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Some photos from my drone survey of the Pratt-Plavna tornado last night

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Storm-following loop of the wild supercell near KLBB tonight! Mergers, interactions, occlusions, and cycles give this storm a crazy motion as it zigzags south, alternating between SW and SE. Not to mention that merger at the beginning is CRAZY cool to watch.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible super-refraction radar artifacts last night south of KLCH. An offshore inversion seems to have caused KLCH to scan waves on the ocean, giving a wild psychedelic looking show to anyone bored enough to be watching at the time. Coolest radar loop I've made, honestly!

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Any of y'all ever worked with Fermi GBM data? I'm working on a project on dark lightning/terrestrial gamma-ray flashes and this data is completely foreign to me. Would love any guidance!

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Also, genuinely, don't lose hope. Things get better. There will be a bounce-back and an upside to all this eventually... and judging by the current modus operandi I don't think it's distressingly far off. It will be okay.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Hope y'all are annoying the crap out of the people that can actually push back against this stuff. We saw pushback lead to unfirings in a few other departments, the only chance of unfucking this is to bother the shit out of your representatives (respectfully, though).

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Valley View's track/polygons have been updated. If BlueSky doesn't gloop up this gif too bad, you might be able to see it

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

Just showing off my lightning plotter a little bit more! Saw this bolt captured on KMOB and decided to run it through my plotter. Bolt was FAR larger and more complex than I expected. Radar only picked up a tiny bit of it due to timing of the beam itself, presumably. This is the kinda stuff I love

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Some lovely plane-effect snow from 2025/01/25 near Denver! Atmospheric conditions want to produce snow but there's nothing to crystallize onto. When a plane flies through, it helps the snow crystallize and you end up with lines of snow following flight paths!

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

I have this dorky project I want to work on... Collecting photos of contrails, taxonomizing them into different varieties, and looking at atmospheric conditions that makes different types favorable. Probably has absolutely no scientific purpose whatsoever, but it sounds fun I think?

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

Unusual contrail shadow effects today! At a glance, the light source for the shadow looks to be behind me. However, the sun is of course also in the image and not behind me. Instead, the contrail is being projected onto a lower cloud layer giving this cool effect. Love it!

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

I have actually no memory of taking this photo. But there it is, in my photos. I'm glad I took this photo, though

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Some more plots from my lightning plotter. Rare case where two separate radars scanned the same lightning bolt complex at the exact same time (down to the second). One of my favorites I've plotted so far!

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

Environment was just right near KFFC to produce an unusual double melting layer on radar! Was really interesting and something I've never seen before. Some radar loops down below!

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment

This Maxar Technologies sat image with SWIR shows what was on fire in Altadena, California this morning at 10:45 a.m. local time. Nearly everything.

submitted 162 days ago • 11 comments

I've been cooking a little! After obsessing about lightning for a while I finally got this script put together! It takes a radar, location, and time of a lightning bolt radar echo and automatically downloads NEXRAD/Goes GLM data, plots the radar data and puts GLM flash detections over the top of it

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

Pictured: my favorite radar loop of 2024! From KGRR 2024/01/19. Highly vorticious snowband over Lake Michigan produced mesovortices spiraling south for HOURS! One of the prettiest things KGRR has ever caught.

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

Really neat tornado(es) caught by a UCSD camera! Was not on my list of expectations for the day (though to be fair it's been a really goddamn weird day in general for me)

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely love how snow bands tend to be excessively vorticious, often forming large spiral features as mesovortices develop within them, probably due to HSI or some other magic!

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

Storm-following loop of the Porter Heights, TX tornado! I was surprised at the surveyed track width but after checking against radar data it does make sense. Who knows what the lowest levels actually looked like.

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

Best lightning bolt capture of the day so far. End to end it measures at least 70 miles!

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

Casually tracking lightning on radar today (alongside the moderate risk, of course). There's like 20+ lightning bolts in this one loop alone! Each little "flash" of lowered CC is a bolt (aside from the NUBF). Very electric storm at the elevation KPOE is scanning!

submitted 173 days ago • 0 comments

One of the more devious cases of side-lobe contamination that I've seen! Placed correctly, looks relatively convincing, but a close look shows the extremely noisy ZDR and messy CC signature that often goes with side lobe. Doesn't help that there is a real LLMC hiding in it, too.

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

Made a loop of a fairly interesting supercell off KMOB last night. After formation, something causes it to jog east rather quickly, and then stay stationary for nearly two hours. Really neat little thing!

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

Although KFWS, in AVSET mode and scanning from a fair distance away, might have outperformed KHGX/KCRP and got some super high visibility scans of it!

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments

Browsing the KHGX/KCRP data from last night looking for some lightning! Some really large bolts got scanned, it seems. The first one, if it's one bolt, goes nearly 30 miles south to north and then almost 40 miles east to west!

submitted 176 days ago • 0 comments

Good lord, one of the best lightning scans I've ever seen! Two HUGE lightning bolts in the same sweep. The southern one is at least 20 miles long! Fascinated with how clearly the winding lightning channel shows up on reflectivity!

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

Quick little loop of the brief tornado near TIAH. Particularly enjoy watching that precip blob drift in from the south and get sucked straight into the inflow. Honorable mention to the (potential) nudger storm to the southwest!

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

Tons of lightning bolts to be seen on KFWS tonight! Seen as a reflectivity channel (sometimes embedded in a storm so not always clear) and a spindly shaped drop in CC with super noisy ZDR and PHI. Lots of fairly close range ones!

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

Very odd placement for a low level mesocyclone, but whatever works?

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

Does anybody know where I can download a multi-year archive of WFO text products by type? The IEM app is limited to 10 days and I need more like 10 years or more. Gotta be some way

submitted 181 days ago • 0 comments

@streamwise.bsky.social Was trying to figure out wtf was going on with these tornado scans and why it looked so bizarre -- are these second-trip echoes, maybe?

submitted 186 days ago • 1 comment

Hook echoes/tornadoes always look incredibly ridiculous on TTUKa. Not to mention there's two tornadoes for some reason in the first one..

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

Ooh looks like TTUKa might have cross-sectioned a tornado in this deployment! Very clear signature of vertical rotation, unless I'm bad at this and mis-judging

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

Going through the 2019/05/23 TTUKa dataset now! Immediately I get hit by this ridiculous helical structure. Absolutely absurd amounts of vorticity on that inflow/outflow interface!

submitted 186 days ago • 1 comment