Wouter Mol
@wbmol.bsky.social
Stormchasing, photography, hiking. I look at clouds a lot. Atmospheric scientist (Postdoc @ University of Vienna).
Good morning: closed cell structures in altocumulus lit by sunrise
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Good morning: closed cell structures in altocumulus lit by sunrise
Super circumzenithal arc
October 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Super circumzenithal arc
Fog rolling into Vienna this early morning
October 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Fog rolling into Vienna this early morning
Another shot from early September. Mountain goat posing just long enough :)
October 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Another shot from early September. Mountain goat posing just long enough :)
Clouds forming along the ridge line of Hochzinoedl, Sept 27 this year
October 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Clouds forming along the ridge line of Hochzinoedl, Sept 27 this year
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So this is pretty amazing - yesterday EarthCARE sampled Hurricane Humberto straight across the eye! The eye of a tropical cyclone is small so a direct hit is rare: this is the first time EarthCARE has hit one after over a year in orbit! (Showing here also VIIRS on NOAA-20 for context.)
September 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
So this is pretty amazing - yesterday EarthCARE sampled Hurricane Humberto straight across the eye! The eye of a tropical cyclone is small so a direct hit is rare: this is the first time EarthCARE has hit one after over a year in orbit! (Showing here also VIIRS on NOAA-20 for context.)
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📸August 16: Images from the NOAA Hurricane Hunter and our NOAA Satellites Ocean Winds team show an intense eyewall in Hurricane #Erin This photo shows the ocean surface calm in the eye and roaring in the eyewall. For the latest forecast visit hurricanes.gov
August 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📸August 16: Images from the NOAA Hurricane Hunter and our NOAA Satellites Ocean Winds team show an intense eyewall in Hurricane #Erin This photo shows the ocean surface calm in the eye and roaring in the eyewall. For the latest forecast visit hurricanes.gov
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Lightning flashes within a powerful, Category 4 Hurricane Erin.
An incredible view this morning from GOES-19.
An incredible view this morning from GOES-19.
August 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Lightning flashes within a powerful, Category 4 Hurricane Erin.
An incredible view this morning from GOES-19.
An incredible view this morning from GOES-19.
Unsuccessful (solo) chase in Styria, storms were too disorganized and in each other's way. At least the heat is gone for a few days
July 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Unsuccessful (solo) chase in Styria, storms were too disorganized and in each other's way. At least the heat is gone for a few days
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Pretty swirl over the Tyrrhenian Sea, visible in radar imagery of the Aleria radar in the last 12 hours: streamable.com/7ov5sl. It corresponds to a small surface low.
July 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Pretty swirl over the Tyrrhenian Sea, visible in radar imagery of the Aleria radar in the last 12 hours: streamable.com/7ov5sl. It corresponds to a small surface low.
Interesting week ahead! ⛈️
June 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Interesting week ahead! ⛈️
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Great piece in today's NYTimes on the recent acceleration of global warming (and its impacts), featuring comments from Kate Marvel, Daniel Swain, Cecilia Bitz, and me: www.nytimes.com/2025...
June 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Great piece in today's NYTimes on the recent acceleration of global warming (and its impacts), featuring comments from Kate Marvel, Daniel Swain, Cecilia Bitz, and me: www.nytimes.com/2025...
Supercell near Rouen, France, June 13 (last week)
June 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Supercell near Rouen, France, June 13 (last week)
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Went chasing yesterday, and saw this very beautiful supercell near Rouen in France 🙂The marker on the radar images shows our location at the time of these shots.
June 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Went chasing yesterday, and saw this very beautiful supercell near Rouen in France 🙂The marker on the radar images shows our location at the time of these shots.
Supercell incoming just north of Rouen, France
June 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Supercell incoming just north of Rouen, France
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June 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Fun storms over Vienna and Lower Austria yesterday, mostly a lot of rain and wind from what I could see but some brief moments with good structure
June 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Fun storms over Vienna and Lower Austria yesterday, mostly a lot of rain and wind from what I could see but some brief moments with good structure
Lightning south-west of Vienna a few hours ago (photo stack from 2 seconds of video)
June 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lightning south-west of Vienna a few hours ago (photo stack from 2 seconds of video)
Nice thunderstorm passed Vienna just now, right around sunset
May 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Nice thunderstorm passed Vienna just now, right around sunset
100 hour long public livestream with continuous talks on Weather & Climate to raise awareness / in response to Trump's crackdown on science in USA: wcstreamathon.netlify.app
The Weather & Climate Livestream
Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.
wcstreamathon.netlify.app
May 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
100 hour long public livestream with continuous talks on Weather & Climate to raise awareness / in response to Trump's crackdown on science in USA: wcstreamathon.netlify.app
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Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations
www.unidata.ucar.edu
May 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy
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uhhhhhh?
NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...
NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN
Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.
www.cnn.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
uhhhhhh?
First thunderstorm in Vienna since I moved here, view from my local hill
May 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
First thunderstorm in Vienna since I moved here, view from my local hill