Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️

Like a painting, but real. A dusty occluding tornado over open land as the sunset lights up its parent updraft. #kswx #stormhour @ReedTimmerAccu @spann 6.23.2023 - Johnson, KS

A sequence of four ultrawide pictures of a slowly developing tornado. This is what it looks like when all of the ingredients come together. 5.16.2021 - Earth, TX

Revisiting this a week later - confidence continues to increase regarding an uptick in severe weather potential across the Central US in early April. I'll have a blog post out soon detailing the intricacies of the threat as ensemble guidance starts to cluster on the specifics.

Nothing is ever the same, but history rhymes, even in science and even in meteorology. So, with a handful of tornadoes already in the bag, I say let's just do the 2023 thing all over again.

@MattBlueThunder Could make some awesome beef jerky at that weather station

114F dew point depression at Fort Carson with 88/-26. #cowx

@AnubizzzBurner Just gotta make it until May and it will rain rain rain 🤪

@sdantwx That's an omen for fire season

Never stop building fences

@StormCoker We dine like kings off the Chaser Food list maps.app.goo.gl/Yc8uiRZBJd21bM…

When you’re chasing this year, really try to eat at local restaurants. The world doesn’t need more Chipotle’s or Starbucks. It needs more original and locally owned restaurants

@brendonme @BianchiWeather Wyoming isn’t real

@BianchiWeather 🤷 x.com/i/status/20286…

Psst: Might see our first true Front Range thunderstorms of the season on Sunday. #COwx

@oldscarf1stweek Assuming the region is around Raleigh, NC, their daily report says they measured severe wind gusts. forecast.weather.gov/product.php?si… More importantly, if dozens of trees fell on houses/cars/whatever then the weather clearly did severe damage and the public benefited from the forecast. 🤷‍♀️

@sdantwx The region has many dead trees from significant fungal diseases over the past 5-7 years that come down in 40-50 gusts, it’s a bit disingenuous to use the “number of damage reports” over measured wind with the vast majority of the “damage” being tree fall

It turns out you can verify any outlook if your local office chooses to accept sub severe wind damage reports for certain events

@StormCoker Never say never

@sdantwx Can I have western Kansas dryline + big April trough?

Early season doldrums bring June troughs

@Get_EMLd @StormCoker There are some minor similarities locally (in the USA) but putting aside the fact that 2012 had a huge April outbreak and was pretty decent in May despite its reputation our background state is nowhere close. Brian called that out a few days ago. El Niño is coming on fast.

@StormCoker I’m actually really really stoked for April. Couple big days seem plausible

@StormCoker Despite what Gabe says based on one run of an ensemble suite that isn’t even into April yet we will not be experiencing early season doldrums, and we will still experience June troughs anyway

@EMoriartyWX I’ll buy the first round for the song and a second because that gretsch is sick

Sláinte my fellow Irish descendants.

These photos come from inside the Cottonwood Fire burn area in Nebraska. A trail camera owned by Jordan Adams went straight through the wildfire and was left completely melted. When he recovered it, he carefully opened the camera and found the SD card inside was still intact. The photos were saved. They’re date- and time-stamped, giving a rare look at how quickly the fire moved through the landscape. Photos courtesy of Jordan Adams.

These are some of the most absurd snowfall maps I've seen for a synoptic snowstorm. Explicit 2-3+" snowfall totals with the possibility for higher depending on where you get terrain + lake enhancement. The UP is in for a truly historic blizzard through early next week.

@wxsarahk You clearly haven’t met any birders, they’re insane

There was a moment today where I wanted to throw up, scream, and cry at the same time. And I’m not even mad about it bc this is what I live for. If I wanted to be mentally stable I’d take up bird watching or something

@oldscarf1stweek “We are in the fucking tornado” seems to be a line only spoken by storm chasers that are not in the fucking tornado

@sdantwx i cut out the end but they’re cheering in the ditch “we were in the tornado!” “We are okay!!”

Full sequence of tornado intercept, storm chaser accident from a livestream by the Tulsa, Oklahoma area tornadoes yesterday.