[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @MatthewCappucci Matthew Cappucci Matthew Cappucci posts on X about tornado, earthquake, radar, $7846t the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2579614256/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +666% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +84% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +158% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::2579614256/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +150% - X Months XXX +30% - X Year XXX +25% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2579614256/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.50% - X Month XXXXXX +5.30% - X Months XXXXXX +19% - X Year XXXXXX +47% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2579614256/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::2579614256/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [tornado](/topic/tornado) 4.08%, [earthquake](/topic/earthquake) 3.06%, [radar](/topic/radar) 2.04%, [$7846t](/topic/$7846t) 2.04%, [nbc](/topic/nbc) #92, [marks](/topic/marks) 1.02%, [plains all](/topic/plains-all) 1.02%, [oklahoma city](/topic/oklahoma-city) 1.02%, [northern illinois](/topic/northern-illinois) 1.02%, [pedigree](/topic/pedigree) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@myradarwx](/creator/undefined) [@pallaviraina5](/creator/undefined) [@azjohnnyc](/creator/undefined) [@kylamb8](/creator/undefined) [@tknep3](/creator/undefined) [@agjamesuthmeier](/creator/undefined) [@iris_cat](/creator/undefined) [@5gentexana](/creator/undefined) [@outbreakweather](/creator/undefined) [@theapplejax](/creator/undefined) [@texfireman325](/creator/undefined) [@oldscarf1stweek](/creator/undefined) [@capitalweather](/creator/undefined) [@ebonyeiyz](/creator/undefined) [@united](/creator/undefined) [@twistermommy](/creator/undefined) [@lifestoshort_67](/creator/undefined) [@wx_garcia](/creator/undefined) [@toltschin](/creator/undefined) [@ilenej](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::2579614256/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Hello D.C.; if you see an airplane flying in circles overhead thats me"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1944876671246467577) 2025-07-14 21:48:27 UTC 74.8K followers, 34.3K engagements "Given my role in media Im not allowed to call anyone an idiot. However what I can as a scientist say is that Marjories mis-informed tweets regarding conspiracy theories/weather modification are commensurate with the level of education colloquially referred to as idiocy"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1941500388936745467) 2025-07-05 14:12:18 UTC 74.7K followers, 393.2K engagements "CONFIRMED TSUNAMI moving into Aleutians ETA: Sand Point 1330 AKDT Jul XX Cold Bay 1425 AKDT Jul XX Kodiak 1440 AKDT Jul XX The tsunami warning continues in Alaska. The instigating #earthquake has been upgraded to a magnitude XXX. This is along the Pacific Ring of Fire"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945597013854134756) 2025-07-16 21:30:50 UTC 74.8K followers, 45.6K engagements "This might be the best XX seconds of TV I have ever seen 😂😂😂 Florida government Im still happy to do a science crash-course any time. DM me"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945482127765635236) 2025-07-16 13:54:19 UTC 74.7K followers, 64.2K engagements "Its not a political statement for me as a Harvard-degreed atmospheric scientist to say that elected representative Marjorie Taylor Green doesnt know what the hell shes talking about. Shed be equally qualified to fly a Boeing-737 practice nuclear medicine or train zebras"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1941499095551705504) 2025-07-05 14:07:10 UTC 74.8K followers, 1.1M engagements "TUESDAY June X could feature more widespread severe weather across the Central States. That means the Great Lakes Upper Midwest Corn Belt and Plains. all the way south to Texas. The setup is actually rather basic a cold front will be moving east into a warm humid juiced-up air mass. Ample warmth/moisture ahead of the front will provide instability or thunderstorm fuel. I anticipate widespread strong to severe storms. Damaging straight-line winds gusting around XX mph will be the main hazard within storms. Some quarter-sized hail is possible in the strongest cores too. I'm also keeping a bit"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1929013062532501609) 2025-06-01 03:12:08 UTC 74.7K followers, 8919 engagements "*Vandal/conspiracy theorists TARGETING RADARS* *Criminal knocks Oklahoma weather radar offline* OKLAHOMA CITY A vandal knocked News9's weather