Matt
@ultraplinian.bsky.social
Applications engineer. Enthusiast of geosciences and weather, especially tropical cyclones. Love hiking trails and exploring. Into music and video games.
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“This is insane. This is what erasing history looks like.”
August 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
“This is insane. This is what erasing history looks like.”
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can you tell that nuclear pasta is one of my favorite topics 🍜
March 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
can you tell that nuclear pasta is one of my favorite topics 🍜
Ahh *sigh*... On a much lighter note, here's some really awesome new music to sink your teeth into on a Saturday afternoon...
open.spotify.com/album/3xOcEx...
open.spotify.com/album/3xOcEx...
The Overview
Steven Wilson · Album · 2025 · 12 songs
open.spotify.com
March 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ahh *sigh*... On a much lighter note, here's some really awesome new music to sink your teeth into on a Saturday afternoon...
open.spotify.com/album/3xOcEx...
open.spotify.com/album/3xOcEx...
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I said each passing day in my precious post. Perhaps I should have said "each passing hour." It's just an endless onslaught of horrid news right now.
March 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I said each passing day in my precious post. Perhaps I should have said "each passing hour." It's just an endless onslaught of horrid news right now.
We really are accelerating rapidly towards a fascist and racist oligarchy with every passing day, aren't we?
March 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We really are accelerating rapidly towards a fascist and racist oligarchy with every passing day, aren't we?
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NOAA is now just a white guy named Doug whose knee hurts before it rains.
February 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
NOAA is now just a white guy named Doug whose knee hurts before it rains.
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Mass firings have started at the National Weather Service, including people in critical roles. Cutting waste is great. Mindlessly taking a sledgehammer to a valuable, life-saving public service is stupid. All the know-it-alls who said we were fabricating this threat can shut up now. Thanks.
February 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Mass firings have started at the National Weather Service, including people in critical roles. Cutting waste is great. Mindlessly taking a sledgehammer to a valuable, life-saving public service is stupid. All the know-it-alls who said we were fabricating this threat can shut up now. Thanks.
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During trump 1.0, we had to pull down all of the climate change pages off the EPA website. Start archiving shit now, document, backup, photograph, whatever you need to do.
November 6, 2024 at 7:28 AM
During trump 1.0, we had to pull down all of the climate change pages off the EPA website. Start archiving shit now, document, backup, photograph, whatever you need to do.
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Locations and full tracks of all tropical storms and hurricanes active on November 5, this year's Election Day, between 1900 and 2023.
Historically, there is a named storm somewhere in the subtropical Atlantic, Gulf, or the western Caribbean a little less than 20% of the time on 11/5.
Historically, there is a named storm somewhere in the subtropical Atlantic, Gulf, or the western Caribbean a little less than 20% of the time on 11/5.
October 23, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Locations and full tracks of all tropical storms and hurricanes active on November 5, this year's Election Day, between 1900 and 2023.
Historically, there is a named storm somewhere in the subtropical Atlantic, Gulf, or the western Caribbean a little less than 20% of the time on 11/5.
Historically, there is a named storm somewhere in the subtropical Atlantic, Gulf, or the western Caribbean a little less than 20% of the time on 11/5.
Yancey County Burnsville flood 2024, Jay-Paul Thibault
YouTube video by Jay-Paul Thibault
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October 23, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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Nine years ago this AM, Patricia became the most intense hurricane (E. Pac. or Atl. Basin) on record.
It was the first, and only, time a "200 mph max sustained wind" appeared in an NHC advisory.
Final NHC report: 215 mph max sustained wind, 872 mb lowest pressure.
It was the first, and only, time a "200 mph max sustained wind" appeared in an NHC advisory.
Final NHC report: 215 mph max sustained wind, 872 mb lowest pressure.
October 23, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Nine years ago this AM, Patricia became the most intense hurricane (E. Pac. or Atl. Basin) on record.
It was the first, and only, time a "200 mph max sustained wind" appeared in an NHC advisory.
Final NHC report: 215 mph max sustained wind, 872 mb lowest pressure.
It was the first, and only, time a "200 mph max sustained wind" appeared in an NHC advisory.
Final NHC report: 215 mph max sustained wind, 872 mb lowest pressure.
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From Chris McRee: “Neyland Stadium this morning from our SEC Nation set. Our drone shot over Neyland Stadium and from our camera positioned in the bell tower of Ayres Hall in Knoxville”
October 19, 2024 at 1:47 PM
From Chris McRee: “Neyland Stadium this morning from our SEC Nation set. Our drone shot over Neyland Stadium and from our camera positioned in the bell tower of Ayres Hall in Knoxville”
I would imagine a scramble to get out incoming watches and warnings for the Turks and Caicos and an advisor package for the 11AM AST. Obviously, there were hints overnight, but that microwave imagery was a humdinger. Obviously low-level westerly cloud motion on visible after daybreak as well. #Oscar
NHC Atlantic Outlook update for Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:16:35 GMT
Additional Details Here.
Additional Details Here.
