Morning, Perla. #catsofbluesky #caturday

Same, SPC, same.

Your timeline cleanse video of the day:

Morning, Perla. #catsofbluesky #caturday

Where have you been hiding?? Not full size yet but almost. A Sphinx moth caterpillar of so sort. Maybe Rustic or Carolina? I thought the tiny white spots might be a clue but not helping me. #invertes SoCal

Here's the blooper version I mentioned. (I have no idea who the uploader is or how they got a copy of this. But I am glad that it survives.)

Protip- If you're experiencing insomnia, pick a boring book to read, not an interesting one.

Scientists Confirm Aurora Borealis Will Be Visible On Google Images Tonight https://theonion.com/scientists-confirm-aurora-borealis-will-be-visible-on-google-images-tonight/

Morning, Perla. #catsofbluesky

Got an amazing shot of the northern lights last night

Amidst all the #Auroraborealis action here's today's "blue marble" full-disk shot from GOES-18. At 2030 UTC / 12:30 PM PST. As received and processed from the 1.7 GHz radio signal with my own @Nooelec ground station operating in Vancouver.

Saw someone post that they didn’t want to take any aurora photos because it was cliché, everyone’s doing it The sky’s full of mystical dancing lights, from particles miles above us, excited by a burp from our local star. You’re allowed to be excited about cool shit, and this is especially cool shit

OH MY GOD I SAW THE AURORA TONIGHT!!! IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL!!

🚨HAPPY EXPLODING WHALE DAY🚨 1/n www.oregonlive.com/travel/2024/...

AURORA UPDATE 430PM 🌌 This is that 3 hour heads up I was talking about. Plain and simple: likely not going to happen. The plasma blob arrived, so it's here (picture 1), but.... the magnetic field is pointing the wrong direction (picture 2).

Why I am vicariously living through people's aurora photos. #wiwx

Nights like this are the best. All the trouble of the world is momentarily set aside while we're collectively marveling at the pretty lights and nature together. This is how it's supposed to be. Life, I mean. Shared joy and all. 🙂

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

LOOK WHATS HAPPENING FLYING OUT OF DENVER RIGHT NOW!!!!!! 🔭🧪

You think maybe this is a biggie as far as solar storms go? You'd be right. It is! One of the five biggest of the current solar cycle, SC25. In terms of rate of energy dissipation though it isn't up to the May 10-11 event of 2024. That was a G5-level storm. Stay tuned for tomorrow.

Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades? Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

Seeing the aurora from the office wasn't on my to-do list for tonight. Absolutely wild that it was viewable all the way down in Mobile. 🤩

Despite being sick with COVID (again) I couldn't miss this magical evening with my old friend, Lady Aurora

My entire timeline rn.

I first heard rumours about this in September. We're currently without one of our most powerful tools for communicating with spacecraft in deep space, and it's not clear when we'll get it back.

Morning, Perla. #catsofbluesky

@jackstern.bsky.social @smichaelis234.bsky.social Not sure if you guys are aware of this but, but some random podcast is leaking into your timeline on Spotify as if it were your own. Probably a weird software bug but I don't know who to report it to. Does this on mobile and web platforms.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was 50 years ago today. Check out the post quoted below that remaps older satellite data and uses ERA5 reanalysis to look back at the #weather on that day. #history 1/2 🧪

Fascinating interaction of #wx scales near Lake Michigan tonight. A Lake Effect Snow #LES band streched N-to-S across the lake, but a potent vortmax dropped in just west, providing large-scale ascent & changing morphology of band into a mesolow, enhancing #snow over #Chicago & Indiana tonight. 🌨️

Time for the Misery Map™ to shine! www.flightaware.com/miserymap/

If any part of Chicago gets a foot of snow tomorrow I will sit down here in Milwaukee and consume an entire plate of hot dogs with tomatoes and other vegetables that don't belong on hot dogs on them along with a pizza that has sauce on top instead of cheese.

The NWS Chicago area forecast discussion is WILD

"The expectation is for the lake effect snow bands to be unusually intense with peak snow rates of 3 to locally 5 inches per hour, frequent lightning and thunder, and pockets of hail... Travel may become impossible with the potential for stranded cars during the morning commute"

Excuse me what the fuck (current forecast for Chicago tonight)

Appropriately strong wording from @NWSChicago AFD regarding the potential for multiple intense bands of lake effect snow tonight into Monday morning. Extremely heavy snow with zero visibility, high winds, and lightning possible in the strongest bands.

VDLM2 Message From: N403YX / YX4586 Message: WELL NOW WE KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN THERES ONLY ONE ARTCC CONTROLLER FOR THE ENTIRE STATE OF NEW YORK. RC Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N403YX Area: New York City, NY, USA #acars #vdlm2 #N403YX #YX4586

The FAA has just issued an Emergency Airworthiness Directive for MD-11 aircraft requiring aircraft inspections and any applicable corrective actions before further flight.

When someone rudely interrupts your grooming routine. #catsofbluesky #caturday

Why is it so hard for people to not be assholes

New at Haneda Airport International Terminal — Godzilla!

CONFIRMED: FedEx follows UPS in grounding MD-11 fleet after Boeing safety recommendation. Western Global expected to follow. Boeing statement expected shortly. (Via ⁦‪@theaircurrent‬⁩.com)

Same, Perla. Same. #catsofbluesky #floofyfriday

This queen is at the Alameda Animal Shelter. Ellie needs a soft spot to land. www.alamedaanimalshelter.org/adopt/cats/a...

Same, Perla. Same. #catsofbluesky #floofyfriday

The FAA has published its emergency order instructing airlines to reduce flights at 40 “high impact” airports. Here are the affected airports and how the schedule reductions will increase over 7 days, potentially impacting thousands of flights per day. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

Out of all the stats that will be in history books from Melissa, this is the most astounding to me. GLM data was recording a peak flash rate of 700 strikes per minute — nearly 12 per second — as it made landfall on Jamaica. That’s rewriting our understanding flash density in tropical cyclones.

I posted this as a reply elsewhere, but I'll say it again: We air traffic controllers are not okay. The delay you call unnecessary may have been the delay that prevented one or more of us from working an unsafe level of traffic...

Looks like American air travel is already fucked and getting more so, in the wake of Duffy’s 10% reduction announcement. Hold onto your butts. nasstatus.faa.gov