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Vanna Chmielewski

@frqltg.bsky.social
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Lightning-obsessed, self-appointed tea snob and lover of delicious flavor and sedentary outdoorsiness

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am beyond honored to receive the Atmospheric and Space Electricity Early Career Award this year. I'm extremely lucky to be part of an amazing community that's enabled me to be where I am today. I can only hope I'm able to pay that forward and help enable the next generation to come.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It was the second option. Now taking bets on how many sleeps before she realizes the power she welds
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Converted the crib to a toddler bed today. Taking bets on how that goes. Will I be woken up at 3am by someone saying "I'm awake now" inches from my face, or by the cries of someone who doesn't remember they can now get out by themselves?
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The rare telework day has reminded me how much I missed little things, like looking outside to see 20 ducks crowding in the shade of one tree and doing duck things.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Guess what? I like sunsets.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Yes, I'll take another.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Good week for Oklahoma sunsets
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Goodnight, Norman.
Sunset reflected on a pond with some clouds above the horizon
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Did I just panic when I realized the leftover pasta I half finished had some obvious pink spots? Yes. Did I eventually remember that I had cooked it with rainbow chard? Also yes.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
71°F and lightning bugs in the evening. Feels too pleasant.
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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
kitty doodle saying “i hope i don’t have a long day”, behind kitty there’s a factory. a long day factory.
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@ztresearch.bsky.social @ztresearch.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Episode 49 producing an impressive volnado.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Same with my okra 😭
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Wild. If there weren't a rainbow and therefore rain, I might have wondered if it was a halo on ice crystals aligned by the fields
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I have a hard time not going for a Seattle dog.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Sometimes it's hard to choose who to cheer for
Four Weinermobiles lining up on a race track (two more not pictured)
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Goodnight Norman
Cloud-to-ground lightning flash illuminating a distant rain shaft at sunset.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
It's that time
Three bright yellow prickly pear flowers, aka some of the best flowers (one is hiding behind the prairie aster)
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This storm's evolution has been fascinating and painful to watch.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
First day in a long while I walked into my office and it was above 64.
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a cartoon character wearing sunglasses laying on the beach
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Meanwhile my daughter just giggles and thinks they're her new best friends. Way more terrified of roly polies
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I do appreciate a good rumble before the heaviest of the precip reaches the area
2 minutes of Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array data with one flash (shown in pink dots) extending a couple of countries east of the rest of the lightning activity.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Yeah, that one
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in the rain with his eyes closed .
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Same. Especially when they were still fully stocked before our snow event in January when everywhere else was bare. But somehow they still started sourcing more sausages in there
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Robinson and Alemeda ones are 😭
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It was nice while it lasted. Said store is now closing. Getting my fix while I can.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
My brain, after just a few minutes of cardio: ice cream?
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
And at least now I feel less pressure to pay any attention
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Bracket is perfect so far. Ready to see the other upsets I picked ruin it.
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Eric Bruning @deeplycloudy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
GLM has been game-changing for the community that monitors meteors. Great example! It’s also one of the many new capabilities that would be lost in the current plan to stop flying a GLM-like instrument after the current fleet reaches end of life.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I do appreciate seeing clouds from my backyard
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
PSA: you can now buy Conecuh sausage in Norman at Homeland!
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Oh, how I've missed having lightning nearby apps.nssl.noaa.gov/oklma/curren...
Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array plot over the OKC-Norman area showing the in cloud component of lightning activity in and northwest of OKC throughout 3-13 km altitude
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
To whomever left a chocolate on my office door: thank you for the reminder that good surprises exist.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
TIL! Now I'll be comparing it to my other asters much more closely this year
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
My favorite addition to that list: frostweed. Blooms late, lots of flowers, native to a large area of North America, plus a reason to look forward to the first frost of the season.
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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 14/02/2026
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Mike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player
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Jeremy Gibbs @gibbs.science · 04/02/2026
NSSL did a few things in 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSUA...
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2025 IN REWIND: A Year of NSSL Innovation in Severe Storm Science
YouTube video by NOAA Weather Partners
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Just made the switch to a moccamaster a few weeks ago. Very effective, when there's power.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Did I just spend too long trying to log into the AMSAnnual page only to realize I was on the 2025 page? Maybe. Good thing I'm not in person and lost in downtown New Orleans.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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three men in armor are standing next to each other with the words so it begins written on the bottom
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. We see Calvin’s back, holding a single balloon, and being carried away by it high up in the air, judging from the lack of other ground-level objects and the closeness of a flying bird. He observes, stoically: “that is one of the remarkable things  about life: it’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.”
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Have I spent more time than I should have today organizing space in the office suite? Undetermined. At least the new year will start a little refreshed.
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a man wearing a white sweatshirt that says wild and rebel
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I know a toddler who was also excited to wish everyone a Merry Christmas around that time
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a baby is standing next to a christmas tree and looking at it .
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I've enjoyed the snow in the Chicago area today and yesterday, but wow did lake effect during LEE change my baseline for snowfall rates and accumulations.
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Oh it hasn't died, just living its best life in toddler classrooms.
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a baby shark is jumping out of a hole in the ocean .
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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a penguin with a egg on its head is saying hello .
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Vanna Chmielewski @frqltg.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Update: they are not all dead. Yet.
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