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If it helps isolate the problem, I see it on reflectivity, ZDR, KDP, and CC, but not on velocity or spectrum width. And it appears to be the same radials duplicated on each of those parameters.

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D'oh, I should actually read. 😅

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One last (for now) item of feedback: I'd like to be able to pick the single-site radar from the map. Is there a way to do that I haven't found or do you have to add it from the layer menu?

Also, it looks like it can display incomplete sweeps. I think I'd prefer waiting until the sweep is complete before displaying it. That avoids situations where you're trying to look at a particular storm, but the data disappears for several seconds because a new sweep started.

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Also, some strange behavior when looking at upper tilts from live data. The most recent volume is incomplete, so I'd like to look at the most recent complete volume. But when I go back one volume scan, it can jump to the incomplete volume. I assume this is due to having to handle the SAILS cuts.

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

There are a whole bunch of radials that look like they're duplicates of the ones next to them. I think you said you're doing some regridding to keep a common autumnplot grid in the background. Is this a result of that?

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Sometimes you just have to draw a line in the sand and say something is ready. I've spent the last month or so not only adding level II site functionality to Heimdall, but what I consider to be genuinely novel functionality and interactivity. It's live for you to try at heimdall.stormscale.io

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 02/10/2026

That's good! I only sorta designed it with mobile in mind. 😅

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 01/10/2026

I've made a few tweaks and bug fixes in the last week, and SPC REFS Viewer v1.0 is live! www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/refs/v...

spc.noaa.gov

SPC REFS Ensemble Viewer

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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Been working on a reimagination of ncview. It led me to create github.com/bbakernoaa/n...

github.com

GitHub - bbakernoaa/ncview-rs

Contribute to bbakernoaa/ncview-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 28/09/2026

This position closes on Monday (tomorrow!) at 11:59p MDT!

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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 28/09/2026

This position closes on Wednesday at 11:59p MDT!

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 27/09/2026

If the truly biblical amount of 0.11" fell on the Washington Mesonet site, it would be the most rain for that site in a single day since July 12.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 27/09/2026

Looking forward to Norman's 0.09" of rain this week. Which, if that absolutely prodigious amount fell in one day, would be the most rain in a single day since August 7.

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HRRR-RRFS TLE and SSEOv2 are both on my list of viewers to make. Not sure if they'll be public, though.

Yep, we plan to keep all that available.

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I hope to have REFS viewer v1 out to the public late next week. (Though it'll depend on what bugs are still lurking.) There are still a few loose ends and missing fields I'd like to get in before we get too deep into winter, so there'll be v1.1 in the hopefully not-too-distant future.

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With the HREF retirement on October 14, @brettjrob.bsky.social's SPC HREF viewer will also be retired from real-time updates. It'll still be available in archive mode. Brett's viewer is amazing and contributed so much to SPC operations. I definitely stole some ideas from it when designing mine.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 22/09/2026

Big REFS Transition Project 2 (SPC REFS viewer v1) is functionally complete. I sent a version around to SPC forecasters for a final pass at bugs this afternoon (though I realized I had a few more 5-minute tweaks I wanted to make when grabbing these screenshots).

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I know there's a theoretical maximum potential intensity for TCs. Is there a similar maximum potential intensification rate? I haven't ever seen anyone talk about that, but it seems (to my uninformed brain) like it should exist.

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Since 1988 when the NHC took responsibility for the eastern North Pacific, 44 hurricanes have intensified by 60+ kt in 24 hours (double the 30kt/24h threshold for RI). However, Hurricane Polo is in rare territory at +85 kt in 24 h. Only Linda (1997), Otis (2023), and Patricia (2015) outpaced this.

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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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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 21/09/2026

We counted about twelve earlier.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 20/09/2026

Oh, I see it's "convective line develops just east of us" season already. It's never gonna rain here again, is it?

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 19/09/2026

👀👀👀👀 (I mean, this is still basically average for the time of year, but man, it's gonna feel good after 2 months of 100 ºF almost every day.)

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 18/09/2026

A massive upgrade to almost all of our Latin American tornado data is now available on the site! We're aware of some additional data still for South America, but as of now we've included as much publicly available information as we could.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 14/09/2026

Text I sent to the wife on August 27. Okay, it was three weeks, but close enough.

A text that reads:
Guarantee within the next week, maybe 2, there's gonna be a all-hands, hair-on-fire effort to scrub "Lake Ontario" from our website.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 14/09/2026

Huh. Well, I guess that explains the lack of Internet since early this afternoon.

A text that reads:
OEC and OEC Fiber
We are experiencing a large outage in Noble due to a grass fire that damaged main fiber lines. Repairs are expected to continue into tomorrow. No ETA is available, but we will keep you updated as best we can.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 13/09/2026

The subtropical ridge remaining over Oklahoma well into September, combined with the antecedent very dry soil conditions, led to yesterday's 106ºF reading at OKC. My guess is the frequency of this kind of persistent September heat will increase as the climate warms.

GFS forecast for 7pm CDT Thursday, September 17. The subtropical ridge is still hanging around the south-central US, with a 597 dam ridge centered near Ft. Smith, AR.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 13/09/2026

Summer 2026 in Oklahoma in 3 graphics. (Reposted to correct the caption on of the graphics.)

Persistent ridging over the central US during July and August 2026 ...

... led to generally below-average rainfall across OK, with much of the state being at or below 50% of normal rainfall for the period July 15-September 12 ...

... leading to very depleted deep soil moisture across much of the central and western portions of the state.

Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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OKC hit 105F today, breaking daily record by 3F and (from what I see in XM-ACIS) set record for hottest temperature so late in the season, which was 105F on 9/11/2000. forecast.weather.gov/product.php?...

forecast.weather.gov

National Weather Service

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 12/09/2026

I am unreasonably happy seeing this. This is exactly why we wanted to make the Mesoanalysis available!

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It sucks that these tools, which are genuinely cool and potentially very useful, are tainted by being built off large-scale content theft with a huge environmental impact. Not to mention having been created by companies whose employees (apparently genuinely) believe AI will kill us all (somehow).

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I've tried running some open-weight models myself, but my hardware sucks for that kind of task. These models need big amounts of data loaded into RAM at once, and my 2021 laptop wasn't built for 2026 LLMs. Now I understand why RAM is so expensive these days.

In fact, my problems with greedy capitalists (and the environmental impact) are why I haven't dabbled as much as I'd like in AI coding. The only language for approval/disapproval these companies know is cash, so I've avoided paying them my own cash. (No judgement if you pay for Claude, etc.)

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