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Jake Carstens
@jakecarstens.bsky.social
(Ironically Tropical) Meteorologist 🌀⛈️

Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of North Dakota 🟢⚪️

3-time Florida State alum 🔴🟡🍢, short-term Penn Stater 🔵⚪️🦁

LOT ➡️ MFL ➡️ TAE ➡️ CTP ➡️ FGF

Website: carstensweather.com
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For atmospheric science students looking for a funded M.S. opportunity for Fall 2026, the esteemed @dblountwx.bsky.social has a Graduate Research Assistantship position open at Ohio University! See the original post for more details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Career goal moment: 2015 Jake, reading AMS journal papers for Intro to Atmospheric Dynamics, would be mind blown to see his name in BAMS :) journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
November 6, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org!

Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
October 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I was Last Friday years old when I learned that "67" is a meme. This likely explains many of the 600+ likes this post got.

(Seriously though, our students are doing forecasts for 11,000+ hockey fans and I couldn't be more proud 😭)
October 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
You can probably guess when I chose to take out the trash
October 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Excited to share our new BAMS publication w/ the field!

From Facebook to TikTok, weather and climate information has become increasingly digital. Our new BAMS paper charts the rise of digital meteorology, the AMS CDM Seal, and how universities are evolving to meet it. 🌪️🌩️📲

doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
doi.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Back in the control room today! It's fun to sit back, press buttons, and work with our broadcast meteorology students as they get their reps in on camera.

Cole just started as a UND Weather Update anchor this semester and is killing it!
September 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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A couple years of work, lots of learning, lots of trial & error, and endless support from ya'll have culminated into the news I got today:

SounderPy is officially a peer-reviewed, published software.

This couldn't have happened w/o yall -- thank u 🤍

joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
August 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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The 2nd Edition of my textbook is now available! Biggest updates are in figure quality, including soundings based on SounderPy output thanks to @wxkylegillett.bsky.social making it freely available!

shop.elsevier.com/books/synopt...

www.amazon.com/Synoptic-Ana...
July 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Achievement unlocked: have chemtrail awareness pamphlet mailed to my faculty mailbox ✅
August 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Me: Is among the first to pile on with Reviewer #2 jokes and rants about how we should sprinkle more positivity into reviewing science

Also me, reading over a review I just wrote up:
August 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Fortunately well out to sea, but check out #Dexter & its resurrection as a powerful #extratropical cyclone over the North Atlantic.

Perfect case for a meteorological deep dive: Favorable trough interaction led to "sting jet" formation & #hurricane force winds as cyclone phases w/ shortwave. 🌀 🦂
August 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This is what I get for publishing in a public health journal
August 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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The calendar switched from July to August.
August 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Attention hurricane enthusiasts, connoisseurs, experts: the Atlantic season is entering the active months (Aug-Sep-Oct) so what better time to remind you of this Starter Pack so you can get reliable information and insights!
go.bsky.app/88mXQKD
August 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
1 year of faculty life in the books! Definitely not easy to begin with, and this year threw unique challenges out there, but UND has been the perfect home to settle into this. Big things on the way in Year 2.

I'll always appreciate this place for taking the chance on me to be its hurricane guy. 🌀
August 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Bought this pin a few weeks back at a market in Winnipeg. The conversation at the register was succinct:

"I'm an American meteorologist."
"Ooooooooooooooof"
July 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Excited to share a new lead-author paper, now available in final form in Environmental Research! authors.elsevier.com/a/1lOu73Ao6B...

A review article (supplemented by my own data viz) on the science connecting tropical cyclones and *whispers* climate change, plus implications for public health.
July 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Sooooooooooooooooo close
July 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Fridays, man.
June 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🚨New paper out in Environmental Research!🚨

"Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change: An Overview for the Public Health Community" - a review article updating a 2021 summer project I worked on at Florida State.

Check it out at www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... or DM me for access!
Tropical cyclones and climate change: An overview for the public health community
Tropical cyclones (TCs) strain the public health system, particularly as coastal communities and infrastructure grow. Increases in sea level and ocean…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Sooooo proud of our UND Weather Update students (Jonathan, Anson, and Conrad), who presented on their work from 2024-2025 at the @ametsoc.org Broadcast/Digital Meteorology Conference!

They can all say they've presented at a professional conference before their junior year. Rising stars 🤩
June 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Ready for Day 3, here with @jakecarstens.bsky.social !

Excited for a lot of the talks today at #AMS52BC #AMS21Meso
June 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Blurry Conference Talk Photo™️ because it's important to max out our chances to get science out there.

The @ametsoc.org Mesoscale and Broadcast/Digital Meteorology Conferences are underway! I'll do my best to collect and share some cool advances and discussion points throughout the week.
June 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Let's do something new this season! I'm launching a YouTube channel - subscribe at www.youtube.com/@DrJakeCarst....

Each week, I'll do my best to post an "Office Hours" Q&A video diving into hurricane science. Send me any questions that have been on your mind, and I'll post the 1st video next week.
Hello to the new followers! Must be Hurricane Season. 😅

As a re-intro of sorts, I consider my niche here to be more as a teacher than just another forecasting voice. We have plenty of wacky acronyms and diagrams in hurricane world, so I like to focus on making the science a little easier to follow.
June 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM