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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 27/09/2026

This is the most infuriating part of data center and water discourse. Alfalfa exports use way more water than data centers, and no one cares.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 25/09/2026

Had some flash flooding last night in Grants. The ripple marks are in sediment deposited on the road above a culvert. We had 1+ inches of rain in less than an hour on top of the mesa. Gravity took charge after that. #nmwx

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 25/09/2026

So, my games are just a little old. I think the median release date is the 1990’s. my9games.com/en/s/56c7bb0...

3x3 grid of games with a median release date in the 1990’s.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 21/09/2026

That was the culmination of a brutal summer forecasting TC’s for Loon, we had a launch site on the eastern shore of PR at former NAS Roosevelt Roads, and I had to forecast the likelihood of tropical storm force winds 72 hours out since that was how long it took to button up the site.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 18/09/2026

Completely befuddled. Especially when I answer the question, “Well, how did you get here?” Letting the days go by…

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 18/09/2026

In ye olden days this would be a gargantuan pair of county warnings including both Grants and Rio Rancho. Kids these days have no idea.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 17/09/2026

This is a really good paper and fits the strengths of the coding LLMs (independent oracles keep the agents in line). Whats going to be hilarious is when Reviewer 2 uses your toolchain to prove you’re wrong.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 14/09/2026

This linear storm in Grants is LOUD: malpais.app#v=3&s=KABX&m... #nmwx

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 12/09/2026

Just to add on to this, Malpais.app started because I wanted to see if using the ICDs, could Claude write a L2 parser. And now it’s my daily driver for keeping track of my local weather.

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Malpais

Real-time NEXRAD radar viewer — Level 2 and Level 3 data, surface observations, warnings, and severe weather overlays.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 06/09/2026

A brief word about naming conventions for Malpais.app. Though bodies of water are not currently labeled, the canonical names include the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. And my state is New Mexico. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Malpais

Real-time NEXRAD radar viewer — Level 2 and Level 3 data, surface observations, warnings, and severe weather overlays.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 18/08/2026

Ooh, I’m retired now, so I can say that this was not great for the geosciences either. I didn’t understand how switching from a quantified metric with known issues to unquantifiable metrics that could be gamed would be an improvement.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 17/08/2026

This little pipsqueak made the first thunder of the day in Grants. #nmwx

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 16/08/2026

I've heard reports of snow on Mauna Kea as #Lala passes through. This cross section of reflectivity from PHKM on the north side suggests that's it's snowing HARD. We now have terrain in malpais.app thanks to @mapterhorn.com malpais.app#v=3&s=PHKM&m...

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 16/08/2026

RHI of the eyewall of TS #Lala as it's passing south of the Big Island of Hawaii. #wx #hiwx malpais.app#v=3&s=PHWA&m...

PPI and RHI of TS Lala as it passes south of the Big Island. The eyewall isn't that impressive in reflectivity, but that's expected as Lala has been moving over cooler water.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

someone is gonna need to write this book

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 14/08/2026

This thread is an exemplar of the failure modes of Bluesky. A historian posts a history paper created by Fable 5 as a benchmark of the current state of the art. The result: General AI rage, users raging without reading the thread or linked material, and overall just lack of good faith engagement.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 14/08/2026

@stormscale.io Since there's a live Flash Flood Emergency, I thought I'd share how my app handles the IBW tags. Basically, Emergencies float to the top of the warning list and the borders are very thick. I'm open to suggestions/comments since I'm not a UX guru. malpais.app#v=3&s=KJKL&m...

Screenshot of malpais.app showing active Flash Flood Emergency

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 02/08/2026

I've added the TIGER road shapefile to malpais.app to help people track the #Spokane wildland fire. #wa #wawildfire #wawx malpais.app#v=3&s=KOTX&m...

Radar reflectivity of KOTX overlaid on Spokane County roads showing the fire/smoke plume relative to Spokane.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 30/07/2026

I've been watching this storm from the kitchen window for the past hour or so, it's been a great lightning producer. On the 3D radar view from malpais.app, you can clearly see how multiple updrafts are feeding the same stratiform layer. Really neat. #nmwx

3D radar view of the storm in eastern Cibola County, NM on July 29, 7PM MDT. You can see the multiple cores feeding into the same stratiform layer.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 27/07/2026

One of the papers I was working on back in my Google days is finally out: High-resolution simulations reveal positive global warming feedback from Pacific low clouds | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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High-resolution simulations reveal positive global warming feedback from Pacific low clouds

High-resolution simulations reveal that direct carbon dioxide effects nonlinearly amplify positive low-cloud feedbacks.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 24/07/2026

We have a gorgeous monsoon thunderstorm SW of Grants right now. It looks great in the 3D radar visualization I'm working on for malpais.app

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 22/07/2026

For my peeps still in academia, only 3 mentions of weather in the report and ZERO climate mentions.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 21/07/2026

Velocity/Reflectivity panels of the TOR warned storm near Munsfordville, KY. malpais.app#v=3&s=KLVX&m...

Doppler velocity/reflectivity scans of the TOR warned storm near Munfordville, KY

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 21/07/2026

Now that TS #Bertha is active in the Gulf of Mexico, I've added some new features to malpais to help track tropical storms. We now have links to NHC products, tropical watches/warnings, and peak storm surge forecasts. malpais.app#v=3&s=KMOB&m...

