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Mountain Wave Wrangler | bad weather and mountains | high plains storm chasing | I don't study the atmosphere, but I live in it | accountant | 📍 Wyoming via Idaho
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today near Motley, Minnesota - some really fun horizontal vortex motion getting ingested into the tornado cyclone at the end of this video - tornadoes are truly the coolest shit … it will never not take my breath away -

@JustonStrmRider and I just got a nice tornado near Wellfleet, Nebraska #newx

Literally the only thing I know how to chase and it's at night

Career tornado intercept just now Dickens Nebraska!

Absolute insanity Dickens Nebraska tornado a bit ago at close range! Right off the iPhone lens spots and all!

Always North Platte

TOTY and it's not even close

720pm: Tornado underneath stunning storm structure south of North Platte, Nebraska

Not to upstage the tornadoes in the Midwest, but we had a decent rotating non-funnel over town today #wywx

You could talk me into chasing the Bemidji area (holy trees), the Pilger NE area (It is 6/16, after all, remembering 2014 and 2017), or the Cheyenne WY area (not sure which side of town). Anywhere but my deck today, basically.

Pilger. A name every weather enthusiast knows. On June 16, 2014, a Nebraska supercell produced 5 tornadoes—4 rated EF-4. Pilger was devastated. Two of the EF-4s became rare twins, rotating around each other in a stunning display. buff.ly/lS9a8bS #newx #OTD #tornadohistory

There's no hell hot enough

My chase season has become very active over the past week. I have thousands of photos to sort through and many to edit. I'll be filling up your feed with more storm photos soon!

The view from Richardson Highway @ Sheep Creek MP 18.6, 📷 from 511.alaska.gov

Uh oh

Day #3: High based structure in Nebraska followed by a sunset storm in Colorado.

#SPC issues Day 1 Slight Convective Risk at Jun 15, 5:27z for CYS Link

i'm surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.

#NoKings #Denali: we had a cake table, an info table, & ~120 people, & really positive vibes. Our local pop. of ~1100 swells to nobody rly knows in summer, & this crowd was a nice mix of locals, summer employees, & a few folks on vacation who joined in. (A small counter protest rode by I guess🤷🏻‍♀️)

Updraft ➡️ ripples ➡️ mammatus

Mammatus radiating from the updraft like ripples, before becoming bulbous

Wow

Northwest side of town

It's getting crazy over here

Journalists and others, take note: this is an excellent, comprehensive, and up-to-date perspective on the still-escalating threats to NOAA beyond the NWS. NWS remains in pretty dire straits, yet the prospects for the rest of NOAA are actually even more dire (especially with respect to climate).

OK

Sunset along the NE/CO border

Near Peetz, CO earlier

CYS issues Damage Survey PNS (Max: EF1) at Jun 13, 4:00 PM MDT ...NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR JUNE 12 2025 TORNADO EVENT... Link

Folks

544pm: Supercell panorama north of Welcome, MN. Wall clouds not as apparent but midlevel structure improving. Strong inflow

I only saw this

bluesky is the #1 app for introspection

When people say “The aurora doesn’t move, right? I’ve never seen it ‘dance’ like you keep saying,” I just show them this video…