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Ryan Hickman
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CTO @allisonhouse.com
Posts about technology, weather data and storm chasing.
Opinions are my own.
A couple of cold air islands in central North Dakota and South Dakota
September 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It's an NWS issue with Level 3, not specific to the radar sites.
KCYS is down. KFTG is not.
July 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Only(!) 13,000 strikes in the last hour.
July 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Much of the official @okcthunder.bsky.social Championship gear ships from Indianapolis, Indiana. You hate to love to see it.
July 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@okcthunder.bsky.social "Here's are some more" on your shipment email, just a heads up.
June 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Meanwhile, 13,057 (total) strikes over the last hour in Kansas along the boundary with a clear hook forming SW of Wellington, KS. #KSwx
June 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
3,915 of those in the last hour were Cloud-to-Ground lightning strikes. #COwx #WYwx
June 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
8,885 lightning strikes along the Front Range of the Rockies and onto the Colorado Plains over the last hour. #COwx
June 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Window hammock catto became desk catto thanks to some fairly close CG lightning strikes here in Loveland, CO.
June 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Google finally acknowledging issues.
status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow...
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
June 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
First it was noticeable that AWS was having issues (Twitch). No status update.
Then, GCP was having issues (Discord).
No status update.
Now Cloudflare reports issues?
What in the world is going on here?
Was it CF all along?
Why can't I load my GCP Console if it's only CF?
Downdetector having a day.
June 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hereford, CO to Carpenter, WY bouncy noodle from 8 years ago (June 12, 2017)
June 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Spoke too soon on the Level 3 radar. Not even real sure we've seen much of a resolution on the delays; they just cleared the queue and now things seem to be stacking up again. Ugh.
May 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
EM reported to NWS for the warning issuance. A chaser not on Bluesky submitted this SN report.
May 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I can't count how many times the NWS has filled up their databases. We have quota alerts for a reason yet this issue continues to happen. Very fortunate that this was during an inactive weather period.
April 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
... and we're back. Fortunately the CONUS is fairly quiet today.
April 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Data (including Watches, Warnings, and Advisories) are not being transmitted to or received from the NWS Telecommunications Gateway in Boulder at this time. #USwx
April 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Better displayed in @radarscope.app with surface observations.
March 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Oklahoma fires blowing up in a two-hour time period on Shortwave IR satellite. #OKwx
March 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Border-to-border and only 3 counties away from being coast-to-coast Watches, Warnings or Advisories. #USwx
February 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The same SBN which the NWS intends on discontinuing in 2027.
(Note that they did this to some legacy NEXRAD products and the discontinuation was postponed for 5+ years before they fully followed through with it.)
October 21, 2024 at 8:33 PM
NWS to begin disseminating Canadian weather radar data via the Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN) / NOAAPORT beginning December 9, 2024. Only 23 of the 31 radars will be included to reduce the impact and is focused on those adjacent to the United States. #wxbluesky
October 21, 2024 at 7:06 PM