radar offline for a time Sunday night. The suspect arrived at 9:34 p.m. Griffin Media which owns the radar wrote that the man disabled a "key power connector smashed the power meter and broke into the generator's transfer switch control panel before destroying it. They're urging anyone with information not contact OKC Crime Stoppers. He's accused of sabotaging "critical weather-prediction equipment." This comes as a growing number of conspiracy"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1942348401829421414) 2025-07-07 22:22:00 UTC 74.8K followers, 120K engagements "FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY for Montgomery County Maryland MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW Between 3-5 inches of rain have fallen and another 1-2 inches are coming in the next XX minutes. 10-foot rises observed on Rock Creek/Sligo Creek. SERIOUS in Bethesda Takoma Park Chevy Chase"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946691813902811146) 2025-07-19 22:01:10 UTC 74.8K followers, 6390 engagements "Being a scientist in 2025 is so disheartening. Politicians make erroneous claims. Social media accounts perpetuate lies and pseudoscience to monetize their audiences gullibility. Scientists try to educate and are lambasted. I feel like Im at Americas intellectual funeral"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1941604920185983475) 2025-07-05 21:07:40 UTC 74.8K followers, 366.4K engagements "Tornado risk increasing in southernWisconsin and northern Illinois as an MCV or mesoscale convective vortex approaches:"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945511508030427340) 2025-07-16 15:51:04 UTC 74.7K followers, 2558 engagements "BREAKING: A magnitude XXX #earthquake in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula may have triggered a #tsunami that could arrive in Hawaii around 2:43 a.m. HST. Magnitude unclear could be several feet if a tsunami occurs. Move away from docks/piers and move boats past 180' depth"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946839238374261020) 2025-07-20 07:46:59 UTC 74.8K followers, 11.5K engagements "I had a crazy neighbor who once said you think you know more than me about this stuff just because you went to Harvard and I drive a truck Yes. And youre probably a better truck driver than me. Its called education within a field. Thats not a controversial thing. 😂"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1941588401850839261) 2025-07-05 20:02:02 UTC 74.8K followers, 2.8M engagements "BREAKING: An incredible "gigantic jet" an extremely-rare type of upper-atmospheric lightning was photographed from the International Space Station on Friday morning. This is the clearest photo we have EVER seen of a gigantic jet from above. Nichole Rhea Ayers is a major in the U.S. Air Force and a NASA astronaut. She launched to the International Space Station as a pilot of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission on March XX and will be returning to Earth soon. On Thursday morning July3 she captured an unbelievable photo of an ultra-rare GIANT JET. The International Space Station was over Mexico and the"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1940857426636370222) 2025-07-03 19:37:24 UTC 74.8K followers, 822.6K engagements "It's disappointing that the director of the EPA is implying discussion surrounding contrails require more "honesty and transparency." This stokes conspiracy theories. Contrails are contrails. The conversation doesn't have to go much further than that"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1943354882318078105) 2025-07-10 17:01:24 UTC 74.8K followers, 52.1K engagements "@OutbreakWeather That one had winds of XXX mph"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945310307036914126) 2025-07-16 02:31:33 UTC 74.7K followers, XXX engagements "When I said open to business partnerships this wasnt what I had in mind"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945665233856389124) 2025-07-17 02:01:55 UTC 74.8K followers, 44.1K engagements "BREAKING: NOAA is proposing to eliminate most federal hurricane/tornado research in sweeping 2026 budget cuts. This includes the elimination of the National Severe Storms Laboratory and the Hurricane Research Division curtailing forecast improvements for hurricane- and tornado-prone areas. