Per NOAA/AOML/HRD’s Sim Aberson, the 219 kt reading will be the fastest wind ever measured by a dropsonde if it passes final quality-control checks.

The Braum's Enjoyer

Breakdown of time spent writing: Cohering a logical flow of ideas - 5% Pacing the room - 25% Googling synonyms to words I've already used - 70%

Satellite image of a beautiful midlatitude cyclone over the Great Lakes

This is not allowed. Gaslighting gaslighters nope stop it

Going through an old class project and found my pics of the complete transition from CI to (barely) tornadic supercell of the 4/19/23 Moore storm. Like, starting from the exact cumulus puff out west of Lawton (which was notably wider than its peers at conception)

The eyes of betrayal

my soft social media strike is taking a hiatus folks

The CSSL/NTP assisted the US National Weather Service (NWS) with their upgrading of the official rating of the June 2025 Enderlin, ND tornado from EF3 to EF5. Announced by the NWS today, it’s the first EF5-rated tornado in the US since 2013. Details here: uwo.ca/ntp/blog/202... Image B. Emfinger

just casually ending the ef5 streak too why not

I either need to stop going on walks or start going on a lot more

The Univ. of Nebraska’s Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences has established a webpage soliciting the community’s help in saving their program. Their hearing in front of campus admin is next Friday, Oct 10th. Please consider sharing why they’re essential! eas.unl.edu/save-earth-a...

Swept almost everything off my plate before my general exam starts this week and instead of stressed I feel...freer than I have in years

keeping my tropicaltidbits tab open for moral support in these trying times

UNL is proposing to cut the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, which would eliminate the undergraduate and graduate meteorology programs. Please consider sharing the importance of our department with UNL through this link: apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu...

i just let a bad compute node deprive me of 90 minutes of sleep i swear to god

If you are (1) a graduate of UNL's Earth and Atmospheric Sciences department (2) a research collaborator (3) a partner who has worked with meteorologists in NE (4) a grateful NE citizen who appreciates meteorologists keeping you safe please write a letter to support UNL EAS before it gets cut<1/2>

I've been privileged to know and have worked with many brilliant students, faculty, and alumni from UNL's meteorology program over the last several years. It may be a smaller program, but they have an outsized impact on the field. We can't afford to lose a program like this, especially right now.

It’s ok to put the phone down.

Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton????? A:

I wrote about the cancellation by NOAA of the ~$75M contract to procure the next phased array weather radar R&D instrument. Meanwhile, at least $245M of contracts using federal and state funds have been executed for this "facility" which lasted about 8 weeks. #priorities apnews.com/article/flor...

Important weather science news tonight: NOAA has canceled procurement of the next phased array weather radar R&D instrument. Along with the obvious blow to PAR weather research, it is consistent with other moves by admin to push forward quickly with NOAA cuts. More: https://tinyurl.com/my8hx8j6

these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...

Four years ago today in Wisconsin, this brief tornado spun at 17 billion quintillion gazillion miles per hour, breaking the sound barrier or something like that (Audible "crack" can be heard emanating from the collapsing vortex ~0:17, I believe one of only 2 videos that captured it)

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

I'm as big a fan of private weathertech as anyone, but these aren't the backbone of our weather observations. There's also a definite overpromise/underdeliver as far as operational utility. This isn't to minimize the important work, but it's unfair to characterize the extras as a viable replacement.

Watertown tornado drilling nearly straight vertically shortly before morphing into a quasi-steady-state, helix-shaped vortex for several seconds.

Full video edit of the Watertown, #SDwx tornado up. It's rare I get a "video tornado" these days. This is the first time I've had chase video up within a week since...before grad school. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZh-...

Just a relaxing summer lake day yesterday

When you take a very tiny, slight, trivial 8-hour detour through South Dakota on your drive from OK to IL... Fought through corn and trees for this view of yesterday's stunner drillbit tornado just west of Watertown, #SDwx.

Said another way. What's likely happening is they’re trying to convince Lutnick that flying a bunch of dishwashers with GoPro on them is the same as highly sophisticated, durable, calibrated instrumentation.

Accidentally setting your vertical localization most of the way through the mesosphere to assimilate storm-scale observations is Not Optimal, Actually

One could spend large fractions of their time undergoing torture on various society-destroying, addictive, oligarch-regulated platforms. But I'll tell you, focusing on in-person relationships and finding other news sources has improved my life significantly

‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week

Connected by trains, maybe?

Worst forecast since the MM5

Yes, people need to understand that the fact that USWRP and PAR are moved to NWS just keeps those budgets in tact. NSSL and GSL are being eliminated just like all of the other OAR labs.

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

it takes a lot for me to care about storm chasing these days but lol

We are losing access to key weather satellite data important for hurricane forecasting. But remember when we said that computer models were less reliant on balloons because they now use satellite data? Well, this is some of that satellite data and we're losing it. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Violin so small it breaks the Planck length

Boy the National Wind Institute facilities are threading the needle here...

Some old classic footage of Canadian Texas tornado. Still one of my fav tornadoes.

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

Still Doing (Hail) Science in 2025

TIL that someone is out there running freely in society with a mesonet rack on their Cybertruck