Y’all, my feed is filled with scientists, photographers, science enthusiasts, and non-science people alike. How cool is it that at least for a few moments, everyone was sharing in the joy and wonder that is our sky, planet, universe? More of this all the time please!

MODLS Lidar positioned under totality in IL revealed a complete cessation of vertical thermal activity during, and on both sides of, the eclipse. Meteorologically, a literal mini-night #ilwx #alwx UAH SWIRLL

Rethinking some career decisions... id rather be doing this. #backyardturfmanager

So I went back to a journal paper I wrote from my dissertation, just to help mentally think through an organizational structure on a paper I'm working on... 45 mins later, 'why the h... did you do that, why didnt you do this, you could've looked at this' lol. #scientistproblems

Nice shower of graupel! Mostly connical shape and very soft. But some clearly big enough to meet hail (subsevere obviously) criteria. 1ESE Gaithersburg NWS Baltimore-Washington

Our #SafePlaceSelfie , in the basement toward the front of the house where its completely below ground. Sadly, I couldnt get the two resident hounds to actually sit still for a picture. #tornadosafety

Why do we talk about making sure our tornado safe place is an interior room with as many walls as possible between us and the outside. Here's why, debris at high speeds, in this case a 2x4, can penetrate most exterior walls, including brick veneer. #SafePlaceSelfie #Tornado

This QLCS means business... reported gust to 92 already. Once you top 90 and get in that 90-100 mph range, any asphalt roof over 10 yrs old is nearly guaranteed some degree of damage, and with enough trailing stratiform precip might even lead to some water intrusion damage.

Large hail is likely with any severe storm this afternoon and evening, and there is a low chance for tornadoes as well. This is a reminder that bridges and overpasses are NOT hail or tornado shelters! #okwx #txwx

Had to get our last Stumpy pic in too. #CherryBlossoms

🌸🌸 Bring on spring! 🌸🌸

The cherry blossoms on the National Mall NPS reached peak bloom yesterday, and they’re beautiful! Their arrival signals Washington D.C.’s rite of spring with an explosion of pale pink and white blossoms surrounding the Tidal Basin.

Photo by NPS

🌪️Early Online Release for Michael Tippett and I's paper on developing a stochastic statistical model for U.S. tornado outbreak activity based on large-scale environments ⬇️
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/…

For the love of... please dont do this!!!!!

And thats a wrap on #EHW2024 ! A big thank you to the organizing committee especially Susanna Mohr ! I love being a part of the #hail research community, its such an amazing group of people. We'll see everyone in Boulder for #NAHail2025 #hail science

The MeteoSwiss hail app has been an excellent source of hail reports. Well over 100k reports for researchers to work with! #EHW2024

Huge shoutout to Carme Farnell Tomeu Rigo on some amazing work doing CT scans of hailstones and extracting radial ice characteristic data, presented yesterday at #EHW2024 #hail #hail science

Poster session at #EHW2024 . IBHS Hail Study's Jake Sorber presenting on an exciting new omnidirectional disdrometer design for improving our understanding of wind-driven hail events.

We start... 🤩 #EHW2024

WILDFIRE DATA for CANADIAN. For 1-min, the temps exceed 140 deg F below 2-meters. Wind gusted to 60 mph along the wall of fire/cold front. The 2-meter anemometer is partially melted. The low-level radiation shields are also impacted. The good news is that it's still working!

WILDFIRE just burnt through the CANADIAN 6E mesonet station in Hemphill County. Temperatures exceeded the sensor range at 1.5-meters and 2-meters. Highest recorded was 126 degrees F.