Duh, no. It’s a wind instrument.

The REU was a pivotal point in my education, as I was trying to decide between a career in the National Weather Service and research. There have been an utterly exhausting number of devastating losses to US science in the last 15 months. The folks who led this REU should be so proud of their legacy.

Same :-(

I feel like popular weather influencers should be compelled to take a short course on probability before communicating these products to the public.

Want to learn more about METplus?! Come join John, Tina, and me at the RAL seminar series on Wednesday, April 22nd at 1pm MT, in person (FL2-1022) or virtual! 🌎📊

Your cat is your kindred spirit: happy when observing the atmosphere’s storms.

A waterspout just moved over Puget Sound and was visible from Seattle. It appeared to be spawned by a mesoscale convective vortex.
Source: imgur.com/a/seattle-wa...

I hope so, though it looks like the cluster of storms is slowly working its way toward Chicago.

Photos credit: Kayla Marks

A friend of mine in Madison snapped these photos earlier of the tornado warned supercell that had damaging hail over the city.

The 12Z HRRR was a Louvre piece, but even if it's a tad messier, I think the warm front tornado potential looks pretty lit tomorrow. Good luck!

A day I wish I had chased (esp. since '22 ended up pretty meh further west). The next two days look fantastic in IA/MN/WI, but here I sit like in '22 waiting for something a state or two closer.

Impressive! I had chat gpt try it, but it got rid of the multiple vortex nature of the tornado.

Wow. I guess that extra 1000 feet of elevation pays off!

In a month or two, it'll be 102/24.

This would have been one of my best shots of a multivortex tornado if the power lines and roadside trees hadn't been in the way. Things were evolving too quickly, though, to set up a good shot. (Elkhorn, NE, 4/26/24).

Happy cold-core tornado event in Wakeeney, Kansas day, to all who celebrate.

Today is the 21-year anniversary of this cold-core tornado event in Wakeeney, Kansas.

1-minute Visible images + GLM Flash Points + Fire Mask derived product from @noaa.gov #GOESEast (GOES-19) captured 2 lightning-ignited wildfires (which produced small smoke plumes) in Oldham County, Texas (northwest of Amarillo). #TXwx

Bummer.

Hate to see it, but it always feels good when a forecast verifies. Kind of in a bad spot along the Canadian River. re-ngfs-pub.ssec.wisc.edu/s/z1eCj

This animation appears to capture ignition of a wildfire, followed by a northbound smoke plume. (TX PH)

Nice! Only reason it hit Erie (which is usually the area's weather hole) was we got our windows professionally cleaned this morning (at our Erie home).

When you try to do a thunderstorm timelapse and it becomes about the cat.

A brief but brilliant display of sunset awe this evening.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Note: Top 5 months of April for number of #USwx #tornadoes since 2000:

1. April 2011: 758
2. April 2024: 356
3. April 2025: 352
4. April 2019: 272
5. April 2020: 264

#wx #wxsky

Vertical vorticity (blue) and 0-3 km CAPE (red) from SPC mesoanalyses.

Deep layer shear is supportive of supercells, which we are seeing, but the low-level shear is meh. However, the circulations that are potentially generating waterspouts are forming along a nice boundary with decent vertical vorticity for vortex seedlings.

It's like a vortex sheet now with localized vortex breakdown. Whether any are touching down as supercell waterspouts remains unknown to me.

Appears there may be two mesocyclones on this supercell in SE Florida, with one over the water east of Boca Raton. One wonders about some stout waterspout potential there.