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Budding storm chaser, long time wx nerd. Not a professional met, just autistic. Also a huge Star Wars nerd. Queer. He/him.

#Wx Mesonet technician, storm spotter, BSci in CompSci. Views my own, not employers, etc.
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This is the balloon/sonde in question. Smaller than the one the NWS uses and it didn’t go as high, but it did get about 4200 meters at least - think it got higher but i gotta check. It was SO cool!!!
A picture of blue sky with clouds above a parking lot, with a balloon in the top right corner connected to a string. There is a small weather instt (radiosonde) hanging at the bottom of the string.
July 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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This was part of the stuff I left on display in my apartment when cleaning for my dad’s girlfriend to come over. Hoping it was subtle yet effective enough at communicating that I fall more on the Left side of the spectrum, lol. She’s reportedly also more left leaning than my dad, so…
Two books and a sign on a table are centered in the picture. The edge of a black tv is just visible in the top right corner with the edge of a Loki funko pop just visible below it. The sign is sitting on top of the two books, and is made out of cardboard. The two books below are “The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire” by Chris Kemphall, and the art book for Jedi: Survivor underneath it. The sign has writing on it in various sharpie colors. “Nemik, October 5th, 2022” is on the very top. Below that, also handwritten, is “Oppression is the mask of fear..” below that. “Oppression” is on the first line in larger font, “is the mask” on the second with Mask in larger font, and “of fear…” on the third line with fear in large bold red font outlined in black. The bottom two lines of the signs are “So remember this:” on the first, and “Try” second, with try in big font and the Andor logo to the right of it.
June 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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I also had a NOAA sign - albeit in Atlanta!! #HandsOff #HandsOffAtl #HandsOffNOAA !
A protest sign. It reads "Hands off NOAA!" at the top with Off in all caps, and it is in various shades of blue and white. Below that is the NOAA bird symbol across the whole width, with "Two paths and America cchose the psychopath!" On top of it in red. Slightly below and to the left and right are two fish, red and orange. The red one has a speech bubble with "who will study ocean currents that keep me alive?" And the orange says "Trump doesn't "NO"AA shit!" Below the fish and bird is more writing, reading "Stop putting our heart-d [loved] federal workers through a hurricane!" In all caps, and the a in hurricane has been swapped with the hurricane symbol.
April 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Finally got around to editing (some) of the footage from our 3/15 chase. These are some of my favorite lightning shots from that day that I've gone through so far.

#stormchase #lightning #wxsky #skywx #storms #wx
March 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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So i went to my state's #standupforscience protest. I wasn't planning on speaking OR anything else but...ended up scribbling something together and speaking to everyone in support for our federal workers and NOAA in particular as well, heh....But I would have regretted it if I didn't speak up.
A picture of a brown cardboard protest sign with several printed messages on it. At the very top it says "You're not so "sharp"ie, Elon" and elsewhere it says several other things. From left to right, top to bottom, "I NOAA lot of hard working people, none of them are named Elon Musk, Donald Trump or JD Vance.", "Federal workers are my work siblings. - a local public sector worker. When you attack one of us, you attack all of us!", "Hey Elon, a hurricane doesn't care if you have a trillion dollars or just one!", "Tornados and hurricanes don't discriminate against poor or rich -Weather is a matter of national public safety.", "Federal workers just want to server our country and the people! Let them do their jobs!". At the bottom of the poster, left to right, is the NOAA logo, a picture of Trump and his sharpie over Hurricane Dorian's path, and a big red circle with a slash through it on top. To the right is the national weather service logo. Also on top of the Trump photo is two sentences, "Sharpies aren't trained, experienced forecasters!" And "Climate change doesn't care about your feelings!"
March 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Flashing lights warning!!!

