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Roger Edwards
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Roger Edwards
@SkyPixWeather
Severe weather, photography, science, & sports. I feast on the smorgasbord of atmospheric violence! Fiercely independent thinker. True-life Horatio Alger story.
Location: wherever I choose. Sumali Şubat 2015
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Fascinating paper from ESSL/European scientists on both real-world and modeled impacts of severe to giant hail on solar PV systems. As we’ve seen, big hail can cause a lot of problems for solar arrays!
There’s much more than this, but highlights:
In short, thicker and/or more strongly tempered glass helps, though PV cells can suffer from impact momentum even if the glass isn’t busted. PV also can accumulate efficiency-reducing stress micro-deficiencies over time, even if not visibly cracked by hail. Areas of the central CONUS and central/southern Europe that get lots of sun also get destructive hail, climatologically.
Mitigation strategies include passive or forecast-specific overhead netting/caging (reduced irradiance being the tradeoff), “hail stow” (forecast-based mechanical turning down of panels makes impact angle more safely oblique, tradeoff being lost energy if forecast/warning misses), and use of thicker and/or stronger/tempered glass (tradeoff being cost and weight).
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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@AriWeather 💯 This is just as awful as the better known videos of NFL athletes abusing their spouses. She must be locked up for the safety of everyone else.
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Violent abusive psycho who shouldn't be around kids. Needs a little jail time and a lot of therapy. Imagine if the genders were reversed here... Just sayin 🤷🤷♀️
TMZ@TMZ
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Frankie Paul repeatedly attacked Dakota Mortensen during the 2023 incident in which she pled guilty to aggravated assault; video shows that one of her children was struck during the fight. Trigger Warning. tmz.me/z0szobb
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The OU/Whorns series has yielded so many great moments and games; however, this was, without doubt, the wildest of all. Damn near sent me to an early grave, and still aged me years in just a few hours. At the end: mentally exhausted satisfaction. I think I was standing most of the 4Q, collapsed into a recliner wide awake afterward, yet didn't move for at least 15 minutes.
MLFootball@MLFootball
THROWBACK: When #Bears quarterback Caleb Williams appeared in his first college football game for Oklahoma and made history. Enwere in 2nd quarter in a rivalry game down by 21 and on the first play ran 66 yards for a touchdown. Legendary comeback 🐐🐐🐐
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@PCSoonersFan Many times. Rattlesnake fritters and nuggets are really tasty too, especially fried up with Cajun seasoning or Old Bay and dipped in shrimp sauce. Big ones yield nice filets you can grill, too.
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Noone...and I mean no one...in Oklahoma...has ever had fried rattlesnake.
Terrible Maps@TerribleMaps
The weirdest foods in each U.S. state
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Those Packers and Pats eras had great teams, but only a few real stars on offense. They were pretty thin at WR, but what they had outside Driver and Edelman was made to look better by HoF caliber QB excellence (not counting Moss, since he was in NE a short time). Both teams were heavy on TEs in the passing game too.
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@Irish_Cowboy88 Donald Driver and Julian Edelman?
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🚨🏈 NFL Legends
What do you think of this list of every teams’s best Wide Receiver?
What would you change?
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@GTx14x 😆 that one was a joke. Kudos to you for finding it!
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No major beef with any of those picks, except Ozzie in Cleveland. He was a tight end, not a WR. Their greatest WR probably was Paul Warfield.
Guessing most PIT fans would choose either Hines Ward, Swann,or Stallworth instead. PHL fans (if they had any sense, and mostly they don't) should pick Harold Carmichael.
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@BeanieShai2 1. Enes Kanter
2. SGA
3. Russ
On any given day you can shuffle that order.
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@AriWeather @_jwall @MatthewCappucci @weatherdak @SteelCityCoach No "sad" emoji in Twitter for that sad truth, so here it is: 😢 regarding chemtrail 🤡💩
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@_jwall @MatthewCappucci @weatherdak @SteelCityCoach @SkyPixWeather I roast them often.. I actually just found out recently that a couple my wife and I are close with are full on chemtrailers. It's legit kinda devastating because even though I'm a met they dgaf. It's full on cult religion
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Full segment on the ship trails that made for some truly *delicious* satellite porn. Thanks to those who helped me out. Yes, I led the show with this because why not 🤘@MatthewCappucci @weatherdak @SteelCityCoach @SkyPixWeather
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@BigNastyWeather Mostly agree. Football is weird: a lot of new rules "for player safety," but very inconsistently enforced, as evident in the number of NFL fines issued for penalties not called on the field.
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@SkyPixWeather It feels like officiating on virtually all sports has gotten progressively worse over the last 10-15 years, to the point where it’s hard to watch a lot of it anymore. Case in point, the video you shared.
