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Stephen Strader

@stephenmstrader.bsky.social
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Associate Professor | Hazards & Disaster Geographer | Severe Storms Meteorologist | Avid fan of condensation in the sky and sound waves. www.stephenmstrader.org 🌪⛈️🌀❄️🌡🗺⚠️ My opinions are solely my opinions.

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I, me, mine. 1958 Gibson LG1
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Wow
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Just HDR it
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Why chase storm when storm chase you?
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
www.villanova.edu/university/m... Storms, World Cup, and America 250 celebrations... What could go wrong?
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Villanova Researcher Authors Comprehensive Look at Large Outdoor Gatherings and Severe Weather Risk | Villanova University
Dr. Strader and a colleague published a study in Weather, Climate, and Society where they developed a metric to comprehensively rank more than 475 “large outdoor gatherings” in the U.S. in terms of gr...
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The comments in this are so good... I have now been accused of weather control and a large number of at-home meteorologists knew about this issue years ago. So many experts out there! Who knew? It is always the Dunning-Kruger effect. Always.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I did another thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UTQ...
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Tornado Alley Is Getting DARKER and DEADLIER
YouTube video by PBS Terra
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trying to teach my students about being empathetic and professional is kind of hard when POTUS is out here saying, "whole civilization will die tonight" and "open the f*cking strait" on social media. We hold 5 yr olds to higher standards. Anyway, time to go teach like none of this is happening.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I did another thing... A 1988 Martin D16 A (Ash). Martin only made 818 of these. The Ash back and sides are brighter and more of a "glassy" voicing compared to the more common D18 (Mahogany) and D28 (Rosewood). Given emerald ash borer issues nowadays, I had to snag one of these from my birth year.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Colloquium today Joy Pochatila National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) Coordinator, US Geological Survey
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New Paper Alert. 3 former undergraduate students and I worked on this. We created indices that allow us to determine where tropical cyclone disasters are most likely to occur... Hint: It's not just coastal counties. Inland flooding is a major driver of #disaster! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Geospatial assessment of United States tropical cyclone disaster risk - Natural Hazards
Natural Hazards - This study provides an overview of tropical cyclone (TC) hazard risk, population exposure, societal vulnerability, and community resilience for conterminous United States (CONUS)...
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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Really good new study. As expected, tropical cyclone (TC) impacts are high for Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties due to high TC hazard + population exposure, but also for many *inland* counties in the SE and NE due to flash flooding from TCs + vulnerable communities.
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Geospatial assessment of United States tropical cyclone disaster risk - Natural Hazards
Natural Hazards - This study provides an overview of tropical cyclone (TC) hazard risk, population exposure, societal vulnerability, and community resilience for conterminous United States (CONUS)...
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Stephen Aguilar @stephenaguilar.com · 11/09/2025
Aw man I wish academics had headlines like this. “Stephen Aguilar (existential dread) is not expected to write today, per @mpolikoff.bsky.social”
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Here is a photo of my dog. That is all.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I guess my dog decided to become an Eagles fan. As a Bills fan, I don't know how I feel about this. I guess, go birds.
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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Twenty years ago today, Hurricane Katrina (2005) made landfall in Louisiana. Four years ago today, Hurricane Ida (2021) made landfall in Louisiana. This animation shows Katrina on the left and Ida on the right over the same 24-hour period using NOAA Merged IR (left) and NOAA ABI Band 13 (right).
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NPR @npr.org · 29/08/2025
Hurricane Katrina resulted in nearly 1,400 deaths, according to revised statistics from the National Hurricane Center, and remains the costliest storm in U.S. history at around $200 billion in today's dollars.
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From devastation to determination: Hurricane Katrina's legacy in pictures
Hurricane Katrina resulted in nearly 1,400 deaths, according to revised statistics from the National Hurricane Center, and remains the costliest storm in U.S. history at around $200 billion in today's dollars.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I think a lot about how the Cubs just let him go... www.mlb.com/news/kyle-sc...
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FOUR for Schwarbs! Phils slugger joins exclusive HR club -- and had chance for No. 5!
PHILADELPHIA -- Kyle Schwarber wasted no time making an emphatic statement on Thursday night. Then, he made another. And another. And ... another. Schwarber became just the 21st player in Major League...
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
20 yrs ago. Since then, disaster counts, costs, vulnerability have risen. Disasters are a product of society, and are caused by extreme events interacting with societal vulnerabilities through multifaceted human decision-making processes. We are not ready for the next one... #Katrina #NewOrleans
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Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
When we think of disasters in the Gulf we often think of places like New Orleans and Houston...but the data shows how per-capita damages are often worst in smaller places like Refugio County, Texas ($92k damage per capita from 2005-2024) or Harrison County, Mississippi ($65k).
