Chris Legro
@oceanstwx.bsky.social
⛈️ NWS Lead Meteorologist | 🌪️ Wxtwitter expat 🐻 Cornell ‘06 | 🦅 UMass Lowell ‘08 📍Portland, Maine Spending myself in a worthy cause. Opinions are my own
A forbidden donut near Appleton, WI at the moment. Close enough to the radar site to see hydrometeors (rain/hail) and debris forced to the outer edge of a fairly wide tornadic circulation.
I’ve been forecasting for a while now, and these last several years have been something else with wildfire smoke just absolutely tossing a wrench into weather prediction modeling. It’s not just “skies may be hazy today” but “temperatures may be 15 degrees cooler” or “storms may not form”.
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
It’s some kind of level to ref St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Saint Kitts, and Nevis at the same time.
Men in Blazers Media Network@meninblazers.bsky.social · 3w agoFrance manager Didier Deschamps questioned the qualifications of the all-CONCACAF officiating crew in Les Bleus’ World Cup semi-final loss to Spain 😬
It would appear wildfire smoke has made it down to at least 800 mb.
Not often the Warn on Forecast System domain gets centered over GYX.
SPC has issued a 10% area for tornado risk (at intensity level 1 no less), which is a first for that part of the forecast area. This is NOT your typical summer severe thunderstorm risk for areas with a lot of people sleeping and playing outdoors.
I think that's it, the portrayal of childhood fascination.
Dr. Solomon David@solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 3w agoUsed this image in a paleontology conference talk, but it’s honestly how I feel/what I recall every time I’m next to one of these living fossils. Sam Neil’s portrayal of that childhood fascination, I have no words 🥹
No words. Here is a peak at one of our most incredible drone flights around a #tornado to date near Tulliby Lake, AB. This will likely be one of our last intercepts of the season, thank you so much to everyone for following along! #stormchasing #nature #weather
If Trump isn’t on the phone tomorrow to get Balogun un-suspended what even was the point of all that corruption
‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…
At first blush storms moving across the Northeast Kingdom seem like no big deal, but there is significant beam blockage due to the Green Mtns. From Sainte-Francoise it’s a different story. That sure looks like a debris signature from a tornado.
New paper alert! tl;dr: parts of what we thought were the oldest rocks on Venus might in fact be among the youngest. This story involves the "tessera" on Venus, which is some of the weirdest stuff in the Solar System. A thread:
Sixteen years ago today. Never forget 🇺🇸
Timely, as we head into a period over the next week with potential sunny day flooding in Portland.
Dr. Jeff Masters@drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew study: relative sea level rise from all causes made a 100-year flood in 1900 a 1-in-5-year flood or less by 2005 in Key West, Jacksonville, Atlantic City, and Maine. I plotted these from assets-eu.researchsquare.com/files/rs-749...
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry
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This is the view at 2600 feet, south of the White Mtns right now, middle of the day on May 30. Snow has been mixing in at the lowest elevations over the last hour. Less than two weeks ago many of these places were in the low to mid 90s.
As a fellow bald I am sad, but as a Liverpool fan I feel a sense of relief.
Men in Blazers Media Network@meninblazers.bsky.social · 2mo agoARNE SLOT AND LIVERPOOL ARE OVER 🚨 The screams of relief you can hear from around the world are Liverpool fans ready for a new era. The Dutchman came, conquered, then flailed. A season of Premier League triumph was followed by one pockmarked by 12 losses and no evident idea to stop the freefall...
It mightn't look like much. But this little red dot is a supermassive black hole about 50 million times more massive than the Sun, its light dating to just 700 million years after the Big Bang—when the Universe was just 5% its current age. It is insane to me that we can see this far back.
Actinoform clouds are just the coolest freaking things.