Do you agree or disagree?
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In the '80s, this film would have been shown to my HS hoops team as textbook traveling. In fact, it would have induced fits of laughter. Wow. The ref was derelict of duty here.
And yes, I'm well aware that many NBA superstars, along with some of my favorite players (like SGA, Luka, Flagg, JDub) travel obviously on the way through the lane. Hell, even MJ and Magic got away with it sometimes back in the day. Enforce it equally among all, and those players remain great while learning not to do that crap. The middling to marginal players would have to change their games, however.
Super 70s Sports@Super70sSports
The referee is RIGHT THERE. He saw it and he has been instructed by the league to be a blind man. How can anybody still watch this shit? Anthony Bourdain didn’t travel as much as these motherfuckers.
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These ship-trail streaks are fascinating to watch form and evolve, as @ariweather showed on-air. I probably first saw these while playing on a dialup McIDAS machine at NSSL in the late 1980s, and have noticed them ever since, looking at marine satellite loops at NHC and SELS/SPC.
No doubt Ari is a fellow weather nut and cloud/satellite-meteorology aficionado! I love his enthusiasm for this stuff.
Thanks for the shout!
Ari Sarsalari@AriWeather
Full segment on the ship trails that made for some truly *delicious* satellite porn. Thanks to those who helped me out. Yes, I led the show with this because why not 🤘@MatthewCappucci @weatherdak @SteelCityCoach @SkyPixWeather
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Who is your all-time FAVORITE NFL Quarterback?
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@mattvanswol "No motive..." It's not hard to guess, especially for a literal Karen who would wear a functionally useless paper mask outdoors. Maybe they'd get a motive from her if they withheld her Polident.
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🚨#BREAKING: A nearly 70-year-old North Carolina real-life Karen... Karen Lewis... has been arrested after she was caught on camera meticulously vandalizing a Tesla Cybertruck using a board with nails hammered into it.
She was released on just a $1,000 bond.
Police say they have "no motive" for why the older, white, mask-wearing, 67-year-old woman named Karen, who did not know the man who owned the Cybertruck, would commit this crime.
In fact, in the police report, they say the "offense appears to be a random act..."
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@elonmusk This just keeps...on...happening. Evil is as evil does. Anytime I hear of one of these radicals busted for kiddie p0rn/abuse, it's no surprise whatsoever anymore.
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@GadSaad Hero judge indeed -- and I don't get to say that often these days.
If somebody had se×ually abused my daughter, and she didn't happen to take him out, I would have, consequences be damned.
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THOUGHTS ON THESE DALLAS #COWBOYS SPECIAL EDITION BLACK ON BLACK UNIFORMS WITH BLACK HELMETS AND A WHITE OUTLINE…?
👀👀👀
Exclusive first look at them:
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Trees can fall down and take wires with them in severe winds, subsevere strong wind, weak wind, or none at all. Best go with measured severe to assess an event, especially in areas like the Eastern Seaboard where density of both observational stations and shallow-rooted/weak trees is relatively high.
Did you know that, for Storm Data, the NWS boguses most convective wind-damage reports to estimated marginal severe levels, whether they actually were severe or not? This practice is scientifically absurd, but exists.
These and other long-time secularities skew convective wind-report volume heavily eastward, when actual wind severity (esp. for sig/65+ kt gusts) climatologically is greater in the Plains and Midwest.
None of that has changed in the 9 years since I lead-authored this paper (Edwards et al. 2017), and also please read the "Smith, B. T. ..." formal reference therein:
spc.noaa.gov/publications/e…
Matthew Cappucci@MatthewCappucci
This is uncomfortable but true. Southern pines, for instance, often are damaged in winds below severe criteria. Many vulnerable branches fall in sub-58 mph winds. Subsequently, there is an inherent issue with verifying/calibrating outlooks with inconsistency in damage reporting.
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Greater observational capacity and density of shallow-rooted/weak trees all over the Eastern Seaboard. This is a long-time secularity that skews report volume eastward when wind severity (esp. sig) climatologically is greater in the Plains and Midwest. [I'm going to RT Matthew's tweet with similar commentary.]
See this paper, and the Bryan Smith formal reference therein:
spc.noaa.gov/publications/e…
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@MatthewCappucci Hey @SkyPixWeather would you know the answer to this? I'm also grabbing dinner with Moore tonight so he may know
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This is uncomfortable but true. Southern pines, for instance, often are damaged in winds below severe criteria. Many vulnerable branches fall in sub-58 mph winds. Subsequently, there is an inherent issue with verifying/calibrating outlooks with inconsistency in damage reporting.
maybe: k*rk@oldscarf1stweek
It turns out you can verify any outlook if your local office chooses to accept sub severe wind damage reports for certain events
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