Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 13/09/2026Could be 106F depending on the 41C rounding error-prone OMO. 110
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 04/09/2026Level 3 Super-Res working now. VCPs/GSMs aren't a thing in the EU so lots of fudging happening to make this work with existing decoders. Next up: Algorithmic products (SCITs, etc.) 010
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 04/09/2026Hey thanks! Also playing with making Himawari a bit more accessible using a new format. But for now it's Level II -> Level III decoding to see if we can start generating algorithmic products like we have in the states. 010
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 04/09/2026🤔️ 127 EU radar sites in NEXRAD Level 2 (AR2V). Now to see if I can get Super-Res Level 3 out of it. 231
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 03/09/2026SkyWest (SKW5666) threading the needle this afternoon Northwest of Denver, CO over Lyons, CO. #COWx 010
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 21/08/2026Like we know what the installer is doing but no one cares enough to call them out for it. Take federal grant funds, install a radar and restrict it to a half-assed application built by said installer. It's a shakedown and they can't even hold up their end of the deal. 120
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 24/07/2026Streaming them to my web maps now. Pretty cool. Pretty, pretty cool. 010
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 01/06/2026I was having a good conversation with my buddy about "server uptime" and he brought up the fact that having 300+ days of uptime USED to be something to brag about. Now we deal with CVEs almost daily. I'm interested to hear everyone else's thoughts as someone that manages hundreds of servers. 130
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 31/05/2026I guess my ISP is ahead of the curve and assigned an IPv6 subnet which my network hardware gladly accepted. Only 10 more years before everyone else adopts it. 010
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 18/05/2026Raw single-site split-pane radar and MRMS radar displays with Satellite data and all the models. All in @weatherpulse.com Maps, in a browser. 011
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 15/05/2026Didn't realize German radar data was so easy to get these days. So here's 10 tilts of H5 radar data plotted in 3D in @weatherpulse.com Maps for whatever reason. Plus Finnish radar and other shenanigans. 030
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 14/05/2026Cooking with gas. 3D MRMS configurable dBZ "shells" and ProbSevere with full GRIB2 rendering since why not? @weatherpulse.com 040
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 05/05/2026MRMS 3D funny business incoming @weatherpulse.com Browser rendering of the 33 MRMS levels with a 2D base level. 060
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 16/04/2026GR2Analyst / GRLevel3 / GIS users: I built the OSM 2025 roads into individual shapefiles either by state or by NEXRAD radar site. The newest available I had seen prior was 2022 so this is likely an important update. www.weatherpulse.com/pages/resour... 021
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 04/04/2026@weathermatrix.bsky.social New GRE beta fixes the fronts placefile with a new option to clamp icons to the surface. Just a heads up since you brought this to my attention. 000
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 31/03/2026It was a fun experiment to see if I could push the boundaries of raw data tiles even further. ECMWF & GFS, each with 3 different products (DPT+UGRD+VGRD) rendered in the browser with a draggable split-pane. WebGL really has come far. 010
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 30/03/2026Neat that you bring this up. I actually started doing this with wind today! Much more performant than additional network requests. UGRD+VGRD+TMP raw values rendered on the GPU, so custom color palettes are available too. 110
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 26/02/2026SHEESH Being a business owner is expensive... $1/check is a RIP OFF 010
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 17/02/2026I thought the stupid Canadian geese were destroying my lawn. I guess I can be okay with the local elk herd being the responsible party. 000
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 31/12/2025Absolutely. Here's my GOES Full Disk True Color on a zoomable/pannable 3D globe using GLSL with raw data tiles (raw values baked into the PNG bands) as the underlying data framework. I really need to get back to work on a quicker/lighter delivery method like GeoParquet. 130
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 08/12/2025When someone has an aortic dissection, there is a 50% chance of them passing before they even make it to the hospital. I knew the signs and still nearly succumbed to this 2 years ago after making it to the hospital. Please donate to the John Ritter Foundation! my.onecause.com/fundraiser/o... 000
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 22/09/2025A couple of cold air islands in central North Dakota and South Dakota 000
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 16/07/2025It's an NWS issue with Level 3, not specific to the radar sites. KCYS is down. KFTG is not. 120
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 14/07/2025Much of the official @okcthunder.bsky.social Championship gear ships from Indianapolis, Indiana. You hate to love to see it. 010
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 24/06/2025@okcthunder.bsky.social "Here's are some more" on your shipment email, just a heads up. 100
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 17/06/2025Meanwhile, 13,057 (total) strikes over the last hour in Kansas along the boundary with a clear hook forming SW of Wellington, KS. #KSwx 000
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 17/06/20253,915 of those in the last hour were Cloud-to-Ground lightning strikes. #COwx #WYwx 010
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 17/06/20258,885 lightning strikes along the Front Range of the Rockies and onto the Colorado Plains over the last hour. #COwx 240
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 12/06/2025Window hammock catto became desk catto thanks to some fairly close CG lightning strikes here in Loveland, CO. 020
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 12/06/2025Google finally acknowledging issues. status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow... 000
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 12/06/2025First it was noticeable that AWS was having issues (Twitch). No status update. Then, GCP was having issues (Discord). No status update. Now Cloudflare reports issues? What in the world is going on here? Was it CF all along? Why can't I load my GCP Console if it's only CF? Downdetector having a day. 110
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 12/06/2025Hereford, CO to Carpenter, WY bouncy noodle from 8 years ago (June 12, 2017) 000
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 30/05/2025Spoke too soon on the Level 3 radar. Not even real sure we've seen much of a resolution on the delays; they just cleared the queue and now things seem to be stacking up again. Ugh. 111
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 28/05/2025EM reported to NWS for the warning issuance. A chaser not on Bluesky submitted this SN report. 000
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 09/04/2025I can't count how many times the NWS has filled up their databases. We have quota alerts for a reason yet this issue continues to happen. Very fortunate that this was during an inactive weather period. 000
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 09/04/2025... and we're back. Fortunately the CONUS is fairly quiet today. 100
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 09/04/2025Data (including Watches, Warnings, and Advisories) are not being transmitted to or received from the NWS Telecommunications Gateway in Boulder at this time. #USwx 121
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 14/03/2025Better displayed in @radarscope.app with surface observations. 010
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 14/03/2025Oklahoma fires blowing up in a two-hour time period on Shortwave IR satellite. #OKwx 131
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 17/02/2025Border-to-border and only 3 counties away from being coast-to-coast Watches, Warnings or Advisories. #USwx 001
Ryan Hickman @stormchas.ing · 21/10/2024The same SBN which the NWS intends on discontinuing in 2027. (Note that they did this to some legacy NEXRAD products and the discontinuation was postponed for 5+ years before they fully followed through with it.) 100
