Kasha Patel

Not the FBI director | Journalist @capitalweather @washingtonpost | Founder of @DCScienceComedy

[Kasha Patel @KashaPatel]

I analyzed 500+ of my jokes & found some interesting things about my #sciencejokes. You can hear me talk about it in my @TEDx talk! Full video of data analysis: https://t.co/5GLyNykSZq

More analysis to come in 2019! #DataGeek #sciencecomedy #jokeanalysis #funnydata #datascience

[Kasha Patel @KashaPatel]

Happy July 5th fireworks

[Capital Weather @capitalweather]

Official today: Capital Weather is independent once again.

Twenty-two years after launching Capital Weather as an independent weather website for the DC area — and 18 years after first partnering with The Washington Post and becoming the Capital Weather Gang — we are independent again.

Today, we’re officially launching a new chapter at https://t.co/r3dKxepf5m and on our new mobile app. We are committed to making our core forecasts and updates free and accessible to everyone. Your support will make this possible.

Here is what we’ve built and how you can support us.

What we’ve built:

☀️ Around-the-clock forecasts and live updates
📧 Expanded newsletters
📱 A new Capital Weather app
🌦️ Interactive weather and climate tools
💬 A stronger community experience
🎙️ We will continue to provide forecasts on WAMU 88.5

How you can boost and sustain our independent launch:

• Support our work at https://t.co/jh1PQK6W7Q
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• Make Capital Weather your everyday weather source
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Some of you have already joined our community and we could not be more grateful.

Since pioneering digital local weather coverage in 2004, we’ve believed weather is something we all experience together. Your questions, storm reports, photos, and conversations have helped shape Capital Weather into one of the nation’s leading regional weather communities.

Our mission remains the same as always: to be the most trusted everyday source for DC-area weather forecasts, breaking updates, and in-depth weather and climate news.

From sunny days to stormy days — and from Snowmageddon (2010) to Snowcrete (2026) — it’s been an incredible ride.

Thank you for being part of this community. We’re incredibly excited for what’s ahead.

[Andrew Freedman @afreedma]

Together with my CNN Climate & Weather colleagues, I'm writing a newsletter (again!), this time a weekly on extreme weather and climate. It's free, and you can sign up here: https://t.co/9L0Cqmsvjw

[Duolingo @duolingo]

You can escape earth but you can’t escape doing your lesson @NASA

[Kasha Patel @KashaPatel]

It's peak bloom!! And my story about the interesting genetic reason that all the Yoshino cherry trees bloom at the same time is out!

For @NatGeo: https://t.co/D2jYxAO0QK

[National Mall NPS @NationalMallNPS]

PEAK BLOOM! PEAK BLOOM! PEAK BLOOM!

It's official! The cherry blossoms are opening & putting on a splendid spring spectacle. See you soon.
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸!
#CherryBlossom #BloomWatch #WashingtonDC

[☥𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐱 @fw_lennox1]

once Gmail decides your storage is full, it's over, no amount of deleting matters

[chrismel @chrismelbz]

when they gonna run out of qr codes

[Kasha Patel @KashaPatel]

That's a wrap. My last piece for @washingtonpost is front and center on today's front page. It's a reporting trip I took with scientists who are studying the Florida Current. It's about the process of science on a not-so-straightforward topic.

Gift link: https://t.co/RK5zYTgUNO

[Khadeeja Safdar @khadeeja_safdar]

"It takes years to make good reporters—people who are trained, who love getting the story so much, who love the news so much, that they will wade into the fire, run to the sound of the guns. They are grown only in newsrooms, not at home with laptops. They are taught by older craftsmen and professionals, through stories and lore." @Peggynoonannyc https://t.co/0e29F2FFq5

[Kasha Patel @KashaPatel]

@TamithaSkov Thank you for the kind words, Tamitha! Means a lot. I'm so grateful to have increased my space weather IQ at The Post by talking to intelligent folks like you. Was working on some space wx articles when I got laid off that I'm still trying to get out...so not the end of me yet!

[Kasha Patel @KashaPatel]

@brandonetc That's so kind of you, thank you! It always made my day to see you all excited about my stories and help amplify it! See you around sooner rather than later 💙

[Kasha Patel @KashaPatel]

Had a blast covering science, space, & more @washingtonpost for 4.5 yrs. The Post no longer has a dedicated space reporter when dominance in space is nat security.

Open for opps, incl. jou, comedy & speaking gigs. Big help to sub to my YT for fun vids✌️
https://t.co/mzNLBysIqt

[Kasha Patel @KashaPatel]

@sarahmraza @washingtonpost Thank you Sarah! It was a pleasure sitting next to you and I look forward to crossing paths with you again!

[Kasha Patel @KashaPatel]

@AmudalatAjasa @washingtonpost You brightened my day so many times. Can't wait to see where you land next! 💚

[Served with Andy Roddick @Served_Podcast]

This just in: man regrets inspiring child

[Kasha Patel @KashaPatel]

Sure I can go to Alaska or Canada and see the aurora anytime, but it's more fun to see the lights with everyone else. It becomes a shared memory like "where were you on the day we landed on the moon" except I wasn't there for that so maybe this is better

[Capital Weather @capitalweather]

How fitting! The Post's space weather writer -- @KashaPatel -- was on a flight, cruising over Cedar Rapids, Iowa during the geomagnetic storm last night and captured this stunner of the northern lights....

[Kasha Patel @KashaPatel]

Saw the aurora for the 2nd time...but from an airplane! Surprised I saw the red and greens and the oval structure surrounding me 🤩

More illuminating (hehe) is how light pollution affects aurora viewing...here's a comparison.

Left: just outside of Chicago
Right: over Chicago

[Kasha Patel @KashaPatel]

Big plus for space weather and sun scientists! Not one, not two, but THREE spacecraft were launched today to study traffic on/around the sun and how it affects us! This launch seems to signal promising space weather investments for the future

My article: https://t.co/ZDz52kqSLZ

[NASA @NASA]

The million-mile journey to study the Sun's influence starts now!

A @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying three new space weather missions launched at 7:30am ET (1130 UTC) on Wednesday, Sept. 24, from @NASAKennedy.

[Interlune @InterluneSpace]

To quote Stephen Colbert, “we’ve got some MOOOOON NEWWWS” this week!! 🌖

Last night, Interlune and @BlueFors_Ltd went primetime when Colbert unpacked the news of our deal, based on the story by @washingtonpost's @KashaPatel.

Trying to explain how funny it was won’t do it justice. You just have to watch. Do it here. https://t.co/fNT2SFzx4Q

And huge congrats to @colbertlateshow and @CBS on their first Emmy win this past Sunday! 🏆🥂