Forecaster18 🇺🇦

Standard disclaimer applies. Opinions are mine. I am an operational meteorologist, sports (#Colts #Purdue) and barbecue enthusiast, and music lover.

[Forecaster18 🇺🇦 @Forecaster18]

. @dog_rates THREAD: This is my Stormy boy. He adopted me on 2/19/10 when he nervously approached me in the parking lot of my office. I thought he was a puppy, but he was just a bit emaciated. I took him in to keep him alive and warm, and find him a good home... #heckcancer 1/

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

This is the type of shit that needs no words to troll itself.

This is actually real… he’s really posting infomercials plugging this…

Using America’s 250th Anniversary too…

More like… “As my dad tanks the economy as fast as he can, nothing is more patriotic than getting your hands on some Don Jr Gold to celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary in case it’s our last”

This is SNL material or even better #smokefleet material

[Adam Lucio 🌪️ @AdamLucioWX]

First Canadian supercell I’ve chased didn’t disappoint!

[brendon @brendonme]

Weirdest lightning optics that I've ever seen. Not sure what's going on here #wywx

[Weather History @weather_history]

June 6, 1944:

The D-Day invasion commenced in northern France. The operation had been scheduled for the previous day (June 5), though after some debate, meteorologists working with Allied command correctly determined that weather conditions would be too rough.

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[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

This morning at the World War II Memorial, we pause to honor the courage and sacrifice of those who stormed the beaches of Normandy 82 years ago today. 🇺🇸

Photo by Chris Johnson

[Forecaster18 🇺🇦 @Forecaster18]

@cod_stormchase Good luck!

[Forecaster18 🇺🇦 @Forecaster18]

@CameronJNixon Hitting the road tomorrow for two weeks. Any good days will honestly be gravy, I just need to get out of town for a minute, though I'm certainly glad to see this.

[Weather History @weather_history]

June 5, 1976:

The Teton Dam in Southeast Idaho failed. A surge of over 2 million cubic ft/sec of water surged through the Teton Canyon and onto the Snake River Plain. Several towns were inundated, with thousands of buildings being destroyed. 11 people were killed.

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[Weather History @weather_history]

June 5, 1995:

A busy severe weather week in Texas continued with a massive F2 near Dougherty. The wedge tornado downed over 400 power poles and destroyed structures on two farmsteads. This F2 may have been stronger over open areas based on radar and visual motion.

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[Weather History @weather_history]

June 5, 1966:

An F2 tornado struck Enid, Oklahoma, causing $250,000 in damage. Six people were injured. The famous photograph below was taken by Mr. Leo Ainsworth.

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[Forecaster18 🇺🇦 @Forecaster18]

@weather_history An incredible day. Just wish they'd farm something other than dust down there.

[Forecaster18 🇺🇦 @Forecaster18]