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its proposed budget for 2026 on Monday. Aside from a XX% workforce reduction the proposal seeks to eliminate OAR Ocean and Atmospheric Research an umbrella for most federally-funded weather and climate research. OAR is made up of XX research"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1940376990785126472) 2025-07-02 11:48:19 UTC 74.8K followers, 567.7K engagements "This is what a quick 4-6 inches in X hours will do particularly when storms stall over heavily paved-over regions with impermeable surfaces. Locally significant urban flooding continues on the north side of D.C.; not a great night to drive around"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946716842820583483) 2025-07-19 23:40:38 UTC 74.8K followers, 112.6K engagements "NBC Washingtons last tweet from early this morning was about ice cream. FOX5 and WUSA have last tweeted syndicated national headlines. If local news wants to survive (it largely wont) it has to provide local digital coverage when events ESPECIALLY weather happens"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946721288006799728) 2025-07-19 23:58:18 UTC 74.8K followers, 6954 engagements "Is TV dead The D.C. viewing area just saw a flash flood EMERGENCY in its core viewing area Montgomery County. Three of the four network-affiliated stations dont have a stitch of coverage on their social media feeds. Only ABC7 retweeted its weekend PM meteorologist. Yikes"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946720858895974632) 2025-07-19 23:56:35 UTC 74.8K followers, 47K engagements "This is blatantly false news. The United States is NOT suffering any sort of a "record-breaking" heat wave. In fact XX low temperature records are in jeopardy today and only X high records. Careless general assignment "reporting" undermines meteorologists' credibility"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945512733538959437) 2025-07-16 15:55:56 UTC 74.8K followers, 101.3K engagements "Storm is turning right southeastward. Thats a classic step before tornadogenesis. Seek shelter NOW if in Upperco or Boring"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945642570597511512) 2025-07-17 00:31:51 UTC 74.7K followers, 9514 engagements "In case anyone wants footage from INSIDE I was onboard Republic 5689 BOS-DCA yesterday. It was a FUN flight 😃 (Turns out the other passengers didnt like the bumps but I had a blast.) We were the last attempted landing from the north (19). Then DCA reconfigured for 01"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945326310282199203) 2025-07-16 03:35:09 UTC 74.7K followers, 52.4K engagements "@ChrisMartzWX Though we disagree on much we share a mutual hatred of climate hysteria and hippie-ism. Undermines actual science and public trust in science"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945533274492657983) 2025-07-16 17:17:33 UTC 74.7K followers, 3316 engagements "I reject this premise. Doing the best with what they had would have meant a NOAA weather radio or wifi/internet. With more than XX staffers it would be obscene if in 2025 not a single hired staff member or leader was aware of a warning issued 2+ hours before waters rose"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1943379055706767472) 2025-07-10 18:37:27 UTC 74.7K followers, 41.9K engagements "High Plains folks hail and a tornado threat for portions Colorado including Denver and suburbs and southeast Wyoming including Cheyenne:"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945510086987714927) 2025-07-16 15:45:25 UTC 74.7K followers, 2323 engagements "NEW: Here's the likelihood of aftershocks associated with the magnitude XXX #earthquake south of Sand Point Alaska that triggered the tsunami warning"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945599614305878045) 2025-07-16 21:41:10 UTC 74.7K followers, 8284 engagements "It also is lopsided. Modestly strong mid-level winds have blown the system's thunderstorm activity southwest of the center over the open Gulf. To get the system to strengthen those thunderstorms would have to wrap all the way around the center. That's not likely"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945488155882234082) 2025-07-16 14:18:16 UTC 74.7K followers, 4599 engagements "Dr. Naomi your PhD is in English literature (not science) and you are conspiracy theory-ing an ordinary cloud. Youre also using science words incorrectly. At least find a cool-looking cloud if you want to mislead the public"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946694566788190517) 2025-07-19 22:12:07 UTC 74.8K followers, 55.2K engagements "Leesburg winds gusting to around XX mph coming"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945623431644361170) 2025-07-16 23:15:48 UTC 74.7K followers, 6978 engagements "Id like to formally offer to my time to @AGJamesUthmeier as a member of the Florida government it might be helpful to have a basic rudimentary and middle-school