Dr. Robin Tanamachi 🌪️
@tornatrix.bsky.social
Assoc. prof at Purdue specializing in severe wx & radar. Storm chaser since 2001. All opinions expressed here are solely mine and not my employer's. She/her
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I’m organizing an education-focused session at #32SLS! I plan to showcase all the great work the community is doing to teach severe weather and use storms to motivate learning. Please submit abstracts (due 3/19/26)! Look for this session in the abstract submission portal. @ams-sls-stac.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’m organizing an education-focused session at #32SLS! I plan to showcase all the great work the community is doing to teach severe weather and use storms to motivate learning. Please submit abstracts (due 3/19/26)! Look for this session in the abstract submission portal. @ams-sls-stac.bsky.social
I got rid of the cross stripes because they were interfering with my vision. I like the result better.
October 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I got rid of the cross stripes because they were interfering with my vision. I like the result better.
STORM CHASER SQUID GAME: Teams that successfully intercept tornadoes will advance to the next round. Any teams that bust will be eliminated.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
STORM CHASER SQUID GAME: Teams that successfully intercept tornadoes will advance to the next round. Any teams that bust will be eliminated.
Echoing colleagues: Think before you (re)post. #Melissa is about to impact a relatively poor part of Jamaica. I doubt we will know the true extent of the devastation for days or weeks.
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
October 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Echoing colleagues: Think before you (re)post. #Melissa is about to impact a relatively poor part of Jamaica. I doubt we will know the true extent of the devastation for days or weeks.
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
Information vacuums fill with disinformation. Expect a lot of “breaking wind” on SM.
Map source: World Bank
Mission 20 FOMO: They've circled the eye twice this morning. It must be a once-in-a-lifetime sight. #HurricaneMelissa
October 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Mission 20 FOMO: They've circled the eye twice this morning. It must be a once-in-a-lifetime sight. #HurricaneMelissa
Note how the bird roost rings on the east side of Indiana expand slightly earlier than the ones on the west side, as the sunrise terminator progresses across the state from east to west. #radar
October 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Note how the bird roost rings on the east side of Indiana expand slightly earlier than the ones on the west side, as the sunrise terminator progresses across the state from east to west. #radar
“The cover had a woman, young woman with green background of the forest, following chimpanzees. And I thought, wow. She kind of looks like me. That's when I decided I wanted to do that kind of work.” - Dr. Lynne Isbell
Representation matters.
www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...
Representation matters.
www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...
October 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“The cover had a woman, young woman with green background of the forest, following chimpanzees. And I thought, wow. She kind of looks like me. That's when I decided I wanted to do that kind of work.” - Dr. Lynne Isbell
Representation matters.
www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...
Representation matters.
www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...
I remember “The Enemy Within”. S1E5. A transporter accident splits Kirk into Good Kirk and Evil Kirk. Evil Kirk gets drunk and tries to rape a female yeoman. Good Kirk flounders around and can’t make any substantive decisions.
In short, it’s an apt metaphor for our current federal government.
In short, it’s an apt metaphor for our current federal government.
September 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I remember “The Enemy Within”. S1E5. A transporter accident splits Kirk into Good Kirk and Evil Kirk. Evil Kirk gets drunk and tries to rape a female yeoman. Good Kirk flounders around and can’t make any substantive decisions.
In short, it’s an apt metaphor for our current federal government.
In short, it’s an apt metaphor for our current federal government.
I am so excited to announce that one of the radar meteorology courses that I developed with @comet-meted.bsky.social is now available! "Dual-Polarization Fundamentals" picks up where "Weather Radar Fundamentals" left off! learn.meted.ucar.edu#/online-cour... (Register on learn.meted.ucar.edu first.)
September 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I am so excited to announce that one of the radar meteorology courses that I developed with @comet-meted.bsky.social is now available! "Dual-Polarization Fundamentals" picks up where "Weather Radar Fundamentals" left off! learn.meted.ucar.edu#/online-cour... (Register on learn.meted.ucar.edu first.)
Some pictures of #AMS41Radar attendees trying out an educational demonstration of radar in virtual reality. The demo was produced by Purdue’s RCAC Envision Center as part of my collaboration with @comet-meted.bsky.social.
September 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Some pictures of #AMS41Radar attendees trying out an educational demonstration of radar in virtual reality. The demo was produced by Purdue’s RCAC Envision Center as part of my collaboration with @comet-meted.bsky.social.
I am literally at a conference right now where the advances in PAR hardware, software, and training are being presented. Today’s coffee break conversations are going to be… interesting. #AMS41radar
August 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I am literally at a conference right now where the advances in PAR hardware, software, and training are being presented. Today’s coffee break conversations are going to be… interesting. #AMS41radar
August 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
She’s in the Carmichael room!
August 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
She’s in the Carmichael room!
#AMS41Radar begins (with a lovely land acknowledgment)! @ametsoc-radar.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#AMS41Radar begins (with a lovely land acknowledgment)! @ametsoc-radar.bsky.social
SPC day 1 looks slightly terrified today
August 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
SPC day 1 looks slightly terrified today
Pro tip: If you don’t want the obnoxious, often inaccurate “AI Overview” that nobody asked for with every Google search, add the tag -AR to the end of your search.
E.g. “Hurricane Erin -AR”
E.g. “Hurricane Erin -AR”
August 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Pro tip: If you don’t want the obnoxious, often inaccurate “AI Overview” that nobody asked for with every Google search, add the tag -AR to the end of your search.
E.g. “Hurricane Erin -AR”
E.g. “Hurricane Erin -AR”
Tsunami warning for eastern Japan, in many of the same areas impacted by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Not good. Live English-translated TV coverage from Japanese broadcaster NHK: www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
July 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Tsunami warning for eastern Japan, in many of the same areas impacted by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Not good. Live English-translated TV coverage from Japanese broadcaster NHK: www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
As a storm chaser, I had a completely different interpretation of this fortune than most people.
July 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
As a storm chaser, I had a completely different interpretation of this fortune than most people.
I love how he gets to the top of the fence and he’s like, “Ow, it’s pointy up here.”
July 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I love how he gets to the top of the fence and he’s like, “Ow, it’s pointy up here.”