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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I can’t believe this is even a conversation. Shutting down radiosonde sites will cost orders of magnitude more $ via poorer forecast skill. NASA’s GMAO keeps tabs here: gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/forecasts/sy...

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Solid 4 hours of offroading, recovery, cleanup, and bullshitting with locals around Rover after we all found ourselves trapped by several tornado damage paths earlier tonight.

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Elizabeth Leitman @wxliz.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

That little black spec on the right hand side of this infographic is the total budget of the NWS. How is eliminating positions that exponentially increase economic dividends through enhancing commerce and mitigating/preventing disasters saving money or eliminating waste/fraud?

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Did not expect to see a bunch of Chinooks from 160th flying over Lake Michigan

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Looking forward to the definitely no consequences as we approach a major tornado outbreak

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Dr. Larissa @rissarwx.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Nothing says the sun is rising in North America like geomagnetic activity increasing.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Finally wrapped up working on my car and wondering why my hand hurts so bad since its not the one I’m usually wrenching with. Trip over my sledgehammer and suddenly flash back to full blast smashing my fist against the hub I was removing a lug from and feeling suspicious of the lack of pain.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Bro the amount of Nazi content on instagram is actually FUCKING. INSANE. How did we get here

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

straight up

America is finally being run like a business: a business acquired by private equity that’s being stripped for parts before being liquidated.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Im asking this question with sincerity, because a whole nation under so much stress has to break at some point. How much unconstitutional recklessness has to happen before Elon has some kind of reckoning with the fatal consequences of destroying millions of livelihoods?

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This panorama and composite from a night in South Dakota back in June shows Aurora, Milky Way, airglow, sprites, meteors, and lightning, all happening simultaneously. One of the craziest things I’ve ever witnessed. #photographersunited #wxsky #aurora #astro

A large Panorama shows about 180° of the skies over South Dakota from North on the left to South on the right. Starting at the left edge, the Big Dipper points towards Polaris above an arc of green and purple and red aurora that fills about half the sky. Pillars periodically accentuate the arc as it curves across the sky, obscured in a couple places by low clouds. At the right edge of the Aurora, 4 or 5 red sprites that happened throughout the night are composited into the frame where they happened shortly after the panorama was shot. Above the sprites the top of the Milky Way core stretches from almost the top of the frame down to the right edge horizon. Above the horizon between the Aurora and right edge a few stripes of airglow are visible hanging above the distant clouds. Below and to the right of the sprites, distant thunderheads glow as lightning erupts within them. The foreground is a hilly black silhouette with a few lights of distant houses and a town randomly scattered across the horizon.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I’d like to propose that the richest 1% of humans, as determined by (Forbes I guess?) be fired out of a cannon into the sun every year. We can do a very ancient and traditional sacrifice ritual and everything.

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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hey just for what it’s worth, do you know where every single one of NWS’s daily radiosondes come from? Germany and Finland. 🤷‍♂️

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Turns out putting 73k miles on your vehicle in 9 months yields about 3k in required maintenance not counting things that break lol

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Remember boys and girls, “project 2025 is just a left wing conspiracy theory and DJT DEFINITELY wont be using that as his primary policy”

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Sometimes being insane pays off. 30 miles from the nearest paved road. Flat steer and a flat spare tire. Barely enough fuel to reach any gas station. But 3 nights of aurora to myself in the wilderness? Makes all of that paradise. #aurora #photographersunited

The sky above the Wenatchee National Forest in Washington lights up with red purple and green auroras. Pillars fill the arc edge to edge and illuminate the river in lower left frame. The starry night sky hangs above the aurora, and a meteor flashes just above the brightest pillars. At ground level a black void with the silhouette of mountain peaks stretches as far as the eye can see.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

One of my all time favorite lightning strikes. There’s probably some symbolism here but I’ll leave that for you to interpret. #wxsky #photographersunited

Two lightning bolts well over a mile tall pierce through the clouds and branch out in every direction. The one to the left is dimmer and much farther away. In center frame the main bolt splits halfway up and continues branching down to two landing points. The closer landing point on the left strikes the top of a perfectly vertical blade atop a wind turbing, and the farther one to its right strikes a span of power lines a couple miles away. Several of the poles on either side of the farther landing point glow as they arc over from the intense electric charge pumped into them by the bolt, and one of the poles has a leader to the ground bleeding off the excess energy. The lights of a town are visible in the distance off to the right, and mostly rural land with a few trees is illuminated by the lightning bolts across the frame.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

As a result of Trump’s tariffs, expect fuel prices, including diesel, heating oil, jet fuel, gasoline, propane to rise slightly, primarily in the Great Lakes, Midwest, Rockies, and Northeastern U.S. in the days ahead. The impact will be localized but an estimated 5-20c/gal.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Grand Canyon shenanigans. I miss it.

