Kyle J Gillett
@wxkylegillett.bsky.social
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Storm chaser, Aurora hunter, Photographer. Severe storm researcher and M.S. student at UND. SounderPy developer. MI -> ND
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A rare Michigan well-structured supercell

June, 2021 #MIwx
Supercell near Carson City, Michigan in June 2021
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Mom come pick me up im scared
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Here it is. The last 10 years of hail events across the U.S. using my prototype hail tracking algorithm!

Hoping to build out a more robust climatology of hailstorms like we have for tornadoes.
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no shot you have one of those.........
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Super excited to now have a copy @shawnmilrad.bsky.social's brand new edition of "Synoptic Analysis and Forecasting, An Introductory Toolkit" textbook featuring TONS of SounderPy soundings!

This is a great intro to synoptic meteorology and forecasting! Thanks for sending it, Shawn!
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A couple years of work, lots of learning, lots of trial & error, and endless support from ya'll have culminated into the news I got today:

SounderPy is officially a peer-reviewed, published software.

This couldn't have happened w/o yall -- thank u 🤍

joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...
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The 2nd Edition of my textbook is now available! Biggest updates are in figure quality, including soundings based on SounderPy output thanks to @wxkylegillett.bsky.social making it freely available!

shop.elsevier.com/books/synopt...

www.amazon.com/Synoptic-Ana...
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I haven't been on this app in a minute -- love this dude! Thanks for the shout!
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OPE 👀
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Just published in JOSS: 'SounderPy: An atmospheric sounding visualization and analysis tool for Python' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08087
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I am wealthy with no money
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Gald you hear it man. What a freaking clown show.
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thinking of the prairie today
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Beyond severe convective weather today, severe fire weather will exist on the high-plains of New Mexico & west Texas tomorrow PM. Extreme fire-behavior is possible given such extremely dry low-levels and strong surface winds. #NMwx #TXwx
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oh boy what could go wrong. smh
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Today in Boulder, CO after mass firings of employees at NOAA - an American flag being flown upside down on the iconic 2nd Flatiron

(Not my video) credit NWMountainGuy on Reddit
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IMO, the ability to sample the atmosphere provides important context as to whether or not our NWP should be trusted; i.e. "is this recent HRRR, NAM, GFS (etc) run on track?"

Once we lose our true observations we become lost in numerical output. To me, that's dangerous.
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like you know what replies are just regurgitated garbage. They actually have zero individual, independent thinking ability
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I love reading replies on wx folk's posts about these NOAA/NWS cuts that say something like "our government is bloated, overstaffed, paid too much, not needed, we **need** to cut them" etc.

I'm quite sure most of these people could've cared less until a certain someone *told* them its a "problem"