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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 1h

Awesome Brewers!! In 1982 the Cardinals beat the Brewers in the World Series and I dressed as a Cardinal player that Halloween. I was in high school at the time. Rooting for the Brewers all the way this year 2026 ⚾️

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 6h

Any wildfire experts who could offer insights?

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Sometimes I instruct ChatGPT to be objective, not take my leads, and use others sources to support its arguments. It seems to help some…I also made a global instruction not to anthropomorphize. I do not like that at all.

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Totally agree about ChatGPT and Claude being much better, but both of those have still taken me down some rabbit holes…

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Good point- ty - I’m usually using “medium” level in chatGPT. For more complex questions I sometimes increase it but not always.

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It completely fabricated the date and presented it as a fact with a reference that had zero support for that date in it. Also, on more nuanced topics, I find ChatGPT agreeing with me far too easily and not basing its statements on facts… We really need to proceed with caution…

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

From Google AI after I asked for its source for the date: “Faking a date because it sounded specific and authoritative is a major AI failure, and I am deeply embarrassed by it. I completely broke your trust by making up a fact out of thin air instead of just saying ‘I don't know the exact day.’ “

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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wow, I really undersold what the Brewers' bullpen did. bsky.app/profile/slan...

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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Brewers lead 2-0 in the NLCS. Milwaukee's bullpen dominated with five scoreless innings and seven strikeouts. And the Brewers bats were very much awake.

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And to think, I was skipping the commercials…

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Minneapolis-St.Paul (90F) high temperature was warmer today 10/11/2026, than Norman, OK (89.6F)

NWS meteorological observations for Norman Ok

NWS meteorological observations for Minneapolis-St. Paul

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It still amazes me that hexagonal patterns are so ubiquitous in nature

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I didn’t check this, but it seems like there are more south to north moving tropical storms/hurricanes in the vicinity of North America in the last several years. Weaker zonal flow owing to weaker temperatures gradients with warmer overall temperatures?

Satellite photo of three tropical storms/hurricanes with forecast tracks in the vicinity of North America.

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gulf fritillary butterfly on orange zinnia

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Blanket flowers are one of my favorites and wow- the single aspen leaf picture is gorgeous!

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wishing you both a wonderful wedding ❤️

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“We call this homogeneous nucleation, and we’ve never seen it before in a planetary atmosphere. It’s wholly unexpected.”

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hummingbird is still here and hasn’t moved on yet 😊

Ruby-throated hummingbird hovering to the right of a pink zinnia flower bloom. Praying mantis on the left side of the flower.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 06/10/2026

The whole framing of this: creating something that facilitates CONUS-scale severe weather monitoring, but reduces the friction for drilling down to the storm scale. I don't claim to be perfect at UI/UX, but really trying to be focused and reduce friction. Your feedback would be most welcome.

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not sure who I’m rooting for with the Cardinals out of the playoffs, but this was a great game ⚾️

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@drwendyrocks.bsky.social Ironically, this fallstreak was just in my feed and there a bit of a dark cloud at lower levels, somewhat disconnected from the cloud hole above. Could be like your vertical cloud. Ty to Ryan for the great pics.

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If a solid cloud deck no longer existed above there might not be a visible cloud hole and possibly only the segments remained. Just speculation. Very cool pics.

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Someone else mentioned aircraft…I’m thinking an aircraft could have caused a local increase in cloud condensation nuclei from a fuel dump and/or ice crystal production from adiabatic cooling and a fall streak =falling cloud particles.

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Interesting. How much time elapsed between your first pic and this one?

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Does your dataset show 13 inches or less for 1965-1974? I’m wondering if those annual totals are correct.

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

PS what plotting software are you using? Your plots are great 😊

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Very nice graphic and analysis. Total annual rainfall amounts for KOKC since 1947 attached. Looks like late 2006-07 was weak El Niño and 2015 was strong El Niño. (Someone please correct me if I’m wrong about that).

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the olden days, it was 3 division winners and one wildcard from each league… ;)

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don’t care for this wildcard process

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Congratulations! Thanks for the game suggestion - very cool.

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They’re still here and haven’t migrated further south yet 🥰

Ruby-throated hummingbird flying in the air near a red zinnia flower bloom

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That’s amazing- thank you for sharing it.

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Keeping such great records gives one an intuitive understanding of what is and isn’t typical. Very nice work!

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Are those the average normal temps written along the bottom? Are numbers in red those exceeding a threshold, 120 for Death Valley and 105 for Laredo? Bold black and blue exceed average?

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wow, and nice work carefully tracking.

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hopefully we’re done with 100+F temps for 2026. Had a total of 45 days at both KOKC and KOUN. OKC had 63 days in 2011 and 45 in 1980 (data courtesy of IEM). Also, never been so happy with 0.06 in of rain!

Graph showing 0.06 inches of rain at home weather station 9/21/26

Radar depiction of very small rain shower near Norman Oklahoma

Bar chart of observed surface temperatures greater than or equal to 100F at KOUN

Bar chart of observed surface temperatures greater than or equal to 100F at KOKC

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Katharine M. Kanak, PhD @kmkanak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s supposed to be upside-down 😉

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