RIP @climatologist49.bsky.social

Today I gave the final lecture of the semester to my first class as instructor of record (Computer Concepts in Meteorology). My students were excellent and the subject was fun to teach. Hopefully this was the start of many more!

What's one way the RFD might be important? Inflow-outflow balance I.e., collecting pre-tornadic vert-vorticity (vortex patches) beneath the low-level meso (LLMC) such that it can be stretched into tornadic intensity. When the RFD isn't surging "forward", vortices may be... 🧵

Cute shelf cloud tonight about 6:45, and 30 minutes later, we launched a balloon through the shallowest little cold pool. About 100, maybe 150 meters, of "cold" air.

I think we finally had a legit (warm) cu field over northeastern North Dakota this afternoon, for the first time this year. We are so back.

Presented preliminary results of my master's thesis work in my first ever conference talk last week at the NWA Severe Storms and Doppler Radar Conference!

Dimensions are a hard concept to grasp for beginner programmers. I'm hoping this ridiculous example using a saltine cracker helps solve this problem when I show it lecture this afternoon lol

Coming to an Iowa Severe Storms and Doppler Radar Conference near you this Saturday.... Storm interactions impact storm behavior and we may be beginning to unravel why. I'll share some preliminary findings from my Master's work at UND that investigates this relationship!

Stoked to present my master's thesis work to the public for the first time today at UND's Graduate Research Achievement Day. TLDR: storm interactions are important, and we may be starting to understand why. Those going to the Iowa Severe Storms Conference will get to hear more!

We launched our first yesterday, and three more today - for practice and to make sure we can get our data into the global communications networks for forecasters to be able to use **worldwide.** For the weather nerds: data from our "third-ever" launch (18Z today) below. Very cold atmosphere today!

The official debut of my research group was tonight at #AMS2026! Sooooooo proud of Sydney, Kyle, and Payton, as well as our other students repping North Dakota this week. Stay tuned for much more from my Northern Plains Sickos at the Tropical Conference in March 👀

@nws.noaa.gov Director Ken Graham presented on NOAA’s modeling grand challenge at #AMS2026 this morning. He announced that the NWS is moving to MPAS as its modeling dynamical core, with his #1 moonshot goal being a global, fully coupled 3-km Earth prediction system using MPAS.

That's a wrap for me at #AMS2026 -- here's the work we presented last night at the student poster session: Can we increase predictability of TC-tor events *prior* to landfall via airborne observations? Here's the poster. It was a pleasure to see everyone! Keep in touch!

Biggest take away from #AMS2026 so far: everything happens for a reason. The opportunities, hardships, relationships, etc. Its all for a reason, and that reason is growth.

oof #AMS2026

See you soon, #AMS2026! Come by the Early Career Conference Sunday-Monday, check out my students' posters, then stick around long enough to heckle me when it's my turn to present.

How it started, vs how its going. Its way....WAY too humid here. #AMS2026

Finally on the way to #AMS2026

Who all is going to AMS? I'll be co-presenting some ground-work for "Convective Environments Preceding Landfall in Tornadic Tropical Cyclones: An Analysis of Airborne Observations" during the Sunday 7-9pm poster session. See ya there!

yes

Mom come pick me up im scared

Here it is. The last 10 years of hail events across the U.S. using my prototype hail tracking algorithm! Hoping to build out a more robust climatology of hailstorms like we have for tornadoes.

An EF5 sounding.

Super excited to now have a copy @shawnmilrad.bsky.social's brand new edition of "Synoptic Analysis and Forecasting, An Introductory Toolkit" textbook featuring TONS of SounderPy soundings! This is a great intro to synoptic meteorology and forecasting! Thanks for sending it, Shawn!

A couple years of work, lots of learning, lots of trial & error, and endless support from ya'll have culminated into the news I got today: SounderPy is officially a peer-reviewed, published software. This couldn't have happened w/o yall -- thank u 🤍 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

The 2nd Edition of my textbook is now available! Biggest updates are in figure quality, including soundings based on SounderPy output thanks to @wxkylegillett.bsky.social making it freely available! shop.elsevier.com/books/synopt... www.amazon.com/Synoptic-Ana...

OPE 👀

I am wealthy with no money

Heads up SounderPy users:

thinking of the prairie today

Beyond severe convective weather today, severe fire weather will exist on the high-plains of New Mexico & west Texas tomorrow PM. Extreme fire-behavior is possible given such extremely dry low-levels and strong surface winds. #NMwx #TXwx

Today in Boulder, CO after mass firings of employees at NOAA - an American flag being flown upside down on the iconic 2nd Flatiron (Not my video) credit NWMountainGuy on Reddit

I love reading replies on wx folk's posts about these NOAA/NWS cuts that say something like "our government is bloated, overstaffed, paid too much, not needed, we **need** to cut them" etc. I'm quite sure most of these people could've cared less until a certain someone *told* them its a "problem"

Reminder what tornado death rates looked like before improving forecasting, building codes, education, etc. Research matters. Back to 1875 we go! Figure credit: @hebrooks87.bsky.social

we are so cooked

this is fucking bullshit

Wow! Since the National Storm Chaser Summit began on February 14th, 2025, the Chase Archive has received over 100 submissions. Thank you! Keep 'em coming! Please continue to submit your chase days! We want all your cases, good and/or bad! chasearchive.com

sorry sir, we don't do that here. Left, right, doesn't matter. That's un-American.

The 12z observations from BIS (Bismarck, ND) this morning are the 16th coldest (at the sfc, -33.3F) of the 53,970 soundings on record going back to 1948. #NDwx

Had an epic time at NSCS. I met and chatted with so many fantastic people, many of whom I've looked up to and grew up watching. I met many young, enthusiastic, and passionate soon-to-be stars of this community, and of course, had a great time with da bois 🫶 #NSCS25

Check out the new chase archive!

@chasearchive.bsky.social is approaching at an alarming rate. It will be here soon... very soon.

Lets talk some meteorology. Here in Southern Lower we're on track to get a light glazing of ice tonight. The HRRR noticeably has up-trended in FRZA over the last few hours with ice totals. But why? and is it realistic? Lets look at model soundings compared to the 00z DTX ob 1/5 #wxSky

Checkout our NEW video: Coleridge, Nebraska Tornadoes - June 17, 2014 Tornado #2 was likely the most intense twister we've ever documented! #NEwx w/ Juston Drake And Happy #GroundhogDay youtu.be/lS3eHElMy3Q?...

SounderPy web app update! Made some improvements to both the app's user-interface and the server. Added a few small features as well. sounderpysoundings.anvil.app

"winter"

Let's get crazy.

Blizzard/white out conditions ongoing in Lake Charles, Louisiana at 6 AM per I-20 DOT webcams: www.meteoblue.com/en/weather/w...

Even with all the synoptic & TC tornado environment soundings I've seen from LCH, I think this takes the cake as the craziest sounding from Lake Charles. #LAwx #snow