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Storm Chase Archive @chasearchive.bsky.social · Jun 24

A large update coming later today! These updates will be available for the 2025 cases for now, with older cases to follow. More historical data at your fingertips!
- Past upper air maps with all traditional levels and SFC from the case.
- Right click to save, no more screenshotting!

Radar and satellite map for a case on Chase Archive showing right-click menu with options to copy and save

Upper air map for a case on Chase Archive

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Cameron Nixon @cameronjnixon.bsky.social · Apr 20

No big deal just radar/satellite loops on
@chasearchive.bsky.social
that will ultimately go back to the 1990s

Check it out!!
app.chasearchive.com?q=%5BYEAR%5D

@ameliaurquhart.bsky.social and @stormchasertang.bsky.social are the dream team

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Aidan Paoletti @aidanabwx.skyhighcreators.com · Feb 11

@chasearchive.bsky.social is approaching at an alarming rate. It will be here soon... very soon.

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Storm Chase Archive @chasearchive.bsky.social · Feb 11

Did you know that Case archive can see the future!
Big time case coming up this Saturday!
@cameronjnixon.bsky.social @aidanabwx.skyhighcreators.com @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social
@wxkylegillett.bsky.social
@stormchasertang.bsky.social
@landonwx.bsky.social
@strmchsrhunterf.bsky.social

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · Jan 26

My crankiest belief is that we are now being sold on solutions to problems which only exist because we've let others convince us they exist. That is what "innovation" seems to be in 2025.

There's a level of introspection that's just not happening these days re: what actually needs to bother us.

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James Spann @spann.bsky.social · Jan 18

Very sad news. I learned more about severe local convective storms from Chuck Doswell than anyone else. He was a friend and mentor.

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · Jan 10

A snow day in Oklahoma.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jan 6

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · Jan 4

Glaze is slippery. More later #kswx

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · Jan 1

Four photos I took in the closing days of 2024

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · Jan 1

I have a rough hypothesis that patterns favorable for plentiful California precipitation, Plains tornadoes, and I-95 snowstorms tend to cluster together over multiyear timescales. Occam's Razor says to look at the first EOF of NH 500mb variability: the NAO.

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Sean Stelten @wxstelten.bsky.social · Dec 21

@stormchasertang.bsky.social and I found a tram

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · Dec 3

Ah, the classic squashed spider hodograph

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · Nov 29

REEEEEEEE

Mister _Hk_ // Alexis Morille @mrhk.bsky.social · Nov 27

Inviting other artist to draw this amazing lenticular cloud surrounding the crater of the Villarrica volcano !

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · Nov 28

You guys crack me up

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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · Nov 27

Few people even know about this; when people are asked in surveys how child mortality has changed the majority says it has stagnated or increased.

If you consider that many don't know about humanity's biggest achievement, then it's not surprising that many are so pessimistic about our future.

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · Nov 25

Damnit what

Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · Nov 25

Aurora over volcano in Iceland tinyurl.com/7jqhmcq

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Space Weather TREC @spaceweathertrec.bsky.social · Nov 25

Want the most sophisticated machine learning prediction of geomagnetic storming on the planet?

SWx TREC’s LiveDst model gives 1- and 6-hour forecasts of the geomagnetic Dst index with quantified uncertainty - a first in the space weather forecasting world!

swx-trec.com/dst/

LiveDst: CU Space Weather Forecast

A real-time machine-learning model to predict the geomagnetic disturbance storm time index (Dst) up to six hours ahead

swx-trec.com

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Matt Phelps @themattphelps.bsky.social · Nov 25

Alaska is pretty cool

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · Nov 24

While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network.

I blogged about it here:

Benefits of an open network

emilyliu.me

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · Nov 24

Can confirm it does 😭

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · Nov 24

Just learned that the drive from San Fransisco to Seattle is only 12 hours and I regret not having taken that drive when I lived in California

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · Nov 24

I can't tell if this is accurate, and a reflection of the mass migration of the wx community, or just topics people who migrate to bsky tend to enjoy, or some influence of nominative determinism

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Esteban Ortiz-Ospina @eortizospina.bsky.social · Nov 21

Today’s chart: Weather forecasts have become much more accurate.

In the US a 4-day forecast is now as accurate as a 1-day forecast 30 years ago.

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Jim Tang @stormchasertang.bsky.social · Nov 22

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