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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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Redbuds in full bloom

Thank you NOAA employees for all you do

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/...

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

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

[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.

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.

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.

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

Absolutely ❤️👇

Last Friday afternoon on Mars.

Nice day for sparrows, house finches and wrens.

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.

New poster just dropped

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.)

The Tumbleweed Snowman is back!

Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus with active cryovolcanoes. The water ice being ejected then feed Saturn’s E ring.