A clockwise rotating storm that just passed south of Erie.

I don't see the point in going storm chasing elsewhere when I could just stay home like today #wywx

If my BlueSky experience is an echo chamber, at least it's an echo chamber that says "Change is possible," "This is how we win," and "Look at my cat."

Some storm structures between Brush and Cope.

This massive and explosive fire especially saddens me. It is burning east of Beaver in one of the most beautiful pine/evergreen forests in Utah in the Tushers Mountains. The landscape of the west has changed so much in the last 20 years due to fire and beetlekill.

Swallowed in the storm. 📌 Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia. #weather #Appalachia #clouds #VAwx

Beautiful supercell south of Akron, Colorado

Fowler, CO landspout tornado at 5:21 p.m. local time

Looking north from Zion, IL at 6:17 pm CT along the Lake Michigan shore.

I guess more people in the northern hemisphere are fellow fans of cyclones than I thought. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Good day chasing a couple of storms on and around the Palmer Divide with 2 teams led by @agitatedcu.bsky.social and @ghosttrainphoto.bsky.social #CoWX No tornados but some amazing structure.

Some cool cloud (supercell) features yesterday, east of Denver.

I’ve long been a fan of the Boards of Canada for their now decades of existence. I was skeptical their new album would measure up against their earlier work, but it may even be their best album.

An unresolved math question is whether countably infinite is greater than the number of Guided By Voices albums.

Very weak landspout taken around 515 PM from 2 miles north of Wellington, looking SE. Lasted for about 4 minutes. Occurred at the intersection of two outflow boundaries?

Low (but nonzero?) chance of local spouts today?

there was some action on it

Impressive supercell by Kenosha Pass (in the mountains).

Cumulonimbus on the DCVZ is always of interest.

My husband has been wandering around our house for a week because he can't find the spaghetti on a plate at the table. He's getting weaker. Send help.

Can fields of crops affect severe storms in regions like the Corn Belt? According to new NSF NCAR research, powerful thunderstorm complexes in the U.S. Corn Belt are fueled by moisture from irrigated fields along with groundwater.

Near the end of their career, someone I knew who’d worked for decades in sustainability told me “I wanted to save the world, but the world didn’t want to be saved.” I’ve heard similar laments from people near or after the end of their career working on the environment. I think about this a lot. 🧵

Textbook kelvin helmholtz instability atop the stratus deck in San Francisco this morning. These wave-like clouds form amid strong vertical wind shear. Read more: weather.metoffice.gov.uk/learn-about/...

Today is the 10-year anniversary of me not chasing Dodge City.

Our new paper on predicting probabilities of 24-h periods of rapid intensification out to 120-h leads from the GEFS is now out. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... An example of its prediction for Helene (2024) is included below. Grey regions in the first figure show 24-h periods of observed RI.

A challenging day of whack a mole in northeast KS where we picked new storms to south and missed a couple or so obtainable tornadoes. We were right next to Wakefield but it was heavily rain wrapped tornado.

York mammatus after today’s chase ended.

Cellphone shots of the powerful St Libory tornado.

North of Grand island earlier.

Currently in Grand Island, considering NW IA, staying close to here or a tad north or going back (sigh) to northern KS. So far, model and observation trends support all three areas, but my gut feeling is to stay put for now and maybe wonder a tad north, northeast this afternoon.

horseshoe vortex south of Burlington CO yesterday

superb bow & arrow overnight in the Great Plains

What?

Haboob!!!

Ethereal structure on the tornado warned Goodland storm.

Funnel cloud near Goodland, KS. So much lightning!

Wow, our article was included in this month’s AMS science preview newsletter! headlines.ametsoc.org/2026/05/14/a...

The little storm on the Palmer Divide can be seen from Erie, CO.

If only all the highest SPC TOR probs could have a similar "Population Center Risk Area" statistics.

Decent.

Views from lifetime Bear Peak summit 99. Faint glory conditions apparently existed.

A stunning morning on the Boulder trails with our long awaited drought relief. It was surreal hearing hummingbirds zooming by in heavy snow conditions.

A stunning morning on the Boulder trails with our long awaited drought relief. It was surreal hearing hummingbirds zooming by in heavy snow conditions.

Rabbits enjoying the holiday cheer a bit earlier. The ground has become quite a bit whiter since then.

This is the best weather event of 2026 so far in Erie.

May snowstorms are not at all uncommon along the Front Range, but I think the record shattering warm and dry winter and spring has made the hype for this (potential) one unprecedented. Of course, the fully leafed out trees are not going to be happy.

Arapaho Peak and its fancy new coat of snow.

Development in the UCAR lawsuit: the defense filed their response to the allegations last week. Essentially, their argument is that because NSF has not ordered NCAR broken up, just that they *intend* to break up NCAR, an injunction is not appropriate at this time.

An impressive supercell east of Colorado Springs right now!

Supercell structure on Thursday's N OK storm I had missed tornadoes on (from the SLR). Putting aside the pangs of grief in missing the ground show, the show aloft was a memorable experience nonetheless.