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Been getting back into watches and picked up this cheap Timex Indiglo Expedition. Cousin had one of these when I was 8, and he was 16. I thought he/it was the coolest. I begged for one. Mom and Dad did get me one, but it has long since disappeared. Today, its replacement arrived. #Oldiebutagoodie
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NPR @npr.org · 25/08/2025
Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years.
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It was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history: Have we forgotten Katrina's lessons?
Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New Orleans, which has had an uneven recovery in the past 20 years.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
First day of the 32nd grade.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I am okay and not on campus. I am at home.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Far too many people are unknowingly stuck on Child's Hill... Hey, when I was 4 yr old, I thought thunder was the sound of clouds colliding and if I stared at my arm when lightning happened I could see bones like an Xray. Then, I actually became an atmospheric scientist...
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Scientists spend their lives becoming experts on specific things. Then, someone who has thought about that topic for 5 min tells you that you're wrong. It's like me going up to a commercial pilot and giving him notes because I flew a drone a few times. Is it all Dunning-Kruger and projection? Yes.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The hazard and disaster mitigation dilemma in 140 characters or less...
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Bumping this for visibility since I posted it over the weekend. It may just get lost in the constant barrage of bad news we get, but its something near and dear to my heart that I have worked on for a decade now. #mobilehome #manufacturedhome #tornado #wx #disaster
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Also, this is what happens to these homes *with* steel chassis when they meet a strong tornado. All research in this area suggests construct. standards are too weak. This says, "We want them weaker"... Want to guess how the area of the country with the greatest number of manuf. homes voted?...
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
This will not end well... 50% of tornado deaths occur in these homes despite them only making up 7% of the U.S. housing stock... Why?... Poor build quality and lack of anchoring to ground. Another decision that will kill people... #wx #tornado #disaster www.businessinsider.com/cheap-starte...
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Congress is pushing a key reform to make manufactured starter homes cheaper
The Senate is poised to pass a major set of policy reforms aiming to boost the supply of housing, including of manufactured homes.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Back to back days with wetland/prairie walks = happy puppers
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Me trying to work on my climate change and disaster research and reading the news every day...
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a man wearing glasses is looking through binoculars in front of a computer monitor
ALT: a man wearing glasses is looking through binoculars in front of a computer monitor
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Shocked, I tell you. Shocked... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Fema denies grants to three Kentucky counties hit by storms that caused widespread devastation
Denials are latest by agency as Trump administration seeks to shift burden of disaster recovery to states
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Now for some good news. We have finally had a visitor at our hummingbird feeder after 3 weeks of nothing. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Die from pollution to own the libs. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
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E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
"I don't draw pictures"
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Oops: Part 2...
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I did another thing. #wx #tornado Where is tornado alley? How the deadliest storm zone in the U.S. is shifting east | National Geographic share.google/EvVg02zp7AH2...
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Where is tornado alley? How the deadliest storm zone in the U.S. is shifting east
Scientists say a new epicenter is forming for the deadliest storm zone in the U.S. Here’s where people are now most at risk from tornadoes.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
This documentary is fantastic. I am having my Natural Hazards course students watch it for an assignment. Much of the lessons here are repeated over and over again... Katrina, Sandy, Harvey, Helene, Texas Floods, etc... Highly recommend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P1q...
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Hurricane Helene’s Deadly Warning (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth. www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
More great news... I am so tired...
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
It's better up here than down there.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 25/06/2025
Awful. More horrible science news "The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
Screenshot from NSIDC that says: "Dear Colleague:

The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing and delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025. The SSMIS data are used as input for the following NSIDC DAAC-produced data sets, which will therefore stop processing no later than 30 June 2025:"
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Because I'm constantly exhausted with everything going on and my mental health has suffered, I'm sharing a photo of my dog at daycare loving life.
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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Discrete tornado-producing supercells, derecho with a textbook bookend vortex & rear inflow jet development, MCS-supercell mergers... this is one of the most meteorologically impressive radar loops I've put together.
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
She doesn't even know how crazy the world is right now. Just knows, walks, play, food, love, and naps...
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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? We still have multiple theories on how tornadoes form. We have evidence supporting each of these theories. As a result, we do not know what makes one rotating storm produce a tornado while another rotating storm does not...🤷
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