Steve Hilberg
@wxclisteve.bsky.social
Meteorologist & climatologist. SLU. Former dir. MRCC. CoCoRaHS blogger, IL CoCoRaHS coord., winter weather fan, diehard Cubs fan. Opinions my own.
A dry day is still a reportable day! An important reminder: 0.00" is a report. When you check your gauge and report 0.00", you're telling us something important: you checked, and there was no measurable precipitation. That's different from having no report at all.
On October 1, we're launching The Grand Daily Reporting Challenge. How many precipitation reports CoCoRaHS observers can send in on a single day? Help set a new daily record! Whether your gauge catches a downpour, a few drops, some snow, or 0.00", your report counts! Mark your calendar!
Well that’s not exactly true, AccuWeather… The gold standard National Lightning Detection Network detected a couple in-cloud lightning flashes within 5 miles of the hotel within 15 minutes of the first cloud-to-ground flash.
SAR Times Weekly #021 Coast Guard Rescues Survivor Off St. Lawrence Island; Nepal Woman Found Alive After 10 Days; Drones Deliver Flood Aid sartimes.com/sar-times-we... #sar #searchandrescue #drones % #floods #napal
SAR Times Weekly #021
Coast Guard Rescues Survivor Off St. Lawrence Island; Nepal Woman Found Alive After 10 Days; Drones Deliver Flood Aid
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NOAA data confirms that we just went through the warmest August and the warmest climatological summer (June-July-August) on record for Colorado. Stay tuned for our monthly summary (coming soon!) which will include stats on the many, many records broken this summer. #cowx
An introduction to SAR Times' new automated disaster-alerting tool: what it monitors, how it works, and where things currently stand. https://sartimes.com/what-is-disaster-watch/
What Is Disaster Watch?
An introduction to SAR Times' new automated disaster-alerting tool: what it monitors, how it works, and where things currently stand.
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CoCoRaHS Condition Monitoring Reports (CMR) provide ground truth for the U.S. Drought Monitor and other users. View the map at www.cocorahs.org/Maps/conditi... #drought
🐾 SAR dogs must recertify every 1-2 years to maintain operational standards. Continued training keeps the team deployment-ready. #K9SAR #CertStandards
Saturday 6:14 pm: Big Picture Weathermap: A hot airmass remains in control of the southern Great Plains in particular, and east into the Ohio Valley and southeastern U.S. Dry air above has stirred in with daytime heating, lowering dewpoints into the 50’s. Reached at least 104F.
Big Rain Bullseye - Central Illinois This morning's highest rain totals are found in central Illinois, where CoCoRaHS observers reported more than seven inches of rain in a wide band of four to six inches of rain. The band extended from the Mississippi River on the west well into Indiana. #CoCoRaHS
The precipitation impacts of the Central Plains upper ridge as visualized by CoCoRaHS daily maps from August 8-13. #CoCoRaHS
This infrared satellite image at 6:46 am CDT shows the two clusters of storms, one in eastern Iowa and the other in western Iowa, that will be impacting Illinois today. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch was just issued, valid until until 1:00 p.m. today for much of the northern half of Illinois.
Big Rain Bullseye - New York's Hudson Valley, New Jersey Highlands www.facebook.com/share/p/1DFS... #CoCoRaHS #heavyrain
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🐕 K9 SAR handlers: 'The dog does the work - the handler gets them to the right place.' Human-canine teamwork is the foundation of every K9 deployment. #K9SAR
Nice mammatus in east-central Illinois well south of the main storms to the north and northeast.
This is the fourth day in a row with afternoon temperatures near 90°F and dewpoints hovering around 80°F from noon to 6:00 p.m.
You know, in three weeks we'll be really wishing we had these days of warm, dry weather again. Warm days with highs in the low 80s, dewpoints in the mid 40s to low 50s, and cool nights. We need the rain, though., and the price to pay for that is higher humidity.
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Buffalo Sabres totally being outplayed by the Canadiens tonght. #NHLplayoffs
Mountain snowpack in Colorado should be peaking around now. This year, it's almost gone. New blog post that shows how it is now clear that this is the worst snowpack year on record for Colorado, following the record-shattering March warmth. 1/
Mountain snowpack should be peaking around now. This year, it's almost gone - Colorado Climate Blog
We’ve reached April 1, which is a key date in assessing where things stand with snow in the mountains, which then informs the likely water supply in streams and rivers later in the spring and summer. ...
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This incredible heat wave 🥵 is rewriting the record books for Colorado’s snowpack. 🏔️ We're currently witnessing a snow drought of historic proportions.🤯 With ~2 weeks of record-smashing temps across the Western US, our mountains are losing what little snow they had—fast. 📉 🧵 1/9 #cowx
Colorado Climate Center@climate.colostate.edu · 7mo agoLast week’s heat wave was record-smashing, extraordinary, and impossible to ignore. It continued yesterday and even today in parts of the state. This new blog post provides some climate context on the mind-boggling temperatures and how they are affecting the drought and snowpack situation. #cowx
Illinois has a new #hail record. 🧊 This week, IBHS joined scientists at NIU to confirm the largest hailstone ever recorded in the state, using our advanced 3D scanning technology. From the March 10 storm, the stone measured 168.05 mm at its max and 93.03 mm at its minimum, weighing 557.2 grams.
She was absolutely right. And she would have been an amazing President.
Wow...Indiana is destroying Oregon in the first half. Oregon is it's own worst enemy tonight.
