Thunderstorms in New Jersey last night were no joke. Uprooted mostly healthy-looking trees. Some snapped trees too. I counted up to 10 uprooted or snapped trees just within a few blocks of me.

Minnesota vibes this week

This one takes the cake for closest pass from an airliner

Pretty big fire burning in southeast Georgia

Always fun to be doing aerial photography at flight levels. Don’t normally see airline logos this clearly, though.

Local Shell up to $5/gallon for regular gas. Ouch. Surrounding stations are about a dollar less

Cardinal enjoying his morning

Tornadoing in NJ. Snowing in PA. Have we tried turning the weather off and back on again?

Can honestly say I can’t remember the last time we had 70+° temps with thunderstorms followed immediately by snow the next day. New Jersey is behaving more like Colorado.

Really cool day (literally) touring Kennedy Space Center. Timed it really well since Artemis II returns to the VAB (4th photo) tomorrow. Saw the crawler transporter getting ready (3rd photo) to head out to the launchpad

Not too upset I’m missing a blizzard

We’re being run by absolute morons. How embarrassing

Nice day for a photo mission over Kansas City

A look at New Mexico from the Oklahoma border. Sangre de Cristo Mountains way in the distance

Grounded in New Orleans. Can’t complain.

Finally, some good news for a change

Heading back to NJ tomorrow coming from Miami is going to suck big time. Temperature-wise and sunset-wise. Sunset is an hour earlier in NJ. Who doesn’t love 4:30 sunsets?

Hotel designer clearly did not think things through here…

Some shots of the southern Appalachians. Finished up our LiDAR collection here last week.

Sometimes it’s really easy to realize when your SQL query doesn’t produce the expected results, because according to this, Aroostook County Maine got hit by 16 major hurricanes 🫠

The irony of me trying to login to Canvas to work on my AWS ArcGIS Server lessons

Easily one of the best sun dogs I’ve seen. Helps being at 26,000 ft

It’s nice to stay at bigger airports sometimes… although waiting for several planes to land when the cabin is above 90F is horrible. This was KJAX last week. Also, this is probably where we ingested a bird, possibly during our taxi.

Having a bird get sucked into our engine was not great, but at least this is one of the better places to be grounded for a while. A per diem killer though

Highlight of the week. Free airport ice cream back in Greenville

Always a bit amusing when we get to be at a major airport

We truly live in the dumbest timeline

Nice day to visit Boston

Man it feels great outside today.

Got to go inside of an air traffic control tower earlier this afternoon. Saw a couple F-16s come in. Pretty cool

Philadelphia TRACON needs serious help. Really sucks I can’t avoid Newark Airport. Delays and cancellations are so bad

Some jackass broke his way onto the airfield, spun around crazily, and then hit a plane parked here at the FBO. Glad he didn’t hit anyone

Today’s interesting photo, Keesler Air Force Base, home of the Hurricane Hunters

Got to survey a large chunk of NJ today along with NYC and Philly.

Thank you iOS for reminding me I work on holidays 🫠

Hello North Carolina

This is actually insane for New Jersey. 95 feels like 119 with a 82 dew point

Me after being in Nevada for the past 5 days with relative humidity less than 10%

Biggest downside of working as an aerial sensor operator is the on-call time. Often due to maintenance or crew scheduling. Two weeks of no work this rotation due to a damaged propeller on one plane and the landing gear hydraulics failing on the plane I was reassigned to for my remaining week.

Dark and chilly across New Jersey this afternoon due to easterly flow. Sub-50°F currently in some northern spots. Nasty for late-May

Quick stop in Goodland, Kansas

It’s quite damp out

Shocking. Really shocking.

Layovers less than 45 minutes should be illegal. This is ridiculous.

Horrifying to see. It is wildfire season now in New Jersey, but this rapid spread is definitely unusual to see. Drought conditions have improved significantly, but soil moisture is still in the 5th - 10th percentile in the Pine Barrens. Had some bad fires up north last fall after 30+ days w/o rain

Today’s views: Mount Shasta stratovolcano (left) and Mount Lassen lava dome volcano (right) in Northern California… I think

Pretty cool day exploring the Sierras and Lake Tahoe

Views on the way to Carson City, NV

Thunderstorms are so much nicer to look out when you’re not in NJ. No offense NJ

21°F temperature gradient over 4 miles in northeast NJ. Wild