Billy Faletti
@mesoanticyclone.bsky.social
Studying severe storm dynamics and prediction
Ph.D. Candidate @ OU | M.S. Texas Tech | B.S. Northern Illinois
Ph.D. Candidate @ OU | M.S. Texas Tech | B.S. Northern Illinois
PhD s̶t̶u̶d̶e̶n̶t̶ candidate
(and some celebratory fireworks)
(and some celebratory fireworks)
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
PhD s̶t̶u̶d̶e̶n̶t̶ candidate
(and some celebratory fireworks)
(and some celebratory fireworks)
It took 6 months to nail down an edit I don't hate of Arnett...but I did it. Tough lighting and white-balancing act. But lord, what a beauty of a storm.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It took 6 months to nail down an edit I don't hate of Arnett...but I did it. Tough lighting and white-balancing act. But lord, what a beauty of a storm.
The Braum's Enjoyer
October 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The Braum's Enjoyer
This is not allowed. Gaslighting gaslighters nope stop it
October 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is not allowed. Gaslighting gaslighters nope stop it
Going through an old class project and found my pics of the complete transition from CI to (barely) tornadic supercell of the 4/19/23 Moore storm. Like, starting from the exact cumulus puff out west of Lawton (which was notably wider than its peers at conception)
October 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Going through an old class project and found my pics of the complete transition from CI to (barely) tornadic supercell of the 4/19/23 Moore storm. Like, starting from the exact cumulus puff out west of Lawton (which was notably wider than its peers at conception)
The eyes of betrayal
October 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The eyes of betrayal
my soft social media strike is taking a hiatus folks
October 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
my soft social media strike is taking a hiatus folks
General exam during a government shutdown with no access to my office and immediately finds two of the friendliest kittens ever. I am never before seen levels of toast
October 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
General exam during a government shutdown with no access to my office and immediately finds two of the friendliest kittens ever. I am never before seen levels of toast
I either need to stop going on walks or start going on a lot more
October 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I either need to stop going on walks or start going on a lot more
Four years ago today in Wisconsin, this brief tornado spun at 17 billion quintillion gazillion miles per hour, breaking the sound barrier or something like that
(Audible "crack" can be heard emanating from the collapsing vortex ~0:17, I believe one of only 2 videos that captured it)
(Audible "crack" can be heard emanating from the collapsing vortex ~0:17, I believe one of only 2 videos that captured it)
August 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Four years ago today in Wisconsin, this brief tornado spun at 17 billion quintillion gazillion miles per hour, breaking the sound barrier or something like that
(Audible "crack" can be heard emanating from the collapsing vortex ~0:17, I believe one of only 2 videos that captured it)
(Audible "crack" can be heard emanating from the collapsing vortex ~0:17, I believe one of only 2 videos that captured it)
Just a wild evolution, what I'm guessing(?) is breakdown induced by the highly contracted vortex in the first photo
July 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Just a wild evolution, what I'm guessing(?) is breakdown induced by the highly contracted vortex in the first photo
Watertown tornado drilling nearly straight vertically shortly before morphing into a quasi-steady-state, helix-shaped vortex for several seconds.
July 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Watertown tornado drilling nearly straight vertically shortly before morphing into a quasi-steady-state, helix-shaped vortex for several seconds.
Full video edit of the Watertown, #SDwx tornado up. It's rare I get a "video tornado" these days. This is the first time I've had chase video up within a week since...before grad school.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZh-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZh-...
July 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Full video edit of the Watertown, #SDwx tornado up. It's rare I get a "video tornado" these days. This is the first time I've had chase video up within a week since...before grad school.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZh-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZh-...
***times 1800, one for each South Dakota stovepipe
July 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
***times 1800, one for each South Dakota stovepipe
Just a relaxing summer lake day yesterday
July 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Just a relaxing summer lake day yesterday
When you take a very tiny, slight, trivial 8-hour detour through South Dakota on your drive from OK to IL...
Fought through corn and trees for this view of yesterday's stunner drillbit tornado just west of Watertown, #SDwx.
Fought through corn and trees for this view of yesterday's stunner drillbit tornado just west of Watertown, #SDwx.
July 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
When you take a very tiny, slight, trivial 8-hour detour through South Dakota on your drive from OK to IL...
Fought through corn and trees for this view of yesterday's stunner drillbit tornado just west of Watertown, #SDwx.
Fought through corn and trees for this view of yesterday's stunner drillbit tornado just west of Watertown, #SDwx.
Well I hope the Kas can park tonight...
June 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Well I hope the Kas can park tonight...
Boy the National Wind Institute facilities are threading the needle here...
June 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Boy the National Wind Institute facilities are threading the needle here...
Still Doing (Hail) Science in 2025
May 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Still Doing (Hail) Science in 2025
The Details vs. The Big Picture
I've been fortunate to see a lot of tornado + storm structure views over the last few years, but I've never seen it with such a stout tornado.
Arnett, #OKwx - 18 May 2025
I've been fortunate to see a lot of tornado + storm structure views over the last few years, but I've never seen it with such a stout tornado.
Arnett, #OKwx - 18 May 2025
May 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The Details vs. The Big Picture
I've been fortunate to see a lot of tornado + storm structure views over the last few years, but I've never seen it with such a stout tornado.
Arnett, #OKwx - 18 May 2025
I've been fortunate to see a lot of tornado + storm structure views over the last few years, but I've never seen it with such a stout tornado.
Arnett, #OKwx - 18 May 2025
Cycling in Lindsay, 4:43 pm
May 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Cycling in Lindsay, 4:43 pm
Not sure I'm ever pulling off pepper plants like this again
May 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Not sure I'm ever pulling off pepper plants like this again
The most coherent "button" of a tornado to cohere out of a dramatic river of forward-flank vorticity near Littlefield, #TXwx on Friday. Some of the wilder storm-scale dynamics I've seen.
May 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The most coherent "button" of a tornado to cohere out of a dramatic river of forward-flank vorticity near Littlefield, #TXwx on Friday. Some of the wilder storm-scale dynamics I've seen.