Chris Kridler
@chriskridler.bsky.social
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Writer, photographer, storm chaser.
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아
7 months ago
Last day chasing together in 2025. We still rock. 😎🤘🏼⚡️🌪️
#OzOrBust
#stormchasing
@chriskridler.bsky.social
@georgekourounis.bsky.social
@stormdoctor.bsky.social
@nycstormchaser.bsky.social
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아
7 months ago
Started out this morning at Dorothy’s House and the Land of Oz in Liberal, Kansas - one of our favorite stops! Chris and I promised we would come back and sign books there someday…
#OzOrBust
#stormchasing
#BookSky
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아
7 months ago
Chris and I are deep in this Brownfield, Texas cluster of storms - they are sucking in Mad Max levels of dust. It is apocalyptic around here! SO MUCH VIDEO to come! ✨🌪️✨
#OzOrBust
#stormchasing
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아
7 months ago
The apocalyptic dust of the Brownfield / Lamesa storm was like driving on another planet - May 29, 2025
#OzOrBust
#stormchasing
#nature
#extremeweather
#westtexas
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아
7 months ago
Storm chase update from Odessa, TX! ✨🌪️⚡️
#OzOrBust
#stormchasing
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A metaphor for the
#stormchasing
trip so far with @aletheakontis. Our quest is running hot and cold. Trying again in Oklahoma today.
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Gorgeous supercell in Texas on Thursday! This is a multi-image panorama shot near Graford.
#stormchasing
with
@aletheakontis.com
#funnelvision
#ozorbust
#lookup
#naturephotography
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아
7 months ago
Proof that my storm chase crew is 100% badass. 😎 We had one shot for Jason to take this pic in front of yesterday’s gorgeous supercell - I think we did all right! ✨🌪️✨
#OzOrBust
#stormchasing
@georgekourounis.bsky.social
@stormdoctor.bsky.social
@chriskridler.bsky.social
@nycstormchaser.bsky.social
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Reporting from under the clouds ... Monday
#stormchasing
update with
@aletheakontis.com
!
#funnelvision
#okwx
#ozorbust
#lookup
#tiredtravelers
#ontheroad
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A pretty supercell (after the tornadoes we didn't see Sunday) in western Oklahoma.
#stormchasing
with
@aletheakontis.com
#okwx
#funnelvision
#ozorbust
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아
7 months ago
Woodward, OK storm
#OzOrBust
#stormchasing
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Back to
#stormchasing
with
@aletheakontis.com
... heading to Kansas!
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아
7 months ago
Saturday’s update from the road - Hello from Oklahoma! Thank you everyone for the gas money!
#OzOrBust
#stormchasing
@chriskridler.bsky.social
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One of the three tornadoes
@aletheakontis.com
and I saw in Missouri Friday, this one near Oran. Driving so much I've been slack about posting. But it is better to live than to post!
#stormchasing
#tornado
7 months ago
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Pretty puddle sunset after much-needed soaker today.
#flwx
#spacecoast
7 months ago
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Friday night storm collision on Florida's Space Coast.
#flwx
#stormchasing
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Lightning off Florida's Space Coast tonight, May 5.
#flwx
#weather
#stormchasing
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Andrew Freedman
8 months ago
NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
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US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/weather/nws-forecasting-layoffs-trump
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ProPublica
8 months ago
NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By
@lisalsong.bsky.social
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NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire
A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.
https://propub.li/43JH2oW
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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️
8 months ago
Much of the technology featured in “Twisters” was based on real-world instrumentation developed at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. If the passback budget is to be believed, NSSL will be eliminated, cutting off taxpayer funded research like that featured in this video:
youtu.be/V6n8VH4C17Q
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2024 IN A FLASH: A Year of NSSL Innovation in Severe Storm Science
YouTube video by NOAA Weather Partners
https://youtu.be/V6n8VH4C17Q
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A Falcon 9 rocket with the Fram2 polar orbit mission launches over a line of lightning storms on March 31, 2025, from Kennedy Space Center. You can see the lightning better if you enlarge it - or see it at
ChrisKridler.com
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#fram2
9 months ago
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아
9 months ago
Ah, mammatus, I have missed you. ✨⚡️✨
#visualsbyalethea
#storm
#clouds
#flwx
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Line of storms crossing the Space Coast earlier.
