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Simon Brewer
@stormgasm.bsky.social

Meteorologist, Storm Chaser, Journalist & Photographer: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, & Winter Storms
www.stormgasm.com

Environmental science 47%
Geology 23%

Happy Groundhog Day!
Spring is just around the corner!
#GroundhogDay

I've documented significantly more extreme snow events, but I'm still
grateful to have been able to document this local historic event in my hometown. Understand this was nothing on the scale of the Great Blizzard of '78 with respect to overall storm intensity. #OHwx

NEW RECORD MAXIMUM SNOWFALL FOR DAYTON, OHIO:
12.4 inches of snow accumulation at the Dayton International Airport. This overtakes the official 12.2 inches measured from the infamous Blizzard of 1978, also known as the Midwest Super Bomb.

9 to 10 inches of snow accumulation in Dayton area so far - this next round moving in might push us up and maybe over the 1 Foot hump!
#Ohio #OHwx

Looking more and more likely Dayton, Ohio might break that snowfall record from the Blizzard of '78, while the winds and low pressure set the 1978 BOMB in a league of its own. #OHwx

Roads getting slick over Southwest Kentucky at 8 am CDT, Saturday January 24, 2026 (Photo near Mayfield, Kentucky)
#KYwx

Cold front about to blast over the area: high winds and rapidly dropping temperature! #Ohio #OHwx

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January 5th, 1880:
Snow began falling in Seattle, Washington, and would continue for much of the week. When it was over, more than 5 feet of snow was recorded.

Tug Hill Plateau getting dumped on this morning! Classic intense lake effect snow event for Upstate New York. ##NYwx

About to watch Jim Henson's "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas", my favorite Christmas-related film
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Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
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#weatherpicofday
10 years ago yesterday, December 23, 2015, @JustonStrmRider and I documented a longtrack, violent tornado pass northwest of Batesville, Mississippi, during a significant outbreak. People were at a Christmas festival in town as this beast passed. #mswx

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December 21st, 2013:
A widespread severe weather event impacted numerous states, from Texas to Pennsylvania. The SPC received over 300 wind reports, several of which were >65 kts. Fifteen tornadoes were confirmed, 3 of which were rated EF2. Four people were killed.

Happy Winter Solstice!
Shortest day of the year in Northern Hemisphere. #WinterSolstice
#ohwx #Ohio

Good morning!
OTD 15 years ago, December 21, 2010, I pulled over on HWY 77 near Wynnewood, Oklahoma, walked out into the tall grass, and photographed a total lunar eclipse just past midnight. Another won't occur on the winter solstice for 98 years. #WinterSolstice #okwx

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NPR @npr.org · Dec 21
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.
NORAD's Santa Tracker began with a typo and a good sport
It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born.
n.pr

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Crazy scenes on I-90 and US-2 due to mudslides - both highways are CLOSED with no estimated reopenings at this time #wawx

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Mid-afternoon update at Snoqualmie Falls. Water levels are currently at 19.4 feet, nearly a foot and a half higher than yesterday!

Tomorrow morning it will make a run at the all-time record water level #wawx

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On Wednesday, widespread heavy rain & very high snow levels (7,000-9,000 feet) will cause enormous runoff into already swollen rivers. Widespread moderate to major flood is likely, with some rivers expected to experience *record* flooding (esp. Skagit & Snohomish). #WAwx [2/3]

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Widespread significant river flooding has already developed across western Washington as a series of extremely warm & moist #AtmosphericRivers move slowly across the region. This flooding will further worsen tomorrow as strongest part of AR moves ashore. #WAwx [1/3]

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December 2, 2018:

An intense tornado struck the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia. The large EF3 threw vehicles and trailers, downed power poles, and blew over many trees on a nearby island. A boat anemometer measured a 144 mph gust. Four people were injured.

#weatherpicofday
OTD 7 years ago, December 1, 2018, I chased a small outbreak of #Twisters over Central Illinois. Captured a few cool photos as this cyclic supercell produced half a dozen twisters between Naples and Havana, IL on the 1st day of Meteorological Winter.
#ILwx

Ohio, Indiana, and Northern Kentucky might get 2 to 4 inches of snow tonight into tomorrow morning. Of course, some locations might get more of less accumulation depending on how the bands setup with only 1 inch or as much as 6 inches in spots.
December 1, 2025 #ohwx

Thankful for Thanksgiving leftovers!!!
Love turkey!
#Ohio #OHwx

#MegawedgeMonday
May 31, 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma

Megawedge (noun) - defined as a visually wedge-shaped tornado with respect to the observer from a wall cloud or updraft base to Earth's surface with a diameter equal to or greater than 1.5 miles in diameter.
#okwx

What a year 2025 has been so far!
Still 5+ weeks to go...
with @JustonStrmRider

Radar vs. View:
Intense convective snowband training off Lake Erie over Buffalo, NY creates what looks to be a WALL OF SNOW!
OTD 3 years ago, @ 3:36 AM EST 17 November 2022 from NW side of Buffalo looking south.
@NWSBUFFALO #NYwx

OTD 11 years ago on November 17-19 2014, and again 3 years ago on November 17-19 2022, I documented epic lake effect snow events over the Buffalo and Southtowns area.
#NYwx #LakeEffect #snow #thundersnow

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Cool study came out earlier this yr looking at the dynamical origins of the extreme 2023 Heatwave in the Desert SW

They concluded that the warm Tropical Atlantic was the primary culprit

The partial regression analysis (left) & AGCM forcing (right) are pretty telling
www.nature.com/articles/s41...