Brian Shrader

Interesting study by Cameron Masiello at NC State looking at how winds decay inland in landfalling TCs. Check out that exponential dropoff in the first few minutes as the parcels move inland. Nice illustration of why, along with sparseness of observations, that wind measurements often seem "low" in landfalling systems. #AMS37Hurr

BOLDLY GO!! WILLIAM SHATNER on CNN reacting to the launch of ARTEMIS II!! AMAZING!! @WilliamShatner

@OKnox I think my middle school typing class may have been the single most useful course I've ever taken.

I don't remember the name of the typing teacher at Middlebury Union High School in 1986 but I wish I could go back in time and thank her. As important/lasting an impact on my life as any MUHS teacher.

I am a million years old.

Birth to death timelapse of a tornado Gary, SD - June 28, 2025

@Coach_theriot @twosuh One of our sports guys brought it to my attention. I'm the breaking news anchor, and from 4-7:30p I'm triaging a torrent of content. This was pretty low on my list, so I didn't look at it very carefully. Figured I'd secure permission first, then we'd vet it before hitting air

@brianshrader @twosuh I do have a question. Did you not ask why is an NC State fan wearing Tar Heel Blue or why is everyone in jackets with a heigh pushing 80s because that was my question right away.

Live look at Will Wade being picked up by LSU

@Coach_theriot @twosuh Appreciate it!

@twosuh No you don’t under stand they are trying to use it on their local news stations. @brianshrader deleted his tweet once I pointed it out or else I’d show you lol

Easily a top 5 radar loop in WF history. The atmosphere is incredible.

Many rolls of gravity wave clouds wash over the skies above the Southern US this afternoon.

@davereaboi Without warning last week, Claude created a new thread after an involved chat about a project. The new thread couldn't remember anything, couldn't see the files I uploaded nor the files it created.

Claude is great and everything, but I can absolutely imagine someone—or a lot of someones—going postal.

The Gong Show (1976-1980). The talent show that embraced chaos and created... more chaos! Hosted in exuberant style by Chuck Barris, it gave us The Unknown Comic and Eugene Patton: "Gene, Gene, the dancing machine!"

Please join me in celebrating our 156th birthday. The National Weather Service was created by a joint resolution of Congress on February 9, 1870. From a telegraph to issuing our first Advisory from the cloud yesterday, our public safety/national security mission stands strong to safeguard lives, property, and the economy. I’m humbled to lead this 24/7 team that goes above and beyond every day.

AI SLOP: This problem will never go away, but the amount of AI “slop” from social media engagement farms continues to grow exponentially. Why do I care? When dramatic, fake forecasts like these don’t verify (and they almost never do), people start lumping legitimate meteorologists in with the nonsense. Eventually you hear: “They’re always wrong.” That loss of trust is dangerous — especially when a real warning finally does come. If people are told every week that a monster snowstorm or tornado outbreak is coming, they stop paying attention, they stop preparing, and they delay action when it actually matters False alarms numb people. Tornadoes and other high impact weather events don’t forgive complacency. The most disturbing posts are the ones that show AI generated severe weather outlooks, that are very similar to the real ones issued by NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center. Do, you know my charge to you this morning. Please THINK before you share!!!

Under no circumstances should you use Apple's Weather App for anything important.

You may hear a lot about the "Euro Model" or what the NOAA "goofus" says. I commissioned a handy chart with accurate details. Feel free to bookmark.

The Sopranos premiered on this day in 1999. I still remember being offered the role of David Scatino. I had met David Chase a few years earlier on a film that never happened and then he went on to create The Sopranos. By the time we spoke about the role the show was already a phenomenon. David told me no one would think to cast me this way — a pathetic gambling addict. What he didn’t know was that I had just lost a lot of weight playing Matt Damon’s father in All the Pretty Horses so I was already physically lighter and feeling exposed which turned out to be exactly what the role needed. I worked closely with my acting coach and friend Stephen Bridgewater and we went through every scene in detail. I also spent time talking with people from Gamblers Anonymous which gave me a real understanding of the addiction. I remember flying from the Venice Film Festival straight to New York to start filming and walking into that first table read. Everyone was flipping pages to see who got whacked. I was already off book and ready. I knew I had a handle on Scatino from the start. Forever grateful for the opportunity and experience. 🙏🏼 #TheSopranos

@jbillinson I remember seeing it the night it aired and laughing. So strange.

THE BIG REGRESSION My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented them a house nearby. It’s new construction. No one has lived in it yet. It’s amped up with state of the art systems. The ones with touchscreens of various sizes, IoT appliances, and interfaces that try too hard. And it’s terrible. What a regression. The lights are powered by Control4. And require a demo to understand how to use the switches, understand which ones control what, and to be sure not to hit THAT ONE because it’ll turn off all the lights in the house when you didn’t mean to. Worse. The TV is the latest Samsung which has a baffling UI just to watch CNN. My parents aren’t idiots, but definitely feel like they’re missing something obvious. They aren’t — TVs have simply gotten worse. You don’t turn them on anymore, you boot them up. The Miele dishwasher is hidden flush with the counters. That part is fine, but here’s what isn’t: It wouldn’t even operate the first time without connecting it to an app. This meant another call to the house manager to have them install an app they didn’t know they needed either. An app to clean some peanut butter off a plate? For serious? Worse. Thermostats... Nest would have been an upgrade, but these other propriety ones from some other company trying to be nest-like are baffling. Round touchscreens that take you into a dark labyrinth of options just to be sure it’s set at 68. Or is it 68 now? Or is that what we want it at, but it’s at 72? Wait... What? Which number is this? Worse. The alarm system is essentially a 10” iPad bolted to the wall that has the fucking weather forecast on it. And it’s bright! I’m sure there’s a way to turn that off, but then the screen would be so barren that it would be filled with the news instead. Why can’t the alarm panel just be an alarm panel? Worse. And the lag. Lag everywhere. Everything feels a beat or two behind. Everything. Lag is the giveaway that the system is working too hard for too little. Real-time must be the hardest problem. Now look... I’m no luddite. But this experience is close to conversion therapy. Tech can make things better, but I simply can’t see in these cases. I’ve heard the pitches too — you can set up scenes and one button can change EVERYTHING. Not buying it. It actually feels primitive, like we haven’t figured out how to make things easy yet. That some breakthrough will eventually come when you can simply knock a switch up or down and it’ll all makes sense. But that's at least 20 years down the road. It’s really the contrast that makes it alarming. We just got back from a vacation in Montana. Rented a house there. They did have a fancy TV — seems those can’t be avoided these days — but everything else was old school and clear. Physical up/down light switches in the right places. Appliances without the internet. Buttons with depth and physically-confirmed state change rather than surfaces that don’t obviously register your choice. More traditional round rotating Honeywell thermostats that are just clear and obvious. No tours, no instructions, no questions, no fearing you’re going to do something wrong, no wondering how something works. Useful and universally clear. That’s human, that’s modern.

@jasonfried One sets up all of these scenes and automation configurations. Then, you live your life...and forget what you set up back in 2022.

Here is a more direct answer to "when do we get most of our tornadoes?" NW Arkansas into Central MO stand out as particularly unlucky with a nocturnal peak, while much of the Southeast is pretty variable. Also, notice the morning peaks (waterspouts!) along the coasts. 2003-2024

@scottlincicome @LibertyMutual It looks like I'm conducting the world's worst orchestra.

Cmon, @LibertyMutual.