NIU PhD student researching tornado outbreaks & climate change
Joined April 2009
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Kyle Pittman retweeted
Are you in NE Colorado? Want to help out the #ICECHIP effort? We would deeply appreciate very large hailstones found by chasers or the community to be bagged & tagged and handed off to one of our teams!
For labeling, please:
• Write time, lat, and lon of collection!
#ICECHIP teams will be gathering data today in the upslope flow regime of northeast Colorado in hopes of collecting several hundreds of hailstones for isotope analysis and crushing.
Kyle Pittman retweeted
Very good news. This *was* changed quickly. Finding has been restored by NOAA to the @MidwestClimate and it is fully back online! Keep speaking up about these things!
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Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is said to have shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer. nyti.ms/42AiNXV
Very interesting perspective. Other concepts relevant to forecasting at this scale could be thought of this way too...what surrounding conditions can then undercut/amplify the wave? Change how fast it moves or it's heading? Cause nearby waves to form?
Don't lie...after seeing that 18Z HRRR today...you, me, and every Northern IL wx geek gonna be like this for every single HRRR run between now and tomorrow:
#ilwx
What happens in 2029 when Skynet deploys the Skynet? No more tors?
"Hey Siri, play "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by "Me First and the Gimme Gimmes":
youtube.com/watch?v=9Qc9c-q7…
🤘🤘
Kyle Pittman retweeted
The NWS is currently experiencing significant staffing challenges across multiple regions. Alaska, Central, and Western regions are particularly strained, with vacancy rates exceeding 20% across these Regions, which is directly impacting critical forecasting services.
A quick timelapse in between the rain drops of the squall line that was responsible for multiple 75+ mph wind gusts in Northern Indiana this afternoon. I didn't have anything with me to measure the wind speed, but it sure packed quite a punch:
#INWX
Looking for some volunteer work? Something to do outside?
It was a beautiful morning for a work day today at Kane County's Lake Run Forest Preserve. I started volunteering w/ the FP last summer, and have enjoyed every minute of it.
Come join us! DM me for info.
Ukraine has been seeking peace since the very first second of the war, and we have always said that the only reason it continues is Russia.
I am grateful to every unit and every brigade defending Ukraine’s positions, ensuring the destruction of the occupiers, and making every effort to provide our country with the strength needed to bring peace closer.
ALT Photo: Serhii Korovayny
ALT Photo: Dmytro Smolienko
ALT Photo: Dmytro Smolienko
ALT Photo: 128th Separate Mountain Assault Zakarpattia Brigade
Kyle Pittman retweeted
Pasture and rangeland conditions have deteriorated in the West, while conditions improved out East. New research with @gensiniwx and @WalkerSAshley in @AgronomyJournal show these 28-year trends for each week, month, and US state using USDA NASS data. doi.org/10.1002/agj2.21736
Kyle Pittman retweeted
There's been a LOT about why RFK Jr is a terrible pick, but I want to focus on something that is very concerning to me, but no one seems to be mentioning.
He appeals to a widespread, common-sense idea that the problem with our food is that it has "lots of artificial ingredients". Get the artificial ingredients out — no chemical additives! no food dyes! no high fructose corn syrup! — and our health problems magically resolve.
This is 100% incorrect, and fundamentally misunderstands the problems with our food system.
The CC triad: 1) Mitigate, 2) adapt, or 3) suffer.
Regardless of emissions trajectory, won't undermining leadership/ambition and eliminating fed gov't efforts on this issue contribute negatively to mitigation and adaptation?
The less you do of 1 & 2, the more you get of 3...
Kyle Pittman retweeted
A new paper looking at the potential future of mesoscale convective systems has been published by our group in the Journal of Climate. Check it out! doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-02…
Kyle Pittman retweeted
as mainstream climate science leaves twitter, climate denial here will deflate like a balloon. there is no alternative scientific theory, no alternative science of climate denial. climate denial here is just people saying "you're wrong" to the mainstream. it's boring and lazy.
Some of my PhD work from this week at #SLS31:
We ran a 90 member high-res WRF ensemble in a Pseudo Global Warming framework on the infamous Tri-State Tornado outbreak from 1925. Still lots more to unpack on these, but prelim results are interesting 👇
kpittman6.github.io/Tri-Stat…
