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Barry Baker @barrybaker.bsky.social · 20h

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

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 26/09/2026

Get Mateer off this team yesterday.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 26/09/2026

I've been fairly quiet on the Heimdall front, but that's because I've been working on some massive updates behind the scenes. Still rough edges to smooth over, interactivity behaviors to flesh out, and some bugs to squash, but... - single-site level 2 radar - multi-site level 2 radar - compositing

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 26/09/2026

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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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 24/09/2026

It took a year and a half, but my @crunchlabs.bsky.social space selfie with Emily finally arrived! It’s a CubeSat with a screen and camera. You can request certain conditions for your selfie too So, that’s super awesome.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 24/09/2026

I added a CIG1 for hail in the 20Z update today. I am just barely skirting in with those lines, I probably should’ve expanded further north a bit. But, it looks like the environment had just enough juice to **potentially** produce 2” hail. MESH is not a hail observation, but it’s something!

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 23/09/2026

Awesome to see more apps/platforms making use of ProbSevere data! I’m always in favor of improving the ability to synthesize multiple data sources. Congrats to them for releasing a useful and cool component.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 23/09/2026

Forgot to post this yesterday, but a decade ago @twisterkid34.bsky.social and I would talk about working at SPC one day. Pretty cool moment to train on the outlook update with him and issue a joint convective outlook.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 20/09/2026

Man, just clean house at OU at this point. No excuses.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 16/09/2026

Love being on a NWS training session about hodographs only for someone to spend 5 minutes bashing a passion project you spent years on for the benefit of the community

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 16/09/2026

After a long hiatus, my photography page has returned! It’s updated with new entries, retains randomized layout on refresh, & also adds lightbox functionality & direct links to the photos. Oh, and you can order prints directly from me now. They make great gifts 😁. www.stormscale.io/photos

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Patrick Marsh @pmarshwx.com · 12/09/2026

This is exactly why we are working to get more of our data/guidance available! We cannot wait to see what you do with it!

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

Wow, this team is an absolute joke. Tarmac Mateer, Arbuckle, and Bill Bedenbaugh all at once.

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

OU is out here tackling ghosts in Anne Arbor. I don’t know why I allow myself to hope we play well lol.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 12/09/2026

Kelton has a lot of good thoughts, and I'll add my own. A lot of problems (though absolutely not all the problems) that people have with generative AI are actually problems that people have with 1) Greedy capitalists 2) People who don't give a shit. (There's some overlap there, for sure.)

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 11/09/2026

I’ve been trying to formulate opinions about this for a while. I still don’t know how to communicate what I am experiencing, thinking, & feeling. Lot’s of nuance. The truth is LLM coding tools are too efficient & effective to be ignored anymore. Yes they’re flawed, but so is human intelligence.

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

The final implementation has been pushed back to October 14, but you can find preview data at the link here. ↓

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 10/09/2026

Christmas has arrived early! The HRRR-based SPC Mesoanalysis, and RRFS North America Domain forecasts postprocessed by the mesoanalysis routines, are on NOMADS! It’s in its parallel evaluation until early October. Then it’ll be operational.

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Patrick Marsh @pmarshwx.com · 09/09/2026

New offerings from SPC. You can check them out on NOMADS. Including, for the first time, our mesoanalysis grids (in netcdf format). We also use our mesoanalysis code to post-process the entire RRFS domain for every forecast hour and every initialization. nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/ncc...

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 07/09/2026

One thing I miss about the early internet is whimsy. Everything has become sterile & boring with corporatization. I also miss screensavers... as a kid I used to scour the internet for cool screensavers. This little addition of whimsy to my home page is an homage to those things :) stormscale.io

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 03/09/2026

Achievement Unlocked: Issue a Convective Outlook (Update) 🏆 I’ve done plenty of thunder lines for the outlooks, but this is the first time I’ve worked on the main outlook and written the discussion! Pretty cool moment.

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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 03/09/2026

Another job opportunity with @cira-csu.bsky.social to work collaboratively with GSL is now available! This one’s for a model developer, focusing on code development, implementation, management, and optimization. For more details: csusystem.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/fortcollins_...

