I haven’t processed that such an amazing experience is already over 💛🖤 Paige’s SPOTTR review coming soon…

#SPOTTR 2025 wrapped up its trip on Saturday! Miles driven: 3,442. Thanks to @paige-ashlyn-h.bsky.social for the wonderful graphic of our trip!

This is a dangerous lie. 30 of 122 WFOs don’t have an MIC. NWS is famously flexible, but you can’t let 14% (600/4300) of an already thin workforce go - especially the senior staff - and then claim “overstaffing”. You can only stretch a rubber band so far before it snaps.

“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.” - Former NWS Directors, May 2025

Departure group photo! Get ready, storms, we’re coming! #SPOTTR

Today we learned about how radar takes slices through storm cells using colored Play-Doh (reflectivity isosurfaces) and plastic knives (the radar beam)!

Our #SPOTTR class launched a radiosonde this morning to help NWS Indianapolis collect extra upper air data in advance of today's storms! It was great training for our upcoming trip! Photo from @paige-ashlyn-h.bsky.social. #inwx