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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · Mar 13

Iiiit's here! The complete recorded package for Spring Training 2025 in partnership with @comet-meted.bsky.social is now available! 🤓🌪⚡️

If you missed your chance to register & were waiting to access the training, your time has come!

Get it: girlswhochase.vhx.tv/products/spr...

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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · Jul 25

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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · Jul 25

Don’t forget to register for this free webinar NEXT TUESDAY! It’s an important one…

American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · Jul 22

Are your weather forecasts in danger?

Next week join weather and storm experts Mike Nelson, Jana Houser, Tim Marshall, & Josh Morgerman—moderated by Alan Sealls—as they discuss impacts of government cuts on the weather community and public.

Register now: bit.ly/462OQU2 @girlswhochase.com

Graphic for the AMS and Girls Who Chase collaborative webinar "Storm Clouds Ahead: What’s at stake for storm chasers, weather enthusiasts, and the public with planned federal cuts to forecasts & radar" featuring headshots, name, and title of the moderator and panelists, date, and time.

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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · Jul 17

This is an important one — see you online for this free webinar!

American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · Jul 16

Join us and @girlswhochase.com for a timely conversation with experts about the impacts of major planned federal cuts—and more—that could soon affect the weather community, including tornado warnings 🌪️, hurricane outlooks 🌀, and the free forecasts we rely on every day 🌡️

Register: bit.ly/462OQU2

Graphic for the AMS and Girls Who Chase collaboration webinar "Storm Clouds Ahead: What’s at stake for storm chasers, weather enthusiasts, and the public with planned federal cuts to forecasts & radar" featuring details of the panelists, date, and time.

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Alethea Kontis 알리티아 @aletheakontis.com · May 18

Chaser Girl Convergence! ✨🌪️✨
#OzOrBust @girlswhochase.com @chriskridler.bsky.social

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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · May 16

Thanks, Brian!! 🫶🏻

Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · May 14

Hey all! If you’re in Colorado on Saturday we’d sure love to see you at the @nsficechip.bsky.social field day! Come see @dowfacility.bsky.social & check out all the instrumentation before we hit the road on Sunday! ⛈️

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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · May 14

Love hearing that!

Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · May 6

What we’ll be bringing you this summer will cover the project, what it’s like to organize, run, and participate in a large complex field project, and content from some of our intercepts. Keep an eye on GWC and @dowfacility.bsky.social social media for updates!

More:
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ICECHIP | Earth Observing LaboratoryICECHIP | Earth Observing Laboratory

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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · May 6

We’ll both be part of the @dowfacility.bsky.social team; Jen will be navigating & operating one of the DOWs, & Anastasia will be in a SCOUT vehicle overseeing the pod (heavy, sensor-laden instruments) deployment group.

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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · May 6

ICECHIP is the largest hail-focused field campaign in the U.S. in more than 40 years!

This 6-week campaign aims to transform our understanding of hail by collecting unprecedented field data in order to advance hail detection, improve forecast models & strengthen public warning systems.

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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · May 6

Big news! We’ve got some special content coming your way, as both Jen (GWC founder) & Anastasia (intrepid GWC intern & all around badass) are participating in the hail-focused @nsficechip.bsky.social (In-situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail in the Plains) field campaign! ⛈️

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Jane Herbert @aussky.bsky.social · Apr 21

Soon….

Fantastic supercell Spearville, KS ….the tops got pretty close to 50.000 feet…21st April 2022 #supercell #stormchaser #storm #tornadoalley

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Melanie Metz @melaniemetz.bsky.social · Apr 19

This wedge tornado I photographed by Essex, IA on 4/17/25 was 1.8 mi wide at it's max & rated EF-1 by the NWS. Thankfully there were no injuries. I am in shock I was there to document this historic event!

#tornado #Iowa @nws.noaa.gov @girlswhochase.com

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · Apr 17

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences.

Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now

The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

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Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · Apr 17

“The Post spoke with 10 employees across the Weather Service …. Concerned with leaks to the media, the administration is installing monitoring software on NOAA employees’ devices to track their communications, two current employees said.”

Reporting by Scott Dance…

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National Weather Service buyouts will leave gaps as storm season ramps up

Some meteorologists and public officials warned that reductions, which leave the agency nearly 20 percent smaller, could have deadly consequences.

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Lori Grace @lorigrace.bsky.social · Apr 17

One of my best from 2022. Saguaro, rainbow, lightning.

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Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · Apr 11

Rainbows in abundance over Seattle yesterday evening! 4.10.25 #wawx #pnw #WxSky @girlswhochase.com @stormhour.bsky.social

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Jane Herbert @aussky.bsky.social · Apr 11

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On Highway 5 in SW Oklahoma, houses and farm buildings give a sense of the immense scale of storms in Tornado Alley. #stormchasing #supercell #tornadoalley

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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · Apr 8

Hey thanks! 🤓

Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · Mar 28

Definitely never hurts to refresh!

Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · Mar 28

➡️ Take the SKYWARN® Spotter course on MetEd: www.meted.ucar.edu/education_tr...

➡️ Learn about the NWS SKYWARN® Storm Spotter Program: www.weather.gov/skywarn/

➡️ Locate your local WFO here: www.weather.gov/stormready/c...

COMET - MetEd Education and Training

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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · Mar 28

The COMET MetEd SKYWARN® Spotter course is a great supplement to your face-to-face SKYWARN® Spotter training sessions provided by the NWS. In some areas of the country (check with your local NWS office), these lessons are sufficient for certification.

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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · Mar 28

If your local National Weather Service office has paused or canceled spotter training this year, here’s a great option! 🌪️

@comet-meted.bsky.social has teamed up with the National Weather Service (NWS) to develop a (totally free!) online storm spotter certification course. 🌪️⛈️⚡️

More info: 🧵⬇️

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · Mar 28

#WomensHistoryMonth Spotlight: Deborah Martorell is the Chief Meteorologist and Science Journalist at Teleonce in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Her work has earned the AMS Award of Excellence in Science Reporting by a Broadcast Meteorologist both in 2020 and 2025.

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Girls Who Chase @girlswhochase.com · Mar 14

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