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Kevin Scharfenberg
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Meteorologist, but this account is my personal views only and not those of my employer. Also hiking and photography content.
I feel such pressure to make sure to get this "lightning deal" in time!
Go to Green Bay they said. It’ll be a cool climate they said.
Well that's a remarkably long smoke plume for a fire that's barely 12 hours old.
Great supercell thunderstorm view from the back door at work today.
HRRR point sounding analogs over far NE OK/SE KS right now include Red Rock OK and Manchester SD tornadoes. Very dangerous situation might be developing there over the next few hours.
Oh no, I got a random text that St Louis County Oklahoma is coming after me for unpaid tolls. I will now have to avoid Clayton Missouri Oklahoma.
Watching the most important game of the year at my local bar! They would not change all the TVs to the puppy bowl though. Something else is on apparently.
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Can I humbly suggest an international NWP standard for probabilistic freezing rain QPF, radial ice accumulation ratio, flat ice accumulation ratio, ice pellets QPF, and ice pellets accumulation ratio? That’d be great thanks
It should be noted that some of the highest risk areas for a significant ice storm this weekend have very high social vulnerability -- the Mississippi River Delta below Memphis and southern Appalachia. Some people are likely to be without power for an extended period of time.
This winter storm is just a great case where the Euro is spitting out tons of freezing rain accumulation in large areas with consistent “sleet” soundings on examination. Any model experts can chime in on why?
Now seems like a good time to remind everyone the GFS model lumps in 3:1 ratio sleet into the 10:1 ratio snow amount maps, leading to extreme overestimation in the pure sleet and sleet/snow mix zone. I see some weather apps that just regurgitate GFS data are not taking this into account.
Increasing confidence there will be a major winter storm Saturday-Sunday (Jan 24-25) in parts of the southern plains, deep south, and southeast. Too early to say exactly who gets the heavy snow vs. significant icing vs. just cold rain, but looks like very cold air and heavy precip will be around.
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They make finding tornadoes so easy these days. When I was a young chaser you had no idea which gate the tornado would be at.
As expected, the Red Flag Warning on Friday has been given the Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) distinction by the National Weather Service for EXTREME FIRE DANGER in/near the Boulder and Jefferson County Foothills. Do not sleep on the fire risk Friday 5AM-Midnight! #COWX
The @nws.noaa.gov ventures into AI weather models, with data now available for those who wish to utilize and/or assess. Others are being explored (h/t @clarkevanswx.bsky.social) as well!
Aaron Perry@pinetreepilgrim.bsky.social · 8mo agoThree new AI weather models have hit the NOMADS Server 👀: Welcome AIGFS, AIGEFS, and HGEFS
Not bad from using an iPhone in the suburbs. Barely visible glow with the naked eye though.
The Enderlin, ND tornado from 6/20/25 has been upgraded to EF5.
Not too shabby in the central Colorado mountains today.
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Air quality really varies across the Denver area this evening as some smoke trapped in the foothills escaped downhill into Boulder/Louisville, while very clean air persists over downtown Denver.
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