents escalated the situation repeatedly and then used their own escalation as reason to kill him.

[Brandon Straka #WalkAway @BrandonStraka]

New slowed footage raises questions about the sequence of events before federal agents shot a Minneapolis man.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

These frames show that ICE had ALREADY secured the man’s gun *BEFORE* they shot him.

Proving he DIDN’T “reach for his gun”

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

There is no defending this. This is cold-blooded murder.

[Adam Russell @Adam_Russell5]

Of all the lying, no-good companies in the world, plastic manufacturers gotta rank right at the top…

Also, I don’t blame MASC here. They’re force-fed these lies by @AstroTurfUSA & their ilk, plus MASC makes more $$$ on plastic than grass b/c plastic costs more, so it tracks…

[Reed @reedsw0rld]

"By walking, you not only get the purest golf experience—you’re also helping to protect the courses for future play."

Absolutely correct.

[Superintendent Network @TheGCSNetwork]

Thank you. #thankasuper

[The Walker Cup @WalkerCup]

Tough to find a better walk to the next tee.

[The Walker Cup @WalkerCup]

Every green at Cypress Point: a thread 🧵

No. 1

[Fried Egg Golf @fried_egg_golf]

With its glorious combination of rocky coast, sand dunes, cypress trees, and pine woods, Cypress Point Club is unlike any other golf course in the world.

Tune in to our YouTube premiere on Monday, August 25th at 8 PM ET as we preview the host site of the 50th Walker Cup.

[Andrew Harty 🌾🌾 @AndrewHarty3]

@13eechamFR Hey Kenny when we golfing

[Andrew Harty 🌾🌾 @AndrewHarty3]

@CorbynMeyers Ahh hell nah

[NFLPA @NFLPA]

Looks nice 🧐... #SaferFields