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Atmospheric Scientist. Former Research Scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma. LES, dust devils on Earth and Mars, supercells, tornadoes, mammatus, hail, and cloud physics.
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submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Redbuds in full bloom

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you NOAA employees for all you do

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone know how to extract the kmz data from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit (DAT)? I see the option for "extract data" but do not see a button for actually downloading it. Thanks! #wxsky apps.dat.noaa.gov/stormdamage/...

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

Oh, this? Just a dust devil, seen from orbit. From Mars orbit. And the dust devil is 20 kilometres tall.

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

This has to be the clearest and most detailed dust devil I’ve yet seen captured. Amazing!

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

[1/2] With gratitude to Chuck Doswell III: When talking to Chuck, I never felt like a lesser scientist because I was female. He was that way with everyone. It’s not that he treated everyone equally - he did! - but that’s not the right word. He treated us all like we all had valuable things to say.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Chuck was one of the best humans I know, a consummate scientist, and a friend. So sad to hear this. Well-said James. My deepest sympathies to Vickie and all Chuck’s family.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to Roger Edwards on a brilliant career of service and contributions to our science. I wish him all the best in this next chapter.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Our paper was just published in final form in Wea. Forecasting, “Environmental Conditions Associated with Long-Track Tornadoes.” journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely ❤️👇

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Last Friday afternoon on Mars.

submitted 97 days ago • 4 comments

Nice day for sparrows, house finches and wrens.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

This morning’s tornado warning from NWS San Francisco was the first tornado warning issued by that office that included the City of San Francisco Since 1986, NWS San Francisco has issued 9 Tornado Warnings - 4 of those have been issued this year alone #cawx #wxsky

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

I'm excited to be a co-PI on the upcoming ICECHIP campaign! Want to join my team to work on a PhD related to hail swaths and cold pool properties? Reach out ([email protected]) - I'm happy to discuss the opportunity with prospective students.

submitted 109 days ago • 4 comments

New poster just dropped

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

I resurrected my browser-based shallow water equation solver, since I think it had stopped working on recent browsers. autumnsky.us/shallow-water/ (If you've seen this before, its admittedly a bit of a one-trick pony. But I think that one trick is pretty damn cool.)

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

The Tumbleweed Snowman is back!

submitted 116 days ago • 5 comments