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
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.
Structure hipstering
August 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Structure hipstering
But Mouse, you are not alone. In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes of mice and men go oft awry, and leave us nothing but grief and pain for promised joy!
July 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
But Mouse, you are not alone. In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes of mice and men go oft awry, and leave us nothing but grief and pain for promised joy!
Anyone wanna go to storm chaser prom with me
July 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Anyone wanna go to storm chaser prom with me
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The @nws.noaa.gov account will begin posting here on Monday. www.weather.gov/media/notifi...
July 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The @nws.noaa.gov account will begin posting here on Monday. www.weather.gov/media/notifi...
Structure of the year
July 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Structure of the year
Smoky backyard supercell time
July 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Smoky backyard supercell time
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In areas hit by Texas floods, officials were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021.
They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."
They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."
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July 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In areas hit by Texas floods, officials were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021.
They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."
They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."
Two years ago I got to see what nature does when it really, really does not like that one exact spot in particular.
6.28.2023 - Kimball, Nebraska
6.28.2023 - Kimball, Nebraska
June 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Two years ago I got to see what nature does when it really, really does not like that one exact spot in particular.
6.28.2023 - Kimball, Nebraska
6.28.2023 - Kimball, Nebraska
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Replacing the NAM and HREF with the RRFS in early 2026 is a really bad idea IMHO. The RRFS does not handle low-level cold air masses nearly as well as the NAM and a couple other HREF members, although they can be too aggressive with low-level cold air.
June 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Replacing the NAM and HREF with the RRFS in early 2026 is a really bad idea IMHO. The RRFS does not handle low-level cold air masses nearly as well as the NAM and a couple other HREF members, although they can be too aggressive with low-level cold air.
This, somehow, is the "other" thing that day two years ago. I saw that the bigger tornado earlier detached and stayed west of the parent storm for much of its life, so I stayed west of the storm from then on and it paid off with the dumbest sunset I will ever see.
6.23.2023 - Johnson, Kansas
6.23.2023 - Johnson, Kansas
June 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This, somehow, is the "other" thing that day two years ago. I saw that the bigger tornado earlier detached and stayed west of the parent storm for much of its life, so I stayed west of the storm from then on and it paid off with the dumbest sunset I will ever see.
6.23.2023 - Johnson, Kansas
6.23.2023 - Johnson, Kansas
I've never really known what to share from this storm - the twins, the structure, the stationary stovepipe, or the ropeout - so here's all of the above. Two years ago to the day and it has not been topped since.
6.23.2023 - Granada, Colorado
6.23.2023 - Granada, Colorado
June 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I've never really known what to share from this storm - the twins, the structure, the stationary stovepipe, or the ropeout - so here's all of the above. Two years ago to the day and it has not been topped since.
6.23.2023 - Granada, Colorado
6.23.2023 - Granada, Colorado
A collection of three updrafts rolling over Cheyenne Mountain so far today
June 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A collection of three updrafts rolling over Cheyenne Mountain so far today