@mattwilsonwx.bsky.social

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).

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!

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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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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.

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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

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.