Forecast cone of uncertainty with forecast track for Tropical Storm Bertha with radar overlay and watches/warnings polygons active.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 19/07/2026

Well, I'm under a flash flood warning thanks to the first storm of the day firing off of Mt Taylor. Look at how good the polygon boundary matches the precip extent. #nmwx Permalink: malpais.app#v=3&s=KABX&m...

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 17/07/2026

Last night was some pretty bad flash flooding in Gallup, NM, the El Rancho Hotel reported 4 feet of water in the basement. The moisture is still hanging around, KGUP's dewpoint is a muggy 53F. This is the view I'm using to maintain situational awareness: malpais.app#v=3&s=KABX&m...

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Malpais

Real-time NEXRAD radar viewer — Level 2 and Level 3 data, surface observations, warnings, and severe weather overlays.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 17/07/2026

First monsoon season in Grants, and I’ve already got my first rainbow over Mt Taylor.

Radar reflectivity of a thunderstorm producing a rainbow over Mt Taylor.

Rainbow over Mt Taylor, Cibola County NM

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 16/07/2026

Monsoon thunderstorm near Mt Taylor at 237 MDT. Radar and photo are valid at the same time. Link goes directly to archived scan. malpais.app#v=3&s=KABX&m...

Reflectivity scan of monsoon thunderstorm.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 16/07/2026

New update for malpais.app: permalinks. Every scan resolves to a URL, everything's encoded in a fragment: site, timestamp, tilt, layout, even warnings/LSRs. Doesn't go to the server, so it doesn't get logged. No more re-navigating to show someone what you saw. A few from this year's worst days:🧵

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Malpais

Real-time NEXRAD radar viewer — Level 2 and Level 3 data, surface observations, warnings, and severe weather overlays.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 12/07/2026

Virga at sunset in Grants, NM.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 09/07/2026

I was running a time lapse video of Mt Taylor to catch the onset of orographic convection when I got this dust devil.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 02/07/2026

It’s the start of another clear day in NM, with this sunrise over Mt Taylor.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 30/06/2026

I'd be shocked if this was actually in the City of Dallas, it's quite blue. Much more likely to be Arlington, but really, as any devotee of @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social know, southern Denton County would be the most spiritually appropriate location.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 26/06/2026

RHI/PPI view of the SVR warned storm near Gallup. KABX might be far away, but it gets a good view of the reflectivity core. (Made with malpais.app) #nmwx

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 26/06/2026

It's new feature Friday for malpais.app! You can now look at the last 5-30 minutes of GLM lightning flash locations as an overlay. It's useful for assessing storm intensity trends and motion at a glance. Just go to the Fire/Lightning tab on the left and click the Enable toggle under Lightning.

Map of reflectivity overlaid with GLM flash locations.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 25/06/2026

Some dime size hail in Grants just now. Looking at malpais.app, it looks like the reflectivity core was just to our north. #nmwx

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 22/06/2026

Always nice to see screenshots of malpais.app in the wild.

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Malpais

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 17/06/2026

With TS #arthur, now is a good time to announce some new features for malpais.app, my Nexrad viewer app. You can now load current surface obs (METAR/RAWS), plot the objective analysis of T/Td/RH/altimeter/winds, and for the wildfire monitors, we have incident locations/perimeters. (1/x)

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 16/06/2026

When you’re at the little league game checking the suspicious looking virga shaft on your radar app, malpais.app

Virga, maybe reaching the ground, w of Grants

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 12/06/2026

Oh I forgot, how the day started, and how it’s going #nmwx #sunrise #showers

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 12/06/2026

It's an air-mass thunderstorm kind of day here in Cibola County, NM. Some orographic convection tried to form over Mt. Taylor, but just didn't click. The biggest storm right now is over Acoma Pueblo lands. KABX L2 data visualized using malpais.app

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 11/06/2026

Fixed this bug, and we now have SVG export in malpais.app

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 11/06/2026

Dual-pol scan of the smoke plume from the Bear Fire in #NM earlier today using malpais.app . The smoke plume was visible from Grants, which is over 100 km from the fire.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 09/06/2026

So, a few updates for malpais.app 1) You can have up to 4 panels at once to look at different moments or Level 3 products at the same time. 2). You can load RHIs (range height indicator, a cross section along the radar beam. (This is from a weak storm over my house today)

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 03/06/2026

Ok, pushed the fix for this (coordinate systems are fun) and also the first steps towards METAR displays (if you hover over an airport with a metar, you can get the flight conditions, temp, dew point and winds. Click and you get the raw METAR)

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 23/05/2026

My wife adores ST:VOY, but acknowledges that the writers had certain tics...

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 22/05/2026

I'm happy to announce the launch of malpais.app, a free NEXRAD/TDWR radar viewer that lives in your browser. malpais downloads Level 2 or Level 3 data from NOAA's Open Data Dissemination archives and renders it in WebGL on your desktop or mobile device. For free.

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 20/05/2026

Some virga from earlier in the evening. Radar is from an app I’ve been working on

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 29/04/2026

So a dust devil just rolled over my house as I was unloading the van. I figure the dust plume was at least 2-3 stories tall. There may have been a topographical assist from Grants Ridge just to my west. #nmwx

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Rob Carver @wundersooner.com · 25/04/2026

Saw some dust devils around Grants, today. Even got to chase one in the minivan for a bit. Given the general lack of supercells on the Colorado Plateau, it’ll do. @vortexjeff.bsky.social @kmkanak.bsky.social

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