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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Looking for occurrences of complexifying?

Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Shelf-sanity yesterday (6/9/26) in southern ND near Bismarck. Obviously realized failure mode for tornadoes, but an otherwise fun chase.

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This was the view of the storm near Kiowa at 5:08 MT from 39.316N 104.210W about the time of a spotter tornado report. Rotation in the wall cloud was poor at best, didn't see anything the resembled a circulation on the way out.

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Great conditional chase and supercell in southeast Nebraska, 6/5

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

4/27/2025 Hyannis, NE Tornados, for no particular reason. #NEwx

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Lotta attribution of budget issues to anecdotal forecast degradation going around. I loathe federal funding cuts more than most, but the question (and symptom) doesn't seem to be answered yet.

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Mike Marz @mikebmarz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

incredible tornado near Truman, Iowa about a half hour ago, absolutely spectacular, loud ripper wrapping up in golf balls, videos tonight, that was just amazing

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Fwiw (a comment not directed at you, just sending it into the ether), I hire for entryish scientist/python roles and always ask if people have SQL/ORM python experience because it is so so powerful. Sqlmodel makes it stupid easy to get started, can't recommend it enough (again, except in prod envs)

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The best part is that you put in & take out python objects (and use the python objects to make the db, example in pic), so you're always in python. The pydantic aspect is great for type management. Sqlite dbs are just a file, so waaaaay easier than server based dbms', and a great starting point.

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I reach for it when dealing with persistent data, it's way more efficient to store than pandas-produced csvs or requerying large datasets. Here's an example of putting data in the database and the object init with sqlmodel for an app I'm working on.

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I'd offer that sqlite is handy and ubiquitous and using an ORM makes using SQL with Python a dream. sqlalchemy is the standard, with pydantic is good practice, and sqlmodel is latest greatest and combines the two (it's still an 0.x so I wouldn't use it at work, sqlalchemy is plenty), quick 🧵

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Since everyone experiences weather, everyone is an expert

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

First launch since we joined @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social ! www.youtube.com/live/nyVbmoR...

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Colorado Climate Center @climate.colostate.edu · 10/03/2026

Unfortunately, not much good news to share in our February state climate summary. According to NOAA data, it was the warmest February in 132 years of records. Mountain snowpack remains at the lowest level in over 40 years. Several locations set new monthly high temperature records for February. 1/4

February 2026
Colorado Monthly Climate Summary
statewide departure from 1901-2000 avg: +9.2°F statewide departure from 1991-2020 avg: +7.6°F
statewide rank: 1st warmest/132nd coldest
Warmest February on record statewide
Snowpack remains lowest in over 40 years
Several locations, including Denver, Fort Collins, Akron, and Colorado Springs shatter records for most 60°F+ days
Multiple grass fires, including ones near Boulder, Thornton, Matheson, and Wiggins
Maximum daily precipitation (1.8" at Spud
Mountain)
Minimum daily temperature (-27°F
in Taylor Park)
Maximum daily temperature
(85°F in Pueblo and Campo)
Maximum daily snowfall 12.5" near Bayfield)
February 2026 Temperature Rank (from NCEI nclimgrid)
Statewide Temperature and Precipitation Ranks for February 2026 (based on 1895-2026 data)
1st warmest (record warmest)
37th driest (below average)

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I can pull and read those, much appreciated, but I'm looking for a list of all the labels. A subset below. If it's not handy, I'm sure I can piece it together.

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Is there a publicly available list of all the possible polygon labels? Specifically the values that can be populated in the label2 fields of the outlooks. Excuse me if this is an easy REST api question - I typically direct download shapefiles and load into geopandas.

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Had the same thought, but those were IQR!

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Game Changer is the best game show on right now, can't recommend it enough!

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Gonna have to ask you to move your cloud

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

What an incredibly vindicating other comment

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Depends on the maturity. Having the deprecation warning on the major version upgrade prior is best as we can assign a max version number to our setup/pyproject while upgrading.. that way it's clear that we can't have x+1.0 until we address the deprecation.

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Unless of course you have hard to build packages.. that's one thing conda is still the best for. Otherwise the equivalent to conda environments is: install from source (python.org) python -m venv name_of_env source name_of_env/bin/activate pip install package

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I don't understand why the advice is a switch languages, conda is just a fancy pypi wrapper.. I switched my team to venv/pip or (lately) uv is the preferred alternative to building a virtual environment.

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Todd Murphy @toddamurphy.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Big whirls have little whirls That feed on their velocity And little whirls have lesser whirls And so on to viscosity

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Changing colors in Medicine Bow National Forest, WY. [Fujifilm Klasse, Portra 400]

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Immediately proceeds to collapse *sad chaser noises*

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

11/10 Medicine Bow day before the Jubilee Days/Rodeo!

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Mammatus overhead at sunset in Firestone, #COwx tonight

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 12/07/2025

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

nytimes.com

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

What's insane to me is how much dialog/work/expertise it takes to change one person's mind on one subject, even (especially?) when the recipient is not informed on the issue. It's much easier to just.. not.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

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Mike Charnick @charnick.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Single shot 70mm from yesterday. Ghostly. Etherial. And a photo I'll probably never be able to top! Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 17/06/2025

was not expecting to wake up and see reports of an early-morning swath of large hail along the Front Range (apologies to those who woke up to damage.) Big hail in the early am is *exceedingly* rare. Prior to today, only 7 reports in state records of 2"+ hail between the hours of 2-5am. #cowx

Photo of a CoCoRaHS hail observation with a 2.5" hailstone from Wellington, Colorado at 2:30am on June 17, 2025. From https://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ViewHailReport.aspx?HailReportID=5595acd1-dca2-42df-a22d-65f6218d4087

Hourly distribution of large hail reports in Colorado, showing a big spike in the afternoon and evening, and almost none in the early morning hours.

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Mike Charnick @charnick.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Absolute insanity Dickens Nebraska tornado a bit ago at close range! Right off the iPhone lens spots and all!

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Mike Charnick @charnick.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Career tornado intercept just now Dickens Nebraska!

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Jeff Frame @vortexjeff.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

720pm: Tornado underneath stunning storm structure south of North Platte, Nebraska

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/06/2025

Our biggest, bestest national celebration. I expected this to be a terrifying fascist spectacle, but instead I actually feel a little sad, like the time my friend Charlie and I set up a lemonade stand when we were seven and nobody stopped all day.

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Bob Capella @minusthebob.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Yesterday's storm on the Comanche National Grassland, #COwx

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