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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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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4th quarter of the FY and 51% of your performance plan yet to accomplish.

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Andy Snyder @wxandbiscuits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Talk about hydroclimate whiplash - Amarillo has had more rain in the last week than all of December 2025 - August 2026 combined. This will also be the city’s wettest September on record. Weekly totals are over 9” in parts of the panhandle, and it’s still raining.

West Texas mesonet showing weekly rainfall totals ranging from a few hundredths of an inch in central Texas to over 9” southwest of amarilllo.

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When I don't write down review solicitations that I accept and end up committing to more than I want because I've forgotten what I've already agreed to... Glad I turned down two other requests last week!

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My house... Technically a trace since we have a few sprinkles but couldn't even make them out on the ground. The ground at the State Fair got wet though.

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 16/09/2026

🧵 We’re continuing to hire a wide variety of positions throughout the National Weather Service! New vacancies are being posted all the time. Here’s a sample of what’s open as of today:

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

OKC reached 106 (!) degrees today, beating the previous record high by 4 degrees; today was 21 degrees above normal! More than a few mesonet sites hit 108, and Grandfield got to 109. Both LAW and SPS set new record highs at 108 degrees. Pretty exceptional heat for mid September! #okwx

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Another day of record heat across the area. Previous record high for OKC today was 102 set in 1930. The 2pm temp is 103. Temps before 3pm are approaching 110 degrees in southwestern Oklahoma. As a reminder, it's mid-September. Gross.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨 Summer 2026 (Jun-Aug) tied for the warmest summer on record according to PRISM climate data. The average temperature of 74.2F tied with 1936. 🔥🔥🔥

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Another brutally hot day (at least in southern and central OK). OKC airport tied record high of 108 (from 2011). It was even hotter just southwest of the city -- Chickasha mesonet hit 113, which would tie OKC's all-time high temp. Very hot weather the past 4+ weeks (2nd img from my back yard). Yuck

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Going through dusty boxes tucked away in a closet to declutter and ran across these bad boys. Spent a lot of time in middle and high school watching these tapes...

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Very hot day for much of Oklahoma (and elsewhere). Max temp in my backyard was 109.9 F. The OKC airport topped out at 109, beating the previous daily record high of 104. Beating a record high by 5 degrees is pretty impressive! Kingfisher mesonet site got to 112. Another very hot day tomorrow! #okwx

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Weather History @weatherhistory.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

August 10th, 2020: One of the worst derechos in US history ravaged the Midwest. The MCS carved a path from eastern Nebraska to Michigan over the course of ~11 hours. Winds as high as 140 mph produced substantial crop and structural damage throughout Iowa and Illinois.

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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If you’re still in Madison after the summit, the atmosphere saved its best act for the end

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We probably took our pictures within less than a minute of each other. Wild. Not 100% sure the GPS location was updating but the time should be right obviously

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Lol are you me?! My pics from seat 9A

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A day later and it hasn't gotten any better, these readings are insane

PM2.5 AQI of 3077 ("hazardous") for Leavenworth in Washington state. "Stay indoors."

PM2.5 AQI of 2311 ("hazardous") for Chelan County in Washington state. "Stay indoors."

PM2.5 AQI of 2972 ("hazardous") for Entiat in Washington state. "Stay indoors."

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daryl herzmann @akrherz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Info-graphic of what I compute for max dew points over Iowa today along with period of record stats. NB: AI did the graphic design, but the data is all my handywork. Feel free to reuse as you wish.

Iowa ASOS max dew points for 26 July 2026 and records.

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ooh where about? Have spent lots of time along the MN North Shore.

