Just an absolute gut punch to American science. No modern country would do this to itself if it had competent leadership.

On 26 May, we intercepted a hail-producing storm just west of San Angelo, TX. Pictured: Dr. Anya Radler of Munich Re and @wxdocg.bsky.social and Jake Sorber from @ibhs.org. We measured and collected hail along most of the disdrometer array. @nsficechip.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who came out to our field day to see the instruments! We hope you enjoyed, learned, and got excited about science! Including the communities that our work will serve has been important for us.

What’s inside of a hailsonde? Scroll to see! Designed at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

ICECHIP involves 12 universities, 3 research departments, and other insurance institutes, government agencies, & community groups. A global cross-disciplinary & interdisciplinary effort with these parties - promoting a high level of collaboration, coordination, & communication.

The Rapid X-band Polarimetric Radar (RaXPol) from OU'S Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC) beautifully captured the tornado near Matador, Texas last night 🌪️ At it's fastest rotation rate, RaXPol can complete a 360° spin in just 2 seconds and a full volume scan in as little as 20 seconds! #txwx

Impressive fire activity today in New Jersey. Here is a 3D radar view of the plume structure from the #JonesFire during its peak fire intensity.

PROFESSIONAL NEWS: I am looking to hire our program's first ever postdoc this summer! NSF project on extreme heat and precipitation. Will also get the opportunity to teach one course/semester starting in January 2026. Apply here and my DMs are open: embryriddle.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

We've seen 513 tornado warning polygons in the U.S. so far this year as of 5:30 p.m today. Almost half of them have been issued since Friday.

I like data so i wanted to quantify our current state of buffoonery: In the last 30 days, we've lost almost half (45%) of the DOW gains that we accumulated over the last year. We are headed, in the next 30 days, to lose those DJI gains completely in 1/6th the time it took to build them.

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

Potentially interesting job for the NOAA crowd - Verisk, one of the biggest modeling firms in the insurance industry, is looking for an experienced atmospheric scientist. Charles Jackson is hiring, who was on my PhD committee and is just a delight to work with, aside from being a kickass scientist.

TTU-wrf simulation with electrification module for today/tomorrow.

Yup... and read it for the second time @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Saw this in the office break room of NOAA NCEI today. I’m going to take this “feel good” energy from an anonymous person and forward it to all of you, especially those that work for or alongside NOAA. I’m proud of the work we do, and I’m grateful for all NOAA does. Thank you.

Unfortunately large language models tend to hallucinate and don’t understand physical processes. Despite this being a trivial example (no, it’s not going to rain at those temperatures or the temperatures aloft), AI weather risk communication has a long way to go to meet the high standards of NWS.

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Finished up with 4.2 storm total snow, bringing our season total here 1 E of Gaithersburg to an even 15 inches. Still short of the average for us. #snomg #mdwx #dmvwx

The French Quarter looks absolutely amazing in the pregame coverage on this #SuperBowlSunday #nola

29F and moderate rain...thats up there in the land of winter grossness #mdwx

ICECHIP preps... the wrong frozen hydrometeor. What evs... lets get it #hail #hailscience

So Im at my daughters swim class, only to be splashed by people swimming laps and their god awful attempts at flip turns 🤦"looks like we got a real Mike Phelps over there dont we"

A big shout out to my wife Tanya, check out the panel she is on in the Helene Impacts session right now! For our early career AMS women in STEM, chat her up! She has exec leadership experience at IBHS & now runs the Disaster and Failure Studies program at NIST. She's a great role model. #AMS2025

Come see me at booth T28 at the #AMS2025 career fair tonight (5-7 pm CT) to learn about opportunities to conduct research related to the ICECHIP campaign!

Please do not legitimately quote AccuWeather's financial loss estimates for the ongoing California wildfires or for any natural catastrophe event. Ever.

For my science colleagues out there in the wx enterprise who would like to learn more about the chain of events unfolding tonight in SoCal, please take a look at this piece of work we did in 2023 ibhs.org/wp-content/u...

Snow plus Mardi Gras colors! Just passed 7 inches here in Gaithersburg #mdwx

Right at 5 inches so far 1 E of Gaithersburg #mdwx #dmvwx

Snow has begun in G'burg... #mdwx #dmvwx

Well my 7 year old was able to id Venus in the night sky, seemingly better than 70% of Americans. #notadrone

Tenure track positions in Natural Hazards Modeling at Lehigh University’s Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29144

Well thats kinda fun. Google scholar-ing yourself... shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...

You are getting sleepy. 😴 #Fibonacci

Like many, I'm pretty much done with the baffoonery on that other platform. A bit about me, Im a meteorologist, wind engineer and non profit exec, here for rational humans,science, cool pics and maybe some sports in between!