understanding of what one is crafting policy around. Im happy to provide that for the sake of society. DM me"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1944917880673382532) 2025-07-15 00:32:12 UTC 74.7K followers, 13.7K engagements "Regarding the Texas flooding YES there is a connection to Tropical Storm Barry. Barry dissipated on Monday June XX over Tamaulipas Mexico. It left behind a VERY rich air mass. The Hysplit model (left) shows moisture originating from where Barry (right) tracked"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1941486790520807462) 2025-07-05 13:18:16 UTC 74.8K followers, 22.7K engagements "NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) writes he cant help but notice the possibility that weather modification could have played a role in the Texas floods. One of Floridas highest-ranking officials is implementing policy based on beliefs not commensurate with reality. In fact a rudimentary middle school science education would be sufficient to explain why these conspiracy theories hold absolutely no merit whatsoever and are as outlandish as they are apocryphal. Many may consider it deeply concerning that such a high-ranking government official is subscribing to wild"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1944915401311215903) 2025-07-15 00:22:21 UTC 74.8K followers, 152.7K engagements "Here are the station websites FOX and NBC the two highest-rated stations are out to lunch so-to-speak. WUSA prepared some weather content ahead of time. WJLAs homepage is the only one to accurately and recently discuss ongoing flooding"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946722187127275561) 2025-07-20 00:01:52 UTC 74.8K followers, 6748 engagements "These are birds taking off. We call them roost rings. Weather radar senses stuff in the air. Birds are stuff. We can even tell theyre flappy stuff based on their shape (correlation coefficient). I spoke about this all the time when I did TV. Conspiracy debunked. NEXT"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1943818598314615216) 2025-07-11 23:44:02 UTC 74.7K followers, 103.2K engagements "I love Kyles confidence to lecture me about my own field. 💙 Parents raise your children to believe in themselves the way Kyle believes in himself"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1944961703722279380) 2025-07-15 03:26:20 UTC 74.7K followers, 24.4K engagements "Ive eaten healthy two days in a row and still dont have a six pack. This is BS"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1934994413195018356) 2025-06-17 15:19:53 UTC 74.8K followers, 40.9K engagements "@ebonyeiyz @DCNewsLive @dougkammerer He did (He always is on the ball). Many of the local mets did. The issue isnt the local mets most stations remain understaffed on weekends and dont have anyone controlling the station-branded socials to repost content or pen web articles. Weekends are a huge iffy stretch"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946766147015102493) 2025-07-20 02:56:33 UTC 74.8K followers, XXX engagements "Should I take BGimple to see a tornado (Imagine his horror when he realized that fog is just a cloud at ground level.)"  [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946018739008254170) 2025-07-18 01:26:37 UTC 74.8K followers, 10.4K engagements
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@MatthewCappucci Matthew Cappucci
Matthew Cappucci posts on X about tornado, earthquake, radar, $7846t the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXXXXX +666%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXX +84%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +158%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX -XX%
- X Month XXX +150%
- X Months XXX +30%
- X Year XXX +25%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +0.50%
- X Month XXXXXX +5.30%
- X Months XXXXXX +19%
- X Year XXXXXX +47%
CreatorRank: XXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence finance XXXX% countries XXXX%
Social topic influence tornado 4.08%, earthquake 3.06%, radar 2.04%, $7846t 2.04%, nbc #92, marks 1.02%, plains all 1.02%, oklahoma city 1.02%, northern illinois 1.02%, pedigree XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @myradarwx @pallaviraina5 @azjohnnyc @kylamb8 @tknep3 @agjamesuthmeier @iris_cat @5gentexana @outbreakweather @theapplejax @texfireman325 @oldscarf1stweek @capitalweather @ebonyeiyz @united @twistermommy @lifestoshort_67 @wx_garcia @toltschin @ilenej
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Hello D.C.; if you see an airplane flying in circles overhead thats me"
@MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-14 21:48:27 UTC 74.8K followers, 34.3K engagements