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 01/09/2026

RIP NOAAPort. www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

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daryl herzmann @akrherz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And the other major shoe just dropped, retirement of noaaport next year. Going to build the airplane as it is being flown as AWIPS in the cloud needs to happen too. Fun times www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

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daryl herzmann @akrherz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a big one. NWS seeks comment on the removal of NWS text product warnings in favor of CAP-only. My hot take is that the decision is already made. www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 01/09/2026

NWS is seeking comments on a proposed significant change: moving from VTEC to Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) for warnings and other hazards. www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 30/08/2026

Meira made a new friend tonight

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 29/08/2026

Tonight’s meal was lemon Parmesan broccolini, crispy garlic and shallot potatoes, and panko breaded honey mustard salmon. Proud of this little concoction.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 28/08/2026

Rich in life because my fiancée’s date night idea was dinner and a storm chasing documentary.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 28/08/2026

Tim has put in an immense amount of effort and time into getting this ready for the transition to RRFS/REFS, coordinating with all of us and undertaking a huge task! Exciting stuff coming from SPC and excited about what we’ve all been working on.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 28/08/2026

@stormscale.io's sfcOA-HRRR (updated mesoanalysis) and RRFSD (post processed RRFS) are two new products going in. He presented about them at SLS in Madison, so you can ask him about those two.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 28/08/2026

Big REFS Transition Project 1 (spc-post v3.0) is done. spc-post is SPC's suite of guidance and model post processing. It runs on WCOSS2, the NWS supercomputer that also runs the US forecast model suite. Today, I froze the spc-post v3.0 code in preparation for the 30-day test period. 🧵

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 27/08/2026

I know there’s like, constant bad stuff going on in the world right now & it can be overwhelming. I was not prepared for what it’s like to have so many *good* things going on that it, too, becomes overwheling. SO MANY COOL THINGS that I cannot wait to share, but am going to be disciplined & wait.

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Moanin’ Obukhov @fivethirds.net · 24/08/2026

<Turns head to camera> Oh! Hello, there! My wife and I just released an app called Furcast. It's weather with character. The app transforms the weather into a pixel-art world that changes with the sky. Original human-made art. Thoughtful privacy. Built for all. furcastweather.com/news/hello-f...

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Kevin Manross @kmanwx.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Looking for a cloud developer to work with my group at @cira-csu.bsky.social at the NOAA Fire Weather Testbed in Boulder, CO. Come help us advance concepts and tools to better understand fire weather! csusystem.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/fortcollins_...

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26-117: Fire Weather Testbed Cloud Developer

Job Description Description of Unit: The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University (CSU) seeks to fill a full-time Cloud Developer position designed to c...

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 17/08/2026

This post has aged like a fine wine. GitHub having yet another major outage.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 12/08/2026

Still iterating on things, but I am close to being satisfied with the severe thunderstorm warnings and their IBW tiers. Extra emphasis is given to storms with observed tags. Also experimenting with a rabbit hole idea I fell down last night 👀

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 10/08/2026

Pool/Feedback Request: What are some of your favorite severe/tornado warning visualizations? Including screenshots/visuals helps! Trying to figure out how to deliver good visual fidelity between run-of-the-mill severe, observed, IBW tags, PDS, and emergency.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 10/08/2026

I’m not submitting, so it’s whatever, but AMS not extending the abstract deadline after a significant number of people were just at an AMS conference and out of the office is wild. Nobody was writing or reviewing abstracts for the last week or so. Also, extensions have been the norm forever.

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matplotlib @matplotlib.org · 10/08/2026

Want to contribute to #matplotlib but don't know where to start? Join us for a live session on how to help us triage issues and PRs on GitHub! 📅 August 11th · 8pm UTC 🔗 hackmd.io/@matplotlib/... Bring your questions - all are welcome!

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

You ever stop and think about how cool it is to be paid to care about the weather? This post brought to you by free gin & tonics™️

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

Window seat remains undefeated

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