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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We got one! This was at 7:05 PM CDT looking 11 miles west toward Ash Grove KS, and the transient condensation Sam Hays and I observed between the bowl lowering and the ground was consistent with the report of a multi-vortex tornado.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I stayed out until 1 AM last night to get this photo

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Something special came in the mail today

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I just saw the coolest dust devil in the Texas panhandle. I’ve never seen surface-level vortex dynamics so well, even in real tornadoes. US-385, 11 miles NE of Vega TX, 2:58 PM CDT, sped up 3x

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I just pulled the most unbelievable shot off my camera, along with a few other bolts from the July 4th, 2026 storm complex that swept from Argonia, Kansas, to Norman, Oklahoma. I was looking away when the line of five lightning strikes came down, and I hadn't even realized it happened.

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James McCormick @60andhatched.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I have family who farms in this little area east of Swanton, and if it was indeed a tornado from this visually spectacular storm (sure seems like it from this terrific video!), it managed to not even find a fence to mangle. Young crops showed hail damage but not wind shear.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

June 5, 2026 - Plymouth-Swanton, Nebraska Even after the stable air had long since set in, the supercell continued to stay stationary and took on a mothership apperance.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

June 5, 2026 - Plymouth-Swanton, Nebraska This supercell stayed nearly stationary for hours, allowing for long stretches of timelapse photography. A persistent funnel cloud was visible for roughly ten minutes, and I strongly suspect it was an unreported weak tornado.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

June 9, 2026, ~8:15 PM - North Dakota/Saskatchewan Timelapse of the EF3 tornado that impacted rural areas near Oxbow, Saskatchewan. I was in North Dakota, positioned as closely to the international border as the gravel roads allowed.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We had some utterly amazing lightning in Norman tonight! According to a few of my friends, the lightning tonight was a lot like what you might see during monsoon season in Arizona.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Oklahoma’s best sunsets are always surprises

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I am structure junkieing so hard right now (2 mi SW of Ninnekah OK 7:03 PM)

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

4x speed dashcam footage of the partially condensed tornado as it passed to the west of Cleburne, Texas at 6:52 PM this evening. There were lots of cool little dynamical twists visible in the funnel, and the dust cloud below the funnel near the end of the clip proves the tornado was on the ground.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This is how it looks to be on the northern side of a supercell.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A short preview of the timelapse videos I captured during last Friday's chase in North Central Oklahoma. The link to the full video is below:

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This is the most artistic programming has ever felt

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

While the Turkey, Texas supercell of March 5, 2026 never appeared to produce a tornado, it showed significant pre-tornadic behaviors. Most notable of these is the RFD clear slot wrapping around the mesocyclone. The rotation within the developing wall cloud also became much more rapid.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The total lunar eclipse of March 3, 2026 during maximum eclipse at 5:33 AM CST. Imaged as a stack of 56 exposures to reduce noise. While not shown in the photo, this eclipse seemed a bit darker than last year's, and the umbral shadow had no blue rim this time.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

For my senior project, I've been making a model that forecasts the short-term probability of Convective Initiation. It's not available to the public yet, but I plan on open-sourcing it and making a real-time product using this model sometime in the near future.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

When all you see is a stable green band, it can be hard to trust that the substorm is coming. Often, the long wait is just a charge-up that makes the show even more spectacular.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I’ll still be telling people about last night decades from now.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Ladies, gentlemen, and others, this is what it was all for. This is what every time we’ve spent on the side of a frigid dirt road with stubborn +25 Bz was for. This is what every single time we watched the CME impact at 7:00 AM was for.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Steam devils at sunrise, over Lake Thunderbird early this morning

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

It is wild how far a little bit of careful, intentional color grading can get you

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

It’s like driving a Lamborghini on the Information Superhighway.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I’m running on three hours of sleep and the wonder of nature baby

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I work hard enough, I can give my code files silly names.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Hurricane Melissa's extreme Category 5 eyewall, rapid core disintegration over Jamaica, and subsequent rapid reintensification on approach to southeastern Cuba. Landfall is ongoing 20 mi/32 km west of Santiago de Cuba.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The clock has just about run out on Melissa’s restrengthening period as its eyewall approaches the Sierra Maestra mountains. Even though it’s still extremely dangerous, I’m happy to see it didn’t intensify as much as I feared it would.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Melissa is quite far out of force balance after reemerging from Jamaica. The sea-level pressure gradient as measured by recon suggests a wind speed of 104 mph, but their dropsonde only measured 78 mph. This disequilibrium may encourage rapid restrengthening, see below. (1/4)

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa made landfall today near Black River, Jamaica with 185 mph winds and is currently re-emerging near Falmouth. If you have the means, I strongly encourage you to consider donating to a relief effort. Direct Relief: donate.directrelief.org/give/647931#... (more below)

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Upper-level cutoff low, slightly chilly, 85 MUCAPE is my favorite weather outside of chasing

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Comet A6 Lemmon has gotten everybody's attention lately, but did you know there's a second comet in the sky right now? On Friday night, C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was faint and has no discernible tail, but that only let its fuzzy green coma shine more clearly.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) near peak brightness on October 17! (see replies for visual binocular view)

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I took this shot this morning, from 5-7 AM with the full moon bearing down on me the whole time. I wasn't able to pull the faint tail out this time. In a way, that emphasizes the vivid green coma, a gravitationally unbound cloud of glowing gas emitted from the cometary nucleus.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Full loop of the Fujiwhara effect between hurricanes Humberto and Imelda up to the present! I plan to update this with the rest of Imelda's lifespan as it drifts out of frame in 3-7 days.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Veil Nebula (Caldwell 33/34, NGC 6960/6992) [True Color] - September 25, 2025

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

If I could pick one place from my travels to go back to tomorrow, it’d be Sonoma, California.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Sunset pictures on the side of the highway are self care in times like these

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

September 8, 2025 - Shattuck, Oklahoma Yesterday wasn't just good for structure. It also had some great bolts after dark!

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I love seeing the way the tail materializes out of thin air and the rush of the inflow into the stacked plates above.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

While the contrast wasn't the best even with a lot of boosting, you can see the thin streaks of virga getting slung around the updraft.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Incredible structure yesterday in Laverne, Oklahoma! - September 8, 2025

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Huge dust devil west of El Reno, Oklahoma at 3:25 PM CDT, just south of I-40 at mile markers 118-119 #okwx

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

August 24, 2025 - Reydon, Oklahoma Watch the forward-flank downdraft come crashing down on my position

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Dial in GPS for southwest Kansas, end up going to the Texas Panhandle. Tale as old as time.

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Amelia Urquhart @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

(1/2) Nobody asked, but I like Meade, KS the best right now. I’m not a big fan of the boundary orientation or how moist the 700s are, but it’s nothing to go home over.

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