"Given my role in media Im not allowed to call anyone an idiot. However what I can as a scientist say is that Marjories mis-informed tweets regarding conspiracy theories/weather modification are commensurate with the level of education colloquially referred to as idiocy" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-05 14:12:18 UTC 74.7K followers, 393.2K engagements
"CONFIRMED TSUNAMI moving into Aleutians ETA: Sand Point 1330 AKDT Jul XX Cold Bay 1425 AKDT Jul XX Kodiak 1440 AKDT Jul XX The tsunami warning continues in Alaska. The instigating #earthquake has been upgraded to a magnitude XXX. This is along the Pacific Ring of Fire" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-16 21:30:50 UTC 74.8K followers, 45.6K engagements
"This might be the best XX seconds of TV I have ever seen 😂😂😂 Florida government Im still happy to do a science crash-course any time. DM me" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-16 13:54:19 UTC 74.7K followers, 64.2K engagements
"Its not a political statement for me as a Harvard-degreed atmospheric scientist to say that elected representative Marjorie Taylor Green doesnt know what the hell shes talking about. Shed be equally qualified to fly a Boeing-737 practice nuclear medicine or train zebras" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-05 14:07:10 UTC 74.8K followers, 1.1M engagements
"TUESDAY June X could feature more widespread severe weather across the Central States. That means the Great Lakes Upper Midwest Corn Belt and Plains. all the way south to Texas. The setup is actually rather basic a cold front will be moving east into a warm humid juiced-up air mass. Ample warmth/moisture ahead of the front will provide instability or thunderstorm fuel. I anticipate widespread strong to severe storms. Damaging straight-line winds gusting around XX mph will be the main hazard within storms. Some quarter-sized hail is possible in the strongest cores too. I'm also keeping a bit" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-06-01 03:12:08 UTC 74.7K followers, 8919 engagements
"Vandal/conspiracy theorists TARGETING RADARS Criminal knocks Oklahoma weather radar offline OKLAHOMA CITY A vandal knocked News9's weather radar offline for a time Sunday night. The suspect arrived at 9:34 p.m. Griffin Media which owns the radar wrote that the man disabled a "key power connector smashed the power meter and broke into the generator's transfer switch control panel before destroying it. They're urging anyone with information not contact OKC Crime Stoppers. He's accused of sabotaging "critical weather-prediction equipment." This comes as a growing number of conspiracy" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-07 22:22:00 UTC 74.8K followers, 120K engagements
"FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY for Montgomery County Maryland MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW Between 3-5 inches of rain have fallen and another 1-2 inches are coming in the next XX minutes. 10-foot rises observed on Rock Creek/Sligo Creek. SERIOUS in Bethesda Takoma Park Chevy Chase" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-19 22:01:10 UTC 74.8K followers, 6390 engagements
"Being a scientist in 2025 is so disheartening. Politicians make erroneous claims. Social media accounts perpetuate lies and pseudoscience to monetize their audiences gullibility. Scientists try to educate and are lambasted. I feel like Im at Americas intellectual funeral" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-05 21:07:40 UTC 74.8K followers, 366.4K engagements
"Tornado risk increasing in southernWisconsin and northern Illinois as an MCV or mesoscale convective vortex approaches:" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-16 15:51:04 UTC 74.7K followers, 2558 engagements
"BREAKING: A magnitude XXX #earthquake in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula may have triggered a #tsunami that could arrive in Hawaii around 2:43 a.m. HST. Magnitude unclear could be several feet if a tsunami occurs. Move away from docks/piers and move boats past 180' depth" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-20 07:46:59 UTC 74.8K followers, 11.5K engagements
"I had a crazy neighbor who once said you think you know more than me about this stuff just because you went to Harvard and I drive a truck Yes. And youre probably a better truck driver than me. Its called education within a field. Thats not a controversial thing. 😂" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-05 20:02:02 UTC 74.8K followers, 2.8M engagements
"BREAKING: An incredible "gigantic jet" an extremely-rare type of upper-atmospheric lightning was photographed from the International Space Station on Friday morning. This is the clearest photo we have EVER seen of a gigantic jet from above. Nichole Rhea Ayers is a major in the U.S. Air Force and a NASA astronaut. She launched to the International Space Station as a pilot of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission on March XX and will be returning to Earth soon. On Thursday morning July3 she captured an unbelievable photo of an ultra-rare GIANT JET. The International Space Station was over Mexico and the" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-03 19:37:24 UTC 74.8K followers, 822.6K engagements
"It's disappointing that the director of the EPA is implying discussion surrounding contrails require more "honesty and transparency." This stokes conspiracy theories. Contrails are contrails. The conversation doesn't have to go much further than that" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-10 17:01:24 UTC 74.8K followers, 52.1K engagements
"@OutbreakWeather That one had winds of XXX mph" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-16 02:31:33 UTC 74.7K followers, XXX engagements
"When I said open to business partnerships this wasnt what I had in mind" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-17 02:01:55 UTC 74.8K followers, 44.1K engagements
"BREAKING: NOAA is proposing to eliminate most federal hurricane/tornado research in sweeping 2026 budget cuts. This includes the elimination of the National Severe Storms Laboratory and the Hurricane Research Division curtailing forecast improvements for hurricane- and tornado-prone areas. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its proposed budget for 2026 on Monday. Aside from a XX% workforce reduction the proposal seeks to eliminate OAR Ocean and Atmospheric Research an umbrella for most federally-funded weather and climate research. OAR is made up of XX research" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-02 11:48:19 UTC 74.8K followers, 567.7K engagements
"This is what a quick 4-6 inches in X hours will do particularly when storms stall over heavily paved-over regions with impermeable surfaces. Locally significant urban flooding continues on the north side of D.C.; not a great night to drive around" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-19 23:40:38 UTC 74.8K followers, 112.6K engagements
"NBC Washingtons last tweet from early this morning was about ice cream. FOX5 and WUSA have last tweeted syndicated national headlines. If local news wants to survive (it largely wont) it has to provide local digital coverage when events ESPECIALLY weather happens" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-19 23:58:18 UTC 74.8K followers, 6954 engagements
"Is TV dead The D.C. viewing area just saw a flash flood EMERGENCY in its core viewing area Montgomery County. Three of the four network-affiliated stations dont have a stitch of coverage on their social media feeds. Only ABC7 retweeted its weekend PM meteorologist. Yikes" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-19 23:56:35 UTC 74.8K followers, 47K engagements
"This is blatantly false news. The United States is NOT suffering any sort of a "record-breaking" heat wave. In fact XX low temperature records are in jeopardy today and only X high records. Careless general assignment "reporting" undermines meteorologists' credibility" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-16 15:55:56 UTC 74.8K followers, 101.3K engagements
"Storm is turning right southeastward. Thats a classic step before tornadogenesis. Seek shelter NOW if in Upperco or Boring" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-17 00:31:51 UTC 74.7K followers, 9514 engagements
"In case anyone wants footage from INSIDE I was onboard Republic 5689 BOS-DCA yesterday. It was a FUN flight 😃 (Turns out the other passengers didnt like the bumps but I had a blast.) We were the last attempted landing from the north (19). Then DCA reconfigured for 01" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-16 03:35:09 UTC 74.7K followers, 52.4K engagements
"@ChrisMartzWX Though we disagree on much we share a mutual hatred of climate hysteria and hippie-ism. Undermines actual science and public trust in science" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-16 17:17:33 UTC 74.7K followers, 3316 engagements
"I reject this premise. Doing the best with what they had would have meant a NOAA weather radio or wifi/internet. With more than XX staffers it would be obscene if in 2025 not a single hired staff member or leader was aware of a warning issued 2+ hours before waters rose" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-10 18:37:27 UTC 74.7K followers, 41.9K engagements