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cira-csu.bsky.social @cira-csu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thick smoke from Canadian wildfires descends across the U.S. East Coast.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 13/07/2026

I am really excited to share that the latest update to Heimdall has arrived, bringing multi-panel rendering and interactivity with it! This is a substantial update, giving you more freedom in what you display and how. heimdall.stormscale.io

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Eddie Wolff @ewolffwx.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Some exciting news today: our new paper has just entered Early Online Release in @ametsoc.org #BAMS! It's everything you want to know about tornado emergencies, including an analysis of POD and FAR, a comparison to recommended VROT and STP thresholds, and more. journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Map of tornado emergency polygons for 2014-2023. Filled contours show kernel density estimate of all EF-3+ tornadoes over the same period (with a bullseye centered on the SE)

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OTUS Project @otusproject.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

No words. Here is a peak at one of our most incredible drone flights around a #tornado to date near Tulliby Lake, AB. This will likely be one of our last intercepts of the season, thank you so much to everyone for following along! #stormchasing #nature #weather

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I did competitive orienteering in high school (also a JROTC school) as well. Almost nobody I've talked to knows about orienteering, but I loved it. Running around big parks and forests for hours at a time with only a map, compass, and my card to clip was way more fun than it might sound!

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Late season supercells in central Oklahoma less than a week before July. Weather the past few months here has been quite wonky.

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Eat grass on the patio. Puke up grass on the surface inside that's hardest to clean. #catlife

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

What does your stats page look like after 5 years? I'm surprised I've missed 300+ days

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Congrats! Did anyone on the bridge cheer for you?!

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The Google search AI is not necessarily very smart. The simple Gemini Flash model got it right at least .

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I suspect most don't actually believe they R advice to people who need it but rather are just voicing concern about the situation because there's nothing realistically that he/she can do to affect the outcome. Just find it interesting how "advice giving" is common in situations like this 3/3

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I don't mean to sound insensitive. Like, I see something that looks dangerous and think "I should tell people to take shelter", but there's almost no realistic chance that my post would reach anyone being impacted in time to matter. I'm sure some post out of genuine concern, others for attention 2/3

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I always wonder, despite presumably good intentions, how many people in the path actually see/read posts like that and could heed the "TAKE SHELTER" advice. Like, there's probably a 0.00001% chance that the post reached someone in the path, much less prompted someone to act on it. 1/2

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Kiel Ortega @kielortega.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I think by the time we finished surveying these tornadoes my car added ~900 miles, I surveyed 3 of them (1 partially) from the air and we had one of the most fascinating discussions on what the final rating of the big 3 should be ams.confex.com/ams/92Annual...

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Abstract: Overview of the 24 May 2011 Tornado Outbreak (92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012))

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Had an ultrasound for my -6 month old at the time, so it was one of only a handful of days that spring that I couldn't chase. It stung to see the pictures and watch the radar from afar....

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

So this covers individual radars, and @stormscale.io 's Heimdall Radar site covers MRMS. Both easy to use, free, and fast! No having to launch a script, no visits to multiple sites or opening multiple programs. Just awesome tools!

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Though it seems like many CAMs have struggled mightily this spring. I'm sure I'm misremembering previous years, but models sure seem to be performing considerably worse than in previous years, at least in the limited scope of severe weather setups in the central US.

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

RRFS-A has tended to produce too many supercells on at least a few of the bigger days this spring. Several reminded me of the 5/20/19 HRRR forecast bust. Honestly haven't found it useful at all this spring for our field work (focused on tornadic supercells in the Plains) 1/2

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Video after the tornado crossed the road to our south 2/2

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Video of a tornado this afternoon between St. Paul and St. Libory, NE, sampled by NSSL as part of LIFT field project 1/2

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The impressive tornado scar from the EF3 that ripped across southwest Mississippi last week. It went through an area that was on fire about two months prior.

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Andy Snyder @wxandbiscuits.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Heat burst with 90mph winds in the OK panhandle.

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katya schwenk @katyaschwenk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.” Things only got more bizarre from there…

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I'm not sure which account you're referring to but doesn't look like I'm missing much

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SRHelicity @srhelicity.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Of course nature doesn't care about the labels or the discrete categories into which we try to put precip type. This is all somewhat arbitrary and subjective of course, and it matters little, I suspect, to 99% of the general public.

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