We had a gorgeous pre-dawn launch of Starlink satellites from the Florida Space Coast this morning that created quite the jellyfish effect low on the horizon! This launch was highly visible from Florida all the way to the northeast USA.

After manual quality control, I found the longest lightning strike in my records since I started researching central Florida lightning data (since 2023). This intracloud strike traveled 57km from north to south, hopping along a convective outer rainband of Invest #93L. #FLwx

Last week's severe weather in Iowa added enough tornadoes to bring it tied for the least year-to-date, since 1980 (16), based on preliminary surveys. Remarkable given the record was just last year (108 YTD). #IAwx

Precipitable water came in at 2.44" this morning at Cape Canaveral SFS ahead of #93L. This is the second-highest for the date and sixth-highest on record for July (since 1950). Very heavy rain will be associated with any showers and storms today across central Florida. #FLwx

Yesterday's EF-1 #tornado near Essex, Iowa was rated a preliminary width of 3130 yards, or 1.78mi wide. This is the widest tornado on record (since 1950) in the state surpassing an EF-3 on the infamous Mapleton, Iowa tornado outbreak night in 2011. #IAwx

While 2025's tornado count is off to a very fast start, I think what's equally incredible is the total track length. Through April 6, the preliminary data show the season so far is just below 1974 for total tornado track length. 2025 is still preliminary. That line that races off in April is 2011.

More than 17,000 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes were tallied by the Cape MERLIN with the strong storms Monday between 4-11 p.m. over central Florida. The storms put on quite the show! #flwx

Tonight's SpaceX FRAM2 launch against a horizon filled with lightning! This might be one of my new favorites.

Here's the latest on the March 14-16 tornado outbreak across the United States - Using the Adjusted Fujita Method for quantifying this outbreak using the *preliminary* data, the AFM for this outbreak is 2813. This would be the fourth most-significant outbreak based on 1973-2011 events.

Due to cuts from the Trump administration, eight additional upper air sites are cutting or completely eliminating data collection. This will have a significant impact on our ability to forecast in order to save lives and property. This is on top of the several sites already cut or eliminated.

The updated #tornado count for the March 14-16 sequence in the United States is up to 107. Surveys are continuing and could take several more days, if not weeks, before the total is finalized.

On or after April 4, 2025, at approximately 15:10UTC, GOES-19, the newest satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series, will become the operational GOES-East satellite, replacing GOES-16. -NWS Office of Observations

The March 14-16, 2025 #tornado outbreak is up to at least 69 tornadoes based on preliminary data. Surveys are continuing. This will continue to evolve and takes days, if not weeks, to finalize. It's a slow, methodical process that is in the best hands possible.

Peak eclipse in Cape Canaveral, Florida! #FLwx #LunarEclipse

Gorgeous launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA's Crew 10 slipped at least a day, but at least we got a consolation Starlink mission!

We will likely be breaking widespread climate records for surface pressure on Friday. Current guidance is well beyond climatological extremes for a very large area. The ensemble guidance is truly incredible with a minimum pressure of 973mb.

Exceptionally dry air sits over the Florida Space Coast. Thursday morning's weather balloon from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station had a precipitable water value of 7.61mm (0.30") which is the fifth-lowest on record (since 1950) for the date, sitting below the 90th percentile. #FLwx

A very powerful storm system will traverse the US early next week bringing high-end severe weather to the South and accumulating snow North/Midwest. The low pressure is forecast to be at a climatological minimum. Very intense!

A jellyfish in the evening Florida twilight as a SpaceX Falcon 9 carries a Maxar WorldView Legion satellite to space.

Go SpaceX, Go SpainSat NG-1! Farewell B1073 🫡 #FLwx

Can we talk about that amazing launch last night? New Glenn is truly a BLUEtiful rocket! Go #BlueOrigin, Go #NewGlenn!

New heavy-lift rocket in town. Go Blue Origin's New Glenn!

Gorgeous launch of tonight's Firefly Space "Blue Ghost" and ispace inc. "RESILIENCE" spacecrafts, headed to a lunar landing! #SpaceX

Looks like a rapid wildfire is developing now between Santa Clarita and San Fernando along I-5. The hot spot is getting much "brighter" rapidly on GOES-18/GOES-West. #CAwx

North of Pasadena, winds are sustained at 60mph with gusts of 95mph as of the 10 p.m. observation. Unbelievable. #CAwx #EatonFire

Here is an updated look at this past weekend's tornado outbreak as surveys continue to come in from local WFOs.