The dynamic landscape of the Grand Canyon fills the foreground with eroded ridgelines, canyon walls, and rocky monuments. Off to the right beyond one of the canyon walls, a massive lightning bolt pierces the sky and plunges below the horizon.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

ICE is apparently going around a town I spent most of my high school years in right now. Nice little suburb, e x t r e m e l y safe area with a very diverse community. Theyre not looking for criminals. Theyre just trying to inflict the most damage possible to our communities.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I could not be less enthused about any activity on the sun not squarely directed at earth.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

As a Healey I am against most forms of electronic ticketing, especially any methodologies that are also used for state surveillance.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I love realizing a photo I submitted to something got nuked with color banding long after I submitted it. Doesnt show up *at all* before export, no change of colorspace happening, why the hell did you do this lol shouldve really peeped my exports I guess.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Laura is a certified badass. I found out a couple years ago we’ve lived a town over from each other most of my life and I never even knew

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Things that are very American: -quietly learning about, training with, and owning firearms -subverting the nazis -planning to protect yourself, your loved ones, your property, your way of life from destruction -preparing for the worst case scenarios before they can be realized

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I’m getting tired of waiting for the sun. It is solar maximum. Clouds, bad impact timing, and persistent inactivity *only* in the earth strike zone have been ever so slightly torturous to watch. But I’m sure all of that will fade away the next time the skies erupt in color. #photographersunited

The sky over Chelan, WA fills with green and purple aurora as far as the eye can see. At the southern edge of it an arc of red and green blob aurora stretches overhead. The silhouettes of mountains and the distant lights from town occupy the sliver of foreground at the bottom of the photo.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Random photo pull for the day is this Nebraska structure chase that wouldve been a highlight any other year but in 2024 I dont even know what town name people use to refer to this event.

A paved road lined by farm fields and pivot irrigation sprinklers extends to the horizon. The sky is filled by a huge supercell thunderstorm carved out into cool shapes by the dry air, and with a large wall cloud that reaches down so far it almost touches the road.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A few lightning highlights from this year. Photos that are finally “finished” and will be available for prints at some point soon. I can remember all of these moments clearly in my head, and I cant wait to chase more bolts and get that rush again in 2025. #wxsky #photography

A massive structured supercell thunderstorm fills the sky above Canyonlands National Park west of Moab, UT. A lightning bolt pierces the top of the storm and strikes the red rock canyon below just above the chocolatey Colorado River. To the left ahead of dust and precipitation being blown out of the storm you can see miles into the park as jagged and stepped rock formations carved out by the river stretch to the horizon, and to the right everything above the canyon rim is obscured by rain and hail being blown around by 70+ mph winds.

Standing atop the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, you look out upon the vast landscape. To the far right, a flat and relatively void desert landscape sits atop the rim, while everything to the left of it is layered jagged rock formations carved thousands of feet into the earth by the Colorado River snaking through the canyon in the distance. The eastern walls of the canyon are illuminated by the last bits of sunset light reflecting off the storm clouds above. The distant part of the canyon are obscured by rain, and a part of the eastern wall that juts out is struck by a massive branchy lightning bolt arching out of the cloud above.

The flat and hilly terrain of the foreground aggressively changes to bluff walls, buttes, mesas, and mountains in the distance, just north of I-70 in Eastern Utah. Storm clouds lurk above the high terrain and a massive lightning bolt illuminates the whole sky above and landscape below as it strikes the corner of one of the bluffs.

A recently harvested corn field in Kansas is riddled with the shredded yellow husks and stalks of the last crop. A previous lightning strike from the storms overhead ignited the harvest litter and the flames of a large fire reach above the distant horizon, with a massive brown smoke plume drifting out of frame to the left. A new lightning bolt erupts from the storm, branching downwards in every direction before finding the more conductive particles within the smoke plume, and following a single channel to the ground through the smoke and into the raging fire.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I’ve been burnt out since at least October and I’ve got a ton left to do in the next couple weeks, but hopefully this is where things start paying off. Overhead Aurora in Minnesota back in August.

