Meteorologist/Radar Analyst @tnvalleyweather @FaytuksWeather Writer — Radar, Weather, Data Viz & More
Huntsville, AL
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I’ve been chasing for nearly 13 years, and I have to say I’m pretty non-plussed about the whole state of affairs right now. We have more leeway than ever to chase your own way, and honestly that’s allowed some careers that would have been impossible 10 years ago.
I mean, I think some people have gotten dumber and more reckless… but I’m getting more libertarian about it and I still just chase how I’ve always chased (which is infrequent compared to most)… it works for me.
Its hard to imagine where weather/storm chasing will be in 10+ years.
10 years ago, I would have never imagined it would be the way it is now. The way its evolved, with streaming, youtubers, weather apps, AI composite blob maps taking the last bit of skill needed out of the equation etc etc...
The "old folks" wish it would go back to the way it was.
The younger, newer generation will never understand how the changes feel. Its easy for them to say "welp, its just how it is now" since thats all they know.
But...in 10+ years...how else will it change? One day, yall will see what we mean when we reminisce and look back.
Im 50/50 on it all. 50% salty the easy paths to success we have now didn't exist when I was 20 years old, and 50% glad I probably only have 10-15 good years left anyways, so I wont have to worry or deal with the future (de)evolution.
But through it all, there are still moments you can have mostly to yourself such as Onslow, IA 4-14-26. They're becoming rarer, however. Bag em now, cherish em forever.
Fujita is one of those scientists like Einstein who got it correct right off the rip, and we’re basically re-arriving at those conclusions lately, slowly but surely, from first-principles. A mind like none other !
October 23, 1920:
Dr. Ted Fujita was born in the Fukuoka Prefecture of Japan.
Fujita devoted his life to the study of tornadoes, supercells, and downbursts. He is most notably the creator of the scale utilized by the National Weather Service to rate tornadoes.
#wxhistory
Like, what!?!?!? How do you miss this!?!?!? Not even a severe?????
What’s going on with these western offices? I understand they don’t get severe weather often, but I feel like we need some sort of standardized training nationally at this point. I’d think if you have a juiced environment, you’d spare someone to monitor radar like a hawk, no? What else is there to do in the downtime?
What’s going on with these western offices? I understand they don’t get severe weather often, but I feel like we need some sort of standardized training nationally at this point. I’d think if you have a juiced environment, you’d spare someone to monitor radar like a hawk, no? What else is there to do in the downtime?
I have a three-day weekend and I am full time and I can’t stress to people enough how far one more day goes. It’s one of the many reasons I have turned down several industry bog-standard job offers. That extra day is worth *a lot*, and I truly do mean **a lot**, of additional salary to me.
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TDS near Finchville, KY. No tornado warning on this, and at first blush you'd be given no reason to think one was necessary. Probably a lot of W motion and a very shallow vortex #kywx
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I am sick and tired of people in traditional "broadcast meteorology" posting smiling selfies during the approach of Isaias. Their theory is... "It's all about ME!!"
These nitwits need to spend this week in places like Lenox, Peterman, and Canoe Alabama cutting trees off homes and feeding people.
If you want to be a social media influencer or a model, fine. But stay out of weather. Please.
I notice a lot of NWS offices in the eastern CONUS region using MRLE during severe weather ops. I'd like to pick some radar operators brains over there to see why. Not in any sort of "poking the bear" way or anything, but I just don't think it's the right scheme doctrinally and it seems like a lot use it because its the fancy new thing. SAILS seems far better suited to my mind for these sort of fast moving tropical supercells.
Looks like a significant tornado NE of Raleigh, NC right now. Hard to say if that 60dbz debris ball is because its fall or if its truly intense, but I wouldn't be surprised by the latter
