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Shi En Kim @goesbykim.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

To really get the AZ's monsoon, who better to appreciate it with than stormchasers? With @stormchasertang.bsky.social etc., I got to feel not just the monsoon's immensity but also its spottiness and reticence. And I took the least impressive photo for my article, by far. @azcentral.com

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Storm chasers capture thrill, frustration of erratic Arizona monsoon | Exclusive

This year, super El Niño, reduced weather balloons, dust and climate change add to the challenges of storm chasing in Arizona.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 03/08/2026

The cat is officially out of the bag. I promised a consequential first, here it is! On (or around) October 6th, for the first time in its 20+ year history, the SPC Mesoanalysis will be available to the field in real time via NCEP NOMADS. Oh, and it’s in NetCDF, not GRIB.

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Cameron Nixon @cameronjnixon.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I'm convinced the ucar archive walked so that chasearchive.com could run Let's give @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social and @stormchasertang.bsky.social another round of applause

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Storm Chase Archive @chasearchive.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

A large update coming later today! These updates will be available for the 2025 cases for now, with older cases to follow. More historical data at your fingertips! - Past upper air maps with all traditional levels and SFC from the case. - Right click to save, no more screenshotting!

Radar and satellite map for a case on Chase Archive showing right-click menu with options to copy and save

Upper air map for a case on Chase Archive

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Cameron Nixon @cameronjnixon.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

No big deal just radar/satellite loops on @chasearchive.bsky.social that will ultimately go back to the 1990s Check it out!! app.chasearchive.com?q=%5BYEAR%5D @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social and @stormchasertang.bsky.social are the dream team

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Aidan Paoletti @aidanabwx.skyhighcreators.com · 11/02/2025

@chasearchive.bsky.social is approaching at an alarming rate. It will be here soon... very soon.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025. There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.

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James Spann @spann.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Very sad news. I learned more about severe local convective storms from Chuck Doswell than anyone else. He was a friend and mentor.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/01/2025

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Four photos I took in the closing days of 2024

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I have a rough hypothesis that patterns favorable for plentiful California precipitation, Plains tornadoes, and I-95 snowstorms tend to cluster together over multiyear timescales. Occam's Razor says to look at the first EOF of NH 500mb variability: the NAO.

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Ah, the classic squashed spider hodograph

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Few people even know about this; when people are asked in surveys how child mortality has changed the majority says it has stagnated or increased. If you consider that many don't know about humanity's biggest achievement, then it's not surprising that many are so pessimistic about our future.

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Space Weather TREC @spaceweathertrec.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Want the most sophisticated machine learning prediction of geomagnetic storming on the planet? SWx TREC’s LiveDst model gives 1- and 6-hour forecasts of the geomagnetic Dst index with quantified uncertainty - a first in the space weather forecasting world! swx-trec.com/dst/

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LiveDst: CU Space Weather Forecast

A real-time machine-learning model to predict the geomagnetic disturbance storm time index (Dst) up to six hours ahead

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Matt Phelps @themattphelps.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Alaska is pretty cool

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 24/11/2024

While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network. I blogged about it here:

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Benefits of an open network

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Just learned that the drive from San Fransisco to Seattle is only 12 hours and I regret not having taken that drive when I lived in California

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I can't tell if this is accurate, and a reflection of the mass migration of the wx community, or just topics people who migrate to bsky tend to enjoy, or some influence of nominative determinism

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Esteban Ortiz-Ospina @eortizospina.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today’s chart: Weather forecasts have become much more accurate. In the US a 4-day forecast is now as accurate as a 1-day forecast 30 years ago.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/11/2024

so I think their mistake was that they identified (correctly!) that algorithmic timelines are good for Not Very Online People, who are the majority of people online, but Very Online People prefer non-algo TLs and, crucially, they're the ones doing most of the posting, and they bring people with them

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Yup, it's happening (finally) for the more populated areas

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The 72-hr difference is even greater.

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Some intense precip gradients across the San Francisco Bay Area. Between San Rafael and Richmond (a 20-min drive across a bridge) the 48hr rain totals go from 7" to 0.7". Rain shadowed areas near/east of Mt. Diablo and in the Santa Clara Valley have generally received < a tenth of a inch.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 22/11/2024

Hello from the Tornado Archive team, Bluesky! Tornado Archive is a website dedicated to worldwide tornado history, climatology, and data visualization. Check out our data viewer!

tornadoarchive.com

Tornado Archive - The Ultimate Tornado Data Viewer!

A comprehensive tornado visualization database!

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Anthony Masiello @antmasiello.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The westerly wind burst earlier in the month was pretty strong and is worth a further dive into the data/better analysis. Quick glance at Reanalysis daily data in Nov, for the equatorial 850mb zonal wind anomaly at 120°W since 1950, shows it was the strongest since the 1997 and 1998 November events.

All daily 850mb zonal wind anomalies in November since 1950 in R1 for 0° and 120°W. Early 2024 was the strongest since 1997 and 1998.

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Kirk Giglio Photo @kirkgigliophoto.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Photographers be like “my whole life is in shambles but the lighting is incredible outside” #photography #WxSky #WxBlueSky

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Sam Brandt @sambrandtmeteo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I think this could be a nice way to find the dendritic growth zone characteristics that winter forecasters look for (depth, omega, and RH) all wrapped up into one number. I can publish the code to calculate this on GFS grids if there's interest.

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Starter Packs not perfect by any means but they do give users more agency over the content they see.

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The second thing was bsky's slow and invite-only rollout worked to its advantage long-term; threads burned through its PR when everyone got onto it at once. Bsky's invite system allowed small communities to develop before external events compelled others to leave and follow those communities

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I'm not sure it was "obviously" going to be a blowout. First off, there's an incumbent disadvantage here where many people are seeking to leave the model of "big tech company controlling content distribution via algorithms on large platforms" and more focused on smaller niche communities 1/2

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Night Lights @nightlights.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Aurora and Milky Way in Norway

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

From a synoptic perspective, about where you'd expect a sting jet to occur

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Northern Oklahoma feeling a little “sting”y right now

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I would like to invite myself to this conversation

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It’s a great start to the winter!

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is about as slam dunk of a California atmospheric river pattern as you can get. Dual high pressure blocking patterns over Alaska and the Davis Strait/Hudson Bay.

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Hector @hctr.dev · 16/11/2024

I made a thing! I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃 Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something

nightsky.hctr.dev

Nightsky | hctr.dev

See live conversations from all over Bluesky as a dynamic night sky

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