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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m so giddy about this @radarscope.app !! Especially when I travel I can load this in my rental and be more easily aware of weather in unfamiliar surroundings.

RadarScope app operating in CarPlay in my Jeep

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Thanks, Clark! I'll be in touch to discuss possible collaboration opportunities 🙂

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📢 CAREER UPDATE: I am excited to share that I will be joining the Centre for Climate Studies, IIT Bombay as an Assistant Professor next week. I am also looking forward to working with my new colleagues and building exciting collaborations at IIT Bombay and beyond!

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 18/07/2026

LAUNCH! Skyroot Aerospace has launched the Aagaman mission aboard their Vikram-I rocket, from First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India. This was the first launch attempt of Vikram-I, the first privately developed rocket in India.

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Justin Gehrts @justingon10tv.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Want to see how smoke affects temperatures without seeing any temperatures? Away from the thicker smoke, enough sun came through to warm up the ground to create cumulus clouds (and even storms). But areas with thicker smoke weren't as warm, and so those puffy clouds didn't form.

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Dan Dawson @meteodan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Awesome example of convective initiation from a differential heating boundary!

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"The dirty secret of higher education is that professors are not really incentivized to spend time with their students. At most universities, research is the primary hiring and promotion criterion and teaching a distant second. Students become an afterthought. They sense that."

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Austin @gingerwx.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hi everyone! We recently decided to re-open the AMS WAF/NWP Student Travel Award applications to award the remaining two grants we have left for supporting travel to the 2026 AMS Joint Summit (with increased award amounts). Please share far and wide, and get application materials to us by July 6!

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National Weather Association @nwas.org · 16/06/2026

JOM Season is heating up! Here's another one! 🗞 Title: A Comprehensive Inventory and Review of Color in Meteorological Graphics ✍️ Authors: Rosen, Z., A. Bitterman, M. Krocak, J. Ripberger, S. Melcher, V. Dunham, C. Black, and A. Person 🔗 doi.org/10.15191/nwa...

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The second module in the COMET MetEd Radar Meteorology course is published! "The Radar Equations" demystifies common forms of the single point target and distributed target equations for backscattered power. Free registration required: learn.meted.ucar.edu#/online-cour...

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Online Course:
The Radar Equations
1h 30 m - 2 h
Start
Overview:

Description
The weather radar equations quantitatively describe the process by which an electromagnetic pulse departs a radar antenna, interacts with scatterers in the atmosphere, and then returns back to the radar. In this lesson, we derive the radar equations step by step, demystifying each term. Learners will gain a complete understanding of both versions of the radar equation – one version for a single target, and another version for distributed targets – and be able to describe how changes to each variable impact the amount of power the radar receives. These equations inform both the design and use of weather radars and their data.
Objectives

Define the terms in the radar equation for a single target
Define the terms in the radar equation for distributed targets
Anticipate how adjusting terms in the radar equation affects the power received
Explain, step by step, how the two radar equations are derived
Convert radar variables and equations between linear and logarithmic units
Provide typical values of backscattering cross section for common scatterers
Distinguish between several different variables that are commonly called “reflectivity”

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Purdue EAPS SPOTTR @eaps-spottr.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

SPOTTR, guest-starring RaXPol, starts next week! We're knee-deep in preparation and super-excited! To showcase this unique instrument to the public, we've organized an outreach event at Imaginaton Station in Lafayette, IN on 30 May 2026 from 10 am-3 pm! Please share the attached flyer!

Flyer with pictures of a radar truck, fire truck, and a weather balloon. Text: Imagination Station
Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Day
A free day at Imagination Station featuring...
The RaXPol Radar Truck
chases storms and tracks tornados!
Fire prevention, emergency vehicles, indoor activities, and more!
Weather balloon launches at 11 and 1!
When:
Saturday, May 30th 2026
10am-3pm
Where:
Imagination Station
600 N 4th St. Lafayette, IN
FREE day for everyone!

