Hi everyone! We recently decided to re-open the AMS WAF/NWP Student Travel Award applications to award the remaining two grants we have left for supporting travel to the 2026 AMS Joint Summit (with increased award amounts). Please share far and wide, and get application materials to us by July 6!

Oh, hello

Gorgeous sunset too

Tornado warned supercell outside of Mattoon, IL earlier today. Hoping everyone impacted by the tornado and the storms are okay. #ILwx

To whoever decided to create a scroll bar of dates that goes from Spring 2001 to Fall 2034 when I'm trying to find 2025/6 dates: WHY

An OT plus some fun with ice crystals!

Might also need to include Fleetwood Mac in this now too 😅

Genuinely mind blowing but also exciting that from Chicago, I can get a one-stop flight to my dream vacation destination, Mongolia!

Grad school in a STEM field is fun because some days are doing complex coding tasks or thinking about ODE's and then the next day you're FOILing 😂 The math finally came back!

Just the start but one of my favorite projects yet!

We are now hiring early-career meteorologists at most offices across the country! Through an improved, streamlined hiring process, eligible candidates will be entered into pools to be continually considered for vacancies. Interested? Here’s what you need to know: (1/3)

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The Enid, OK EF4 tornadic supercell had a ZDR column area of 70 square km (from our algorithm) ~1 km above the 0˚ C level just prior to tornado formation, consistent with the violent tornadoes from our 2021 paper and others we've looked at since (annotated in updated box plots). 🤔

Despite many tech challenges, we survived!

A small portion of the cookies I made for my department seminar on Tuesday because I will be extra 😂

Jaw dropping imagery of the tornadic supercell outside of DFW tonight. Really intense rotation on velocity (bottom panel) with a distinct CC drop on the TDS and visible low CC inflow wrapping around the right side of the low level meso (top panel). Hoping everyone is safe and in shelter.

Dedicating my dissertation to Paul McCartney because I've been listening to an unhealthy amount of Ram with a smattering of Wings.

This will probably never see the scientific light of day, but sometimes science is art.

Me: writes code that works for 60 simulations Also me: slightly modifies codes for a new application and asks code if it will work Code:

Pea sized hail in Urbana! #ILwx

Can anyone explain why the close, minimize and full screen icons on the Outlook for Mac app progressively get further apart until you restart the app? So weird!

Genuinely obsessed with this picture of a groundhog (prairie dog?) I took earlier today

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a cornerstone of U.S. weather science. AMS urges a transparent, community-driven review before restructuring such critical infrastructure. Read our response to NSF's "Dear Colleague Letter": https://bit.ly/4bglx16

Persnickety is a great word. While we should all not be more persnickety, we should use it more.

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!

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Oh hey cold front

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