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@chasearchive.bsky.social is approaching at an alarming rate. It will be here soon... very soon.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Did you know that Case archive can see the future! Big time case coming up this Saturday! @cameronjnixon.bsky.social @aidanabwx.skyhighcreators.com @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social @wxkylegillett.bsky.social @stormchasertang.bsky.social @landonwx.bsky.social @strmchsrhunterf.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025. There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.

submitted 36 days ago • 347 comments

Very sad news. I learned more about severe local convective storms from Chuck Doswell than anyone else. He was a friend and mentor.

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

A snow day in Oklahoma.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

submitted 56 days ago • 117 comments

Glaze is slippery. More later #kswx

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Four photos I took in the closing days of 2024

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

I have a rough hypothesis that patterns favorable for plentiful California precipitation, Plains tornadoes, and I-95 snowstorms tend to cluster together over multiyear timescales. Occam's Razor says to look at the first EOF of NH 500mb variability: the NAO.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

@stormchasertang.bsky.social and I found a tram

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

REEEEEEEE

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Few people even know about this; when people are asked in surveys how child mortality has changed the majority says it has stagnated or increased. If you consider that many don't know about humanity's biggest achievement, then it's not surprising that many are so pessimistic about our future.

submitted 96 days ago • 39 comments

Damnit what

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Alaska is pretty cool

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network. I blogged about it here:

submitted 99 days ago • 255 comments

Just learned that the drive from San Fransisco to Seattle is only 12 hours and I regret not having taken that drive when I lived in California

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

I can't tell if this is accurate, and a reflection of the mass migration of the wx community, or just topics people who migrate to bsky tend to enjoy, or some influence of nominative determinism

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s chart: Weather forecasts have become much more accurate. In the US a 4-day forecast is now as accurate as a 1-day forecast 30 years ago.

submitted 103 days ago • 5 comments

so I think their mistake was that they identified (correctly!) that algorithmic timelines are good for Not Very Online People, who are the majority of people online, but Very Online People prefer non-algo TLs and, crucially, they're the ones doing most of the posting, and they bring people with them

submitted 102 days ago • 42 comments

Some intense precip gradients across the San Francisco Bay Area. Between San Rafael and Richmond (a 20-min drive across a bridge) the 48hr rain totals go from 7" to 0.7". Rain shadowed areas near/east of Mt. Diablo and in the Santa Clara Valley have generally received < a tenth of a inch.

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Hello from the Tornado Archive team, Bluesky! Tornado Archive is a website dedicated to worldwide tornado history, climatology, and data visualization. Check out our data viewer!

submitted 102 days ago • 2 comments

The westerly wind burst earlier in the month was pretty strong and is worth a further dive into the data/better analysis. Quick glance at Reanalysis daily data in Nov, for the equatorial 850mb zonal wind anomaly at 120°W since 1950, shows it was the strongest since the 1997 and 1998 November events.

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

Photographers be like “my whole life is in shambles but the lighting is incredible outside” #photography #WxSky #WxBlueSky

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I think this could be a nice way to find the dendritic growth zone characteristics that winter forecasters look for (depth, omega, and RH) all wrapped up into one number. I can publish the code to calculate this on GFS grids if there's interest.

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

I'm not sure it was "obviously" going to be a blowout. First off, there's an incumbent disadvantage here where many people are seeking to leave the model of "big tech company controlling content distribution via algorithms on large platforms" and more focused on smaller niche communities 1/2

submitted 103 days ago • 2 comments

Aurora and Milky Way in Norway

submitted 103 days ago • 3 comments

Northern Oklahoma feeling a little “sting”y right now

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

This is about as slam dunk of a California atmospheric river pattern as you can get. Dual high pressure blocking patterns over Alaska and the Davis Strait/Hudson Bay.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

I made a thing! I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃 Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something

submitted 107 days ago • 317 comments

Bluesky explained in 60 seconds!

submitted 111 days ago • 420 comments

In June Elon posted this graph of the rate of likes on X. It doesn't have a unit on the y axis, but it's plausible to assume that it's events/sec. If that is true, X in June was handling about 20k likes/sec. For comparison, Bluesky is now handling about 700 likes/sec during the busy part of the day.

submitted 107 days ago • 18 comments

Typhoon #Manyi is putting on an absolute clinic today.

submitted 108 days ago • 5 comments