The advantage of having a high spatial and temporal resolution lightning mapper, the Cape MERLIN, is you can see really neat structures try and show up in the raw cloud-to-cloud lightning points. Here's 2s of lightning slowed down as a flash occurs off the Florida Coast. #FLwx

Santa Claus is coming to town...

The May 2024 #SolarFlare sequence remains the most impressive series of events in Solar Cycle 25. Over the course of four days (May 8-11): -8 X Class flares -13 flares of M5+ G5 conditions on Earth first since 2003. IMF peaked at Bt +73 with the Bz down to -50. Very geoeffective! #SpaceWeather

#OTD in 2015 I got this smōl #tornado near Sciota, Illinois right at sunset. Wild, memorable chase day. Chaser convergence featured a lot of Santa hats. #ILwx

Blue Origin's Launch Complex 36 is looking beautiful tonight across the Banana River! #NewGlenn

A look through the 2024 severe weather season using Local Storm Reports. It was quite the active season! Tornadoes and wind reports are well above the 2005-2015 running average.

Dec. 27-29 continues to show up really well for potential severe weather in the south/southeast US. Continuing to watch trends very closely. The #tornado analogs are slowly narrowing in on #LAwx, #MSwx and #ALwx. This is more than a week out so much can change. Watch future forecasts.

This is absurd. Well forecast, but absurd. The year will end will a full on blowtorch across North America. 850Ts are pushing 90th percentile territory.

My seventh installment of "Live Life and Chase," a recap of my favorite storm chasing experiences through 2024, is live! I got my first FL and GA tornadoes, added Fort Stockton'ing to the list and dabbled in a few hurricanes. We also got the Eclipse and the Northern Lights! youtu.be/yYKnQecr4KU?...

Not a bad view of tonight's #SpaceX #RRT1 mission from the backyard while grilling! How can you hate the Florida Space Coast? #FLwx

A really bright rainbow on our morning walk ! #flwx

Trying to get Python working on a new Windows install in the same way is actually the worst experience as there are so many steps I forget exist 😅

The weekend will feature increasing onshore flow for the Atlantic Coast of Florida accompanied by scattered showers, gusty winds and turbulent surf. Not the greatest beach weekend! There will be some possible improvement Monday, but the overall pattern is a rough one. #flwx

Fairly dangerous situation is developing across the Midwest/Iowa overnight into Saturday with freezing rain a real problem. A strong push of warm air about a km aloft will sit over surface temperatures well below freezing. #IAwx #IceStorm

A low-end threat exists today for a few strong storms across the Florida peninsula. Instability will be sufficient, especially for gusty storms, however wind shear is quite lacking. Looking at the sounding from Cape Canaveral SFS this morning the wind fields are quite unidirectional. #flwx

Caught the #SpaceX plane coming into Titusville. #AVgeek

Watching a little severe threat Tuesday in the southeast. Fairly unidirectional wind fields, however the anomalous moisture will support modest instability. Looking at Southern Alabama into the Florida Panhandle... #flwx #alwx

My rambling tonight regarding what appears to be a pretty strong signal for above-normal temperatures for the US through December, and one potential wildcard that could flip the script late month into January.

TFW you're being chased by a #tornado but there's suddenly a great spot to watch it pass behind you. Happy #TornadoTuesday.

Positive of flying on Thanksgiving: less people and cheaper flights Negatives: Dodging people throwing up after Blackout Wednesday Never a dull moment 🤣

PSA: Meteorologists/weather folk of Bluesky, the GOAT CIPS analogs is back up and running 🥳

Expanding on an earlier post, looking at my full November dataset, 2024 has been interesting for sure at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. We clocked the second-lowest monthly precipitable water value on record. 0.17" on Nov. 16, 1981, at 12z 0.18" on Nov. 22, 2024, at 12z -2σ of avg. #FLwx

#SpaceX lifts another back of #Starlink satellites to space from historic Pad 39-A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

It has been a dry November along the Florida Space Coast! Cape Canaveral Space Force Station recorded the lowest monthly precipitable water value of just 0.18" on a daily sounding since at least 1994 on Nov. 22. This was more than two standard deviations below normal. #FLwx