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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Well, the other place is down for the count, not that it matters to me since I don't use it much.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It was only a matter of time before it happened. 😔

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Day 7 of covid. I'm past the initial infection although I still have a cough and no sense of smell.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Day 5 of covid. Lost my sense of smell but my taste is unaffected. Feeling much better overall.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Day 4 of covid. Still feels like a really bad cold although the cough is slightly worse.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Welp, after nearly 5 years without catching it, covid has found us. Hopefully it won't be too bad.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Well 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).

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Looks 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.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Just 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.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It's looking like late next week our first arctic blast of the season will arrive based on the ensembles.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hopefully the NWS offices migrate to here sometime in the near future, although it might be awhile still.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We're in the time of year where I look at all the long range models for major winter storms for Iowa.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I 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.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Yeah. During the winter I visit Americanwx a lot, especially when major winter storms are forecast for my area. As for wxtwitter, I feel that wxsky will replace wxtwitter (exodus from X still ongoing and likely will still be going on for awhile) although some likely will still remain on X.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

All these weather forums that I mentioned (except Americanwx) were formed before social media became mainstream.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

One 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.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

As for the storm2k forums (which I found in late summer 04), they are still around and going on very strong.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Another 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.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Speaking 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).

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

It'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.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Oh yes. I was a very frequent poster on Easternuswx and would post very often during major winter storms. December 1, 2007 (siggy ice storm), December 10-11, 2007 (major ice storm) and December 22, 2007 (blizzard) come to mind.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Yep! I vividly remember all of the mods and other admins (except DeFuzz since he passed away in early 07) got banned by Vortmax (the admin in question) out of spite.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

14 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.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I saw it when I was 10 when it first premiered on TV.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Well I just found out that some major companies are resuming advertising on X. That is......odd, to say the least. The question is, why?

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It means that the servers are under strain due to the massive influx of new users from the other platform.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Once Bluesky adds post notifications (might be awhile) then we're all set.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I think the reason is because of the very heavy web traffic on the platform is causing the servers to struggle.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I should almost mention that all of the iembots are on here too.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Welcome to Bluesky. I was wondering when you would migrate to here.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

There are some bots but nowhere near as much as the other platform.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

The good news is that the other IEMbots are fine and it's just that one.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

One slight problem. bsky.app/profile/akrh...

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I'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.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Is it just me or did Bluesky crash?

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I think the rate limit is set this low so that the platform doesn't crash. Just my hunch. At least there's Mastodon.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Wasn't there an 80 degree day in February of this year in DC?

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

As 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.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Once push post notifications are on Bluesky (both desktop and mobile), then we're all set.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Really 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.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I 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.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Very true although a few weeks ago I had a few bad bots follow me which I blocked.

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Nate Gillson @natester1986.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I noticed that my following count dropped significantly over the past couple of days (from 2281 to 2265) (weather folk deleting their accounts on X). I can understand why.

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