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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 18h

Looks great! Fixes a lot of pain points from the old UI. One maybe-bug report: I can't hold down the , and . keys to move through the forecast hours quickly on the keyboard on Firefox on MacOS. I can with the left and right arrow keys, though.

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Pivotal Weather @pivotalweather.com · 19h

We are thrilled to announce that our beta experience is now available to everyone! Redesigned for every screen. The new responsive layout delivers a smooth, native-like experience—whether you’re on desktop or mobile.

beta.pivotalweather.com

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 2d

We're aware that the tornadoarchive site is currently down and are working to fix the problem. It may take up to 24 hours for the site to come back online. Thank you for your patience.

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Connell Miller @connellmiller.ca · 2d

Excited to announce that my method for estimating wind speeds based on lofted debris in tornadoes was used as contextual evidence for upgrading the Enderlin, ND tornado to an EF5!

doi.org/10.1175/MWR-...

#NDwx #Enderlin #EF5 #Tornado

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3d

Drummer Anika Nilles, who previously played with Jeff Beck, will join Lee and Lifeson for a 50th anniversary tour dedicated to the memory of the late Neil Peart.

Details ↓

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Will Tour as Rush in 2026

Drummer Anika Nilles will join Lee and Lifeson for a 50th anniversary tour dedicated to the memory of the late Neil Peart

www.rollingstone.com

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Bruce Pollock @brucepollock09.bsky.social · 3d

The EF-5 drought appears to be over wow

kamala.cod.edu/offs/KFGF/25...

PNS from KFGF

kamala.cod.edu

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 5d

Measure Twice, Cut Once

xkcd.com/3149/

Comic. “Measure [Twice], cut [Once]” -Carpenty Proverb. [Scatter plot with number of measurements on y axis and number of cuts on x axis. Points in a descending line on graph: surveyor, surgeon, good carpenter, careless carpenter, really bad carpenter, serial killer]

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Elizabeth Leitman @wxliz.bsky.social · 7d

Just a reminder that NWS is considered essential during a government shutdown. Meteorologists will still go to work, forecasts will still be made, watches and warnings will be issued, data will flow. We won’t be paid until the shutdown ends, but we’ll still protect life and property as always.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 8d

Man, I've been keeping my political opinions to myself on social media when all along I could have been putting them in official work emails!

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 9d

Yeah, the port conflict is dumb, but if I know that's what the issue is, it's like 10 minutes to fix. Of which 9m30s is spent searching for the right option. It's the fact that it didn't tell me that's what my problem was that made it really annoying and take way longer than it should have.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 9d

I went to open a Github issue this morning, and turns out there already was an issue open that I didn't find due to searching for the wrong terms, I guess. And it even had the workaround I was looking for in it (DEBUG="electron-forge:*" when running `npm run start`).

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 9d

One of these issues went away when I remade the project from scratch, so I thought it was gone. Nope! It came back this evening after a month of working on the project. After a shot in the dark, I found the issue: port 9000 was already in use, causing it to die with no error messages. Helpful. 🤬

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 10d

When my wife had a piece, she picked up the crust and ate it like a pizza, so it's not that far off. Just with pie dough and sweet whole fruit instead of bread dough and a savory fruit puree.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 10d

Had some canned peaches to use up from a friend that moved away. So I mixed it with some fresh ones and made this. Pretty tasty. Canned peaches are meh, but at least they're out of the cabinet.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 11d

ISS astronaut Jonny Kim just shared this snap of Humberto's eye today. You can actually see the seafoam taper off between the eyewall and the eye. Amazing stuff.

Looking down Humberto's eye from the side, you can see white seafoam on the ocean surface beneath the eyewall, fading to relative calmness within the eye itself.

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Scott Bachmeier @wisc-satellite.bsky.social · 11d

1-minute Mesoscale Sector @noaa.gov #GOES19/#GOESEast Visible images depicted low-altitude mesovortices within the eye of #Humberto (along with cloud-top gravity waves). Humberto became a Category 5 hurricane as of 2100 UTC on 27 September: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 13d

"I shed tears of joy, which fell on the table and burned a hole through it."

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 13d

It wasn't a mile wide (officially a bit over half a mile), but they could be referring to the 2/26/23 tornado.

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Kelton Halbert @stormscale.io · 15d

SHARPlib 1.1.0 has been released to PyPI and conda-forge, and it was a pretty big update! Of note:

- Unified Python & C++ web documentation! keltonhalbert.github.io/SHARPlib/lat...
- Fully typed Python bindings
- Additional parameters
- Bug fixes

github.com/keltonhalber...

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 15d

As the afternoon progresses, I expect surface-based storms to form on the cold front once it gets to the better moisture. All storms will have hail and maybe wind damage as threats. Storms closer to the warm front will have a better chance at tornadoes due to the better wind profiles. (4/4)

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 15d

Showers currently between OKC and Tulsa are probably rooted near 700 mb, since that layer has some CAPE with little CINH, and the boundary layer still has quite a bit of CINH. (3/4)

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 15d

Wind profiles on the warm front as sampled by KINX have quite a bit of low-level shear. South of the boundary and east of those confluence zones, KSRX still has quite a bit of shear. Little low-level shear back near the cold front at KTLX. (2/4)

VWP hodograph from KINX (Tulsa, OK radar) valid 1720 UTC September 23

VWP hodograph from KSRX (Ft. Smith, AR radar) valid 1728 UTC September 23

VWP hodograph from KTLX (Oklahoma City, OK radar) valid 1730 UTC September 23.

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 15d

A very warm/moist air mass for late September is in place across eastern OK south of an effective warm front. A few surface confluence boundaries (reflecting a cold front aloft?) are present in the warm sector. It's tough to pick them out in satellite, though. (1/4)

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 16d

Last-minute reminder on the open SPC positions listed in this thread. They close either tomorrow or Wednesday!

Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 27d

SPC is hiring a Warning Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) for the severe side. So if you've wanted to work for SPC as a WCM, here's your chance! Applications for this position close on Tuesday, Sep 23.

Severe WCM: www.usajobs.gov/job/845565600

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Tim Supinie @plustssn.autumnsky.us · 18d

Other highlights from the weekend: trivia games at Legally Brewed in Norman last night, breakfast tacos this morning, and Factory Obscura this afternoon.

Playing trivia games at Legally Brewed in Norman

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