Never think for a second that Melania isn't just as trashy as her criminal husband.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jill Biden just exposed the most painfully awkward limo ride of Melania Trump’s life.
In her new memoir “A View from the East Wing,” Jill writes about Inauguration Day 2025, when tradition required her to ride from the White House to the Capitol with Melania after the pre‑inauguration tea. It should have been a symbolic handoff between first ladies. Instead, she says, Melania sat “stone‑faced,” barely speaking, clearly furious over the FBI search of Mar‑a‑Lago for Trump’s hoard of classified documents.
Jill actually tries to show empathy: she notes that as first lady she had her own home searched by agents as part of the investigation, and that she knows “how distressing it was to have agents rummage through your underwear drawer.”
Melania, Jill writes, wasn’t having it. She blamed Joe personally, acting as if the normal chain of law‑enforcement and courts didn’t exist and the president himself had ordered a raid on her bedroom.
The tension was so thick that the inaugural committee didn’t dare put the two women alone together. Jill says they recruited Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s husband, John Bessler, as a human buffer and plopped him in the middle seat.
Bessler did what Midwestern dads do in impossible situations: he tried small talk. He asked about Barron’s studies at NYU. Melania, staring out the window, gave him a single word: “NYU.” Every attempt to shift the conversation back to something neutral — the weather, the ceremony — died in the air. In Jill’s telling, the presidents’ limo up ahead was probably tense too, but at least Joe and Trump were talking. In the first ladies’ car, it was just cold silence and one‑word answers all the way up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Jill uses the story to make a broader point: this wasn’t a one‑off. She writes that Melania declined her invitation to the traditional 2021 inauguration tea when Joe first took office, breaking a norm that has survived even the ugliest transitions.
Four years later, when the roles reversed and the Trumps came back to the White House, Melania still didn’t extend the same courtesy back. In every interaction Jill describes, Melania shows zero grace — even compared to other first ladies who have quietly swallowed humiliations and still showed up for the sake of the country.
And here’s the part that matters beyond the gossip. Trump has spent years telling his followers that the Mar‑a‑Lago search was a personal vendetta by “the Bidens,” not the result of him hiding boxes of classified nuclear and military documents in a ballroom, a bathroom, and a basement.
Melania apparently believes that narrative so deeply that she can’t even make small talk in a limo without seething. Jill, who knows firsthand what it’s like to have agents go through your things, points out the obvious subtext: it’s not the invasion of privacy Melania is truly angry about. It’s that her husband was finally treated like any other citizen who hoards national‑defense secrets and refuses to give them back.
We don’t often get honest, human‑level snapshots of what power feels like up close. This one matters because it captures the collision between entitlement and accountability.
Jill Biden is sitting there thinking about how to show a little solidarity over something painful that neither woman directly controlled. Melania Trump is sitting there convinced that nothing in her orbit — not an FBI warrant, not a criminal investigation, not even the peaceful transfer of power — should happen without her family’s permission, and furious at anyone who suggests otherwise. VIA~~~Josh Helfgott
In a few years, historians will write whole chapters about classified documents, indictments, and constitutional crises.
For now, it’s worth remembering this image: two first ladies in the back of a limousine, one trying to keep a fragile tradition alive, the other staring out the window, still unable to see that the law applies to her husband, too.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

Remember that the existence of Long Covid and the fact that millions of people worldwide are suffering from it creates an extraordinary dissonance in the minds of a section of the population who wish to believe the falsity that Covid is no longer dangerous, and perhaps never was.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

"To be cavalier about getting repetitive Covid infections is really a huge mistake."
-Dr. Birx (2024)

[Weather History @weather_history]

June 3, 1980:

A cyclic supercell spawned a family of seven tornadoes in Grand Island, Nebraska. Four of the tornadoes were significant (F2+). The circulations moved on complex and winding paths, and three of the twsters were anticyclonic. Five people were killed.

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[Forecaster18 🇺🇦 @Forecaster18]

Eat shit, Micah!

[TheMicahBeckwith @MicahBeckwith]

On the close of Eid, after much prayer and consideration after my recent interview, I would like take this opportunity to wish all Muslims in Indiana the best.

And by best I mean I hope you all become Christian. 🫶

[Forecaster18 🇺🇦 @Forecaster18]

Eat shit, Mike. 🏳️‍🌈

[Governor Mike Braun @GovBraun]

Today, I proclaimed June as Nuclear Family Month in Indiana.

As a father of four and grandfather of seven, I have seen firsthand the impact that loving, committed families can have across multiple generations. As we approach America’s 250th anniversary, this proclamation recognizes the important role families play in shaping the future of our state and our country.

Indiana will continue supporting policies that strengthen families and help the next generation thrive.

[Weather History @weather_history]

June 2, 1929:

A spectacular tornado impacted areas near Hardtner, Kansas. The F2 moved very slowly on an eastward path and was visible up to 30 miles away. A few homes and barns were damaged. At the time, this tornado was one of the most photographed in U.S. history.

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[Weather History @weather_history]

June 2-3, 1990:

A devastating outbreak of 68 tornadoes impacted several states. The Lower Ohio Valley bore the brunt of the event, with numerous violent tornadoes striking southern IL, southern IN, and western OH. Nine people were killed and 253 more were injured.

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