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'Inside the NBA' on ESPN includes Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel on the "Gone Fishing" graphic for the Boston Celtics.

The man — the myth — the Broyles. This was an absolute career highlight and an amazing privilege; a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interview Chris via Zoom. He emailed me after and offered a one-on-one tutorial of his research and novel forecasting techniques. The offer was beyond humbling. Today, I got to sit down with him for two hours and learn about his team’s groundbreaking research surrounding jet streak translation speeds and a variety of other factors. To say I learned a LOT would be an understatement. An equally-skilled teacher as forecaster. Many of you know Broyles from some famed tornado outlooks — like in 2012, when he presciently issued a day-two high risk despite models showing no rainfall. The next day, swarms of strong to violent tornadoes materialized exactly where he had anticipated. He proved correct, and the top-notch analysis and gut instinct earned him a congressional silver medal. It was amazing to see how much technical in-the-weeds meteorology goes into each of his upper-echelons forecasts, as well as the impressive and promising verification statistics of some of the agency’s more recently-created tools. Chris’s OMEGA research rose to prominence following a “surprise” high risk outlook on April 2, 2025. A lot of meteorologists, including myself, were caught off guard — we didn’t see it coming, and convective-allowing (thunderstorm-simulating) models were tepid. By 4 p.m., a string of violent tornado supercells were traversing the high risk area through northeastern Arkansas exactly where Chris had drawn it. The brazen forecast, based on years of research, verified — and ultimately saved lives. Chris was exceptionally kind in answering all my questions thoughtfully and comprehensively. I didn’t realize until after that this was all on his own time — his shift hadn’t even started yet. For someone at his level to give an early-career professional two hours just for the sake of teaching speaks volumes about his character. @NWSSPC has some phenomenal minds — and people.

Ernani was my master's advisor and he attended OU from 1998 to 2002. He saw the Bridge Creek-Moore EF5 on May 3, and had a picture of it framed in his office.

The Celtics are the first team to have three different starters (Luka Garza, Baylor Scheierman, Ron Harper Jr.) with 0 points in a playoff game since starters were first tracked in 1970-71.

The puck drops on our Round 2 series on Wednesday, May 6! How to watch and Official Ticket Marketplace info from @Ticketmaster → bufsabres.co/42HpPdV #LetsGoBuffalo | #sabrehood

Could’ve told me this was Cincinnati Ohio

Boston's Jayson Tatum is OUT for Game 7 tonight against the Philadelphia 76ers with a left leg injury.

❗❗ New Python Notebook For USGS Data❗❗ There have been requests to get Streamflow data from the USGS Water Dashboard. Well this notebook will do just that. It will get the data, plot it, AND provide a KMZ to be loaded into your systems Go and play! github.com/jjrennie/usgs_…

Miami Dolphins quarterback Malik Willis threw out the first pitch ahead of tonight’s game against the Phillies. #Marlins #FinsUp

Rasmus Dahlin via Instagram:

LET'S GO, @BuffaloSabres‼️

THE SERIES IS OURS. ⚔️ #LetsGoBuffalo | @SenecaBuffalo

Give it up for this man.

JOSH NORRIS EMPTY NETTER!

WATCH: Sabres fans cheer in the final minutes of Game 6 at Sports City Pizza Pub in Buffalo.

BENNY GOAL!!!! 3-1 Sabres | P3 14:02

These 3 days in May continue to elude me. Filling in the 7th looks bleak this year but we'll see if we can find burps of flow by the 14th

Here's a new, rare photo of the Smithville, MS EF5 early in it's life, taken by the current mayor in his restaurant's parking lot. This is before it hit the town. Based on geolocation, it was in between the RV park and the home of Jesse Cox (foundation dislodged) at the time.

Wow.