Bob Capella
@minusthebob.bsky.social
🐍 PyDev & Analyst, 🛰️ Sat Apps | 🌨️ MS ATSC UWyo, BS Met Millersville | 🚁 Veteran, Fmr 1W TSgt, Aviation & DSS Wx | 🐕🦺🐩 Dog Dad | 🧙🏼 🎲 Sorlock | 🏂 he/him
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Big whirls have little whirls
That feed on their velocity
And little whirls have lesser whirls
And so on to viscosity
That feed on their velocity
And little whirls have lesser whirls
And so on to viscosity
Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)
The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Big whirls have little whirls
That feed on their velocity
And little whirls have lesser whirls
And so on to viscosity
That feed on their velocity
And little whirls have lesser whirls
And so on to viscosity
Changing colors in Medicine Bow National Forest, WY. [Fujifilm Klasse, Portra 400]
September 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Changing colors in Medicine Bow National Forest, WY. [Fujifilm Klasse, Portra 400]
11/10 Medicine Bow day before the Jubilee Days/Rodeo!
July 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
11/10 Medicine Bow day before the Jubilee Days/Rodeo!
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the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Single shot 70mm from yesterday. Ghostly. Etherial. And a photo I'll probably never be able to top!
Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25
Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25
June 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Single shot 70mm from yesterday. Ghostly. Etherial. And a photo I'll probably never be able to top!
Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25
Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25
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was not expecting to wake up and see reports of an early-morning swath of large hail along the Front Range (apologies to those who woke up to damage.) Big hail in the early am is *exceedingly* rare. Prior to today, only 7 reports in state records of 2"+ hail between the hours of 2-5am. #cowx
June 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
was not expecting to wake up and see reports of an early-morning swath of large hail along the Front Range (apologies to those who woke up to damage.) Big hail in the early am is *exceedingly* rare. Prior to today, only 7 reports in state records of 2"+ hail between the hours of 2-5am. #cowx
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Absolute insanity Dickens Nebraska tornado a bit ago at close range! Right off the iPhone lens spots and all!
June 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Absolute insanity Dickens Nebraska tornado a bit ago at close range! Right off the iPhone lens spots and all!
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Career tornado intercept just now Dickens Nebraska!
June 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Career tornado intercept just now Dickens Nebraska!
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720pm: Tornado underneath stunning storm structure south of North Platte, Nebraska
June 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
720pm: Tornado underneath stunning storm structure south of North Platte, Nebraska
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Our biggest, bestest national celebration.
I expected this to be a terrifying fascist spectacle, but instead I actually feel a little sad, like the time my friend Charlie and I set up a lemonade stand when we were seven and nobody stopped all day.
I expected this to be a terrifying fascist spectacle, but instead I actually feel a little sad, like the time my friend Charlie and I set up a lemonade stand when we were seven and nobody stopped all day.
June 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Our biggest, bestest national celebration.
I expected this to be a terrifying fascist spectacle, but instead I actually feel a little sad, like the time my friend Charlie and I set up a lemonade stand when we were seven and nobody stopped all day.
I expected this to be a terrifying fascist spectacle, but instead I actually feel a little sad, like the time my friend Charlie and I set up a lemonade stand when we were seven and nobody stopped all day.
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Our view deploying on a tornado at Spearman TX, which became slightly too far to reach while repositioning away from hail.
June 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Our view deploying on a tornado at Spearman TX, which became slightly too far to reach while repositioning away from hail.
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Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed.
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
May 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed.
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Justice's Stress live at Red Rocks was un fucking matched
May 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Justice's Stress live at Red Rocks was un fucking matched
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Floyd, NM tornado sequence. Estimated start time was 5:18 p.m. and rope out at 5:40 p.m. Photos captured at 5:21, 5:25, 5:31 and 5:38 p.m. this evening.
May 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Floyd, NM tornado sequence. Estimated start time was 5:18 p.m. and rope out at 5:40 p.m. Photos captured at 5:21, 5:25, 5:31 and 5:38 p.m. this evening.
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Incredible scenes in Akron, Colorado as a long lived tornado moved over open plains. Tornado warning continues. Watch live via: www.youtube.com/@DanielShawA... #cowx @NWSBoulder
May 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Incredible scenes in Akron, Colorado as a long lived tornado moved over open plains. Tornado warning continues. Watch live via: www.youtube.com/@DanielShawA... #cowx @NWSBoulder
I'd bet AccuWeather was responsible for warning the derailed train to stop in the path of the 27 Apr 2025 EF2 Bingham NE tornado...
Accuweather is pushing a study that claims (without describing the data/methods with any reproducibility) that they are superior hurricane forecasters. Among their ridiculous claims is that they were the "only" one to predict disastrous flooding from Helene. Gory details here: x.com/accuweather/...
May 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I'd bet AccuWeather was responsible for warning the derailed train to stop in the path of the 27 Apr 2025 EF2 Bingham NE tornado...
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The eye of the Arnett, OK tornado, captured by one of our UAVs as it collected scientific data on the environment within.
May 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The eye of the Arnett, OK tornado, captured by one of our UAVs as it collected scientific data on the environment within.
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There's been lots of chatter, much of it uninformed, regarding the tornado warnings issued by NWS Jackson, KY Friday. The 2 sig tornadoes had lead times of 28 and 40 minutes respectively, pretty damn good for being short staffed, to their credit. Radar at issuance time. 1/2
May 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
There's been lots of chatter, much of it uninformed, regarding the tornado warnings issued by NWS Jackson, KY Friday. The 2 sig tornadoes had lead times of 28 and 40 minutes respectively, pretty damn good for being short staffed, to their credit. Radar at issuance time. 1/2
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Just gonna assume today was a billion dollar weather day.
May 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Just gonna assume today was a billion dollar weather day.
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NetCDF4
MetPy
LDM
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GEMPAK
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NetCDF4
MetPy
LDM
AWIPS2 Public version
GEMPAK
THREDDS
They also support realtime data access via a public EDEX server, THREDDS, and more.
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NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
www.unidata.ucar.edu
May 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Unidata is responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting software such as:
NetCDF4
MetPy
LDM
AWIPS2 Public version
GEMPAK
THREDDS
They also support realtime data access via a public EDEX server, THREDDS, and more.
NetCDF4
MetPy
LDM
AWIPS2 Public version
GEMPAK
THREDDS
They also support realtime data access via a public EDEX server, THREDDS, and more.