Quite under the weather but still excited to give my talk in the next session of #ECSS2025 (and then leave so I don’t get anyone sick).

I would congratulate Howie on his retirement, but he’d never read this post!🤣 The lessons I learned working for Howie are only tangentially related to supercells & tornadoes. The most important things he taught me were about everything else it takes to succeed in what you care about.

The latest edition (October) of BAMS highlights our presentation at #AMS41Radar on the relationship between "Immense" supercell updrafts and tornadoes (attached). Working on a more complete paper to submit soon (or in 2026 or in 2027 🤥). Anyway, check it out!

Congratulations to @ecreightonwx.bsky.social for passing his Ph.D. proposal defense on observing the vertical alignment of supercell mesocyclones. One (big) step to go!

For those of you at #AMS41Radar, check out poster 109 at 2:30 PM today led by @ecreightonwx.bsky.social who is looking at vertical alignment of mesocyclones in supercells. I promise exhilarating conversation!

We are happy to announce that the 51st NESC is coming back to Burlington VT! Dates: March 13-15 More info coming soon!

To submit your abstract for the upcoming European Conference on Severe Storms, visit: ecss.eu

Do not forget the Abstract submission deadline of the upcoming European Conference on Severe Storms ⛈️🌪️⚡next Friday 6 June! We hope to welcome all researchers and forecasters with an interest in severe storms to Utrecht 🇳🇱 this November 🙂! Sponsored by @eumetsat.int @eumetsat-users.bsky.social.

New group paper out about ZDR column detection, but really about the appropriate way to evaluate algorithms designed by others (run the actual algorithm 😀) and how that wasn't done in a recent paper. Also some commentary about the difficulty in evaluating column algorithms: doi.org/10.1175/WAF-...

Very happy to fill in at #NESC25 this weekend under unfortunate (and ridiculous) circumstances. NESC was my first conference when I went as an undergraduate in 2002 & 2003, and it was the first time I realized research could be a career path for me. Prior to that, I had no idea what I wanted to do.

What a time to be alive and back on social media.