Randy Chase

@dopplerchase.bsky.social

Senior Atmospheric Scientist @ tomorrow.io | Atmos AI Engineer 🤖 | μ-wave Nephologist ☁️ | Atmos PhD UofIllinois | #BillsMafia #Illini | he/him | Opinions my own |

Welp, yesterday’s monsoon push didn’t last long, back to smokey skies. Here is the web cam from the U of U, looking south. You can see the iron fire smoke blow in with these 20 mph winds

Last week I was in Norman for the CADRE workshop on Data Assimilation. Always enjoy visiting one of the major weather hubs in the country. Side note, I still love how the Twisters PAR antenna lights up 😂

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Most headlines say “AI weather prediction is better than physics based”. While some metrics support those conclusions, please watch this video. There is A LOT of science yet to be done 👨‍🔬

MiniCOW packs MegaPOWER! Observes birth and ingestion of satellite tornado and Fujiwara effect deflecting tornado. Tornado transitions 2x between clear eye and debris ball. Prelim data from most powerful mobile radar, 1 MegaWatt C-band storm-penetrating miniCOW in Braman, OK 🌪️

Fun fact, this image was taken ~3x FARTHER than GOES. For some reference for those of us who constantly stare at earth from geostationary orbit (*caveat here, tried my best to find out the distance this shot was taken from and the range is 80,000 km to 112,000 km)

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Me, and all my plants, are very excited for a more 'normal' spring weather pattern over the next two days. Before this event, I have only measured ~2" of precip, so this 1-2" event is very welcome and would put us closer to climatology (4.5")

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