Having a university bus hit your meteorological research area due to a vehicle accident was not on my agenda for today.

My university's marketing department came and took photos of my instrumentation class. Here are a couple of me in action. Be on the lookout in the near future marketing items from the University of Oklahoma with more photos of the class.

Nothing like watching USA win Olympic gold with your daughter. Core memory created.

GOAL !!!!!!!!!!!

This hits a little too close to home.

Anyone want any Girl Scout cookies? My daughter is selling again this year so she can spend a night at a museum. I love that she chose that goal. You can also find me at the NWC or go to digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/olivia...

A new year of Univ. of Oklahoma meteorology students learning to install, wire, and program weather stations in my course. This year the stations are built with the National Weather Center watching over them.

I got excited for a moment until I realized it was our black labrador.

Packed house for the first day of Measurements class at the Univ. of Oklahoma. Record setting enrollment. Looking forward to teaching all of them the joys and pains of dealing with meteorological instruments.

Had a wonderful day teaching professors, scientists, and students from Peru on how to build and deploy weather stations. This station was deployed to study the micrometeorology and soil conditions under cedar groves.

Had a great day installing micrometeorological and soil stations at the University of Oklahoma's Kessler Atmospheric and Ecological Field Station with students and faculty. This is just the beginning of the suite of sites at the field station to collect data for current and future research.

Another calendar year in the books. 2025 ranked 7th out of the past 19 years that I have been tracking rainfall at my house in Norman, OK, USA. A very wet spring was countered by the very dry fall and winter.

Some days you are out in the elements and some days you are in the cozy lab configuring weather stations for an upcoming deployment. These stations will be part of a research micronet and also training for international partners.

Had a great time being pied in the face for helping raise money for weather disaster relief in Jamacia and Alaska. What a great cause and excited to see students, faculty, staff, and others contribute to the efforts.

Had a great time video chatting with kindergarteners about hurricanes and the weather. They had some great questions and Hurricane Melissa is giving them a real-time demonstration of the power of a hurricane.

Breaking edge technologies in their respective eras almost 100 years apart.

So a relative of mine is making headlines on all of the news networks right now. I guess I should turn off notifications on social media for a bit.

The School of Meteorology and College of Atmos. & Geog. Sci. at the Univ. of Oklahoma is looking for a Researcher with experience in field work and instrumentation. Message me if you need more information. Apply at the link below.

I had a great time this week talking with kids from three classes (Kinder, 2nd, and 5th grade) out in Oconee County, Georgia about being a meteorologist, fun weather information, and interesting places I have traveled doing my job. It gives me so much joy seeing the curiosity of our next generation.

Had a wonderful time talking to the amazing people associated with the Oklahoma Homeless Alliance on how they can use weather data to assist our unhoused population. They were quite interested in Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and its utility.

Giant wolf spider last night and a corn snake tonight found in the bedroom. What critter will join us tomorrow night? #CountryLiving

Swing and a miss on AI response to a weather history question on lowest mean sea level pressure in Oklahoma for March 2019. Another example for me to share with my students on using AI. It didn't even double check itself on units or reasonableness of the response.

I got a spam text on Saturday with which I decided to have fun. I think I am blocked now. They are no fun to play with anymore.

Michigan fans in shorts is an impressive level of pasty white.

It's that time of year again. I brought the nice weather. The Sooners can bring the wins. #BoomerSooner

Conversation with 8yo kiddo... Me: "I'll always have your back and be there for you." Kiddo: "So, if I am at a conference that doesn't allow kids, you would watch my kids while I am gone?" Me: "Well,.....yes." Now I am pondering what she thinks about when I leave for scientific conferences.

My kiddo wanted to learn how to play Dungeons and Dragons. She never heard a quicker yes from her father. She had a blast. As an animal lover, she wanted to be a druid and even "dressed like one" in green flower pants for playing.

Congratulations on a successful launch of NISAR.

Excited for tomorrow's launch of the NISAR satellite which will provide global information about water in its various forms. I have been working with NASA/JPL scientists on the ground verification instrumentation in Oklahoma for the past few years. The launch will take place in India at 6:00am CST.

Introduced our 9 month old lab to dock diving. She did amazing and is a natural. Not surprised since dock diving is in her blood from her parents who competed. We may have to keep at this and maybe enter a competition for fun.

Happy to have available another paper in which I was a part of being published. Great to work with other scientists across the globe to get this research accomplished and out to our community. doi.org/10.1002/qj.5...

I spy with my little eye....a new Mesonet station!!! Happy Birthday Smithville!!!

In the process of collecting photos of every step in the installation procedures of the weather station used in my class. This will be for a major update to the lab manual in preparation for publication for other schools to use.

Surprised our daughter for her birthday with a short trip to see her favorite animal, the capybara.

It only took a few days of horse camp...."Daddy, can we get a horse at the farm?"

Having a great time teaching kids about weather instruments at the OETA and PBS Kids launch event for the new upcoming show Weather Hunters. Show premiers on September 8th.

Kiddo struggling to get up this morning after staying up to watch the Stanley Cup. She has been further hockey baptized.

32 years and counting, Canada.

Just put our house on the market and have never sold a house before. What horror stories will I have over the next few weeks?

With last night's rain, 2025 rainfall for the year at my house has surpassed all of 2012. Quite a wet start to the year.

My dog loves eating ice and is in absolute heaven with this hailstorm producing free treats all over the yard.

My dogs are cyclonic sleepers.

The Norman Bubble to the storm to the southwest.

Yet again....I thought no Norman tornado siren tests on severe weather days. Twice this year they let this happen.

I just entered my 7000th CoCoRaHS record. So proud to be part of this volunteer observer community.

Glad to see a relative of mine upholding and enforcing the law.

Sooooooo many AI generated answers from my students in my final exam submissions. May have to bring back blue books for exams. #Sigh

I am going to stay as far inland as possible when Hurricane Karen comes barreling in.

There is absolutely nothing like overtime Game 7 playoff hockey.

Our new (old) house on well water didn't have the best water flow. We are changing out all of the fixtures and i am glad we installed a new whole home water filtration device.