#Shutdown sammy and #restorefunding ralphie for days 4 and 5 of ?? Forgot to post yesterday so here's a twofur.

Shutdown Meira, Day 3 / ?? Gotta keep the wheat from waving too vigorously.

A sleepy #shutdown Sammy day 3 of ?? Im on mids so feeling the tired too pup.

Shutdown Meira, Day 2 / ?? Essential government workers still have to work without pay. Meira is taking her job seriously, making sure the atmosphere behaves and stays convectively stable through dutiful Skew-T/Log-P thermodynamic analysis. (Don’t tell the government but I’m paying her in treats)

#Shutdown Sammy day 2 of ?? She was excited while I was cooking fajitas. Im not excited about the continuing lapse of appropriations.

#shutdown sammy Day 1 of ?? Heres a pic of my dog for every day of the shutdown.

"Thanks for all the hard work surviving this year and doing your jobs with excellence, despite the chaos. Oh, performance bonuses? lol no."

In case anyone was wondering what's new for Federal Employees ahead of the looming shutdown, we just found out our yearly performance bonuses have been rescinded because of the chaos around performance plan quotas. Because kicking us while we are down and about to be broke wasnt enough!

#Sooners looking very clean and playing assignment sound football this morning. Love it!

In addition to these already posted positions, there *should* be two more coming soon: Mesoscale Assistant Forecaster Fire Wx Senior Development Meteorologist

We're also hiring two fire weather positions: another WCM and a lead foreacster. If you're interested in fire weather and want to work for SPC, go ahead and apply! Both positions close on Wednesday, Sep 24. Fire WCM: www.usajobs.gov/job/845645900 Fire Lead: www.usajobs.gov/job/845659700

SPC is hiring a Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) for the severe side. So if you've wanted to work for SPC as a WCM, here's your chance! Applications for this position close on Tuesday, Sep 23. Severe WCM: www.usajobs.gov/job/845565600

Hey all! I've been Co-Developing this project with @twisterkid34.bsky.social for about a month now, and we've made some changes to how the interface works, and also included a 'How to Report' section. (1/3)

We would love to receive feedback on what we can improve on, and what we can change to better help spotters send accurate reports! (3/3)

We also have a web-domain now! -- reportbuddy.org -- Best accessible on Google Chrome and Fire Fox on mobile devices, you can also bookmark it onto your home screen for easy access. We will be working on compatibility with Safari soon, and eventually create an app download for smoother use. (2/3)

Thanks to Hunter for coauthoring this project! I've made the github repo public now github.com/adlyons Looking forward to working on this with Hunter and others in the future! We hope to expand to here as nws offices migrate over as well.

Actually, it’s only a Derecho if it comes from the Derecho region of Central Iowa. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling squall line.

Sounds great until we expand social media presence with zero additional tools and staff to post and monitor... nws needs tools to crosspost and monitor multiple feeds at once.

I challenged myself to build a web app that you can use to tag a severe report and automatically generate a message to send the info to the proper NWS office. For now its optimized for X but hopefully can be used here in the future. For those curious its hosted: adlyons.github.io/report_buddy...

SO to me: "what's up?" Me: "nuance and critical thinking are dead nothing new."

The thing with catastrophic disasters like the mass casualties from flooding in Texas is that they are always the result of cascading critical failures. The passing the blame to the forecast not being good enough is just guilty conscience. Those little girls could’ve been saved and they know it.

Exactly. This is a slide from my mesoscale class on flash flooding (mainly just taken from Doswell et al. 1996)...this event hit every one of these bullets...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Good Fucking riddance douche bag.

There are a few moments in life that are etched permanently into your memory when they happen. Listening to the otherworldly roar of the wind from the Arnett tornado a hundred yards away will forever be one of my moments.

I shot 8k 360-degree video the whole time. Heres a preview. youtu.be/pdnBMFns31U?...

This weekend has been wild and just the absolute coolest. I worked a full weekend of severe wx issuing MDs, assisted in the issuance of the initial 06Z Day 1 outlook w/ Mark Darrow, got home at 2 AM, woke up, and got right up next to a drillbit tornado. Literally living the dream right now.

Back to back. 4 tors west of Arnett today.

Current obs in Woodward

Tornado in Paul's Valley Earlier this evening. youtube.com/shorts/xaQxS...

If they aren't streaming the day my house gets slabbed can I sue for not getting #yallwatched and #yallwarned? 🤔🤔🤔 Imo the drama is funny but this is not different than other private sector warning ventures. No accountability or 24/7 ops. Lots of cherry picking and generally not all that useful.

Version 2.2.0 of SatSquatch has been released! This update brings the following changes: - User login for syncing subscription and user data between platforms - MRMS gridded lightning - Opacity slider for overlays - Some small UI improvements - Misc. bug fixes

Models are continuing to trend towards a very active severe pattern starting late week next week. Great for chasing but not great for property owners in the Plains. This has some hallmarks of some noteworthy past sequences.

Hello to members of the 160th SOAR as they overflew OUN in their Mh6 littlebirds earlier today. The 160th is the special operations assault helicopter regiment of the US Army. They were conducting urban infil and exfil training in Los Angles the day prior. A very cool and rare sight in these parts.

I told you this in december smh my head

Would fit with the two least-conducive regimes (Alaskan Ridge and Pacific Trough) less likely overall compared to Greenland High and Pacific Ridge, which favour severe wx simonleewx.com/ecmwf_north_...

Especially for the WHAT?

Be wary a quiet early May. Despite a seemingly slow start ensemble guidance, climo and sub seasonal Analogs paint a much more interesting picture mid to late Month. Especially for the High Plains.

12.5 hours round trip for a 30 second dust whirl. Storm chasing is certainly one of the hobbies of all time

Very unsurprisingly, DOC appears to be the ?first? agency to mass refire.

NOAA just fired us, again 🤡 Retroactive to February 🤡

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Damn, zero points in the forecast challenge against actual forecasters? Forever the champion in brainless shit talk though.

There is a lot of information being shared that was not ready or meant for public consumption yet. Pretty much an unmitigated disaster.

If the SPC stuff on X has made it here: no, it wasn’t supposed to be shared publicly. No, it’s not in its final form or ready. Probably at least 1-2 years before it would even be. It’s already spreading like fire on X, please do not propagate the info here. Very frustrating.

We live in the absolute stupidest timeline.

A palete cleanser. My strawberry patch is readying it's first blossoms of the season and the dogs are enjoying spring after an A+ checkup at the vet.

A sumnary of the current *sitcheation*: "Here's less people, less data, reduced comms redundancy and the people you're trying to warn hate you because orange man and Elon said you suck. Don't screw up or we will delete your agency and replace you with bad ai." This is fine!

Vertical shear is so strong and favorably orientated that it is tearing the convective line apart into individual cells across nw MS. That will be a problem as supercells move into a sig tor environment n MS AL and s TN soon. More discrete cells likely along the confluence axis later farther east.

Classic