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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Their tour right now is all by audience live request, and all the requests I doubted would translate well live absolutely blew me away

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't think I've ever grown or even seen a pepper plant taller than me before

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you were gonna have sig tors near Salina in late September, this is one of the few ways it would happen

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Having Ideas, a favorite pasttime of those distracting themselves from Executing Them

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026

i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That little dry splotch over Norman says delete this

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Norman has now had an entire Lent's worth of triple digits in 2026

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ADHD + pretty rough burnout has made it hard lately. Going analog for all but a citation manager would probably do wonders, ha

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

*Lord* drafting this manuscript with pen and paper has been far more productive than typing it out. Life has Too Much Computer, Part 478

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Except I'm even less capable of deciphering it!

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Kenzie Krocak @mjkrocak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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brettjrob.bsky.social @brettjrob.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The prefrontal downslope torch strikes again. I think today's 110 F (so far) impresses me more than any day in 2011-12 -- it was mostly cloudy all morning, and "only" 95 F at lunchtime.

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The significant dust lofting makes me think it crossed the Washington Mills property which does lots of sand mining. Would probably imply some damage there.

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I would've gone but my drive was 10 hours and 50 minutes too long to make it

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Random potential sig tor 3 miles from my parents' in mid-August from one of my old storm watching spots, because it's 2026 in Illinois and why not

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Good to know. Hell, the only reason I've been able to find a lot of older extended abstracts is because the NWC library carries many/most old AMS conference proceedings.

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The difficulty in navigating and fully viewing many poster sessions is probably a good immediate reason, too. Archivally speaking, I've personally hung onto all my poster files and would love nothing more than to go back and upload them all.

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Legit question - has any discussion occurred to (at least provide the option to) digitally host AMS conference posters like oral sessions? I'm sure it's not this easy, but it feels straightforward to provide an upload option? So much work is lost to the ether, much of which never ends up published.

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Is it humanly possible to have a bad day when you see this at your public library?

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Looks like ILX put in the Peoria County report from 8/9 as an EFU? So once LOT formalizes the Ransom tor from that night, that should be 200

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

2 (thus far) in this morning's QLCS via LOT brings us to 199, I believe

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

i'd like to congratulate the hrrr for its brief foray into being a good model again

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

3 thus far confirmed by LOT brings the total to 197

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Stat padders in Henry County already getting us to 194 before the 2 damaging tors + 1 reported in Peoria County get confirmed

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Avg number is something like 50. There is research to suggest an increase in the MS Valley and decrease on the Plains w/ climate change, but I'd largely attribute 2026 to interannual variability. Media reporting of an east shift are based on a kernel of truth but are (imo) massively overblown.

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

By my count, 2 visual and 2 radar confirmations last night should set IL at 195 tornadoes on the year, maybe more pending surveys. General pattern continues this week, and I'd never bet against a handful more through the fall and early winter...

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My own work uses this system to obtain retrievals of supercell, merger, and env. properties to study the effects of evolutionary path. But there lies great potential to leverage decades of (largely idle) field obs using a streamlined DA framework. Link to my abstract: ams.confex.com/ams/2026Summ...

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Retrieving the Four-Hour Evolution of the 23 May 2022 Morton, TX Tornadic Supercell Using Recent Innovations in Storm-Scale Data Assimilation

Over the last several decades, field observations and numerical simulations hav...

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Amazing work by Maddy Diedrichsen successfully used this framework to diagnose rapid thermodynamic evolution ahead of a tornadic, cold-season QLCS. It's been *really* exciting to see just how well this system can be leveraged to conduct this type of novel work. ams.confex.com/ams/2026Summ...

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Investigating the Capability of the Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS) to Diagnose Processes that led to Rapid Environmental Destabilization in a High-Shear Low-CAPE QLCS Event

High-shear low-CAPE (HSLC) severe weather events are impactful across the Unite...

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Mobile radar data are widely utilized for multi-Doppler, but data assimilation allows us to get so much more from all sorts of specialized platforms! Profilers, sondes, in-situ obs, UAS (not used here)...all can contribute to well-constrained analyses of storm structures and environments. #32SLS

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Exciting results from my #32SLS talk include the ability to faithfully represent rapid, near-storm environmental response to supercells. Our 3-minute analyses yield a dang near spot-on inflow evolution of the 23 May 2022 Morton, TX storm over a multi-hour window.

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I was not far off from driving to Madison and I'm not kidding

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Every time I say no more flying I'm dumb enough to do it again

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Not according to Wikipedia but damn did you spook me lol

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

think i'm just leaving this slide as-is

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

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Tony Lyza @tlyza89.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you’re interested in learning more about the ongoing scientific analysis of the Enid tornado, I hear it may come up at 2:45 pm CDT on Wednesday at SLS. #AMSSummit

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

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Billy Faletti @mesoanticyclone.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Just wanted to say how awesome this is. That storm's radar presentation will never leave my head. Inferred debris trajectories here line up well with where we started seeing large housing/household item debris - coming from the east, the swath started ~Streator and lasted several miles to the west

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