Today is the International Day of #WomenInSTEM. Proud to be living my dreams every day and grateful for those women who came before me. I hope to make the path easier for the next generation of women scientists!

Fun with ice crystals!

It's currently so cold in the Great Lakes/Midwest region that the ground looks like clouds (in IR bands at least)! Notice the blue/purples over Illinois, Indiana and Ohio don't really move like the clouds, but are currently reading ~-20C to GOES! It's is very cold here, send warm thoughts! #ILwx

Unscientifically, is feels like after saying," this winter has been mild" for two or three years winter took that personally

I'm INCREDIBLY happy to be proven wrong about this. Bear down!!!! 🐻⬇️

I think the Cubs winning in 2016 may prevent any other Chicago team from any sort of playoff success ever again. It opened a portal for their win but at the expense of every other team for the rest of time

ILL!!!

I recently learned about the existence of Monkey Puzzle Trees and I'm obsessed with them. Also lupines. Lupines are an amazing flower.

Excited to be at AGU this week! If you're around Tuesday AM and have some time, I'll be presenting a poster on our recent modeling results on how thermodynamic and kinematic environmental changes impact overshooting top and the updrafts that produce them! agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

Was looking through some old plots and found this gem: the Skew-wind!

Bye radar snow hole! Waiting for another 3-4" of snow on top of the 7-8 we got over the weekend! Flakes are probably now hitting/close to the ground in CIL close to the radar!

Just returned home from an outstanding week of science in Utrecht at the 12th European Conference on Severe Storms organized by @essl-ecss.bsky.social! It was great to share our OT work as well as grow connections with our European colleagues! Thanks to all who made this possible!

This is definitely my favorite picture from last night:

Unreal aurora now outside of Champaign, IL!

Clouds today are trying to eke out every last drop of snow before we warm back up to 70! by the weekend

Having crochet as a hobby is constantly humbling because I'm reminded of the fact that while I can solve differential equations, I, in fact, cannot count to save my life or my projects.

Sunrise from somewhere over Utah on Saturday was STUNNING

Excited to share new work out now in GRL: doi.org/10.1029/2025...! We simulated supercells to understand how changes in the environment impact their updrafts and the OTs they produce. We found: ⛈️Increasing 0-6 km shear via hodograph curvature or length leads to increased updraft and OT size (1/x)

Excited to share new work out now in GRL: doi.org/10.1029/2025...! We simulated supercells to understand how changes in the environment impact their updrafts and the OTs they produce. We found: ⛈️Increasing 0-6 km shear via hodograph curvature or length leads to increased updraft and OT size (1/x)

Some mammatus over CU earlier today ahead of the rain!

Any tips for doing tracked changes between two PDFs without using Adobe would be helpful. Currently trying to not rip my hair out because it claims I'm not online and don't have a subscription 😭

4-2 Illinois with losses to two of the best teams in the country while 4-2 Notre Dame and a 5-1 USC who Illinois beat staying in the poll makes negative sense

One of my most favorite days of the semester: launching weather balloons with the @climasillinois.bsky.social undergrad thermo class! So much fun to help them learn how to radiosonde and collect their own data!

Calling all prospective grad students! 🚨 Come learn about CliMAS during our annual Prospective Graduate Student Webinar - featuring our internationally recognized on campus and online MS and PhD programs. RSVP here to receive a Zoom link: forms.gle/CYsLWz5uoRNm....

Oh hey cold front

Sko Brus!! Peak Big Ten season where you lost to Northwestern and then beat Penn State the week after

Apparently I've about that meteorology experiment life since 5th grade 😂

Excited to share a new publication led by @drdavepeterson.bsky.social with contributions by Mike Fromm, René Servranckx and others, that analyzes the inventory of all known, worldwide, observed pyroCb events from 2013-2023! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We must have a decently strong inversion tonight because whoever came all the way here from Oakland was rather loud!

Good move by UCLA. Not waiting around to see if the situation would improve. Sad because Foster was a UCLA guy but hopefully we can turn the ship around.

10° temperature gradient in less than 20 mi between Rantoul and Savoy. Can really tell who had a brush with the earlier storms and who didn't #ILwx Note these obs were taken ~20 mins apart but still a strong temp gradient within the county!

Top 10 Illini!!!

Greetings from the CliMAS Fall 2025 Welcome BBQ!

I maintain my SEC is overrated argument

Heck yes Lee Corso's last pick is THE

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Very impressive #pyroCb/#pyrocumulonimbus plume from the Dollar Lake Fire this afternoon in Wyoming! It's currently stretching nearly the entire length of the state with activity still ongoing near the fire. #WYwx

Found the prettiest blue jay feather today! But left it for others to enjoy and because collecting blue jay feathers is apparently illegal!

🚨 @nws.noaa.gov #hiring continues! 🚨 A total of 26 open #Hydrologist positions (1315 series) across multiple locations have now opened and are accepting #applications, ranging from GS-7 to GS-15 levels. Check out the link for details: www.usajobs.gov/Search/Resul... ⏳ Applications due 9/2!

So the Savannah Bananas brought out Paul Konerko tonight, and as a life long Sox fan (who only wears Paulie jerseys at games now), absolutely lost it in the stands. Never thought I'd see Paulie bat again 🥺

Gorgeous, stormy day in Chicago #ILwx

I'm really an OT person because I just referred to 6.25 km as the "low levels" on slide 😅

Just spent an 3 hours "doing laundry" which included: a leaking, brand new machine that was supposedly fixed, a maintenance visit, the drum refusing to drain or cycle, bailing the drum with a plastic container, hand washing and wringing the clothes 😭

TIL that double headed sunflowers are somewhat rare but it was so cool to see this and go to the sunflower maze! FT some distance storms tnat also gave us a nice light show

There is a new world record for the longest lightning flash - 515 miles! The World Meteorological Organization has certified a lightning flash that extended from near Dallas, TX, to near Kansas City, MO, on October 22, 2017, as the new longest lightning flash. ⚡🧪🧵 (1/3) wmo.int/media/news/w...

Growing up an Ohio State fan, I was SHOOK to learn that Jim Tressel is the Lt. Gov of Ohio right now. Genuinely shocked at this information.

NWS is hiring! The first of several top-priority, mission-critical positions posted Friday on USAJobs.gov! Others will follow soon. Visit USAJobs.gov and search “NWS” to learn more.

Please bring us some relief, friend. It's too heckin humid.

I think I've hit the apex of my NYT crossword career. First Saturday solve with zero help and done in 10:17!

Atmospheric optics remains unbeaten