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Chris Kridler
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Writer, photographer, storm chaser.
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aletheakontis.com
Last day chasing together in 2025. We still rock. 😎🤘🏼⚡️🌪️
#OzOrBust #stormchasing @chriskridler.bsky.social @georgekourounis.bsky.social @stormdoctor.bsky.social @nycstormchaser.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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aletheakontis.com
Started out this morning at Dorothy’s House and the Land of Oz in Liberal, Kansas - one of our favorite stops!

Chris and I promised we would come back and sign books there someday…
#OzOrBust #stormchasing #BookSky @chriskridler.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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aletheakontis.com
Chris and I are deep in this Brownfield, Texas cluster of storms - they are sucking in Mad Max levels of dust. It is apocalyptic around here! SO MUCH VIDEO to come! ✨🌪️✨
#OzOrBust #stormchasing @chriskridler.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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aletheakontis.com
The apocalyptic dust of the Brownfield / Lamesa storm was like driving on another planet - May 29, 2025

#OzOrBust #stormchasing #nature #extremeweather #westtexas @chriskridler.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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aletheakontis.com
Storm chase update from Odessa, TX! ✨🌪️⚡️

#OzOrBust #stormchasing @chriskridler.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
chriskridler.bsky.social
A metaphor for the #stormchasing trip so far with @aletheakontis. Our quest is running hot and cold. Trying again in Oklahoma today.
May 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Gorgeous supercell in Texas on Thursday! This is a multi-image panorama shot near Graford. #stormchasing with @aletheakontis.com #funnelvision #ozorbust #lookup #naturephotography
Corkscrewing supercell with light rays
May 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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aletheakontis.com
Proof that my storm chase crew is 100% badass. 😎 We had one shot for Jason to take this pic in front of yesterday’s gorgeous supercell - I think we did all right!
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#OzOrBust #stormchasing @georgekourounis.bsky.social @stormdoctor.bsky.social @chriskridler.bsky.social @nycstormchaser.bsky.social
Six storm chasers stand on the road in front of a giant sculpted supercell. Featuring a windmill.
May 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Reporting from under the clouds ... Monday #stormchasing update with @aletheakontis.com! #funnelvision #okwx #ozorbust #lookup #tiredtravelers #ontheroad
May 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
chriskridler.bsky.social
A pretty supercell (after the tornadoes we didn't see Sunday) in western Oklahoma. #stormchasing with @aletheakontis.com #okwx #funnelvision #ozorbust
Supercell storm with beams of light.
May 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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aletheakontis.com
Woodward, OK storm #OzOrBust #stormchasing
May 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Back to #stormchasing with @aletheakontis.com ... heading to Kansas!
May 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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aletheakontis.com
Saturday’s update from the road - Hello from Oklahoma!
Thank you everyone for the gas money!
#OzOrBust #stormchasing @chriskridler.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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One of the three tornadoes @aletheakontis.com and I saw in Missouri Friday, this one near Oran. Driving so much I've been slack about posting. But it is better to live than to post! #stormchasing #tornado
Skinny tornado kicks up dust
May 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Pretty puddle sunset after much-needed soaker today. #flwx #spacecoast
Sunset sky with clouds reflected in puddle
May 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Friday night storm collision on Florida's Space Coast. #flwx #stormchasing
Ominous clouds over parking lot with small buildings.
May 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Lightning off Florida's Space Coast tonight, May 5. #flwx #weather #stormchasing
Lightning in storm over water.
May 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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afreedma.bsky.social
NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...
US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN
Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.
www.cnn.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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propublica.org
NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance.

By @lisalsong.bsky.social
NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire
A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce Department secretary to personally approve all contracts over $100,000.
propub.li
April 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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tornatrix.bsky.social
Much of the technology featured in “Twisters” was based on real-world instrumentation developed at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. If the passback budget is to be believed, NSSL will be eliminated, cutting off taxpayer funded research like that featured in this video: youtu.be/V6n8VH4C17Q
2024 IN A FLASH: A Year of NSSL Innovation in Severe Storm Science
YouTube video by NOAA Weather Partners
youtu.be
April 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
chriskridler.bsky.social
A Falcon 9 rocket with the Fram2 polar orbit mission launches over a line of lightning storms on March 31, 2025, from Kennedy Space Center. You can see the lightning better if you enlarge it - or see it at ChrisKridler.com. #fram2
Falcon 9 rocket with the Fram2 polar orbit mission launches over a line of lightning storms on March 31, 2025, from Kennedy Space Center.
April 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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aletheakontis.com
Ah, mammatus, I have missed you. ✨⚡️✨

#visualsbyalethea #storm #clouds #flwx
Mammatus clouds on the back of a severe storm as it passes overhead
March 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Line of storms crossing the Space Coast earlier. #flwx #weather
Shelf cloud from Florida storm Sunday
March 31, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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aletheakontis.com
Do you love my #nature & sky #photography and cloud timelapses?
Please consider throwing a buck or two in our Storm Chase Gas Fund for this upcoming #stormchasing season!

aletheakontis.com/2025/03/2025...

Thank you, friends! 🦋
Chris Kridler and Alethea Kontis, sitting in a library, surrounded by snapshots from their previous years' storm chasing adventures
March 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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drjeffmasters.bsky.social
Break it, then privatize it. Building up private U.S. forecasting ability to current NWS levels after such a ruthless and foolish decimation of the NWS will take many years. Billions in costs will occur that would have been avoided had we kept the NWS intact, and many avoidable deaths will occur.
laurenthal.bsky.social Lauren Rosenthal @laurenthal.bsky.social · Mar 27
National Weather Service employees were encouraged to take early retirements at an all-hands meeting Thursday. The union believes as many as 1,000 could leave in the coming months - out of a workforce of just over 4,000.

With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift):

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Weather Service Merges Offices as Staffing Pressure Mounts
The US National Weather Service will merge two of its largest forecasting units as it prepares for the loss of as many as 1,000 staffers.
www.bloomberg.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM