LSRs and StormData sucks #SLSAfterDark

The cat is officially out of the bag. I promised a consequential first, here it is! On (or around) October 6th, for the first time in its 20+ year history, the SPC Mesoanalysis will be available to the field in real time via NCEP NOMADS. Oh, and it’s in NetCDF, not GRIB.

Look. Choices were made today. Some I’m probably going to regret come tomorrow morning. However, *this* is what it means to be a walkable city. Successful day of #badgermaxxing.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone this week at the @ametsoc.org Madison Summit! Stop by the poster session tomorrow to talk to our program manager and front end developer. Be sure to bookmark wisconet.wisc.edu as your one-stop-shop for Wisconsin weather information while you’re in town!

Alright Madison folks. Two places you need to check out for drinks this week. State Line Distillery The Robin Room Probably going to hit up State Line tonight and enjoy a lovely gin old fashion.

What a lovely day and lovely view to be welcomed back with. Oh, it feels so good to be here again!

Conference travel is always a little amusing to me. Like, if a single plane went down, the weather enterprise loses a major chunk of experience and expertise lol.

A little sneak peek at my talk. I am also not exaggerating when I say some significant firsts are going to occur this fall. I’m excited this is finally happening.

Kelton Halbert@stormscale.io · 6d ago

Finally, I will get to share my ongoing work, with a really exciting announcement involved! Some awesome things coming very soon. Sounding, Mesoanalysis, and Numerical Weather Model Postprocessing of Convective Fields at the Storm Prediction Center Monday, 11:30 AM ams.confex.com/ams/2026Summ...

Really excited to get to go back to Madison next week for the AMS Summit! Not only is it one of my favorite places in the world, but the folks at SPC have a lot of great work being showcased. Going to highlight some talks people may find interesting and should attend!

Internal practice talks before a big conference have become a highlight for me. I love getting to see the hard work and awesome stuff my colleagues are doing. I am privileged to work with some really intelligent and capable people!

Been looking into adding GR placefile support into Heimdall. It mostly works. The catch is, the only (public) provider that has the proper CORS headers set is IEM. Everyone else (including experimental NSSL PHI tool) doesn’t have CORS set in a way the browser can access across origins.

This might be one of the best quote tweet burns I’ve ever seen.

Come work with me at Unidata!

NSF Unidata@unidata.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Preach

Shawn Milrad@shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 2w ago

Evergreen post but grib/grib2 is the absolute fucking worst, lol.

SPC Convective Outlooks and the individual hazard probabilities are now available in Heimdall, along with SPC Storm Reports. As with all new features, retrieving archive data is fully supported. Various plot styling options are available in the layer settings menu. heimdall.stormscale.io

I have watched all of 2 games involving them and I already have a deep hatred of the Argentinian team.

Kimchi fried rice tonight with marinated beef. Got the kimchi from a local Korean restaurant (Wing It), and made a sauce out of kimchi brine, buldakk sauce, and momofuku chili crisp. It’s good, folks.

As the one who introduced the highlights on Day 5 and the Enhanced on Day 2, I think you are spot on. Temperatures are much lower than even the coolest models suggested and thus instability is, too. Suspect reduced insolation is a big contributor here.

Thick smoke impacts other weather phenomena, too. Thick smoke reduces incoming solar radiation, which keeps temperatures lower than they otherwise would achieve. This in turn reduces the atmospheric buoyancy (all things equal), which impacts storm development, intensity, and longevity.

@cira-csu.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thick smoke from Canadian wildfires descends across the U.S. East Coast.

I am really excited to share that the latest update to Heimdall has arrived, bringing multi-panel rendering and interactivity with it! This is a substantial update, giving you more freedom in what you display and how. heimdall.stormscale.io

I dread having to do fire weather on evening shifts. It’s the last 2 hours of a 10 hour shift and fire weather isn’t my expertise. However, blaring all of Lincoln Park — Meteora during the process is the perfect amount of energy and catharsis for getting through it.

Checking out Heimdall by @stormscale.io and haven't been able to stop exploring. heimdall.stormscale.io

Want to contribute to #matplotlib but don't know where to start? Join us for a live session on how to help us triage issues and PRs on GitHub! 📅 July 14th · 2pm UTC 🔗 hackmd.io/@matplotlib/... Bring your questions - all are welcome!

Heimdall has been quiet on the dev front, but I've been working on some underlying architectural improvements. They're ready to see the light of day, and will enable more cool functionality to come! As a result, significant perf improvements. heimdall.stormscale.io 1/?

Kelton Halbert@stormscale.io · 4mo ago

I'd like to introduce you all to a personal project I've been working on recently. It's called Heimdall, and it's an MRMS + ProbSevere situational awareness monitor for CONUS scale severe weather. It's got roaming, alerts, archive mode, and is fully client side. heimdall.stormscale.io

#32SLS attendees: Do you have amazing, interesting, or unique weather video or slideshow to share? Please submit it to SLS Video Night! forms.gle/Eb1mo58rcwVY... As SLS is part of the AMS Summer Meeting this year, we'll have an extra-large audience! @meteodan.bsky.social @ams-sls-stac.bsky.social

Submission portal for Video Night at 32SLS

This form is the submission portal for Video Night at the 32st AMS Severe Local Storms Conference in Madison, WI. If you have an amazing severe-weather themed video or photos to share at Video Night, ...

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Hour 46 of no power. OG&E saying tomorrow night at 11 PM. That would be 73 hours.

Kelton Halbert@stormscale.io · last mo.

Hour 25 of no power/no AC, and I’m struggling.

That was fun. In like the embarrassing haha kind of way.

USA is really really good at passing to Belgium.