Conversation with my husband when I asked him to vacuum the storm shelter: J: Do you really think we’ll need it? Me: Well it’s not zero. J: Ok but do you think we’ll have a tornado here? How likely is it? Me: Well it’s low. It’s always technically low at any given location because it’s a very…

Removing my meteorologist hat for a moment to absolutely freak out with the rest of the ACOTAR fandom. It’s finally happening!! ✨Cauldron blessed✨ See you beyond the wall in Prythian this October and again in January!!!

GWC is proud to announce our partnership with the American Weather Enterprise Association (AWEA) because weather impacts literally everyone -- and it's time for an organization to advocate for the weather enterprise in a sustained, unified way. More info in thread ⬇️

A new era for SPC Outlooks & severe storms forecasting begins today! If you haven’t seen the new outlook (severe & fire weather) graphics yet, check out the SPC website. www.spc.noaa.gov Increasing severe risk in the coming days will give a first live look at the new conditional intensity levels.

Spring storm season has arrived in the Plains very active pattern expected this week.

If you thought Oklahoma felt particularly warm this winter (especially February), you’d be correct.

Here’s our short explainer video for conditional intensity outlooks!!

SPC Conditional Intensity teaser video dropped on YouTube. We’ll have another explainer video (around 3 min length) coming soon! Outlook changes coming March 3rd. youtube.com/shorts/uWzMP...

Happy National Weatherperson’s Day!

Thank you to Jen and Raychel, with @girlswhochase.com and Tornado Titans for allowing me to talk about the upcoming SPC outlook changes. If you missed the live, you can view the discussion here. www.youtube.com/live/G0Nml1L...

LINK: youtube.com/live/yUIhCSS...

Don’t forget! I’ll be joining @girlswhochase.com LIVE on YouTube tonight at 6pm CT. Tune in to learn about changes coming this spring to the SPC severe storms outlooks.

GWC LIVES ARE BACK! 🥳 We're looking forward to having SPC Forecaster Elizabeth Leitman with us to talk through some exciting changes to the SPC severe weather outlooks and answer your questions, LIVE -- on our YouTube or Facebook channels! We'll see you at 6pm CT on Tuesday Feb 3!

Many of you have now seen the announced changes coming to SPC severe weather outlooks. I’ll be going live Tuesday evening with @girlswhochase.com to talk more about the new intensity format. Tune-in to the YouTube or Facebook channels Tuesday at 6pm CT!

🧵: My 8 yo daughter joined Girl Scouts this year and it’s officially cookie season! If anyone is looking for cookies, you can order via the QR code or going to her webpage. She spent all morning making this flyer in Canva and asked me to share it with “your weather friends online”. (1/2)

🗣️NEW: In collaboration with our SPC/CIWRO research scientists, the new Severe Hazards Data Viewer is available: spc.noaa.gov/climo/datavi.... On this webpage you can view a 30-yr record for severe storms, wildfires, and lightning in the dynamic and customizable data display.

🧵SPC will be introducing new information in Convective Outlooks starting in early March. The following thread will offer some basic information regarding these changes. The TL;DR: outlook categories are not changing! But there will be more info for peak hazard intensity.

If you still have an X account, more info is now on the NWSSPC page there. Facebook will be updated later when I’m done doing Day 2-3 outlooks. 😅

Hey weather fam! Keep an eye on SPC socials tomorrow for more information on our conditional intensity roll-out on convective outlooks beginning in March. Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing lots of info on this new addition to the outlooks, so stay tuned and have patience. It’s good stuff.

Best guess for snowfall is 7” on a flat, non-drifted surface. We had drifts to 15” though. Very powdery snow. My 8 year old was an excellent helper for taking measurements!

The National Weather Service office in Fort Worth, TX is looking for student volunteers this summer. This is a great experience if you are interested in a career with the NWS or more broadly within operational meteorology, research-to-operations, and related fields.

Just bought some flair for my work bag.

Well hell. Watch the Stranger Things finale with a box of tissues.

Find yourself a friend like @jenwalton.bsky.social, who buys you a matching SPC 5% tornado (avocado) onesie. 😂🥑🌪️ When are you coming to visit so we can get a picture together, Jen? 💀 (yes, I’m holding a pet tornado)

Since SPC isn’t on BlueSky yet, I’ll share these fun “Wrapped”-style graphics here. Here’s a look back at SPC product issuances in 2025. Stay tuned for a more thorough review of the severe storm season coming in the new year.

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

NCAR’s Vin Lally (1922-2005, under the balloon) was a pioneer in the field of atmospheric measurements, and a generous mentor to me when I was a green NOAA lad learning about dropwindsondes. Few were more important to my career development than Vin. Thank you, Vin, and thank you NCAR.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), an operational research center crucial to furthering our understanding of weather and helping to save lives and property, is at risk of being dismantled. We must not let that happen. 🧵⬇️

I’m reading a book and this quote had me absolutely cackling. Anyone in academia or who has ever done research/presented their work understands. 😆

Our administrative staff decorated the office and made everyone ornaments. It’s so festive and just a total mood booster after a rough year. I was so excited that my ornament had a tornado on it!

First snow! ❄️☃️

Thinking about never returning to Norman. 🏝️☀️

🥰🫶🏼 So sweet.

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One of the best nights ever! 😍🚀✨

First Blackstone meal success! Fajitas for the win.

I’m seasoning my new Blackstone on this cold, and very windy afternoon. All the weather nerd in my can think about as I watch the oil burn off is fire weather. 😂🔥🌬️

Obvious wavenumber-5 mesovortex pattern within #Melissa’s eyewall earlier today — when the simulation matches reality. Just two decades ago, the very existence of mesovortices was still a matter of debate.

The National Weather Festival is this Saturday from 10a-2pm at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK!

I was worried for my crew mates when I saw them circling in the eye for over 20 mins. Looks like the very rough ride was confirmed. Plane had to leave early. They reported svr turb and a "sawtooth" eye. Looks like they moved 600-700ft up & down during this stretch in ~1 min.

**6th most intense. Sorry for the typo.

Keep the people of Jamaica in your thoughts today. The 9am update from NHC has the pressure down to 896mb and peak winds at 180 mph, cementing Melissa as the 5th most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic Basin.

The 2pm ET public update advisory for Hurricane Melissa has the central pressure down to 906 mb with peak winds of 175 mph. This makes Melissa the 10th strongest hurricane in record in the Atlantic Basin.

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

My kids are living their best lives right now. Watched lightning from this severe warned storm over OKC from our back porch as long as we could. Threw them in the car and drove to the library which has wide open views to the east and they are losing their minds over the prolific CGs. 😍⛈️

I’m reminded today that sometimes, all you have to do is ask to get what you want. My son recently has been very interested in immunology. I asked for book recs for him on the topic, & a friend spoke w/ someone who recommended reaching out to a biomed lab in town to see if they could offer a tour.

Today was False Fall Part 2. Summer Part 3 will return tomorrow. Then it looks like Actual Autumn arrives later this week.

My daughter earned her first Girl Scout badge. Of course it was the meteorology badge. 😄⛈️

Update: My son gave it a -1 out of 10 because they burned books. Then upgraded it a 1 because the dog lived. 😂

Tonight’s disaster movie is The Day After Tomorrow. And I forgot how awful the Los Angeles tornado scene was. Rolled my eyes so hard they may never be right again. 😂