Teaching professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois. I teach weather. Storm chaser. PhD, MS PSU; BS Michigan. All opinions mine.
Urbana, IL
Joined December 2012
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We're coming up on that time of year again! Daylight Saving Time comes to an end on Sunday, November 1st at 2 am. Be sure to set your clocks back 1 hour before going to bed Saturday night. #ILwx
ALT Graphic with things to also do when you set the clocks back Saturday night: - Do a fire drill at home and write a family communication plan. - Test and replace the batteries in your NOAA Weather Radio. - Replace the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors; if the detectors are several years old, they should be completely replaced.
The upper-level disturbance that will bring another day of widely scattered showers to Illinois tomorrow can be traced back to the remnants of Tropical Storm Vance in the eastern Pacific
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KSN viewer Sean Hames reported a tornado Friday afternoon about 1 mile East of Marion. #kswx
Posted: 3:40 PM 10/30/26
@KSNNews @KSNStormTrack3
KSN.com/weather
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14 years ago at this time, the eye of Sandy passed right over my house in Wilmington, DE. The howling winds and relentless rain made it the scariest weather event I’ve ever lived through.
And then I’ll never forget, there was a moment where it was eerily calm and dare I say peaceful, just like people have always said about the eye. Shortly after that, in the middle of the night, the winds picked up and ripped from the opposite direction.
My family grew up going to Seaside Heights, NJ for vacation. Seeing the devastation firsthand after Sandy - months later mind you - was surreal. Including the same roller coaster I rode that summer.
Hurricane Sandy is one of the reasons meteorology went from hobby to career for me. Just knowing tangibly how much weather impacts all facets of our lives and how important it is to keep people safe.
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A convection allowing model (CAM) should not need a convective parameterization scheme. Running a scheme at 3-4 km grid spacing is asinine, but the RRFS is *even worse* without one.
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Excellent example of why it’s important to consider the observed storm motion. Bunkers RM yields largely crosswise horizontal vorticity in the 0-500 m layer.
True storm motion (16kt to NW) reveals a much more streamwise flow in this layer.
TORNADO IN WEST TEXAS🌪️
Views of a likely tornado in West Texas earlier this evening! While there have been tornado warnings this evening, the primary threat across the region remains flooding. #TXwx
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The first “viral”, or at least popularized in the main stream, El Niño event is best exemplified by this skit which aired on October 25, 1997.
youtu.be/t_fGjrZfDt4?si=Wjp8…
A major driving force behind the planned discontinuation of the NAM and HREF models was to clear computing time for the upgraded GFS, which is now delayed by a year. I hope that @NOAA extends the lifetime of the NAM and HREF by a year since the GFS upgrade has been delayed. 1/6
The NAM and HREF are admittedly old models and have their flaws, which are sometimes glaring, but experienced forecasters aware of the model biases can still use them effectively. Here's a recent example: nitter.cf/VORTEXJeff/status/2054… 5/6
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Might be the worst take of all time
@DavidPSamson says MLB no longer needs radio: "We don't need baseball on radio anymore." The former Marlins president predicts on Nothing Personal that "radio will go the way of Kodak and Blockbuster." @JohnMamola has more. #MLB
barrettmedia.com/2026/10/28/…
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October 29, 2012:
Hurricane Sandy made landfall as a massive post-tropical Category 1 in New Jersey.
Impacts in the Northeast were devastating, ranging from storm surge to inland flooding to fires that burned entire neighborhoods. 160 people were killed in the US.
#wxhistory
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THE WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP BELONGS TO MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