Waves of green, red, and purple aurora clash and combine with each other creating a colorful spectrum of light in the night sky over Minnesota. The corona was positioned perfectly such that all of the structures and pillars overhead look like theyre radiating out from a swirling center

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

*stopwatch swinging back and forth* YOU ARE BEING CONSUMED BY THE WEATHER HYPNOSIS MACHINE. YOU NEED TO STORM CHASE IMMEDIATELY. STORM DEPRIVATION SYNDROME IS CONSUMING YOUR SOUL

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Lol a fucking G4 solar storm during north american daytime with 60%+ of viewable areas clouded out the night before and the night approaching. How very 2024

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Dust clouds that may or may not be spinning and may or may not be tornadic in Kansas

Green grass extends beyond a line of fence posts to a field of dirt. In the field a massive circulation churns up all the dirt and dust to create a brown vortex at ground level.

A tighter vortex of dirt and dust churns through a farm field beyond the grass and dirt roads. Above, part of the parent circulation can be seen spinning at the cloud base

A razed wheat field extends to the horizon where a wall of dirt id getting sucked up and into the cloud base of a massive storm. A green glow shines through the massive hail storm and several lowerings protrude from the cloud base

A dirt road disappears in a grassy field to the right. In front, beyond a fenceline, a wall of spinning dust rises up towards a funnel just out of frame.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

All Meta platforms will go the way of dead malls, a space once bustling now devoid of human activity. Twitter is already dead. Bluesky is actually the only place left lol how long until monetization sinks this too?

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Day 7546 of the sun being active in every direction except earth. I dont care if we get an X20, sun will still be sure not to send a cme our way with it. Probably be noneruptive center disk 😂

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The amount of work I have to do to get the “greatest hits” of this season across the finish line to be my stadard of print ready is obnoxious

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Daydreaming about getting back to Canyonlands.

A barrage of lightning hammers the opposite rim in Canyonlands National Park illuminating the entire storm above and canyon below. Towers and terraces of red rock terrain, carved out by the just barely visible Colorado River, extend as far as the eye can see. A 4x4 trail is visible just below the lightning that goes down into the canyon and towards the river. The structure of the clouds shines brightly above, cast into sharp contrast by the dynamic shapes the storm forms.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I am on an absolute fucking crusade on fb right now lol I’m so sick of this bullshit I’ve probably copypasta’d this 300 times in the last hour

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

health insurance ceos pressured the doj to pursue federal charges against mangione to act as a “deterrent” against “copycat vigilante killers” then he got hit with federal charges. nypost.com/2024/12/20/u...

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Exclusive | Insurance industry leaned on DOJ to take Luigi Mangione case as deterrent against copycat killers: sources

Health insurance industry leaders leaned on the US Department of Justice to prosecute accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Thats some crazy timing as the sun is absolutely cranking its way back into higher activity lol

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

All I want for Christmas is another lightning bolt in Monument Valley.

Lightning strikes the desert floor to the right of 3 monuments in Monument Valley. The elevated view from near the visitors center has you looking down at the vast barren landscape and the 3 towers of red rock sharply constrasted againsy it as the bolt illuminates the scene.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The thing that sucks about taking adderall with bad ADHD is if your focus accidentally latches to the wrong thing, youre going to time warp past the whole day after realizing you can draw in the program you were learning to finish new photo edits and suddenly its 8am and youve got no work done but 😂

Hand drawn (on ipad) trippy mandala thing with lots of colors and shapes and patterns. Also tornadoes and lightning if you can find them. The abstract nature of it also makes faces appear in different parts of it as you look around

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

As far as wildlife photography goes, I feel like this has to be one of the best photos I’ve taken purely for the story it tells. I feel like I can hear the younglings yelling “MOOOM HURRY UP” 😂 #wildlife #photography

In the golden prairies on the south side of Badlands National Park, first light shines onto the grasses and a mother deer as she trots away from my camera and towards her 3 impatiently waiting fawns who have already climbed the small embankment. The way all 3 of their heads line up looking back towards mom is adorable and hilarious.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

“In plain terms everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing” Good read, but long

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Canyonlands National Park is a magical place. Add in a storm? And its absolutely heaven. #wxsky #wxbluesky #photography

A lightning bolt illuminates the night sky as it flies out of the clouds and rain above before striking a rock formation in Canyonlands National Park. Scrubby desert plant life covers the ground leading up to lots of terraces and small buttes hewn into the red rock.

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Tornado McHealey @healeyphoto.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Throwback to my favorite wintertime activity when I still had the built 6.0. Snow, mud, wet, or dry pavement, when the turbo on that thing lit it could SCOOT. Nothing quite like a 9000 pound truck dusting everything half its size 😂 RIP buddy

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