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 21/04/2026

I'd like to introduce you all to a personal project I've been working on recently. It's called Heimdall, and it's an MRMS + ProbSevere situational awareness monitor for CONUS scale severe weather. It's got roaming, alerts, archive mode, and is fully client side. heimdall.stormscale.io

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Are they referring to cloudbursts?

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 02/04/2026

I’m very excited to announce the latest release of SHARPlib, v1.4.0. This might be one of the coolest updates yet (in my opinion) and results in dramatic performance improvements through the use of pseudoadiabatic lookup tables. Available on PyPI/conda-forge. github.com/keltonhalber...

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Many congratulations Alex, well deserved!

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@ztresearch.bsky.social @ztresearch.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I have created a video lecture series called Understanding Lightning. It is a 9 part series using high-speed video, animations and electromagnetic data plots to explain lightning physical processes. No AI, just a simple lecture format. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_U...

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Understanding Lightning / Part 1 - Introduction and Background

YouTube video by Tom Warner

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Michael Fischer @mikefischerwx.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Interested in hurricanes? I want to introduce TC-ATLAS: the Tropical Cyclone Analysis Tool for Live and Archived Structure. Explore live or past storms without writing a line of code or downloading a data file, building on the capabilities of TC-RADAR: michaelfischerwx.github.io/TC-ATLAS/ind...

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Excited for this upcoming seminar on the WRF to MPAS transition and what it means for the future of numerical weather prediction. Looking forward to hearing expert perspectives on where the field is headed. Please register to attend!

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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

16.03.2026 'Another video of the devastating tornado that struck yesterday in Karanjia, Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India. Two people died and more than 25 were injured.' WeatherMonitors [x] #FossilFuels #ClimateCollapse

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It isn’t often I get to see both of my Ph.D. advisees (plus my Ph.D. adviser) in person in the same week! @gewitterblitz.bsky.social @allitl12.bsky.social #NESC2026

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Purdue EAPS SPOTTR @eaps-spottr.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Time for the reveal! #SPOTTR 2026 course will feature OU’s RaXPol radar! This is the first time since 2019 that we’ve had a mobile radar come out. Thanks to NSF for sponsoring this educational deployment to Purdue! arrc.ou.edu/radar_raxpol...

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Jonathan Lilly @jmlilly.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Oceanographers of the world! There will be an information session for my Life Skills for Young Scientists (LiSYS) mentorship program at OSM 26 in Glasgow, on Thursday, February 26, from 3:45 - 5:15pm. I will describe the program, and you can meet past participants as well. All are welcome!

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Noah Brauer @noaabrauer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I encourage all who are going to AMS this year in Houston to read this excellent AFD from Cameron Batiste at the NWS Houston WFO. Impacts, uncertainties, synoptic setup, etc. Just fantastic: forecast.weather.gov/product.php?... .

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National Weather Service

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daryl herzmann @akrherz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

🚨 🚀 A crude interface I built to expose an archive of College of DuPage GOES imagery since about 15 Apr 2017. The archive is around ~500TB in size over ~2.5 billion JPEG images. Yikes, but here you go. mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/archive/cods... Anyways happy for feedback. Not worth the effort?

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Cameron Beccario @cambecc.nullschool.net · 07/01/2026

I'm excited to announce the official Nullschool app is here! earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well. And, like the website: no ads! Links below ⬇️

Screenshot of the Nullschool app in landscape orientation showing wind streams over the Northern Pacific Ocean with the action menu overlaid on top.

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

We conclude that deterministic ACI simulations can be misleading. We recommend using ensembles whenever possible. When computational costs make that impractical, at minimum it is important to sample a large number of convective cells developing under similar environmental conditions.

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

More importantly, the variability from random perturbations is comparable to the hypothesized invigoration of convective updrafts in heavy aerosol loading (polluted) conditions.

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

What we found is that small-scale perturbations in the initial state can lead to large variability in key updraft properties, including vertical velocity and supersaturation. Those differences directly affect cloud droplet nucleation and feed back onto the updraft dynamics themselves.

