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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The UND Atmospheric Sciences weather map wall in the Leon F. Osborne Weather Center is nearly complete! All custom scripts. Over a year in the making. Glad that its almost done. Electronic version will be available later.

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

SounderPy v3.2.0 has been published to pip and may now be updated on your machine with... pip install --upgrade sounderpy

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🌪️SounderPy v3.2.0 is HERE! - Restored RAP/RUC reanalysis access - Restored UW observation access - Full command line interface - New plot features and improvements - Major documentation upgrades - Ability to read SHARPPY files READ the docs for install instructions!!! 🔽

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Matthew Brown @rhapsodyinbrown.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

➡️ Research Group Intro #2: Thrilled to introduce my 1st PhD student, @wxkylegillett.bsky.social! Besides being a former broadcast meteorologist & the brains behind SounderPy, Kyle is a severe storms fanatic who will be diving into the environmental controls on storm merger outcomes using CM1. (1/3)

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

MS from the University of North Dakota is complete. Officially a UND PhD student.

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A result from my M.S. work: in idealized simulations of a rear-flank storm interaction, the "parent" supercell in an "interaction simulation" produced *substantially* more surface vert. vorticity than a discrete control storm, for a much larger period of time (34min!).

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Keane Kokolsky @keanekokolsky.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

15 UTC sounding launched from @umanitoba.bsky.social in advance of today's severe wx threat. Next sounding to be launched at 19 UTC. #MBStorm

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

SounderPy Users: once my M.S. work concludes early next month & after a nice brain break, I have laundry list of updates to make to SounderPy that I plan to have completed by early full. Some new features, a couple bugs, a few dependency updates, etc. -- apologies for the delay!

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Master's Thesis: defended ✅️. A long two years of grinding through this work as a TA had both its ups and downs but the work was worth it. I'm stoked to have the opportunity to continue this research here at UND for my PhD starting in the fall!

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Today I gave the final lecture of the semester to my first class as instructor of record (Computer Concepts in Meteorology). My students were excellent and the subject was fun to teach. Hopefully this was the start of many more!

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

What's one way the RFD might be important? Inflow-outflow balance I.e., collecting pre-tornadic vert-vorticity (vortex patches) beneath the low-level meso (LLMC) such that it can be stretched into tornadic intensity. When the RFD isn't surging "forward", vortices may be... 🧵

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 16/04/2026

Cute shelf cloud tonight about 6:45, and 30 minutes later, we launched a balloon through the shallowest little cold pool. About 100, maybe 150 meters, of "cold" air.

Shelf cloud over a couple of large buildings, a grassy area, and a street

Skew-T diagram with hodograph and data tables

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I think we finally had a legit (warm) cu field over northeastern North Dakota this afternoon, for the first time this year. We are so back.

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Presented preliminary results of my master's thesis work in my first ever conference talk last week at the NWA Severe Storms and Doppler Radar Conference!

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Dimensions are a hard concept to grasp for beginner programmers. I'm hoping this ridiculous example using a saltine cracker helps solve this problem when I show it lecture this afternoon lol

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Coming to an Iowa Severe Storms and Doppler Radar Conference near you this Saturday.... Storm interactions impact storm behavior and we may be beginning to unravel why. I'll share some preliminary findings from my Master's work at UND that investigates this relationship!

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Stoked to present my master's thesis work to the public for the first time today at UND's Graduate Research Achievement Day. TLDR: storm interactions are important, and we may be starting to understand why. Those going to the Iowa Severe Storms Conference will get to hear more!

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Cody Kirkpatrick @cody.im · 22/02/2026

We launched our first yesterday, and three more today - for practice and to make sure we can get our data into the global communications networks for forecasters to be able to use **worldwide.** For the weather nerds: data from our "third-ever" launch (18Z today) below. Very cold atmosphere today!

A Skew-T diagram and hodograph, with data tables below.

