Smoke blankets the Pacific Northwest this morning and afternoon.
Dakota Smith
@weatherdak.bsky.social
Digital Meteorologist at @CNN.com, Science Communicator, & Creator Twitch partner, (sometimes) live at night: twitch.tv/weatherdak.
Wildfires rage across the Pacific Northwest this evening. Parts of Spokane, Washington are under evacuation due to the blazes.
An attempt to look at the evolution of the cirrus mesovortices above Super Typhoon Dolphin's eye. Neat!
The anatomy of a thunderstorm as seen by satellite. Quick snippet from my weekly satellite + weather video.
Alright, this is really freaking cool... There are mesovortices embedded in Super Typhoon Dolphin's higher level clouds.
Obsessed with this view that shows the life and death of a thunderstorm in Manitoba this evening. Incredible we can see stuff like this from above.
This perspective of Hurricane Genevieve is blowing my mind a little. An absolutely amazing view of the storm's powerful eyewall.
Satellite view of the storm that produced a tornado that hit Appleton and Menasha, Wisconsin.
Another episode of my weekly weather series is out! Here's a snippet:
Lopsided storms like Bertha allows to see the low-level circulation while convection fires off-center. Incredibly cool satellite imagery.
Smoke from wildfires in Canada has poured into the United States, causing air quality to plummet and masking landscapes in a thick, brown haze. https://cnn.it/4fmQu5N
If anybody has before and after smoke views, trying to cobble some images together for a story. Feel free to reply/DM.
Wildfire smoke drapes across North America and the North Atlantic. Wow.
A firehose of smoke over the Northeast this evening. Just dreadful.
A stunning view of North American wildfires and smoke this evening.
A huge plume of wildfire smoke covers parts of the Midwest and Northeast this afternoon. Unfortunately, more smoke is on the way.
A massive plume of smoke generated by a cluster of wildfires in Minnesota and Ontario this evening. Some pyrocumulonimbus in there too.
The rapid intensification and subsequent eye wall replacement cycle of Super Typhoon Bavi.
Super Typhoon Bavi is a beast of a storm in the Western Pacific.
Just an absurd amount of wildfires and smoke in Canada this evening.
Shout out to @cira-csu.bsky.social for finding one of the cooler satellite animations I've seen in a minute. Outflows and gravity waves gliding over Lake Superior.
Stunning visuals of wildfires burning across southern Colorado and other parts of the Four Corners this evening.
An absolute beast of storm charging from the Northern Plains into the Upper Midwest today.