This fairly impressive dust devil on the DIA tarmac is a good start for my trip to the AMS Madison Summit.
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Generic Boulder meteorologist. PhD/MS from UNL, BS from Valpo. Would rather be on a mountain or watching a wall cloud right now. Opinions my own (or stolen from a nearby marmot).
Unfortunately the lightning seems to have sparked a small fire.
Yay, rain!
Hi everyone! We recently decided to re-open the AMS WAF/NWP Student Travel Award applications to award the remaining two grants we have left for supporting travel to the 2026 AMS Joint Summit (with increased award amounts). Please share far and wide, and get application materials to us by July 6!
With CC that low aloft I wouldn't be surprised to see some 4"+ hailstones from this storm.
Might be a debris fallout signature from the earlier tornado here.
Thank you for coming The plan is to make the Reflecting Pool full of saltwater and then fill it with sharks. This will cost millions of dollars and will not really help anything other than putting some sharks closer to where I live. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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This is something I have never seen before on satellite. Clouds perfectly outlining roads. Just incredibly neat imagery of Houston, Texas this morning. Massive shoutout to Ethan Mok who discovered it (on Twitter).
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I don't want to watch this bit. I want to watch the one where the worker drops a box and knocks the lever that speeds the machine up and before you know it there's a mile long snake of neopolitan ice cream bursting out of the building
The Unholy Neapolitan Ice Cream Dispenser - Produces a constant stream of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream to be packaged Extrudes approximately: • 1165 calories per second • 70,000 calories per minute • 4,200,000 calories per hour Perfect for laying directly under with an open mouth
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My goodness this is cute. Short & Harasti (2026) named a new pipefish species after Snuffleupagus (the giant elephant muppet) Image of Solenostomus snuffleupagus sp. nov. by David Harasti. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ran SPORK for this case for comparison and got a ZDR column area of 89 km2! I did have to turn off the random forest QC since it has trouble with ZDR columns that extend a long distance down the flanking line.
The Enid, OK EF4 tornadic supercell had a ZDR column area of 70 square km (from our algorithm) ~1 km above the 0˚ C level just prior to tornado formation, consistent with the violent tornadoes from our 2021 paper and others we've looked at since (annotated in updated box plots). 🤔
Decided to have some fun plotting meso-relative PMM composites of low-end tornadic (EF0/1) and false-alarm warning (TOR warned / never produced a tornado during its whole lifecycle) supercells. Each storm's rotated so its forward flank Z gradient is in the x direction. Differences are pretty subtle.
incredible photos of a walrus falling off a pontoon in scotland. source www.facebook.com/groups/scotl...
i realized a long time ago that setting this video to the nfl primetime music would be the best thing i ever do on the internet i'm okay with that
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 🌪️
Got bored tonight, so I downloaded 3 hours worth of Earthcam replay / archive footage from their Skydeck camera atop of the Willis Tower (Sears Tower) in Chicago and made a time lapse of the fog rolling in off Lake Michigan. Good illustration of how our atmosphere behaves like any other fluid. #ilwx
This is really neat! I wonder how it'd change if it was the percentage of all obs with measurable precipitation instead of the percentage of all obs?
If you are a snow weenie™, there's nothing worse than a cold rain. "33 and rain" is even a cruel joke meme. So who gets a very cold rain the most? Looking at 35 years of hourly climate observations from automated stations, this map shows the overall frequency of these conditions.
Side-by-side perspective of Typhoon Sinlaku's satellite appearance and its estimated intensity as it strengthened from a tropical storm to a category 5-equivalent hurricane. Satellite data via Himawari-9's AHI as provided by NOAA. Intensity estimates are from JTWC hosted by UCAR's RAL.