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Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸

@pnwwxchaser.bsky.social

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Exploration photographer, weather photographer & storm chaser sharing nature’s grace and fury through the lens. 🌪️📸⚡️…….💃🏻🌏 Based in Seattle, WA IG: @sheseeksskies www.wildskyphotos.com

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Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · Nov 16

For those interested to follow/support our female Meteorologists, Storm chasers, Photographers, Space enthusiasts & Weather junkies in the #WxSky community.

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I highly recommend giving the Girls Who Chase account a follow here too if you’re not yet!

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Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 2d

The nearly full Harvest moon rises over a snowcapped Mount Hood at sunset yesterday 10/5. It should be a beautiful couple nights of moon watching in the PNW, with a Full Harvest Supermoon peaking tonight and mostly clear skies 🍂🌝🍂 #orwx #harvestmoon #supermoon #pnw #mounthood

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Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 6d

Rain showers over the Olympics made for some beautiful diffused light to the west just before sunset tonight in Seattle. #wawx #seattle #pnw #fall #wxSky

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Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 7d

Thunderstorms moving through the Puget Sound brought rainbows and dramatic skies to downtown Seattle tonight. #wawx #pnw #seattle

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Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 10d

Foggy morning over the Seattle skyline on this last Sunday of September.
#wawx #WxPics #seattle #pnw

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Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks so much!! It really was an incredible view!

Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you Mary!! 🧡✨

Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 20d

Awww good choice!! ✨

Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks a ton!

Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks so much Magrat! 🧡 I feel really blessed to live in such a nature rich area in the pnw!

Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 21d

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Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks so much! 🙏✨

Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 21d

Having watched the Great Waldo Pepper in tribute to Robert Redford last night I’m appreciating the illustrations! Fascinating history/stories, off or on screen!

Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · 21d

This summer’s visits to Mt. Rainier were selective, as it wasn’t a remarkable bloom year for wildflowers due to drought conditions. Still, this gave opportunity for the tougher alpine flowers like Pink Mountain Heather to standout across the rocky terrain.
#wawx #wx #pnw #mountrainier

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 22d

Class today was about submarine lava‐flow morphology. wearing my first true autumn outfit of the season. These flows can be even more variable than those on land, thanks to factors like depth, viscosity, effusion rate, & seafloor slope (details in caption). Images: dx.doi.org/10.5670/ocea... 🧪🌋🌊⚒️

Four examples of typical submarine lava-flow morphologies, arranged clockwise by decreasing cooling rate, with me in the center showing off my new shoes today. The rate and geometry of cooling reflects things like how fast the lava is effusing from the vent, how fast it is moving across the sea bed (e.g., from slope variations), and the viscosity of the magma. All images show very young submarine lava flows, from my collaborative research with other submarine volcanologists. Most images are from: http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.12
Upper left: Turbulently emplaced, curtain-folded sheet flows
Upper right: Collapsed lobate lava with solidified interior lava drips
Lower right: Newly erupted pillow lavas abutting older, sediment-coated pillow lava
Lower left: Young pillow lavas forming on a steep slope

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Joey Only - Cariboo Weather Dude @joeyonly.bsky.social · Sep 8

Effectively we are just getting started on this round. There's maybe some helpful rain by the end of the week, I'm hoping it's not preceded by a wind event of any sort. Here's what to watch for this week in the latest Joey Onley forecast video! Please share if you care.
youtu.be/iJDZeLryOjI

Thunderstorms This Week, Fire Updates, Future Rain and More!!

YouTube video by Joey Only - Cariboo Weather Dude

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OrcaSOS @orcasos.bsky.social · Sep 7

Orcas are ramming boats again and scientists now think it’s a game
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Experts say the whales seem to learn to play with boats from a young age. "Believe me: if they wanted to sink the boats, they'd be sinking the boat."
#Iberian #orcas

Orcas are ramming boats again and scientists now think it’s a game — National Geographic

Experts say the whales seem to learn to play with boats from a young age.

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Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thanks so much! ⚡️🩵⚡️

Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · Sep 7

Ohhh yes!

Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hahaha thank you! It was an awesome show! ⚡️

Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · Sep 7

⚡️Rainier Lightning Storm⚡️9/6 Nothing quite like the rumble of thunder through Mount Rainier National Park! Prolific lightning, rain, pea size hail and some nice CGs and crawlers made for quite the show last night! Image taken during a clearing in the rain, approx 10:45pm. #wawx #wxSky #MountRainier

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Nathan Santo Domingo @nsdwx.bsky.social · Sep 5

New WA Smoke Blog up this afternoon. Western WA will see improvement Sunday-Monday, might take some time east of the Cascades. Unless fires get doused, local smoke likely continues. #wawx #wawildfire
READ MORE ➡️ wasmoke.blogspot.com/2025/09/frid...

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UW College of the Environment @uwenvironment.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's another hazy and smoky day across Washington. Hear from #wildfire scientist and professor Brian Harvey on answers to some of the most common questions about fires, including trends, how to stay safe, and common causes: https://bit.ly/45TiJpa

@uwnews.uw.edu #wawx #firefighting

Are wildfires really getting worse? A Q&A with Brian Harvey

Whether you live in a rural community that grapples with annual threats of destructive wildfires or in a city that now spends part of every summer inundated with smoke, many across North America have found themselves wondering: what happened to cause su...

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Nathan Santo Domingo @nsdwx.bsky.social · Sep 5

Level 3 GO NOW evacuations in Kittitas County for the new #BigLakeFire burning on the west side of Lookout Mountain. Hard to make out the smoke plume through all the haze. #wawx #wawildfire
MORE INFO: www.facebook.com/share/p/1HJz...

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Jen Grand_wx ✊🇺🇦🇨🇦🇵🇸 @pnwwxchaser.bsky.social · Sep 6

A beauty, painterly