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Jake Carstens @jakecarstens.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The official debut of my research group was tonight at #AMS2026! Sooooooo proud of Sydney, Kyle, and Payton, as well as our other students repping North Dakota this week. Stay tuned for much more from my Northern Plains Sickos at the Tropical Conference in March 👀

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Clark Evans @clarkevanswx.github.io · 26/01/2026

@nws.noaa.gov Director Ken Graham presented on NOAA’s modeling grand challenge at #AMS2026 this morning. He announced that the NWS is moving to MPAS as its modeling dynamical core, with his #1 moonshot goal being a global, fully coupled 3-km Earth prediction system using MPAS.

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

That's a wrap for me at #AMS2026 -- here's the work we presented last night at the student poster session: Can we increase predictability of TC-tor events *prior* to landfall via airborne observations? Here's the poster. It was a pleasure to see everyone! Keep in touch!

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Biggest take away from #AMS2026 so far: everything happens for a reason. The opportunities, hardships, relationships, etc. Its all for a reason, and that reason is growth.

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Jake Carstens @jakecarstens.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

See you soon, #AMS2026! Come by the Early Career Conference Sunday-Monday, check out my students' posters, then stick around long enough to heckle me when it's my turn to present.

A loaded schedule at the upcoming AMS Annual Meeting, featuring the debut of my research group!

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

How it started, vs how its going. Its way....WAY too humid here. #AMS2026

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Who all is going to AMS? I'll be co-presenting some ground-work for "Convective Environments Preceding Landfall in Tornadic Tropical Cyclones: An Analysis of Airborne Observations" during the Sunday 7-9pm poster session. See ya there!

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Cameron Nixon @cameronjnixon.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Here it is. The last 10 years of hail events across the U.S. using my prototype hail tracking algorithm! Hoping to build out a more robust climatology of hailstorms like we have for tornadoes.

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Super excited to now have a copy @shawnmilrad.bsky.social's brand new edition of "Synoptic Analysis and Forecasting, An Introductory Toolkit" textbook featuring TONS of SounderPy soundings! This is a great intro to synoptic meteorology and forecasting! Thanks for sending it, Shawn!

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

A couple years of work, lots of learning, lots of trial & error, and endless support from ya'll have culminated into the news I got today: SounderPy is officially a peer-reviewed, published software. This couldn't have happened w/o yall -- thank u 🤍 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The 2nd Edition of my textbook is now available! Biggest updates are in figure quality, including soundings based on SounderPy output thanks to @wxkylegillett.bsky.social making it freely available! shop.elsevier.com/books/synopt... www.amazon.com/Synoptic-Ana...

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Thomas Knepshield @tknep3.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I am wealthy with no money

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Beyond severe convective weather today, severe fire weather will exist on the high-plains of New Mexico & west Texas tomorrow PM. Extreme fire-behavior is possible given such extremely dry low-levels and strong surface winds. #NMwx #TXwx

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Connor Walsh @connorwa15h.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today in Boulder, CO after mass firings of employees at NOAA - an American flag being flown upside down on the iconic 2nd Flatiron (Not my video) credit NWMountainGuy on Reddit

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I love reading replies on wx folk's posts about these NOAA/NWS cuts that say something like "our government is bloated, overstaffed, paid too much, not needed, we **need** to cut them" etc. I'm quite sure most of these people could've cared less until a certain someone *told* them its a "problem"

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Stephen Strader @stephenmstrader.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Reminder what tornado death rates looked like before improving forecasting, building codes, education, etc. Research matters. Back to 1875 we go! Figure credit: @hebrooks87.bsky.social

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Storm Chase Archive @chasearchive.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Wow! Since the National Storm Chaser Summit began on February 14th, 2025, the Chase Archive has received over 100 submissions. Thank you! Keep 'em coming! Please continue to submit your chase days! We want all your cases, good and/or bad! chasearchive.com

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Storm Chase Archive - The Ultimate Catalog of Storm Chases

Explore the biggest storm chase collection on the web, featuring tornadoes, hurricanes, and awe-inspiring weather phenomena.

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

sorry sir, we don't do that here. Left, right, doesn't matter. That's un-American.

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Kyle J Gillett @wxkylegillett.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The 12z observations from BIS (Bismarck, ND) this morning are the 16th coldest (at the sfc, -33.3F) of the 53,970 soundings on record going back to 1948. #NDwx

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