Spencer Dant
@sdantwx.bsky.social
Tornado chaser 🌪️⚡️⛈️. Except the ones in Alabama. Not those. Orders queso for the table. Taco Bell is my love language
The sunset brought a surprise noctilucent cloud appearance to Colorado tonight, probably from a fresh rocket launch out west somewhere these past few days. The rarest clouds on Earth 😍
February 6, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The sunset brought a surprise noctilucent cloud appearance to Colorado tonight, probably from a fresh rocket launch out west somewhere these past few days. The rarest clouds on Earth 😍
This is a very loud video of me being scared by lightning
February 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
This is a very loud video of me being scared by lightning
A tornado wandering aimlessly under its parent storm. Some fire ants were bothered by this picture.
February 1, 2026 at 6:55 PM
A tornado wandering aimlessly under its parent storm. Some fire ants were bothered by this picture.
Tornado season is sooner than you think 🌪️
January 25, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Tornado season is sooner than you think 🌪️
Tornadoes aren't that cool, says the dude who is not that cool
January 4, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Tornadoes aren't that cool, says the dude who is not that cool
My 2026 new years resolution is to go storm chasing
January 1, 2026 at 4:28 AM
My 2026 new years resolution is to go storm chasing
This tornado drifted aimlessly for 45 minutes over open country and did basically nothing. A+ work.
December 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This tornado drifted aimlessly for 45 minutes over open country and did basically nothing. A+ work.
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From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
December 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
When the storm barely looks like a storm but it's producing a sick tornado 🤷😱
December 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
When the storm barely looks like a storm but it's producing a sick tornado 🤷😱
My phone has been enjoying microwaving sunsets off the deck for the past week
December 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
My phone has been enjoying microwaving sunsets off the deck for the past week
I wonder if the people who own this place know that I have more pictures of their house than their realtor does
December 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I wonder if the people who own this place know that I have more pictures of their house than their realtor does
It's been 7 years since shooting 720p video was acceptable (or more), and it has also been 7 years since the most impactful tornado outbreak in December in Illinois. This one was the last of six we saw before the sun completely set at 4:30 PM 🫠
December 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It's been 7 years since shooting 720p video was acceptable (or more), and it has also been 7 years since the most impactful tornado outbreak in December in Illinois. This one was the last of six we saw before the sun completely set at 4:30 PM 🫠
When storms look like spaceships I try to imagine what it would have been like a thousand years ago before there was widespread knowledge of the science that could explain why a spaceship is floating on by
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
When storms look like spaceships I try to imagine what it would have been like a thousand years ago before there was widespread knowledge of the science that could explain why a spaceship is floating on by
This hybrid tornado was arguably second coolest thing to happen in the vicinity of North Platte, Nebraska in 2025. The coolest thing, obviously, was Chick-fil-a giving me an extra chicken tender that one time
November 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This hybrid tornado was arguably second coolest thing to happen in the vicinity of North Platte, Nebraska in 2025. The coolest thing, obviously, was Chick-fil-a giving me an extra chicken tender that one time
Is it violent wedge season yet
October 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Is it violent wedge season yet
A collection of different - yet oddly similar - things on the high plains. Watching the sun set to the west while a massive storm rages in between is one of life's guilty pleasures.
October 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A collection of different - yet oddly similar - things on the high plains. Watching the sun set to the west while a massive storm rages in between is one of life's guilty pleasures.
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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.
Hoping to build out a more robust climatology of hailstorms like we have for tornadoes.
October 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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.
Hoping to build out a more robust climatology of hailstorms like we have for tornadoes.
I guess random backyard supercell season really does not ever end
October 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I guess random backyard supercell season really does not ever end
A storm with its tornado, parading through canyons in Texas, shows off the whole anatomy of a supercell. Nothing I wouldn't give to have had a road in from the northeast on this one, but nope.
September 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
A storm with its tornado, parading through canyons in Texas, shows off the whole anatomy of a supercell. Nothing I wouldn't give to have had a road in from the northeast on this one, but nope.
In the year of everything awesome in storm chasing world, the monsoon has been nonexistent. So I'll take whatever heavily cropped, slightly overexposed bolts I can get 😀
September 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
In the year of everything awesome in storm chasing world, the monsoon has been nonexistent. So I'll take whatever heavily cropped, slightly overexposed bolts I can get 😀
One year ago today I was making what may be the easiest forecast of my life in central South Dakota. This long-lived tornado was just the icing we all knew was coming to top off the cake.
8.28.2024 - Mound City, SD
8.28.2024 - Mound City, SD
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
One year ago today I was making what may be the easiest forecast of my life in central South Dakota. This long-lived tornado was just the icing we all knew was coming to top off the cake.
8.28.2024 - Mound City, SD
8.28.2024 - Mound City, SD
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I have actually never grappled with this question for even one microsecond but sure
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I have actually never grappled with this question for even one microsecond but sure
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These stories are heart rending - but I am so thankful these parents are speaking out. We absolutely cannot act like what happened on July 4th was an unpreventable act of God - we CAN be better prepared and keep people safer. Reupping my post on what needs to improve: tinyurl.com/37n8t9ez
August 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
These stories are heart rending - but I am so thankful these parents are speaking out. We absolutely cannot act like what happened on July 4th was an unpreventable act of God - we CAN be better prepared and keep people safer. Reupping my post on what needs to improve: tinyurl.com/37n8t9ez
Out of the small handful of storms I have actually chased in 2025, the majority of them have been terrible. And yet several of them, including this one, keep breaking my windshield anyway. You're supposed to be good if you want the right to do that, storm.
August 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Out of the small handful of storms I have actually chased in 2025, the majority of them have been terrible. And yet several of them, including this one, keep breaking my windshield anyway. You're supposed to be good if you want the right to do that, storm.