Two years ago...A Night Like No Other at Devils Tower, Wyoming www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvSo...

Tried to catch the rainbow and lightning photobombed my iPhone shot. #WXsky #ILwx

A lightning-packed line of storms charges across Kansas this afternoon.

Craziest story you'll read today, even as America's TV news networks fall over themselves to strike deals with Polymarket and Kalshi and present their data as newsworthy. The world has gone mad. finance.yahoo.com/markets/cryp...

Big bolts delivering some Friday Night Lights. ⚡️⚡️ #ILWx #Chicago

NOAA GOES 18 weather satellite’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument detected the atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Artemis II Orion capsule over the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and southern California just before 23:56 GMT — too cool! #ArtemisII #NASA #NOAA

Imagine being in space 30 min ago and now you’re about an hour from In n Out

Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Bright meteor/bolide west of Rapid City, SD at 8:24 pm MDT last evening (Apr 8th) captured by 2 observatory cameras. Double bright flashes prior to decay. youtu.be/LFEKBz_paIc

There are 4 astronauts on the other side of the Moon right now unable to contact or hear anything from Earth. They are the luckiest people in the universe.

New post about the most spectacular upward lightning flash I have witnessed and what you can see in the 9 min long high-speed recording of the 0.6 second flash. ztresearch.blog/2026/04/04/a...

What A Blast! 906pm on Thursday over Chicago. All that lightning in one moment...this is one image.

I do appreciate a good rumble before the heaviest of the precip reaches the area

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

The Canary Islands enveloped in dust as waves and vortices swirl off of them. A fascinating, complex view.

An 800+ mile long haboob sweeping across northwest Africa. My oh my...

I have created a video lecture series called Understanding Lightning. It is a 9 part series using high-speed video, animations and electromagnetic data plots to explain lightning physical processes. No AI, just a simple lecture format. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_U...

Another great video from Greg Leyh. This shows why most high-voltage labs don't usually incorporate high current in their tests for safety reasons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoGb...

Wall, South Dakota Mar 20th 1030 pm MT

I slowed down the lightning initiation video and it’s clearly an upward strike. These ~5 frames taken from a 240fps clip represent about 20 milliseconds in real time. All this with a handheld cameraphone 🤯

Begging physicists to recognise that being brilliant at one thing does not make you an expert on everything.

64.4 mph peak wind at my house in west Rapid City, SD last night. 4 trees down. Numerous pine trees down in the neighborhood with roof damage to at least 3 homes.

57 mph peak wind gust at my house in west Rapid City, SD at 1035 am, Dec 17th, 2025 (MST), 1735 UT.

Visualization of the Geminid meteor shower as seen from western South Dakota. youtu.be/E6TI9WoMCaM

Global Meteor Network detected meteor image stacks from last night. All 4 of these cameras are located in western South Dakota.

Lightning hitting a transformer near West, TX — notice the green glow? 645p CST #TXwx

Thank you all for the hundreds of photo submissions! You can still submit your suspected FAE images to [email protected] for science purposes. If you want to be more confident that what you captured is indeed an FAE and not proton aurora, see the flier attached here.

This is really cool to watch. Volcano and Tephranado dance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA9Q...

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

BÓLIDO ESPORÁDICO ROZADOR #SPMN161125 SOBRE LAS PROVINCIAS DE #ÁVILA Y #SEGOVIA HOY a las 0h36m55s TUC (1h36 CET). Lo captó desintegrándose lentamente nuestro compañero Miguel A. Furones @mafurones.bsky.social acabando su trazo sobre la #Liebre y #CanMayor. Al listado www.ice.csic.es/news/citizen...

Live view looking South West from Rapid City, SD www.youtube.com/live/BCxK1QV...

Red aurora visible from Montauk, NY 755 pm ET (0055 UT, Nov 12th)

Spotted the northern lights on my flight from Denver to Chicago this evening!

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers. For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

"Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

THEY. WERE. DOING. THIS. WITHOUT. PAY. NOAA’s hurricane hunter pilots (and Kermit The Frog hanging from the control panel) fly into Hurricane Melissa. Extraordinary bravery, saving lives. (🎥 Cmdr. Danielle Varwig, NOAA Corps).

Obvious wavenumber-5 mesovortex pattern within #Melissa’s eyewall earlier today — when the simulation matches reality. Just two decades ago, the very existence of mesovortices was still a matter of debate.

Did I mention I hate thunderfog? www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCxK...

I hate thunderfog

“If it hits you, it’s just not your day.” 90% of people struck by lightning survive but many have lifelong injuries. We still see around 20 deaths from lightning every year in the U.S. We’ve seen 5 deaths in the U.S. in September alone.

Being struck by lightning isn’t a minor thing. We shouldn’t be making light of safety measures.

We estimate than 10 people are impacted when someone is struck by lightning (friends, relatives, coworkers). For the ~200 people who are struck each year in the U.S., that means 2,000 more people are impacted in some way - from losing a loved one or having to care for them long term.

The U.S. used to have 400-500 lightning fatalities a year. Globally, we see 24,000 fatalities a year from lightning - many of them occurring at sporting events. Really shameful to see this on Big Noon Kickoff.

Two hunters and their dogs in Florida were killed by lightning on Monday September 22. These are now 3 fatalities in Florida this year. Four hunters have died this month due to lightning strikes, and there are now 19 lightning fatalities in the U.S. for 2025. www.wfla.com/news/highlan...

Incredible Sprite feast over Italy last night as seen by Global Meteor Network camera in Croatia. #sprite #lightning globalmeteornetwork.org/weblog//HR/H...

Incredible +CG flash!! Negative leaders propagate right to left incloud, then a positive leader develops downward from the decaying negative leader causing a +CG return stroke. Positive leaders with recoil leaders visible below cloud base following the return stroke.

Things got pretty intense in the South Dakota Badlands last night. 60+ mph winds rolled a camping trailer at the boondock. Here is an image of 1st responders rushing to the scene with lightning still hammering the area.