Daniel T. Dawson II
@Meteodan
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Associate Professor of Meteorology at Purdue University. Husband, father, and storm chaser. Nondenominational Christian. Insufferable centrist. Opinions my own.
West Lafayette, IN
Joined February 2012
Just awful. 😢
Official statement from the FAA: “A PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 regional jet collided in midair with a Sikorsky H-60 helicopter while on approach to Runway 33 at Reagan Washington National Airport around 9 p.m. local time. PSA was operating Flight 5342 for American Airlines"
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Behold the rarely seen giant New Mexican Pyrosupercell.
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Quick reminder that the term "bomb cyclone" is not a new term, nor was it invented by the media - it's been in use since at least 1980 and used in academic literature to talk about storms that develop extremely rapidly: https://t.co/RSty3XpbRm
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Thanks for your contribution! (And I just want to chase now, too!)
Big thanks to @tornatrix and @meteodan for organizing video night at #31SLS! Now I just want to chase! 🌩️🌪️
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Great job @storm_spotter_K !
. @storm_spotter_K of @PurdueEAPS presents her talk at #31SLS on the sensitivity of severe storm mode to environments on the large-scale and their initiation morphologies.
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Very proud to have had the opportunity to present my M.S. work on handling the lower boundary in supercell storm simulations this morning at #31SLS! & thanks to everyone who woke up early to watch!! 🌩️
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Nice viewing of the comet from the foothills west of Boulder tonight! A few unedited shots from my Canon 6D. Exposures range from 4-8 s with ISO 3200-6400 and a variety of focal lengths. Antitail clearly visible! Hope to do some better editing and stacking when I get a chance!
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One other point about Milton - at *no* point was it forecast or expected to make landfall as a category 5 hurricane in Florida. Even when it *was* a category 5 hurricane near the Yucatan, its peak wind speeds were expected to decrease due to wind shear from a nearby trough.
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Awesome visualization!
Milton's evolution visualized through infrared & visible satellite, US-based radar network, and recon flight wind & surface pressure data. Its extremely rapid intensification, pinhole eye, and subsequent extratropical transition & Florida tornado outbreak can be seen here:
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Made it back to Boulder before my son turned into a pumpkin, and was greeted by this resurgent display:
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Activity has quieted down quite a bit in the past half hour or so, but faint aurora are still visible all quads.
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Near Hudson, Colorado about 40 minutes ago. Aurora visible even as n the southern sky!
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Me eyeing high clouds approaching from the west and still an hour from sunset, let alone dark....
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A glimpse at the watchfloor at @NHC_Atlantic at landfall. #Milton may be ashore, but @NWS forecasters are still tirelessly at their posts with a long night of hurricane impacts still to go across Florida.
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830pm EDT Oct 9th: Doppler radar data indicates that the eye of #Hurricane #Milton has made landfall near Siesta Key in Sarasota County on the west coast of Florida. Max sustained winds at landfall are estimated at 120 mph. Landfall TCU: https://t.co/YUc7mT6LuJ
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Hurricane models have advertised an area of strong winds developing on the backside of #Milton (likely due to interaction with the jet) and I think we might be seeing evidence of that on the Tampa radar now. Watch to see if this picks up in recon and radar data this evening.
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When you see it, you can't unsee it. #NightmareFuel
The original skull face with #Matthew in 2016, and #Milton tonight Both are "M" storms Interesting that intense hurricanes can be conducive to having that structure
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1-minute #GOESEast Infrared images showed Hurricane #Milton as it remained at Category 5 intensity during the past 5 hours. GLM-detected #lightning activity persisted within the inner eyewall of Milton.
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