Jordan Gerth

Meteorologist and Wisconsin grad (BS, MS, PhD). Follow for insights into leadership, weather, and climate, and when Wisconsin sports teams win big, that too.

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[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@MatthewCappucci @bkoerth …with comparisons to the Midwest, it’s the “extreme of the extreme”. While we don’t have the final tornado count, the # of tornado warnings I think might explain why WI residents feel the way that they do, and this doesn’t add in the large hail in Madison or record river floods.

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@MatthewCappucci @bkoerth I don’t think it’s fair to conclude that anything that has happened before is normal, but there’s subjectivity in what is normal or extreme. If you look at the persistence of severe storms and # of tornadoes as WI residents experienced this week, and not diluting it…

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@MatthewCappucci @bkoerth Sorry, but no. This weeklong outbreak of tornadoes was unusual if not highly so in Wisconsin for any time of the year, including April. I have studied tornado trends in WI. It is not “normal” in any way that word is defined. WI averages 20-25 per year, not in a single week. #wiwx

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@skupor …Even the ability to depart 30 minutes early to avoid walking/waiting for a mass transit mode in heavy rain or lightning benefits employees when agencies have the flexibility. In many situations, the weather in Silver Spring could be completely different than Alexandria. #BigL

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@skupor When it comes to thunderstorms, there is not enough predictability and lead time for one-decision-to-fit-all for early dismissal. Agency heads and supervisors should be empowered to make decisions quickly with more telework and administrative or weather/safety leave discretion…

[Joe Morrison @mouthofmorrison]

I think building a satellite imagery company might be one of the best proving grounds in all of tech:
- Space is hard.
- Manufacturing is hard.
- Capital intensity is hard.
- Petabyte-scale data infrastructure is hard.
- Selling to defense and intelligence customers domestically is hard.
- Selling to defense and intelligence customers internationally is hard.
- Running a global, 24/7 service that is life-or-death for your customers is hard.
- Long lead times juxtaposed against unpredictable demand shocks is hard.
- Export, spectrum, and national security compliance as a startup is hard.
- Geopolitical and industrial policy motivated acquisition is hard.

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@skupor Does that really sway your decision?

The ideal policy would be to have a minimum of unscheduled telework any time DC or one of the adjacent county school districts has a delay or closure to make planning easier for those with children.

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@AvaWBAL @wbaltv11 Wasn’t in the 40s or 50s a day or two before the January snowstorm?

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@skupor @USOPM I have a parlay on open with unscheduled telework for tomorrow.

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

Hey @skupor, Will @USOPM be making and posting an operating status call for Monday for the agencies not subject to the lapse in appropriations? You would think that things would be better by now but it seems the only cure will be temperatures above 32°F. Many one lane roads yet.

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@skupor Thanks for sharing… I think many employees would find it helpful if “open with unscheduled telework” was an automatic/standard approach to a @NWS winter weather advisory/warning for DC or one of its bordering counties and/or the school districts in DC/those counties are closed.

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@skupor @CommerceGov …that does not mirror a more gentle gradient in performance. It also doesn’t account for subjectivity in what constitutes above average performance vs. outstanding performance, even with the best written benchmark standards as evaluation criteria.

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@skupor If you are interested in the experience of a frontline supervisor in @CommerceGov about unintended consequences of a well-intended effort on performance mgmt, I would be happy to chat. Reserving x% of the pay increase/bonus pool for the top y% creates an artificial award cliff…

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@skupor I’m not as surprised that managers would have more high scores than individual contributors because many managers are promoted into those positions because they were high performers (whether that should be is another discussion). Some managers only have 25% supervisory duties.

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[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@HarvardBiz This sounds like a culture problem. Family first. Go home.

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

Something is odd with the enhancement. The cold cloud tops (in white) should not be “pulsing” unnaturally like that.

[Ben Noll @BenNollWeather]

Late Monday, Melissa strengthened further, with its central air pressure dipping to a remarkable 903 hPa, making it the 8th-strongest Atlantic hurricane on record by minimum air pressure.

The storm briefly stalled, then began its long-anticipated northward turn toward Jamaica.

[Jordan Gerth @jjgerth]

@skupor Thanks for your blog. As a federal employee, I appreciate the perspective and return to it weekly. Have you looked at standardizing required training and learning management systems across agencies too? How many variants of IT training are there? Records management? Ethics, etc?