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Dan Dawson

@meteodan.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Meteorology at Purdue University. Husband, father, and storm chaser. Nondenominational Christian. Insufferable centrist. I would like to keep my Republic. Opinions my own.

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Dan Dawson @meteodan.bsky.social · 4d

I see Frame-Pritchard Alley is heating up again!

Dan Dawson @meteodan.bsky.social · 12d

Very important point here! A raw ensemble mean can sometimes be very misleading!

Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 12d

IMPORTANT NOTE 🚨

When looking at ensemble means, beware of the "survivors bias". For example, the GEFS *mean* misses the coast... but most GEFS members make landfall!

This has to do with the storm timing. Consider how some members move the storm faster than others... (cont.)

Dan Dawson @meteodan.bsky.social · 18d

I mean, as long as you are internally decent, those external decencies can take a hike ;)

Dan Dawson @meteodan.bsky.social · 18d

lol you beat me to it

Dan Dawson @meteodan.bsky.social · 20d

I call for a complete shutdown of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation until we can find out what the hell is going on!

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Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️ @tornatrix.bsky.social · 23d

I am so excited to announce that one of the radar meteorology courses that I developed with @comet-meted.bsky.social is now available! "Dual-Polarization Fundamentals" picks up where "Weather Radar Fundamentals" left off! learn.meted.ucar.edu#/online-cour... (Register on learn.meted.ucar.edu first.)

Screenshot of the lesson, showing a radar dish overlaid with text:
"Online Course
Dual-Polarization Fundamentals
1h 30m - 2h
Description
Once an experimental type of weather radar, dual-polarized (“dual-pol”) weather radar is now deployed across the United States and many parts of the world. This lesson will introduce the basic principles of dual-pol weather radar. By the end of this lesson, learners will understand physical meanings of several commonly used polarimetric radar variables, including differential reflectivity, correlation coefficient, differential phase, specific differential phase, and linear depolarization ratio. Examples will be presented demonstrating the distinctive polarimetric signatures of different scatterer types, both meteorological and non-meteorological. Note: This lesson has as a prerequisite the prior lesson, Weather Radar Fundamentals. It is strongly recommended that beginning learners complete that lesson before starting this one."

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Dan Dawson @meteodan.bsky.social · 25d

So basically what @ianlivingston.bsky.social just said in OP, lol

Dan Dawson @meteodan.bsky.social · 25d

Maybe this is just generational snobbery on my part but I’ve felt for a while that we Xennials seem to fit right in a sweet spot where we are savvy enough to engage with rapidly changing online landscape but not so embedded in it from a young age that we overly struggle to see it from the outside.

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 27d

The online ghouls who are celebrating and/or justifying the shooting of Charlie Kirk have no idea how much damage they are doing…

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Dan Dawson @meteodan.bsky.social · 27d

I can’t go there. Because at the end of the day, things do matter. People matter.

Coming to a realization that you can’t carry all the world’s burdens on your own shoulders, though, that’s another matter.

No shade or judgment intended.

Dan Dawson @meteodan.bsky.social · 28d

Wait wait wait… the President’s “laws”? Is that really what the complaint was?

THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT MAKE LAWS!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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