"High Plains folks hail and a tornado threat for portions Colorado including Denver and suburbs and southeast Wyoming including Cheyenne:" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-16 15:45:25 UTC 74.7K followers, 2323 engagements
"NEW: Here's the likelihood of aftershocks associated with the magnitude XXX #earthquake south of Sand Point Alaska that triggered the tsunami warning" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-16 21:41:10 UTC 74.7K followers, 8284 engagements
"It also is lopsided. Modestly strong mid-level winds have blown the system's thunderstorm activity southwest of the center over the open Gulf. To get the system to strengthen those thunderstorms would have to wrap all the way around the center. That's not likely" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-16 14:18:16 UTC 74.7K followers, 4599 engagements
"Dr. Naomi your PhD is in English literature (not science) and you are conspiracy theory-ing an ordinary cloud. Youre also using science words incorrectly. At least find a cool-looking cloud if you want to mislead the public" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-19 22:12:07 UTC 74.8K followers, 55.2K engagements
"Leesburg winds gusting to around XX mph coming" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-16 23:15:48 UTC 74.7K followers, 6978 engagements
"Id like to formally offer to my time to @AGJamesUthmeier as a member of the Florida government it might be helpful to have a basic rudimentary and middle-school understanding of what one is crafting policy around. Im happy to provide that for the sake of society. DM me" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-15 00:32:12 UTC 74.7K followers, 13.7K engagements
"Regarding the Texas flooding YES there is a connection to Tropical Storm Barry. Barry dissipated on Monday June XX over Tamaulipas Mexico. It left behind a VERY rich air mass. The Hysplit model (left) shows moisture originating from where Barry (right) tracked" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-05 13:18:16 UTC 74.8K followers, 22.7K engagements
"NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) writes he cant help but notice the possibility that weather modification could have played a role in the Texas floods. One of Floridas highest-ranking officials is implementing policy based on beliefs not commensurate with reality. In fact a rudimentary middle school science education would be sufficient to explain why these conspiracy theories hold absolutely no merit whatsoever and are as outlandish as they are apocryphal. Many may consider it deeply concerning that such a high-ranking government official is subscribing to wild" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-15 00:22:21 UTC 74.8K followers, 152.7K engagements
"Here are the station websites FOX and NBC the two highest-rated stations are out to lunch so-to-speak. WUSA prepared some weather content ahead of time. WJLAs homepage is the only one to accurately and recently discuss ongoing flooding" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-20 00:01:52 UTC 74.8K followers, 6748 engagements
"These are birds taking off. We call them roost rings. Weather radar senses stuff in the air. Birds are stuff. We can even tell theyre flappy stuff based on their shape (correlation coefficient). I spoke about this all the time when I did TV. Conspiracy debunked. NEXT" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-11 23:44:02 UTC 74.7K followers, 103.2K engagements
"I love Kyles confidence to lecture me about my own field. 💙 Parents raise your children to believe in themselves the way Kyle believes in himself" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-15 03:26:20 UTC 74.7K followers, 24.4K engagements
"Ive eaten healthy two days in a row and still dont have a six pack. This is BS" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-06-17 15:19:53 UTC 74.8K followers, 40.9K engagements
"@ebonyeiyz @DCNewsLive @dougkammerer He did (He always is on the ball). Many of the local mets did. The issue isnt the local mets most stations remain understaffed on weekends and dont have anyone controlling the station-branded socials to repost content or pen web articles. Weekends are a huge iffy stretch" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-20 02:56:33 UTC 74.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Should I take BGimple to see a tornado (Imagine his horror when he realized that fog is just a cloud at ground level.)" @MatthewCappucci on X 2025-07-18 01:26:37 UTC 74.8K followers, 10.4K engagements