Lots of failures and lessons here. From NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

About as supercellular as it got yesterday. Northwest of Osage, IA. 6/25/25 #iawx Rinse and repeat today.

Here's Sam Anderson's excellent 2013 profile of Gary England in the NYT Magazine, which was published a couple of months after Moore and El Reno: www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/m...

Slapout, OK, supercell from the evening of Wed 5/28, right before it bowed out too much to fit in my 14mm frame.

35 minutes of radio traffic of the emergency response to the Joplin, MO 5/22/11 tornado. A remarkable - and chilling - listen. youtu.be/S6RQ5qeO96k?...

Looking to talk to current or former federal workers at NOAA for a story for The Economist. Please share far and wide! I’m on signal at abraun.99

WaPo article on cuts at the National Weather Center and affiliated offices - full text here: wapo.st/4jBaFhl

I've taught international trade theory to undergrads for nearly 30 years. For my friends in the weather enterprise who might be unsure just how crazy Trump's tariffs are, start with Hurricane Dorian Sharpie-gate and 2014 "Tornado Wall" physicist levels of craziness and go up from there.

The snow forecast for Mt. Marcus Baker during an atmospheric river never disappoints. ❄️

Migrating from Twitter. For my first post on Bluesky, two of my favorite shots from last year's chase season (5/21/24 Houghton, IA and 7/1/24 Ragan, NE).