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Meteorologist, KCRG-TV9. Iowan. Hawkeye fan. General giant nerd.
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Thank you!
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I'm proud of the coverage from that day by the TV station I work for. Our team coverage won a Midwest Broadcast Journalists Assoc. Sevareid award and the 10 pm newscast received a regional Murrow.
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In fact, given the environmental characteristics of the day (a total slam-dunk for tornadic supercells), we were quite lucky locally that it wasn't worse. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good when it comes to these things.
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While there was damage in the state, some of it quite significant, there were only a small handful of injuries. No deaths. This is even as tornadoes entered several urban areas, though the aforementioned EF-4 stayed in rural areas (though there were a couple of very close calls).
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Your art skills are getting better!
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Are plane data publicly available? Last I knew they weren't, for whatever reason. Maybe I'm behind!
That doesn't affect model assimilation, but balloon data is out there for private sector forecasters to see, at least.
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In the the end, it's really one of the two things people actually care about 🤷♂️
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Definitely a slight but noticeable yellow/tan hue to the sky this morning, along with some dust drying out on surfaces between rain. Same thing happened on Saturday morning.
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34t9∆7
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Or 357. You know, what it actually says.
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Follow-up, air quality went bad in the last hour or two. The 356 near the Quad Cities is the only PM10 sensor around here, which captures dust particles better. Might be more representative:
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Answer seems to be definitively yes based on satellite data. Air quality is truly terrible in much of OK, parts of KS and MO.
My camera didn't really capture the color visible to the eye great, but enjoy this moon anyway.
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He saved it from prolonged irrelevance and had some fun times and great players.
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Bluder (half joking)
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Totally makes sense. Thanks for this, and everything you do!
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If you're looking for a possible feature request, having some way to compare subsequent outlooks could be neat/useful. The College of Dupage SPC page used to do this by having the old outlook in dashed lines, but a toggle could work too.
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Day 3. Not a ton of change though SPC's outlook is a bit broader in general with higher probabilities/significant severe highlight. Note the SPC outlook has been updated since this morning: www.spc.noaa.gov/products/out...
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Day 4 comparison doesn't show drastic changes, which follows with the preponderance of computer model guidance. Note that the ML output on the left can highlight "hatched" areas for significant severe, but it isn't doing that anywhere on Friday at this point.
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Day 5. It's a tricky forecast, because it's just not a completely obvious slam-dunk, questions about moisture-return, etc. But, it's also hard to imagine *not* getting severe storms around here given the factors in favor of it:
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If you want to know more about the CSU-ML thing, or see it yourself, then here: schumacher.atmos.colostate.edu/hilla/csu_ml...
It, like any model-based forecast (or forecast of any kind!), is not perfect and should not be treated as gospel.
Day 6, now with 15% SPC outlook for comparison:
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Also, the strongest signal that Fran's job is in trouble is that Tom Izzo was sticking his neck out for him this week. That's his move! Lickliter would still be coaching the Hawks if he had his way.
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Day 7:
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This is apparently his brother, which seems like an unfair advantage:
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No better way to cap off a day where it was nearly 60, frankly!
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I knowwwww, but I'm choosing to be willfully ignorant.
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A post I made about this on the Facebook is doing decently, because people YEARN for winter to be fully dead.