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[@MatthewCappucci](/creator/twitter/MatthewCappucci)
"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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1929013062532501609) 2025-06-01 03:12:08 UTC 74.8K followers, 8920 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946691813902811146) 2025-07-19 22:01:10 UTC 74.8K followers, 6794 engagements


"Tornado risk increasing in southernWisconsin and northern Illinois as an MCV or mesoscale convective vortex approaches:"  
![@MatthewCappucci Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945511508030427340) 2025-07-16 15:51:04 UTC 74.8K followers, 2590 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946839238374261020) 2025-07-20 07:46:59 UTC 74.8K followers, 15.1K 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1940857426636370222) 2025-07-03 19:37:24 UTC 74.8K followers, 823.5K engagements


"When I said open to business partnerships this wasnt what I had in mind"  
![@MatthewCappucci Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1940376990785126472) 2025-07-02 11:48:19 UTC 74.8K followers, 568.4K 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946716842820583483) 2025-07-19 23:40:38 UTC 74.8K followers, 153K 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946721288006799728) 2025-07-19 23:58:18 UTC 74.8K followers, 9114 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946720858895974632) 2025-07-19 23:56:35 UTC 74.8K followers, 96.2K 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945512733538959437) 2025-07-16 15:55:56 UTC 74.8K followers, 101.5K 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945326310282199203) 2025-07-16 03:35:09 UTC 74.8K followers, 52.6K engagements


"Upgraded tornado risk over the Corn Belt today Carefully watching what happens in southeast Iowa and northern Illinois:"  
![@MatthewCappucci Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1943724390773899558) 2025-07-11 17:29:42 UTC 74.8K followers, 2478 engagements


"@CushingTess I didnt even whisper any threats into our colleagues ears when giving out hugs Im growing 😀"  
![@MatthewCappucci Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1947118943220478267) 2025-07-21 02:18:26 UTC 74.8K followers, XXX engagements


"BREAKING: Incredibly-rare FIRE TORNADO in Utah officially rated an EF2 vortex by the National Weather Service 🔥 The FIRE TORNADO had winds up to XXX mph making it only the third EF2+ tornado to occur in the state of Utah since the year 2000. This was associated with the Deer Creek Fire near La Sal in San Juan County. The fire is at 12906 acres and is only X% contained. It spread into western Colorado on Tuesday night. The fire tornado occurred on July XX around 1:11 p.m. local time about XX miles northeast of La Sal. Doppler radar indicates the smoke plume reached about 16700 feet above the"  
![@MatthewCappucci Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1945300552285610288) 2025-07-16 01:52:48 UTC 74.8K followers, 143.1K 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946694566788190517) 2025-07-19 22:12:07 UTC 74.8K followers, 90.9K engagements


"There is an increasing #tornado risk in northern Iowa and southern Wisconsin. Thunderstorms will blossom soon along a warm front. Extra low-level spin along the front as well as ahead of an MCV (leftover swirl) will boost low-level spin and tornaod risk. Track w/@MyRadarWX"  
![@MatthewCappucci Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1938285267057840386) 2025-06-26 17:16:33 UTC 74.8K followers, 4396 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1944915401311215903) 2025-07-15 00:22:21 UTC 74.8K followers, 152.9K 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946722187127275561) 2025-07-20 00:01:52 UTC 74.8K followers, 9237 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1943818598314615216) 2025-07-11 23:44:02 UTC 74.8K followers, 103.3K 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1944961703722279380) 2025-07-15 03:26:20 UTC 74.8K followers, 24.5K 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 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::2579614256.png) [@MatthewCappucci](/creator/x/MatthewCappucci) on [X](/post/tweet/1946766147015102493) 2025-07-20 02:56:33 UTC 74.8K followers, XXX engagements