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

We set out to model ACI in subtropical summertime environments in southeast Texas. Using idealized WRF simulations, we modeled a deep convective cloud initialized with observed thermodynamic and aerosol conditions.

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

New Publication Alert: A fun paper that came together almost on the fly when I first started working on numerical modeling of aerosol-convection interactions (ACI) is now out in AGU Geophysical Research Letters. Check out the full paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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The Importance of an Ensemble Approach for Modeling Aerosol‐Convection Interactions

Random initial temperature perturbations can rival aerosol effects on updrafts, risking misattribution in deterministic simulations For TRACER-like environments, at least 10 ensemble members are ...

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · 01/01/2026

Join our #AMS2026 presidential session featuring public, private, and nonprofit professionals across all career levels in weather and climate. Hear insights from their career journeys across sectors, including challenges and opportunities along the way. Learn more: bit.ly/4aEGkN8

Graphic for the 106th AMS Annual Meeting featuring headshots and names of two moderators and four panelists including Dr. Liz Mulvihill and Dr. Shree Mishra as moderators, Dr. Jean-Francois Lamarque from Three Carins Group, Dr. Valiappa Lakshmanan from Stealth AI Startup, Dr. Kristen Averyt from AGU, and Kari Bowen from CIRES as panelists. The session titled 'The Great Pivot: Career Reinvention in a Changing World' is scheduled for Monday, 26 January 2026 from 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM CT.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Sam Rabin @samsrabin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Awesome turnout in support of @ncar-ucar.bsky.social at #AGU25. Take a look at how many people use our products!

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I have noticed a similar pattern in other AMS journals like BAMS. Not sure why.

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Nature Nomad @naturecompass.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Incredible footage of volcanic eruption of a dormant volcano in Ethiopia from a commercial plane. A sight seen for the first time in recorded history. ⌚

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

From Warren Buffett's farewell letter:

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NSF NCAR & UCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Have you heard? The Geoscience Data Exchange platform is running and ready for community use! Designed to accelerate discovery and collaboration, GDEX ensures that scientific data are accessible and preserved for the research community, increasing discoverability and enabling collaboration.

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Oh, I joined late and missed Bob's talk. Will go back and check that. Thanks!

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Great presentation & QnA session, Russ! Your discussion on CONUS404 vs WoFS for the TN extreme precip case, as shown in Burke et al. 2024, makes me wonder how much role does topography play in cloudburst events in the northwestern Himalayan region over India. Could as well be event dependent?

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Milind Sharma @gewitterblitz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

TIL: There's another field of study, besides Metrology, that’s spelled almost like 'Meteorology.'

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UW–Madison Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Here's a loop of the 1-minute mesoscale visible imagery of Hurricane Melissa from roughly 18 UTC Oct 24 through 15 UTC Oct 29. These are not remapped, so the image jumps when the meso sector moves, usually around 18 UTC each day. youtube.com/shorts/fIuAD...

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Hurricane Melissa - 1 minute visible imagery from 18 UTC Oct 24, 2025 through 15 UTC Oct 29, 2025

YouTube video by UW-AOS UW Madison

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Austin @gingerwx.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Calling all ensemble forecast system enthusiasts! The State of Texas is funding development of a new ensemble prediction system (100 members, 2km grid spacing) with an embedded WoFS interface, to be developed at Texas Tech! Passing along 3 open research scientist positions towards that development:

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AMS Committee on Hydrology @amshydrology.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Did you know that @ametsoc.org offers a Substack channel!? Called "Weather with a Twist", it offers short, free, whimsical dispatches about the latest research in meteorology, courtesy of the AMS's education team. #WaterWednesday 🔗https://weathertwist.substack.com/

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Weather radar people: I’m on the steering committee for a Radar Technology Community Workshop to be held at NCAR in early 2026. We’re trying to nail down dates and topics to attract a good cross section. Please fill out this 5-minute survey and share the link! www.eol.ucar.edu/Radar-Techno...

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Radar Technology Community Workshop | Earth Observing LaboratoryRadar Technology Community Workshop | Earth Observing Laboratory

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