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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 16/07/2026

Going out on a bit of a limb here with GOES-18...

Satellite/radar composite with GOES-18 IR data instead of GOES-19. The data is very coarse and likely too cold due to limb effects from being at the edge of the GOES-West full disk coverage area. Also, the image depicts temperatures in the 80s before 10am across South Carolina and Georgia.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 11/07/2026

This will be perfect for the mud room.

Hand holding a Padres baseball card for pitcher Mark Grant.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 04/07/2026

Here's 11PM. Still very stout on the HRRR and winds still look light out of the south.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 04/07/2026

650,000 fireworks, you say? With *this* inversion? DC is going to be an air quality _disaster_ tonight.

HRRR sounding for Washington, DC valid 8PM EDT July 4, 2026. Zoomed in on the lower 300mb and temperatures to -10C. It shows a strong inversion just off the surface with negative lapse rates from the surface to 976mb.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 03/04/2026

Patently offensive. This White House doesn’t deserve the WeatherSTAR 4000.

The White House Twitter account posting a video of a simulated WeatherSTAR 4000 with lies superimposed.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 06/03/2026

Another tornadic close call for an 88D.

Four panel NEXRAD display from RadarScope illustrating a close pass from a radar-confirmed tornado in OK. Clockwise from top left: Reflectivity, velocity, correlation coefficient, differential reflectivity.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 05/03/2026

Save some for the regular season please!

MLB app live activity scoreboard showing the Padres leading the Mariners 21-4 in the top of the sixth inning. A runner is on second, and the count is 1-2 with two outs. The pitcher is Lawrence, and McCoy is at bat.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 09/02/2026

The last time the Patriots and Seahawks met in the Super Bowl.

Tweet from @jaredwsmith: “Welp.” Image: Boy from Nationwide “Make Safe Happen” commercial with “I WOULD HAVE RUN IT WITH LYNCH BUT I DIED” superimposed.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 29/01/2026

This is so Microsoft-coded. Disappointing.

Apple Creator Studio ad. The main heading: "Elevate Your Presentations." Body text: "Unlock premium themes with Apple Creator Studio."

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 24/01/2026

This winter weather alert map is one for the books right here. From Arizona to Maine, literally border to border of contiguous winter weather watches/warnings/advisories.

Map of the United States depicting contiguous winter weather alerts stretching from AZ to Maine.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 18/01/2026

Not a mesoscale discussion subject you see every day in the Deep South…

Screenshot of Mesoscale Convective Discussion 28 concerning heavy snow in GA, FL, and AL.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 28/11/2025

Had a day off. Please stand by for your local listings.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 29/10/2025

Guess we are doing this again.

World Series on Fox. Shane Bieber faces Mookie Betts with Shohei Ohtani on first in the bottom of the first with a 1-1 count. Nobody is out.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 27/10/2025

Obligatory Melissa satellite image. (Mercy.)

Infrared satellite image of Hurricane Melissa, demonstrating strong, symmetric convection around a clear eye.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 14/10/2025

Phantogram was outstanding. Great to see @nick422.bsky.social and his lovely wife as well!

A band backlit by white light in front of a mass of people, with the singer reaching upward.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 06/10/2025

The generic external drive icon in macOS 26.1 beta 1 still hasn’t been updated. Beta 2, maybe? Either way, inexplicable and worrying lack of attention to detail from Apple.

Three drive icons on the macOS 26.1 beta 1 desktop: Macintosh HD, External Data, and OrbStack. Macintosh HD and OrbStack have updated icons to fit the Tahoe look and feel, while the external data drive continues to display an icon from previous versions of macOS.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 03/10/2025

San Diego loses, nothing matters, eat Arby’s.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 03/09/2025

Testing something important.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 01/09/2025

If only I had saved eight more cents…

$420.61 in green. Next line: “UNDER BUDGET” in gray.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 11/08/2025

I love DC and the people that live there. You deserve so much better than this.

Silhouetted children on a field trip walk around the World War II Memorial, two on either side of the Washington Monument.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 08/08/2025

Had to see what ChatGPT would give me for vice presidents since Spiro Agnew. “Richard B” was particularly notorious, and “Kamaila” would have been Republicans’ nickname for her had she had a scandal with the Post Office.

A grid of vice presidents since Spiro Agnew, as generated by ChatGPT:
- Spire T. Aprou, 1999-1973
- Gerulank Ford, 1973-1974
- Nelson A Bateentalter, 1974-1977
- Walror F. Mchidate, 1977-1941
- George H. W., 1981-1988
- Dan Oxyrte, 1999-1983
- Al Gora, 1999-2001
- Richard B., 2001-2009
- Jeseph R. Bidem, 2093-2017
- M chad R. Pance, 2017-2021
- Kamaila D., 2021-present
- J.D. Vance, 2025-present

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 03/08/2025

His tweet after Queen Elizabeth died was an all-timer.

Tweet from Reggie Jackson (@mroctober), a verified account:

Now we all know I was innocent ! Amen! RIP Queen E !

The tweet was sent at 3:34 PM on September 8, 2022.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 16/07/2025

@radarscope.app Howdy! Just installed 5.5 from TestFlight and it looks like the CAPE calculations still need some tweaks. Screenshot 1 is 5.5, screenshot 2 is 5.4.3 (on Mac). PW of 32mm (1.26”) is still pretty far off the SPC calculation of 48mm (1.91”) for the same sounding, too. Thanks guys!

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 24/06/2025

Just a tad bit of an inversion this morning.

RadarScope screenshot depicting ducting and interference on the KCLX radar. A Skew-T log-P diagram is superimposed, showing 1,189 J/kg of CAPE and 195 J/kg of CIN (convective inhibition). The latter number helps to demonstrate the strength of the inversion contributing to the radar anomalies. (No, this is not weather modification.)

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 18/06/2025

When the national nihilism becomes too much for even Arby’s.

A brick facade with the remnants of an Arby’s sign that has been removed. (The registered trademark symbol remains for some reason.)

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 06/06/2025

Quite the @weatherpeens.bsky.social on the convective outlook this morning.

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 29/05/2025

So glad Royal Caribbean is testing in production today. Hey y’all: It works!

Three push notifications from Royal Caribbean with test data:

head - test segment 16
subtitles - test segment 16
content - test segment 16

head - test segment 15
subtitles - test segment 15
content - test segment 15

head - test segment 14
subtitles - test segment 14
content - test segment 14

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Jared Smith @jaredwsmith.com · 17/05/2025

@radarscope.app Howdy y'all, weird stuff in soundings since 5.4.1. Height-based lapse rate calculations are way off or just flat out throwing NaN, and the MLCAPE display seems to be painting CAPE above the EL with inflated numbers. Shear seems to be miscalculated too. SPC included for reference.