October 19, 2024 at 1:27 PM
I would imagine a scramble to get out incoming watches and warnings for the Turks and Caicos and an advisor package for the 11AM AST. Obviously, there were hints overnight, but that microwave imagery was a humdinger. Obviously low-level westerly cloud motion on visible after daybreak as well. #Oscar
Invest #94L looks like a tropical cyclone. Microwave imagery suggests a formative core and eyewall band developing. A miid-level vortex looks well-defined, and this most likely is closed off at the surface now. Will be interesting to see what the NHC does in the short-term with increasing evidence.
October 19, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Invest #94L looks like a tropical cyclone. Microwave imagery suggests a formative core and eyewall band developing. A miid-level vortex looks well-defined, and this most likely is closed off at the surface now. Will be interesting to see what the NHC does in the short-term with increasing evidence.
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TIL that “bells” as a unit of time on boats measure half hour increments, not hours. shit on boats happens a lot faster than i thought it did! i’m happy for all the fictional sailors i assumed were incredibly bored all the time
October 10, 2024 at 6:21 AM
TIL that “bells” as a unit of time on boats measure half hour increments, not hours. shit on boats happens a lot faster than i thought it did! i’m happy for all the fictional sailors i assumed were incredibly bored all the time
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All you new folks ... I have a volcano science starter pack! Check it out and if you're a volcano scientist want to be added, let me know!
go.bsky.app/K4x4NBu
go.bsky.app/K4x4NBu
October 18, 2024 at 10:55 PM
All you new folks ... I have a volcano science starter pack! Check it out and if you're a volcano scientist want to be added, let me know!
go.bsky.app/K4x4NBu
go.bsky.app/K4x4NBu
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If you are thinking about deleting your tweets to avoid AI scraping and you have more than a few thousand, you'll need your downloaded twitter archive for most services and for all scripts that are available out there. I suggest you get it ASAP.
Who knows if they'll continue to provide it.
Who knows if they'll continue to provide it.
FWIW, Redact can't delete more than 2000 or 3000 twitter posts (depending on whether you believe the app or the desktop program). There are other services out there but there are several ways to do it programmatically based on your downloaded user data. I'll try that next.
October 19, 2024 at 12:01 AM
If you are thinking about deleting your tweets to avoid AI scraping and you have more than a few thousand, you'll need your downloaded twitter archive for most services and for all scripts that are available out there. I suggest you get it ASAP.
Who knows if they'll continue to provide it.
Who knows if they'll continue to provide it.
#94L might be trying to close off. The suspect area is a good distance away from San Juan's radar tower, so this is in the mid-levels. Interesting nonetheless. The window for tropical cyclone genesis (TCG) may be closing, however, as shear is in the forecast.
October 18, 2024 at 5:45 PM
#94L might be trying to close off. The suspect area is a good distance away from San Juan's radar tower, so this is in the mid-levels. Interesting nonetheless. The window for tropical cyclone genesis (TCG) may be closing, however, as shear is in the forecast.
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What if we could interactively display full-resolution, 1-second sampled radiosonde data (3-6k vertical levels), interactively plot and compute moist adiabatic and pseudoadiabatic ascent (including ice processes), and do so with a single code base that compiles to binary and web? Would be cool… 👀
October 10, 2024 at 6:20 PM
What if we could interactively display full-resolution, 1-second sampled radiosonde data (3-6k vertical levels), interactively plot and compute moist adiabatic and pseudoadiabatic ascent (including ice processes), and do so with a single code base that compiles to binary and web? Would be cool… 👀
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Me watching all of the WxTwitter accounts come over in the latest Twitter exodus:
Yesssss, good, let the love of the atmosphere flow through you!
Yesssss, good, let the love of the atmosphere flow through you!
a man in a hood says " goooooo " in front of him
Alt: GIF of a hooded Emperor Palpatine saying “Gooooood” in Return of the Jedi
media.tenor.com
October 17, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Me watching all of the WxTwitter accounts come over in the latest Twitter exodus:
Yesssss, good, let the love of the atmosphere flow through you!
Yesssss, good, let the love of the atmosphere flow through you!
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For all the #Wx folks migrating, #NWSBots are here: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Big thanks to @wandrme.paxex.aero
Big thanks to @wandrme.paxex.aero
October 17, 2024 at 3:31 AM
For all the #Wx folks migrating, #NWSBots are here: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Big thanks to @wandrme.paxex.aero
Big thanks to @wandrme.paxex.aero
I've had a Bluesky account for a while, but I didn't really utilize it. Mainly due to most of the science community in general still holding out hope. The flow of information and discussion was once more rapid on exTwitter, even if it's now a cesspool. I'm glad everyone is finally abandoning ship.
October 17, 2024 at 12:49 PM
I've had a Bluesky account for a while, but I didn't really utilize it. Mainly due to most of the science community in general still holding out hope. The flow of information and discussion was once more rapid on exTwitter, even if it's now a cesspool. I'm glad everyone is finally abandoning ship.
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I put together a list of people I follow that are active weather/climate posters (usually posting daily). go.bsky.app/Gdhc4tM Was going to make a "popular on Twitter" list but figured nearly all people should be able to find those accounts on here anyway given their popularity.
October 17, 2024 at 10:38 AM
I put together a list of people I follow that are active weather/climate posters (usually posting daily). go.bsky.app/Gdhc4tM Was going to make a "popular on Twitter" list but figured nearly all people should be able to find those accounts on here anyway given their popularity.