Went storm chasing in GA last night, briefly went into AL but then came back fairly soon. Managed to get these gorgeous bolts with a borrowed GoPro mounted on my windshield. #stormchasing #lightning #wxsky #stormphotography #skywx
March 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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This is another one of my characters and this one isn't 100% complete per fiancee but I freaking love it. This is set to my home screen, and they're one of my star wars characters.
Art of a human character with shorter hair, but a long strand across the left side next to their eye. They're white, with dark brown eyes, and are wearing black Jedi style robes. The background behind them is a solid brown.
February 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I'll post some stuff she's made for me, bc a) talented and b) examples of some of her work. This first one is one of my DND characters, a dragon born. currently set as my lock screen!
Art of a dragon humanoid character. The wings are a light blue, and the rest of the character is various shades of light blue, purple and white. The dragonborn is holding a staff in their left hand as they are crouched down onto their right knee, with their right hand flat on the ground. There is armor with a big purple eye on their right wrist, and spikes sticking out of their right arm a bit further up.
February 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Went storm chasing this morning. Was very close to part of a cell that *really really wanted* to spin up by accident (missed it when i was finding a place to park). You can see the top two hooks trying easily but the attempt a bit further down I didn't see till after I parked, whoops.
Screenshot of radar with the reflectivity on the top and the storm relative velocity on the bottom. There are two "classic" hook shaped sections of the storm above and to the left of the blue location circle, and a third attempt at rotation of the storm is only visible on the velocity.
February 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A picture of my #cat, looking absolutely adorable inside one of my bookbags (she did not want me to leave again, she's living with my dad atm). I miss her 😭, but unfortunately I would hate to leave her alone in my apartment while I'm gone at work. So until she wouldn't be alone she's w/ my dad.
A picture of a green bookbag with a cat inside. The only visible part of the cat is her head and shes looking up at the camera, almost in a pleading manner.
February 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Let me see if i can dig it up real fast....here. it is definitely nowhere near as specific as Tech's is though, for sure.
A screenshot of an email from UGA, discussing the recent Trump executive orders and what that might mean for faculty/staff, students and researchers.
January 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I'm genuinely about to cry, whoever bought these THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. genuinely this means so much.
A picture of two items from amazon - one is a cord for a dryer on the left and the other is washing machine hoses. They both have a "Purchased" label on top of the pictures.
January 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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After i tried sledding (the top layer had iced, so was not able to sled), i gave into the impulse to roll and here's the proof, lol.
It is a snow covered hill, with person-shaped indentations in a row, as if a person had rolled over and over again in it 6 times.
January 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Here's a picture i took as the sun rose and the snow slowed. It was absolutely stunning.
A photo of a parking lot, a few trees and some sidewalls and grass. Everything is covered in a blanket of snow and is white. Across the street is a street lamp. The road has a faint swt of tire tracks but they are mostly covered in snow again.
January 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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A cool cloid pic I took after the storms rolled through last Sunday.
A picture of the sky, with the top of trees and the top of an apartment building at the bottom of the picture. The sky is a lighter blue, with the clouds covering most of it. The clouds are fluffy but not very thick. They are white, with grey areas underneath from the shadow.
January 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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An admittedly semi-blurry blurry picture of one of our #mesonet stations. This one was due for a temp/humidity probe change, which I did before taking this pic. It was chilly that day!
A picture of a weather station tripod, with a fence behind it, a guard rail just visible behind and below the fence, and a treeline in the distance. There is a big cell tower just left of the left of the center of the station coming from the treeline. The weather station has two rain gauges, one to the left of the tripod and one to the right of the tripod. There is a big silver box towards the middle right, with a white box mounted to the center pole to the left above the silver box. Above that is cell models, a radiation shield, a rectangular solar panel, a anamometer (wind speed/direction), and a pyranometer (solar radiation). A lightning rod sticks up from the middle of the top of the station.
January 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Here's my submission for #39arcane! This is probably the most I've spent on a piece of art, but I do love Arcane a lot so....worth it.

Sort of meant to tell a bit of a story...there's a hat right in the middle of the two at the bottom that tells the begining.
A piece of digital artwork of Arcane characters. There are 8 detailed faces drawn, two faces that are very simple, and one object in each of the bottom corner. There is a sphere drawn behind all of them to appear to be blue and glowing. Behind everything in the pic is a purple blue gradient, interrupted by white circles in almost spiral patterns. The people are drawn in a row of two at the the bottom, then 3, with the middle person slightly offset, and 3 above that in the same setup. Above the people, but behind them in layers, is a pair of eyes - one blue, one yellow, and the typical white is black. Between the two people at the bottom is a grey hat with blue highlights on the top and pink googles. The figures on the bottom row are (fron left to right) Powder and Jinx. The second row is young Vi, Vander, and Older Vi. The third row is young Ekko, Silco, and Older Ekko. To the left of the faces is a simple drawing of Mylo in white blue and pink. He has spiky hair. To the right of the faces is a simple drawing of Clagger, who has googles. The left corner contains a monkey figure from the show, and the right corner has Jinx's grenade from the s2 finale, in simplified form.
December 31, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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This *might* be the end of a funnel cloud from this morning. It's not the best zoom but timing and radar from the time seems to match.....might have gotten my first funnel as it dissipated? #skywx #wxsky #tornado (maybe).
A picture of the sky, with a light pole squaredly in the middle. It is dark out, sans the light on the pole. There are clouds across the entire sky and to the bottom left, there is a lower cloud that could be a dissipating funnel. A picture of the sky, with a light pole squaredly in the middle. There are clouds across the entire sky and to the bottom left, but more centered in this photo is what could be a dissipating funnel cloud. There are two trees in the bottom left corner and the top of a building in the bottom right corner. Another picture of the sky, with a light pole squaredly in the middle. There are clouds across the entire sky and to the bottom left, but more centered in this photo, and in the middle what looks to be an even smaller remnant of a suspected funnel cloud. There are two trees in the bottom left corner and the top of a building in the bottom right corner. Very similar to the third picture, except for the suspected funnel section of the cloud. It is barely visible, and seems to almost have dissipated.
December 29, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Speaking of #Mesonet stuff...my truck's tire blew on the way back Thursday from my sites that day. I had one more I was gonna do (and had decided to push to Thursday morning since it was close to home base before the tire blew), but that site is obv gonna wait till after Christmas to get done, lol.
A picture of a deflated tire sitting on a white line in a parking lot. The bottom of the white truck is also visible. The tire is black and had reddish orange mud on it in the various depressed areas. There are leaves on the ground around the truck. A close up photo of a tire tread. There is a circular hole towards the middle that looks as if something like a screw or nail went in at an angle and flew out. The tread of the tire is also cracked around the hole.
December 20, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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Hot chocolate obtained.

