Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Well, the other place is down for the count, not that it matters to me since I don't use it much. 0101
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 27/02/2025It was only a matter of time before it happened. 😔 061
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Day 7 of covid. I'm past the initial infection although I still have a cough and no sense of smell. 051
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Day 5 of covid. Lost my sense of smell but my taste is unaffected. Feeling much better overall. 021
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Day 4 of covid. Still feels like a really bad cold although the cough is slightly worse. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Welp, after nearly 5 years without catching it, covid has found us. Hopefully it won't be too bad. 100
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Well that was quite the ice storm. I'd say that was easily a half inch of ice we got. Didn't lose power thankfully (very few outages in Cedar Rapids from this ice storm). 010
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Looks like it's going to be "ice ice baby" here tomorrow. Not looking forward to it. At least the ice that does accret won't last long. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Just finished watching the Twisters movie on YouTube (I bought the movie) and I have to say, very good movie. I'd say it's on par with Twister. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 22/11/2024It's looking like late next week our first arctic blast of the season will arrive based on the ensembles. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024We're in the time of year where I look at all the long range models for major winter storms for Iowa. 010
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I noticed that on the other platform (X) I've been getting post notification of prominent posts (almost all of them being from the far right) of people I do not follow. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024All these weather forums that I mentioned (except Americanwx) were formed before social media became mainstream. 130
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024One more weather forum that might be still around (it's resurrection, not the original since the original was sadly lost when the server hard drive crashed in the fall of 2016) is Talkweather. It was one of the first weather forums that I signed up for. 010
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024As for the storm2k forums (which I found in late summer 04), they are still around and going on very strong. 010
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Another weather forum that's been gone for over a decade was the Wright Weather forums (I think that's what they were called?). I don't remember when the forums shut down but I think it was in the late 2000s. Not as much memories from that forum compared to Easternuswx. 010
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Speaking of Americanwx forums, they have been around double the amount of time Easternuswx was around (Easternuswx only lasted a little over 7 years while Americanwx was formed 14 years ago). 010
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024It's almost been 17 years since Cedar Rapids last major ice storm (December 10-11, 2007 where Cedar Rapids got a littl over a half inch of ice). We are waaay overdue for another one. I hope that overdue time doesn't come anytime soon. 100
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/202414 years ago the old Easternuswx forums went defunct because the main admin threw a hissy fit over an issue that I do not remember what it was about. Americanwx forums replaced Easternuswx forums and are still going strong to this day. I do miss the old posts on Easternuswx though. 120
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Well I just found out that some major companies are resuming advertising on X. That is......odd, to say the least. The question is, why? 110
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Once Bluesky adds post notifications (might be awhile) then we're all set. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 09/11/2024I'm not going to bother going outside and try to look for the aurora since I would not see it from here even if it's overhead. Too much light pollution. 010
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024As for IEMbot, unlike on X, I'm not going to have automated IEMbot posts on this account so as not to spam my own feed and those who follow me. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Once push post notifications are on Bluesky (both desktop and mobile), then we're all set. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Really nice that the IEMbots are starting to come on here. I plan to follow most of them when all of them come on here eventually. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024I had this weird dream last night that Elon Musk built this super mega complex where the functions of government are located and also where the X HQ were located. Knowing Musk, this isn't out of the realm of reality. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Well there's some clarification there. I was worried for months about the future of NOAA and the NWS. Still bad, but not BAD BAD. 120
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Looks like I have to find who I follow on X on here manually since I tried using Sky Follow Bridge (the extension) but I got rate limited on Bluesky (since I follow over 2,200 people on X). Ah well. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 07/11/2024On the bright side I haven't had any bot followers in awhile, which is good. 110
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 07/11/2024I haven't been on here much since October 18 since I took a hiatus from this platform (not that anything bad about this platform, just for the sake of my mental health) and especially X (not going to delete my account as of yet but limiting my time there). 001
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 07/11/2024I have stayed away from X asides from looking at notifications and a few accounts on the platform since the block change announcement and still going to avoid looking at the timeline. I'd imagine it's only going to get worse on X and I wouldn't be surprised if my following count goes below 2000. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 18/10/2024This is the only velocity loop I saved on RadarScope on August 10, 2020. This is about 90 minutes before it hit my hometown of Cedar Rapids. I still vividly remember the howling wind during the 40 minutes the wind lasted during the derecho. 010
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 18/10/2024If you see this post, post a weather. Sorry, I don't have many weather pictures. This one is from all the way back in 2013, June 21, 2023 to be exact. This is a photo of a approaching severe warned MCS. Lost power at work for about an hour actually. 020
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 18/10/2024So, according to this, over a million people signed up to Bluesky yesterday due to the bad Elon change on the other platform. 020
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Ok, things seem to be better now, at least on my end. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Yeah, when I click on my most recent post it shows "post deleted". Yeaaaaaaah, Bluesky is having problems. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Is it just me or is Bluesky having problems? I haven't seen any new posts in nearly 20 minutes. 100
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Anyone here remember The Storm Chaser Homepage back from the 1990s? I do. 020
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 18/10/2024All we need is for Pecos Hank to be on here. As for Reed Timmer, he said he's not migrating to another social media platform. 120
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/10/2024Just updated my Google Pixel 6a to Android 15 with no major problems. 110
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/10/2024One thing Bluesky really needs is push notifications. I hope they add that functionality in the near future. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/10/2024Really not ideal that the Cedar Rapids Airport ASOS has been down for 6 hours. Hopefully it's still reporting. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/10/2024One good thing about Bluesky is that as of right now there's no bot problem (the bad kind). 020
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/10/2024I'm glad that this place is more active here than before. Not great that Bluesky wouldn't load on my phone this morning. 000
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/10/2024Here are two crappy pictures of the northern lights that I took with my Pixel 6a back on May 10 of this year. 010
Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/10/2024Hopefully Elon never buys YouTube because he'd ruin the video sharing platform just like he did Twitter. 000