Ok, pushed the fix for this (coordinate systems are fun) and also the first steps towards METAR displays (if you hover over an airport with a metar, you can get the flight conditions, temp, dew point and winds. Click and you get the raw METAR)

My wife adores ST:VOY, but acknowledges that the writers had certain tics...

I'm happy to announce the launch of malpais.app, a free NEXRAD/TDWR radar viewer that lives in your browser. malpais downloads Level 2 or Level 3 data from NOAA's Open Data Dissemination archives and renders it in WebGL on your desktop or mobile device. For free.

Some virga from earlier in the evening. Radar is from an app I’ve been working on

So a dust devil just rolled over my house as I was unloading the van. I figure the dust plume was at least 2-3 stories tall. There may have been a topographical assist from Grants Ridge just to my west. #nmwx

Saw some dust devils around Grants, today. Even got to chase one in the minivan for a bit. Given the general lack of supercells on the Colorado Plateau, it’ll do. @vortexjeff.bsky.social @kmkanak.bsky.social

Awesome to see one of my groomsmen, @vortexjeff.bsky.social , talking about synoptic meteorology on tv

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability near Grants, NM #nmwx

I wrote about how the people who mourn Vicki Weaver and Lavoy Finicum are not, for the most part, mourning Renee Good or Alex Pretti. open.substack.com/pub/leahsott...

It’s never good when @abq.weather.im uses your location as a landmark in the winter storm watch.

So I’ve got a major life announcement that I’m rolling out on all my socials. After a serious health scare last year, I have decided to retire and relocate to New Mexico. My job now is to make sure that my family gets to work and school. Hopefully I’ll be able to work on my landscape photography.

Without Unidata, the company I co-founded, Weather Underground, would never have come to be.

It's that time of the year when all college football fans show their spite towards their rival fanbases by trying to give the most money to @newap-georgia.bsky.social #weathersky here is how some of the better known met programs are doing www.moneycannon.org?t=head-to-he...

This may be a sea story, but there is a tale that in the 90’s, NWS was considering slashing radiosonde launch frequency/locations. Ron McPherson, then head of NMC/NCEP ran an experiment showing the impact of the proposed cuts on forecast quality. (1/x)

My jaw dropped reading this (seriously).

Four years ago and today, we had snow the day before Valentine’s Day. Things can change so fast:

For my friends at NOAA and elsewhere who are about to be laid off: 🫡

Rose-Tu’s baby met Auntie Shine and much trumpeting ensued 🐘💕🐘

Elephant calf update: very baby

Had some nice columns in the hoar frost this morning #wawx

I wrote about how neighbors can play a role in helping disabled and aging people plan for and evacuate when wildfires hit at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Hey #wxsky, Tim Marshall’s Facebook page is reporting that Chuck Doswell passed away this morning. Memorial service to be scheduled later.

Just closed out my #AMS2025 trip, and am waiting for the big jet to take me home. My takeaway ? is “If the purpose of a thing is what it does, then what does Annual Meeting do?” I don’t have an answer for that, right now.

I'm cutting it a bit close, but I just finished my first pass through the #AMS2025 program selecting all of the events that interest me. Now, to find out how many slots are double or triple-booked.

A brief announcement, I will be in New Orleans for #AMS2025. Not presenting anything, just trying to keep track of what's going on in meteorology. If you've ever been in the Sarkeys Energy Center or Walker Building, be sure to say hi.

Not feeling particularly optimistic about the future of atmospheric science at NASA.

This is a welcome development for my family. We like to travel, but we’re always nervous if our wheelchair actually makes it into the cargo hold.

Reminds me of my days at #wunderground. The METAR parser was, shall we say, baroque....

I’m unable to travel to #AGU24 but I’m curious to know how the #AI sessions there compare to what we can expect from #AMS25.

I must not be the only one who feels this way

One of my favourite data discoveries this year: Google's mind-blowing ARCO-ERA5 dataset: hourly data for ~300 climate variables, available globally from 1940! 🤯 Loadable with a single line of Python code from a single cloud-friendly Zarr file! Below: a month of wind waves + swell: 🌊

Lava covers the Blue Lagoon parking area. "The path the magma needs to take is now more easily accessible because it has already followed a similar route many times." "The force and size of the eruption are smaller than the last one" However, it is not a minor event. 🌋🧪⚒️ www.ruv.is/english/2024...

The winds are really boring down here in Chehalis. They’re only 6 knots at KCLS, and it’s practically calm at my house.

Why am I here? Well, #wxtwitter has moved here, and it looks like most of the AI/NWP posters are here as well. And I have to be honest, the LinkedIn vibe doesn't fit well when you're discussing preprints...

A friendly reminder that ERA5 is an estimate of the atmospheric state, but not the perfect estimate of the atmospheric state.