Not too shabby by CPC

MATLAB does that to people :)

What's new: one click pulls a real (u, θ) column from NOAA HRRR over the
CONUS, drag-edit profiles on top of it, instant visualizations. Remarkable that instead of letting teaching software quietly fade into the hills (sorry), we can give it a second life with AI tools.

Bob's original is a small masterpiece of meteorological pedagogy that students can use to build intuition for lee waves, trapping,
and downslope winds.

moe.met.fsu.edu/~rhart/mtnwa...

Mountain Waves - a Hugging Face Space by snesbitt Interactive 2-D mountain-wave visualizer (Rust + Dash)

Ported Dr. Bob Hart's 1995 MATLAB mountain-wave teaching tool to the modern
web with Claude: Rust compute core, browser UI, live HRRR profiles over
CONUS. Drag θ(z) and u(z), watch trapped lee waves form.

huggingface.co/spaces/snesb... 🧵

Nice and long hail spike also!

Proud advisor moment with Alfonso Ladino Rincon, putting open source software to work to enable easier radar data analysis arm.gov/news/feature...

TL/DR: Siloing weather from climate science risks dismantling decades of innovation, diminishing the return on taxpayer investment. Putting NCAR’s weather research at a single university eliminates much of its strengths. NCAR reforms must happen within open frameworks, not behind closed doors.

My trip to Boulder helped solidify my thoughts on the proposed restructuring of NCAR.

The State Climatologist is going to have fun with this one!

We might be talking about a different hail record than just the Illinois state record…

Hail 5, to possibly 6 inches reported near Kankakee, Illinois, midway between Chicago and Champaign-Urbana. If verified, would set the state record. (on March 10 no less)

Thank you @lcdsoundsystem.bsky.social for the timeline cleanse

Having a rechunked zarr archive where the chunks are the the pressure levels would be the way to go. BTW here you go @mikespehn.bsky.social - fits nicely on my windows laptop now

The skewt is ported from github.com/dfelix/skewt...

hacked at this a little bit

Illini Blue it is…when I get to my laptop

Thanks, I have only been checking Edge, Chrome, and Safari

That would require a donation :)

Muhahahaha :)

I have only 2 GB of free space on the cPanel server, but having a local zarr store chunked with vertical profiles would be the way to go.

Yes, other models are on the roadmap. I’d have to look at the computational cost of the interactive parcel! Running on minimal hardware right now.

I’m often asked “did you see the storm over X - what’s going on?” I would then scramble to one of the many wx sites to make a sounding. What if there was a site that specialized in soundings?

Look no further…announcing the beta launch of illiniweather.web.illinois.edu/skewt-intera...

Feedback plz!

“Weird” is doing a lot of work here

FOMO destroying any semblance of financial transparency and traditional assets 🤣

Levis not Levi’s, but perhaps corporate sponsors are indeed in need!

I went to the real UW faculty club (different after COVID I hear), was quite nice. UCLA’s was also awesome. UIUC’s closed before I arrived - ah the warming brutalism of the Levi’s Center. But in the old days!

These days, are people sitting at the Inn minding their AI agents over a pint?

Come work with us as Illinois deploys a 3D Mesonet in a state increasingly vulnerable to high-impact weather!

Pushing people into a crypto economy