#flwx
#weather
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아
9 months ago
Do you love my
#nature
& sky
#photography
and cloud timelapses? Please consider throwing a buck or two in our Storm Chase Gas Fund for this upcoming
#stormchasing
season!
aletheakontis.com/2025/03/2025...
Thank you, friends! 🦋
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Dr. Jeff Masters
9 months ago
Break it, then privatize it. Building up private U.S. forecasting ability to current NWS levels after such a ruthless and foolish decimation of the NWS will take many years. Billions in costs will occur that would have been avoided had we kept the NWS intact, and many avoidable deaths will occur.
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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️
9 months ago
My grandfather was a Japanese linguist for the US Army in WWII. He translated intercepted Japanese military communications for the US military. Sadly, some military web sites describing the contributions of his and other similar units to the war effort appear to have vanished off the web. 🧵
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Mark Cuban
9 months ago
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
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Vincent Ledvina
9 months ago
Wow, the aurora tonight in Fairbanks was incredible. Check out this real-time video of a massive substorm. The ground was so green, too. Just amazing!
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Elizabeth Leitman
9 months ago
A tornado outbreak - Level 5-High risk is expected tomorrow (Saturday March 15) across parts of MS/AL. Strong to violent, long-track tornadoes will be possible, in addition to significant damaging gusts and large hail. Intense storms are possible across the broader region from LA to TN to GA.
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Thanks so much to
@girlswhochase.com
for interviewing
@aletheakontis.com
and me for their blog, which highlights women who chase storms. This was fun!
blog.girlswhochase.com/chris-alethea/
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Random beauty from storm chasing last year - May 16, 2024, in south Texas.
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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️
10 months ago
From the front page of
@ametsoc.org
, my professional society. The headline couldn’t be truer.
www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
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The U.S. Weather Enterprise: A National Treasure at Risk
The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.
https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-statements/statements-of-the-ams-in-force/the-u-s-weather-enterprise-a-national-treasure-at-risk/
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American Meteorological Society
10 months ago
The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government. Read more:
bit.ly/4gRiHAk
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Girls Who Chase
11 months ago
Hey! 👋🏻 The Spring Training "storm chasing 101" event is ONE MONTH AWAY, and North America's severe season is approaching fast! HAVE YOU REGISTERED YET? 🌪🌪 All the details & to register:
girlswhochase.com/springtraining
Answers to all your questions in 🧵⬇️
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아
10 months ago
My YouTube Channel (desperately needs a facelift) 743 subscribers
youtube.com/@aletheakont...
My TikTok 686 followers
www.tiktok.com/@aletheakont...
The question is: Will either one of these hit 1K before
@chriskridler.bsky.social
& I go stormchasing in May?
#OzOrBust
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Ethan Clark wx
10 months ago
Shared with my by an NWS Meteorologist: NWS is potentially in trouble. We are struggling to get our public safety exemption approved from higher ups in the government. Without the exemption, we could face steep cuts. 1/2
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Heather Turiello
10 months ago
This feels so relevant right now.
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☇ indsay
11 months ago
Keep trying to pare down the federal workforce and y’all might end up getting your tornado warnings from Punxsutawney Phil too.
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Andy Vitek
11 months ago
If you didn't get a chance to grab any of the CDC data before it got nuked, some absolute heroes are on the case.
archive.org/details/2025...
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CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly...
https://archive.org/details/20250128-cdc-datasets
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I have a feeling I'm going to be doing a lot of bird-watching. (Female cardinal and male painted bunting in our Florida backyard.)
11 months ago
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news_fuentes
11 months ago
Sneaux on Canal St.⚜️
@fox8live.com
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Brian McNoldy
11 months ago
My annual update of sea level observations and trends at Virginia Key near
#Miami
: The 2024 annual average water level was the 3rd highest on record, just below 2023 and 2022 (18.6-yr LNC removed). The trend is upward at an average rate of ~2.8 inches or 7.0 cm per decade. [1/4] 🌊
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Alethea Kontis 알리티아
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If you see this, post a dino! 🦕 Photo credit to my fabulous storm chase partner,
@chriskridler.bsky.social
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I'll let my profile pic set the tone. 😉🌪️
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