Brandon Holden
@wxbirder.bsky.social
Bird watcher. Weather enthusiast. All here in one, last ditch, social media effort.
Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/greatgreatlakesbirding/home
Website:
https://sites.google.com/view/greatgreatlakesbirding/home
Great Lakes Birding Forecast for October:
October 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Great Lakes Birding Forecast for October:
OctoberRares.jpeg
(probably thrown all over, well past me in the southern Great Lakes, but still super exciting)
(probably thrown all over, well past me in the southern Great Lakes, but still super exciting)
October 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
OctoberRares.jpeg
(probably thrown all over, well past me in the southern Great Lakes, but still super exciting)
(probably thrown all over, well past me in the southern Great Lakes, but still super exciting)
Awesome to see this huge fall bird migrations on radar - def. one of the biggest liftoffs of the year here #birding #wxbirding
September 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Awesome to see this huge fall bird migrations on radar - def. one of the biggest liftoffs of the year here #birding #wxbirding
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📸August 16: Images from the NOAA Hurricane Hunter and our NOAA Satellites Ocean Winds team show an intense eyewall in Hurricane #Erin This photo shows the ocean surface calm in the eye and roaring in the eyewall. For the latest forecast visit hurricanes.gov
August 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📸August 16: Images from the NOAA Hurricane Hunter and our NOAA Satellites Ocean Winds team show an intense eyewall in Hurricane #Erin This photo shows the ocean surface calm in the eye and roaring in the eyewall. For the latest forecast visit hurricanes.gov
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Visualizing the heat dome forecast.
Data from @ecmwf.int, plotted with @blender.org.
#science #scicomm #sciart
Data from @ecmwf.int, plotted with @blender.org.
#science #scicomm #sciart
June 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Visualizing the heat dome forecast.
Data from @ecmwf.int, plotted with @blender.org.
#science #scicomm #sciart
Data from @ecmwf.int, plotted with @blender.org.
#science #scicomm #sciart
Reposted by Brandon Holden
Check out our new @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social explorer!
ERA5 data to explore at your fingertips
#dataviz 🌏🛰️⚒️🧪🌡️
ERA5 data to explore at your fingertips
#dataviz 🌏🛰️⚒️🧪🌡️
ERA Explorer
Explore the ERA5 dataset from ECMWF
era-explorer.climate.copernicus.eu
March 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Check out our new @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social explorer!
ERA5 data to explore at your fingertips
#dataviz 🌏🛰️⚒️🧪🌡️
ERA5 data to explore at your fingertips
#dataviz 🌏🛰️⚒️🧪🌡️
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Check out our new Polar Vortex Blog! Though parts of the US have been very cold and snowy, experts do not think there's much evidence that the polar vortex is the main driver of our winter weather so far this year. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
February 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Check out our new Polar Vortex Blog! Though parts of the US have been very cold and snowy, experts do not think there's much evidence that the polar vortex is the main driver of our winter weather so far this year. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
Reposted by Brandon Holden
Final set of additions to PolarWx for the time being - two AI emulator models (ECMWF's AIFS, and the GFS-based GraphCast) are now plotting in real time:
polarwx.com/models/?mode...
polarwx.com/models/?mode...
polarwx.com/models/?mode...
polarwx.com/models/?mode...
January 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Final set of additions to PolarWx for the time being - two AI emulator models (ECMWF's AIFS, and the GFS-based GraphCast) are now plotting in real time:
polarwx.com/models/?mode...
polarwx.com/models/?mode...
polarwx.com/models/?mode...
polarwx.com/models/?mode...
This is the kind of weather shenanigans (with reforming lows etc.) that make for really exciting weather-focused birding in the GL's! I'm so excited to see what's out there over the next few days..... #soexcited #birding #wxbirding
November 21, 2024 at 5:37 PM
This is the kind of weather shenanigans (with reforming lows etc.) that make for really exciting weather-focused birding in the GL's! I'm so excited to see what's out there over the next few days..... #soexcited #birding #wxbirding
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North American jet stream pattern is just a smidged amplified this week.
November 17, 2024 at 11:56 PM
North American jet stream pattern is just a smidged amplified this week.
Super interested to see what sort of vagrants turn up in the Great Lakes over the next 2-3 weeks....... Weather support is in overdrive #birding
October 23, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Super interested to see what sort of vagrants turn up in the Great Lakes over the next 2-3 weeks....... Weather support is in overdrive #birding
Interesting to see what this hog of a low pressure system does for AK birding (and downstream effects on NA birding through Nov) --- 850mb winds shown
October 21, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Interesting to see what this hog of a low pressure system does for AK birding (and downstream effects on NA birding through Nov) --- 850mb winds shown
Climatology + MJO + Intense pre-season forecasts = 👀 👀 👀 for Mid-August onwards for a few weeks... Not to mention the increasing interest and knowledge in knowing when and where birders end up in the field...
#birding
#hurricanebirding
#birding
#hurricanebirding
August 7, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Climatology + MJO + Intense pre-season forecasts = 👀 👀 👀 for Mid-August onwards for a few weeks... Not to mention the increasing interest and knowledge in knowing when and where birders end up in the field...
#birding
#hurricanebirding
#birding
#hurricanebirding
To-be "Post-tropical" Beryl is going to do it's very best to displace some birds into the southern Great Lakes in the coming days... Jet stream boost activated! #birding #hurricanebirding
July 8, 2024 at 11:43 PM
To-be "Post-tropical" Beryl is going to do it's very best to displace some birds into the southern Great Lakes in the coming days... Jet stream boost activated! #birding #hurricanebirding
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A long-ish op-ed style piece from me in Nature, in which I consider the question "how doomed are we?" tl;dr: it's an existential, philosophical, and personal question. It sometimes gets posed as if it were a scientific one, but it mostly isn't. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
March 19, 2024 at 1:12 PM
A long-ish op-ed style piece from me in Nature, in which I consider the question "how doomed are we?" tl;dr: it's an existential, philosophical, and personal question. It sometimes gets posed as if it were a scientific one, but it mostly isn't. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
