So glad! Good luck with your research :)

I do see some NASA documents there

Not sure if NASA reports are here but a nice Fujita collection (courtesy of Texas Tech) at swco-ir.tdl.org/collections/...

iPhone shot of TV screen showing the splashdown on Earth of the Artemis II Mission crew

Welcome home! Amazing!

I like F01:00

Snowberry Clearwing moth on dianthus flowers. Moths are cool. #moths

Great imagery! Do you have a height and/or width estimate for the dust column? :)

2x2 centered

“…LLM as a sounding board: fine…but the moment you use the machine to bypass the thinking itself, to let it make the methodological choices, to let it decide what the data means, to let it write...You haven't saved time. You've forfeited the experience that the time was supposed to give you”

New paper: "Evaluation of Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterization Schemes Using WoFS Ensemble Members and Observations from TRACER"—led by Francesca Lappin, with appearances by Petra Klein, @tmbell05.bsky.social, @ksquared812.bsky.social, and yours truly. 🧪🌊

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Hummingbird moth on purple dianthus flowers

Hummingbird moth on purple dianthus flowers

Hyles lineata, white-lined sphinx, sometimes called hummingbird bird moth. They hover like hummingbirds. I’d never seen them a couple of years ago at our house. Arrived yesterday. Moths are cool.

I’ve found ChatGPT and Claude helpful for writing some code and especially for debugging existing code. But I’ve also found that it’s true when they say check it for mistakes. Some were hard to see at first. But truly it’s a powerful tool. Reminds me of when hand calculators came out-I’m that old ;)

The kids are all right Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways

The widespread belief that kids today are uniquely unwell is weird, because as Melinda Wenner Moyer shows, they're less narcissistic & more empathetic & tolerant than previous gens; IQs are up; drug use, violence, teen pregnancies are down. The list goes on
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Congratulations! 🎉

I understood Dr. Shrock’s statement to mean: sometimes the best thing we can do is to put beauty, creativity, music, art, discovery, knowledge, positivity, out there….

A choir director of mine, Dr. Dennis Shrock, said something that has stayed with me ever since; on the evening of 11 Sep 2001, when we still gathered in the choir room at the normal rehearsal time, he said, “sometimes, the only thing we can do in times like these is to create beauty…”

Photograph of rising incense smoke vortex rings against black background and illuminated by direct sunlight.

Photograph of rising incense smoke vortex rings against black background and illuminated by direct sunlight.

Very cool solver and visualization, Tim. Nice smoke video/solutions from @sebastianlague.bsky.social as well. I used to take photographs of incense smoke rising while illuminated by the sun. So here's a 3D challenge for you ;)

Great paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excellent!

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2/2 and Kelly et al. (1985; MWR) who found only 4% of tornado reports had hail reports with them for 1955-1983.

1/2 A couple of older papers that support this are: Morgan and Summers (1982; Thunderstorms, Kessler ed.) who discuss the tendency to report the most severe event such that hail reports take a backseat to tornado or damaging wind reports; ...

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*to find the parcel that maximizes CAPE

I wonder if a possible method could be to start with the parcel with max theta-e in lowest 300 mb and with some really efficient code ;) check “adjacent” parcels that optimize the CAPE over the entire depth.

Max theta-e in the lowest 400 mb?

Looks like both the links you posted go to the ttu doc

Edwards et al. (2013) cite it as WSEC (2006) with reference: WSEC, 2006: A recommendation for an enhanced Fujita
scale (EF-scale). Texas Tech University Wind Sci-
ence and Engineering Center Rep., 95 pp. [Available
online at www.depts.ttu.edu/weweb/pubs/fscale
/efscale.pdf.]

Blue swallowtail butterfly on ground surrounded by green pepper plants and other plants. Butterfly is iridescent blue but appears mostly black with orange, blue and white spots on hind wings

Finally captured a blue swallowtail butterfly in a photo today.

Very nice work and really interesting! Defining an”outbreak “ is certainly not easy. Thanks for your intriguing findings and for the discussion.