I can’t believe this is even a conversation. Shutting down radiosonde sites will cost orders of magnitude more $ via poorer forecast skill. NASA’s GMAO keeps tabs here: gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/forecasts/sy...

Solid 4 hours of offroading, recovery, cleanup, and bullshitting with locals around Rover after we all found ourselves trapped by several tornado damage paths earlier tonight.

That little black spec on the right hand side of this infographic is the total budget of the NWS. How is eliminating positions that exponentially increase economic dividends through enhancing commerce and mitigating/preventing disasters saving money or eliminating waste/fraud?

Did not expect to see a bunch of Chinooks from 160th flying over Lake Michigan

Looking forward to the definitely no consequences as we approach a major tornado outbreak

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

Nothing says the sun is rising in North America like geomagnetic activity increasing.

Finally wrapped up working on my car and wondering why my hand hurts so bad since its not the one I’m usually wrenching with. Trip over my sledgehammer and suddenly flash back to full blast smashing my fist against the hub I was removing a lug from and feeling suspicious of the lack of pain.

this is exactly how to frame it, great work by Slate here

Bro the amount of Nazi content on instagram is actually FUCKING. INSANE. How did we get here

straight up

Im asking this question with sincerity, because a whole nation under so much stress has to break at some point. How much unconstitutional recklessness has to happen before Elon has some kind of reckoning with the fatal consequences of destroying millions of livelihoods?

!!!IMPORTANT WEATHER UPDATE!!!

This panorama and composite from a night in South Dakota back in June shows Aurora, Milky Way, airglow, sprites, meteors, and lightning, all happening simultaneously. One of the craziest things I’ve ever witnessed. #photographersunited #wxsky #aurora #astro

I’d like to propose that the richest 1% of humans, as determined by (Forbes I guess?) be fired out of a cannon into the sun every year. We can do a very ancient and traditional sacrifice ritual and everything.

Hey just for what it’s worth, do you know where every single one of NWS’s daily radiosondes come from? Germany and Finland. 🤷‍♂️

Turns out putting 73k miles on your vehicle in 9 months yields about 3k in required maintenance not counting things that break lol

Remember boys and girls, “project 2025 is just a left wing conspiracy theory and DJT DEFINITELY wont be using that as his primary policy”

Sometimes being insane pays off. 30 miles from the nearest paved road. Flat steer and a flat spare tire. Barely enough fuel to reach any gas station. But 3 nights of aurora to myself in the wilderness? Makes all of that paradise. #aurora #photographersunited

One of my all time favorite lightning strikes. There’s probably some symbolism here but I’ll leave that for you to interpret. #wxsky #photographersunited

As a result of Trump’s tariffs, expect fuel prices, including diesel, heating oil, jet fuel, gasoline, propane to rise slightly, primarily in the Great Lakes, Midwest, Rockies, and Northeastern U.S. in the days ahead. The impact will be localized but an estimated 5-20c/gal.

Fuckin big cloud Friday

Grand Canyon shenanigans. I miss it.

Take me back to my favorite island paradise. #photographersunited

ICE is apparently going around a town I spent most of my high school years in right now. Nice little suburb, e x t r e m e l y safe area with a very diverse community. Theyre not looking for criminals. Theyre just trying to inflict the most damage possible to our communities.

I could not be less enthused about any activity on the sun not squarely directed at earth.

As a Healey I am against most forms of electronic ticketing, especially any methodologies that are also used for state surveillance.

I love realizing a photo I submitted to something got nuked with color banding long after I submitted it. Doesnt show up *at all* before export, no change of colorspace happening, why the hell did you do this lol shouldve really peeped my exports I guess.

Laura is a certified badass. I found out a couple years ago we’ve lived a town over from each other most of my life and I never even knew

Things that are very American: -quietly learning about, training with, and owning firearms -subverting the nazis -planning to protect yourself, your loved ones, your property, your way of life from destruction -preparing for the worst case scenarios before they can be realized

I’m getting tired of waiting for the sun. It is solar maximum. Clouds, bad impact timing, and persistent inactivity *only* in the earth strike zone have been ever so slightly torturous to watch. But I’m sure all of that will fade away the next time the skies erupt in color. #photographersunited

Random photo pull for the day is this Nebraska structure chase that wouldve been a highlight any other year but in 2024 I dont even know what town name people use to refer to this event.

A few lightning highlights from this year. Photos that are finally “finished” and will be available for prints at some point soon. I can remember all of these moments clearly in my head, and I cant wait to chase more bolts and get that rush again in 2025. #wxsky #photography

I’ve been burnt out since at least October and I’ve got a ton left to do in the next couple weeks, but hopefully this is where things start paying off. Overhead Aurora in Minnesota back in August.

*stopwatch swinging back and forth* YOU ARE BEING CONSUMED BY THE WEATHER HYPNOSIS MACHINE. YOU NEED TO STORM CHASE IMMEDIATELY. STORM DEPRIVATION SYNDROME IS CONSUMING YOUR SOUL

Lol a fucking G4 solar storm during north american daytime with 60%+ of viewable areas clouded out the night before and the night approaching. How very 2024

Dust clouds that may or may not be spinning and may or may not be tornadic in Kansas

All Meta platforms will go the way of dead malls, a space once bustling now devoid of human activity. Twitter is already dead. Bluesky is actually the only place left lol how long until monetization sinks this too?

Day 7546 of the sun being active in every direction except earth. I dont care if we get an X20, sun will still be sure not to send a cme our way with it. Probably be noneruptive center disk 😂

The amount of work I have to do to get the “greatest hits” of this season across the finish line to be my stadard of print ready is obnoxious

Daydreaming about getting back to Canyonlands.

I am on an absolute fucking crusade on fb right now lol I’m so sick of this bullshit I’ve probably copypasta’d this 300 times in the last hour

health insurance ceos pressured the doj to pursue federal charges against mangione to act as a “deterrent” against “copycat vigilante killers” then he got hit with federal charges. nypost.com/2024/12/20/u...

Thats some crazy timing as the sun is absolutely cranking its way back into higher activity lol

All I want for Christmas is another lightning bolt in Monument Valley.

The thing that sucks about taking adderall with bad ADHD is if your focus accidentally latches to the wrong thing, youre going to time warp past the whole day after realizing you can draw in the program you were learning to finish new photo edits and suddenly its 8am and youve got no work done but 😂

As far as wildlife photography goes, I feel like this has to be one of the best photos I’ve taken purely for the story it tells. I feel like I can hear the younglings yelling “MOOOM HURRY UP” 😂 #wildlife #photography

“In plain terms everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing” Good read, but long

Canyonlands National Park is a magical place. Add in a storm? And its absolutely heaven. #wxsky #wxbluesky #photography

Throwback to my favorite wintertime activity when I still had the built 6.0. Snow, mud, wet, or dry pavement, when the turbo on that thing lit it could SCOOT. Nothing quite like a 9000 pound truck dusting everything half its size 😂 RIP buddy