Brad Barrett
@barrett-weather.bsky.social
Atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere; Extreme events; Teleconnections; 🌪️🌀❄️🇲🇽🇨🇱🇧🇧🇦🇹 PhD OU; Full Prof Oceanography USNA; Prog Officer AFOSF; CCM; Fulbright scholar; Bilingüe https://bsbarret.github.io
A massive upgrade to almost all of our Latin American tornado data is now available on the site! We're aware of some additional data still for South America, but as of now we've included as much publicly available information as we could.
Tornado Archive@tornadoarchive.com · 3w agoSome massive and much needed updates to certain international tornado datasets coming soon -- stay tuned
I love that sign! Always makes me laugh. Of course I interpret it as “gotta help those poor hitchhikers get away from the dangerous inmates!” 😂
Anna Belle 💾@anna-belle.bsky.social · 2d ago"HITCHHIKERS MIGHT BE ESCAPING INMATES" is an interesting way to spell "Welcome to Oklahoma"
I agree with this assessment of undergraduate research
Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 5d agoThe fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
There is finally a potential for a hurricane or strong tropical cyclone east of North America — but it’s in the Mediterranean. There’s been a growing signal among ensembles for a medicane, or subtropical/tropical cyclone in the Mediterranean, that may develop this week.
🎉WxData 2.3 Released🎉 WxData 2.3 has been released on conda-forge and pypi. Release Notes: github.com/edrewitz/WxD... Documentation & Tutorials: github.com/edrewitz/WxD... GitHub Repository: github.com/edrewitz/WxD... 🧵For more information 👇 #python #weather #data #automation
Ready to plan your stay at the 107th Annual Meeting 🏔️? Hotel blocks are now open within walking distance of the Colorado Convention Center! Check our website for updated availability. 🛏️ Book your hotel for #AMS2027 here: https://bit.ly/3Vm29v6
📢 Our ASP Graduate Visitor Program Fellowship is accepting applications for the 2027 cohort of fellows. This program is intended for graduate students to work on their thesis, dissertation, or final project w/ guidance from NSF NCAR scientists and engineers in Boulder. https://bit.ly/4nBRgOG
The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem that OpenAI has claimed to solve sure resembles a tornado to my untrained eye! @gibbs.science you deal with fluid mechanics much more than I do. Any thoughts? openai.com/index/navier... (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/s...
Is this account a bot? Because the time stamp on the post is approx 1920 UTC and the text says a trop storm watch is in effect for Oahu. But over 1h30m earlier, at 1744 UTC, NWS issued a trop storm warning for Oahu Seems like either a glitch or a miscommunication
National Weather Service@nws.noaa.gov · 2w agoThe core of Lowell is expected to near or just west of Niihau tonight and early Tuesday. A Hurricane Warning is in effect for Kauai County, including the islands of Kauai and Niihau, and the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for Oahu.
During the ongoing eruption of #Krakatau in Indonesia, 10-minute JMA Himawari-9 True Color RGB images today showed a broad lower-altitude area of volcanic ash (shades of brown) along with pulses of higher-altitude volcanic clouds (a mixture of water vapor, ash and SO2).
On this date in Weather History... Hurricane Fran made landfall near Cape Fear in the North Carolina coast... The storm caused 2.4 billion dollar worth of damage across the state. September 5, 1996
Look at that outflow (anticyclonic cloud motion), especially to the south! Forget the brown ocean, that kind of forcing on a small circulation almost guarantees sustained convection, whether over land or water @mattlanza.bsky.social @wxmanms1.bsky.social
@cira-csu.bsky.social · 2w agoAfter making landfall yesterday afternoon, Tropical Depression Edouard has brought a deluge of rain to southeast Texas, creating significant flash flooding in the region and leaving tens of thousands of residents without power.
With another academic year beginning, I’m resharing something I wrote three years ago to try to demystify the graduate school application process. Please feel free to share with anyone who may benefit, and let me know of any suggestions for improvement! www.linkedin.com/pulse/demyst...
Demystifying the Atmospheric Sciences Graduate School Application Process
As the dawn of another academic year is upon us, many college seniors will soon be starting the graduate-school application process. To help these students, I’ve prepared some semi-assorted, semi-orga...
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Another typhoon, another @windbornewx.bsky.social eye intercept — this time navigating a controllable high-altitude balloon into a rapidly intensifying typhoon and collecting 3 vertical profiles in its eye as it cleared out:
Tell me it’s an El Niño year without telling me it’s an El Niño year
If you're at AMS Madison and not tired of hearing about tornado emergencies quite yet, I'll be presenting our insights on forecast decision-making at 4:30 this afternoon! Excited to share what we learned from 13 individuals who have hit send on these warnings 🌪️
🚥Traffic jam ahead! The #AMS2027 abstract deadline of 11 August, Tuesday, WILL NOT be extended. To avoid any traffic-induced technical delays, upload your abstract to our submission portal before the rush! The countdown is on! Submit your abstract here: https://bit.ly/4xufAbf
Super excited to present my work on vertical supercell mesocyclone alignment this WEDNESDAY at the #AMSMadisonSummit! If you’re attending and want to check it out, this will be part of Session 11A - Supercell Dynamics and Hazards II at 2:45 pm 🌪️ (Previous post said Tuesday)
@vortexjeff.bsky.social I’m sure you’ve seen this since it’s from your uni. But for others who might have missed it last month… doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
Jeff Frame@vortexjeff.bsky.social · 2mo agoMap of all tornado emergencies ever issued
I’ll play along. Thanks @bmcnoldy.bsky.social for the invite!
Bill Capehart@billcapehart.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo today is "Shoutout the Person Who Gave You a Bluesky Invite Code" Day, to which I say many thanks to @lisaschipper.bsky.social for mine! It was a crazy time with us all getting & donating our invite code rations to colleagues & strangers in the wx/climate community to build what we have here now!
The 2026 World Cup final was the most-watched English-language soccer telecast in U.S. history. nyti.ms/4bDRnpr
Here comes the most entertaining part (so far) of the final. #BoringFirstHalf
I didn’t think the TC development would happen so fast! Thanks Tomer @burgwx.bsky.social for keeping your page up for us as we track TD2/Bertha
Brad Barrett@barrett-weather.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnd we’ll be certain to have our next Atlantic TC during the downtime! 😂 FWIW I find your tropical content most useful. Sign me up as a beta tester if you ever decide to go public and sell your stuff!
England up 1 deciding to sit back and do nothing with 9 in the box for a half hour against Argentina in the World Cup
Some exciting news today: our new paper has just entered Early Online Release in @ametsoc.org #BAMS! It's everything you want to know about tornado emergencies, including an analysis of POD and FAR, a comparison to recommended VROT and STP thresholds, and more. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
116F IN MONTANA: HISTORIC ALL TIME RECORDS MT 115 Miles City 111 Laurel 112 Sidney 110 Baker 106 Bozeman 105 Livingston tied UT 109 Salt Lake City 106 Brigham City 105 Logan WY 110 Worland 109 Sheridan 106 Cody 104 Riverton tied 102 Lander tied ID 103 Idaho Falls
Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 2mo agoHISTORY IS BEING MADE today between Montana,North Dakota and parts of Wyoming,Idaho,Colorado and Utah. Follow the updates later about this historic heat wave.
