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Andrew Pritchard

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Focused on Disruptive Weather | Award Winning Weather Risk Communicator | Observer of Severe Storms in the American Midwest ⛈️🌪️💨 SKYDRAMA.NET

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · Oct 18

Introducing myself here on 🦋

- Meteorologist born & raised in the American Midwest
- Focused on disruptive weather
- I've won some awards for weather risk communication
- I observed and document severe storms

- Rooting for 🏈🏀 Fighting Illini (local sports team), NIU Huskies (alma mater), ⚾ Cubs

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 4d

Won’t be there in person, nah. Good luck!

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 5d

CORN-ADO CHASING! It was another hot, sunny day with record heat in the Midwest, ripe for dust devils. During the harvest season when cornbelt dust devils fill with corn stalks, I call them corn-adoes! Got my drone into a few of them today.

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 5d

Are June tornadoes disappearing? Are winter tornado outbreaks becoming more common? Examining monthly tornado trends in the U.S. since 1990 with some easy to digest visuals: www.skydrama.net/post/tornado...

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 5d

Central Illinois/Champaign-Urbana: A stray shower or storm is possible today as we head into another otherwise sunny and hot weekend. Rain chances next week. Read more, subscribe, and have the forecast delivered to your inbox every AM: chambanaweather.substack.com/p/daily-weat...

Daily Weather | Fri, Oct 3rd, 2025

Here is your Champaign-Urbana Forecast from Chambana Weather Meteorologist Andrew Pritchard...

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 6d

Tornado season is shifting in the U.S.

December is hot, June is not, there is no fall season, March & April increasingly violent, etc...

www.skydrama.net/post/tornado...

SKYDRAMA.NET • Tornado Season Isn't What It Used To Be: December is hot, June is not, there is no fall season, etc...

I’m an operational meteorologist who spends most of my time forecasting high-impact weather and helping people make safety and logistics decisions. I'm not of the academia world, I don’t claim to be a...

www.skydrama.net

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 6d

This, but swap out whatever topics you want. My news feed on the mainstream social apps is a mix of about 10% things I care about, 20% things I find funny, and 70% rage bait filtered by my algorithm to get me red hot and engaged. The more I notice it, the less inclined I am to exist in those spaces.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 6d

Facebook found out I’m a Mets fan and now I’m getting content for the angriest, dumbest sports guys imaginable instead of anything else and I really do think the problem with America right now is that our phones are machines that run software that exists to make us angry. Being mad is the enemy.

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 7d

What the folks who are telling you how much daylight we're losing these days don't want you to know is that in just 11 weeks the days start getting longer again.

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 8d

Ah yes, the proverbial "calm between the storms".

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 8d

Next chance for organized rainfall in the Central U.S. is starting to flicker in the week 2, Oct 7-13 time frame. You can explore the data for yourself and check out the latest video updates on all of this over at ag-wx.com

Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 9d

Poorly aligned jet stream means a lot more sunshine and mild temperatures from the Canadian Prairies down into the American Midwest through early October. Great conditions for harvesting a crop, but drought continues to expand. Explore your own local weather data at ag-wx.com

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Antonio Vecoli (@tonyveco on X) @tonyveco.bsky.social · 10d

🔴 ⚠️ 🌀 ⛈️ 🛰️ The remnants of Hurricane #Gabrielle is an extra tropical cyclone that crossed the Atlantic reaching first Portugal, then hitting Spain where a red alert is ongoing for the Comunitat Valenciana. ⬇️ 36hrs for 27/28 Sept. by meteosat 12 #ClimateEmergency

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 13d

Extremely quiet and very sunny just about everywhere in the Central and Western U.S. this morning.

Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 14d

Severe weather risk shifts east with slow-moving area of low pressure and associated cold front. Widespread storms from the Ohio Valley to the Coastal Plains today - tonight with isolated to widely scattered severe impacts possible.

Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 14d

1.08” of desperately needed wet stuff in my east Urbana, IL rain gauge this morning from overnight rain and storms. @NWSLincolnIL

Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 15d

Was a loop of being unlucky for a while there!

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 15d

Upgrade! Portions of eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas have been upgraded to an 'enhanced risk' (level 3 out of 5) for severe thunderstorms today - tonight, with a few damaging tornadoes possible.

Read their latest discussion: www.spc.noaa.gov/products/out...

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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 16d

✨ Happy Autumnal Equinox!

🌍 Tonight, at 20:19 CEST:

🌙 Nights begin to last longer than days in the Northern Hemisphere
☀️ Days begin to last longer than nights in the Southern Hemisphere

📸🎥 @eumetsat.int,@esa.int, NASA

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Isaac Schluesche @slushywx.bsky.social · 18d

Textbook rapid intensification ongoing with Typhoon Ragasa in the WPAC. Meteorological perfection.

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 19d

Weirdly had the exact same football comp in my brain driving to work this morning. In a way it was kind of a cope to be like... we just need to find someone to come in and overhaul the entire culture like Bret Bielema at Illinois... that's 3 years and a lot of ????? from here though.

Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 19d

Pretty dry across the Prairie for the next 7-10 days, high uncertainty into early October:

youtu.be/lMJhGiJPR60

Canadian Prairie Weather Story with Andrew Pritchard | Sep 19th, 2025

YouTube video by Nutrien Ag Solutions

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 19d

No-risk North Dakota tornado confirmed yesterday! Fun little sneaky setup.

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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 20d

Verbatim, the 12z ECMWF drops a desperately needed 4-6 inches of rain from the Ozarks into the Ohio Valley from a series of slow-moving lows.

A lot of moving parts suggests this forecast will still evolve, but it's nice to see the trend going wetter vs another rainy mirage.

Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 20d

Sunshine & surface heating occurring just ahead of the surface low lifting toward the ND/SD/MN border region as we approach mid-day... wouldn't be surprised at all to see a few red polygons / "surprise" tornadoes reported in this corridor through the afternoon hours.

Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 20d

Try again, think the API went down for a bit this morning

Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 20d

Don't be surprised by a few "surprise" tornado reports near the North Dakota/South Dakota/Minnesota border region this afternoon. If a little sun can shine on that compact low lifting northeast there's plenty of moisture to fuel some low-topped spinning storms.

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