One awesome thing about living in my own apartment is that I can have my pride flags out and visible, and no one can get weird about them. #trans #asexual #queer
A picture of a mug sitting on a brown table with flags in the background. The flags are blurry but visible in the background - a trans flag with blue, pink and white stripes and another flag with yellow and white stripes visible. The flag not fully shown is the nonbinary flag. The mug sitting on the table is blue green, with white speckles across it on the outside. A small amount of text is visible on the middle of the right side of the mug. A small black letter N is the only readable letter. The rim of the mug is black, while the inside is white, with small splashes of brown liquid - hot chocolate - on it.
December 7, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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Again, as long as I'm getting enough sleep, waking up early enough to be on the road in time to see sunrise is 100% worth it.

#wxsky #wxphotography #sunrise #clouds
A photo of the sky during sunrise, with a dark treeline visible at slight angle at the bottom. The sky is mostly filled with thinner clouds - some fluffy, some more like long, somewhat thinner streaks. The small, fluffy clouds are mostly in the top left corner while the rest are the soft, streak-like ones. The sky is a mixture of lighter colors, gray, white from the sun's glow toward the top and just above the treeline, yellow from the sun towards the bottom left, and some blue peeking out from behind the clouds.
November 21, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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The benefits of getting up early to get ahead of the oncoming rain to check on your #mesonet stations with your boss: beautiful sunrises. #wxsky #sunrise #wxphotography
A photo of the sunrise, with a layer of clouds of various shapes (some soft and fluffy, some long and fluffy, all are very soft looking) in the sky filling most of it aside from a small chunk just above the treeline, to the right side of the photo. The sun is casting a yellowish glow to the clouds closest and shining through the rest with a soft white glow. The treeline is dark.
November 19, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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#Sunset from the other night. Absolutely gorgeous. It didn't look exactly like this it was more blue and yellow but this is still a STUNNING photo of it.

#wxsky #wxphotography
A picture of the sky with a building and tree line at the bottom. The building is on the bottom right and is more a rectangle than a clear building. The sun is setting and the sky is a vibrant orange,purple and reddish, with hints of blue peaking through.
November 19, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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A picture of the sky, with a building on the right, but just the the edge of the roof is visible. There is a treeline at the bottom and a tall tree on the very left. The sky is blue, with small fluffy white clouds closely scattered across it. The clouds go from a pinkish white at the bottom of the photo to a more soft white at the top, due to the time of day and the sunrise.
November 16, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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One last photo for the day from this past week. Had some really nice skies overall while I was out training honestly. Not always clear but usually very pretty to look at.
A picture of a stoplight intersection but with just the top of the cars visible at the bottom, with five overall lights visible. Two face the camera and are red, to are facing opposite the camera with the back facing it, and one is on the left edge with the side facing the camera.. The street name sign has been covered with a black mark. The sky is the main focus of the picture, with thick, light grey cumulus clouds taking up all but two small chunks of the sky visible - one almost directly in the center and one centered on the left edge of the photo. In front of the clouds, but behind the light's power lines and cars, there is a tall tree on the right side, and a treeline at the bottom. An orange construction sign is just in front of the tall tree, towards the left of it.
November 16, 2024 at 3:35 PM