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sgtgary.bsky.social
Gary ⛈️
@sgtgary.bsky.social
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#Science #Weather 🌦️ IT geek • #USAF vet •ex aviation #forecaster ✈️• USAF • #NoMansSky •INTJ •Ár nDraíocht Féin #Druidry🕯️#pagan #dogs 🐩 #photography #Omaha FK 45/47! he/him

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sgtgary.bsky.social
Thinking about printing a hundred antifascist stickers and slapping them on MAGA stickers I see around town...
Black circle with red background. Inside it are three black arrows pointing down and to the left - generally recognized as a sticker representing "antifascism."
January 23, 2025 at 5:55 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
I think the best site isn't public (space-track.org) (but they have counts on their front page).
A table showing the tracked items in Earth's orbit. The four categories are: Active Payloads: 11000 Analyst Objects: 17600 Debris: 19000 Total: 47600
January 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Well it's January in Omaha and winter has to show up eventually.. The temperatures and wind chills progressively drop over the next week as the arctic air moves through #NEwx #weather
Temperature and wind chill graphs showing the slowly declining temperature over the next 7 days. Low temperatures reach 0°F by Wednesday. The graphs are for Omaha, Nebraska and originate with the National Weather Service.
January 1, 2025 at 10:35 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
My #Steam year in review... welp, seems I mostly play #NoMansSky! I guess I already knew that though. I never tire of the adventure and discovery of this game.
Screen grab from Steam's year in review showing that I play NO Mans Sky 73% of the time among Steam games. I've managed 253 sessions so far too!
December 23, 2024 at 12:05 PM
sgtgary.bsky.social
Today I saw the big white E-4b flying over town and immediately thought maybe it was a drone 😉🤣
The USAF E-4b created from a Boeing 747 landing on the runway at Offutt Air Force Base.
December 18, 2024 at 5:32 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
Somebody left the door open and the cold air from Canada is blowing into the US!

This chart from NCEP shows the temperature change over the last 24 hours. The blast of cold air is depicted well in the northern Plains and into the Upper Midwest
This chart from NCEP shows the temperature change over the last 24 hours. The blast of cold air is depicted well in the northern Plains and into the Upper Midwest with blue and light purple. Warming in the southeast and Mid Atlantic is showin in red hues.
December 5, 2024 at 7:04 AM
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Our warm December day is about to replaced by frigid wind chills! #weather #NEwx #Omaha
Surface weather chart showing isobars of pressure and colors representing wind speed. Omaha is showing 44°, but temps drop into the teens just upstream in the Dakotas.
December 4, 2024 at 9:10 PM
sgtgary.bsky.social
Notably less aurora visible an hour later on the 0732 UTC image from NOAA-20
NOAA-20 nighttime viirs image from 0732 UTC over the northern portions of the US and southern Canada. The image shows city lights across the image and faint aurora across Canada.
December 3, 2024 at 8:38 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
There is some aurora across central Canada tonight as seen by NOAA-21 viirs imager around 0646UTC (3 December)
#aurora #RemoteSensing #NorthernLights
Nighttime visible image by NOAA-21 viirs imager around 0646UTC (3 December) showing city lights in the eastern half of the US and southeast Canada. A band of faint aurora across central eastern Canada is seen near the top of the image.
December 3, 2024 at 8:33 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
I see our flurries are right on schedule #NEwx #weather #radar

We have not had any meaningful snow in eastern Nebraska yet this winter season
National Weather Service composite radar image of Nebraska and nearby states depicting some very light snow (flurries) spreading into the state from the northwest.
November 30, 2024 at 8:14 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
Age yourself with your first computer 🧐
Image of a Commodore VIC-20 computer, tape drive, a small TV, and the VIC-20 manuals sitting on a desk covered with a dark blue cloth.
November 28, 2024 at 11:00 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
NCEP temperature forecast for Friday and Saturday visualize the colder air moving in from the northern Plains into the Ohio valley well. High temperatures will only be 10-20°F below normal for this time of the year. #weather
NCEP forecast max temperature for Friday November 29th and color scaled map showing departure from normal. NCEP forecast max temperature for Saturday November 30th and color scaled map showing departure from normal.
November 28, 2024 at 10:08 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
Departure from my capital ship #NoMansSky
Screen capture from no man’s sky. The top deck of a large freighter takes a third of the frame, the sky behind is red with some speckled asteroids. Two frigates are visible above the freighter and my starship is departing the launch bay.
November 26, 2024 at 8:51 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
Every week I change my iPhone screen image to a new screenshot from my gameplay in #NoMansSky. Forgive me if I must share sometimes 😆
Screen capture from no man’s sky. The traveler holding the Atlas scepter looks onto a landscape with pink and orange hues just after sunset while three ships fly towards the traveler in the distance. There are a few purple clouds, a floating island and a bluish moon in the distance
November 25, 2024 at 3:16 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
Mandatory pet post... Our two toy #poodles Sophia (white with black highlights) and Kaedie (cream color). Kaedie left us about two years ago due to illness and somehow Sophia is still quite happy and active at 16 years old.
#dogs #dogsofbluesky #dogsky
Two toy poodles in our dining room. The left one is cream colored and the right one is white with black right ear and some small black spots showing on her front. They have fluffy ears! Cream colored toy poodles on the couch playing with her favorite toy, her "chicky" which she loved to squeak. Side view of a toy poodle in our living room facing to the right. She is white with a black ear, and black spots on her body. She has on a pink collar and there are toys visible behind her since she loves to play!
November 19, 2024 at 5:51 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
I left a few unsalted raw peanuts outside and now I have a regular visitor
A very attentive squirrel on the rail of my deck.
November 17, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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For your viewing pleasure: NOAA-21 Nighttime visible image from VIIRS of the eastern half of the US. This was collected around 0705 UTC (0105 CST) and it's incredible how bright the image is thanks to tonight's full moon.
#weather #RemoteSensing
NOAA-21 Nighttime visible image from VIIRS of the eastern half of the US. This was collected around 0705 UTC (0105 CST) and it's incredible how bright the image is thanks to tonight's full moon. City lights and clouds are clearly visible from the Plains to the Eastern Seaboard
November 16, 2024 at 8:53 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
The NWS Weather Prediction Center is forecasting that I need to break out my winter coat by the middle of next week here in #Omaha #NEwx #weather
Weather prediction center forecast surface map for the United States, for late Wednesday to early Thursday (21 November). It shows a moderately strong low pressure system creating strong northerly winds thorugh the Upper Plains and Upper Midwest. Cold air is advecting south into much of the central US.
November 14, 2024 at 10:44 AM
sgtgary.bsky.social
It is not unheard of to get some thunderstorms in Nebraska in November... but after such a dry spell, any precipitation is welcome!
#NEwx #weather
Map of eastern Nebraska, Western Iowa, and part of northeast Kansas depicting lightning detected. Screen captured from lightningmaps.org
November 13, 2024 at 9:27 AM
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Test post, and because the JPSS satellites are amazing! Overnight NOAA-20 VIIRS nighttime visible image.
NOAA-20 nighttime visible VIIRS imagery of the Continental US from overnight 12 December 2023 (~0753 UTC).
December 12, 2023 at 11:35 AM