Nick Stewart

Spaceflight meteorologist/Upper Level Wind Analyst. 9x Emmy and a 2xMurrow-awarded met/storm chaser/rocket reporter formerly @iowasnewsnow/@KHQA.
AMS CBM #896.

[Nick Stewart @NStewWX]

It was a great morning to go to space - great Sunday morning launch of the BlueBird 7 satellite by Blue Origin!

[Nick Stewart @NStewWX]

Nice shelf cloud coming into Titusville, riding along the Florida Space Coast. #flwx

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@archirezibuff The combination of it being daylight and the thick cloud cover overhead masked its appearance.

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Reports of an explosion hears around Boston I believe are going to be a rather significant bolide/meteor entering the atmosphere. Very large "flash" detected by GOES-19 GLM that does not correlate with active thunderstorms. #MAwx

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Officially classified as a fireball/meteor by NASA.
Thanks for following along 🫡
https://t.co/0VXMxKNZVL

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#MeteorSighting: Eyewitnesses in New England and @NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite reported a bright fireball on Saturday, May 30, at 2:06 p.m EDT accompanied by a loud noise. The meteor appears to have fragmented at an altitude of 40 miles over northeast MA and southeast NH. The energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, which accounts for the loud noise.

Eyewitness accounts supplied by the American Meteor Society.

[Nick Stewart @NStewWX]

The flash density product really shows this anomalous "flash" which is pretty distinctive of a bolide/meteor reentry. east of Boston. This is the likely source of the loud boom/explosion.

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@BizzaroPlanet https://t.co/BM2bg0za4Y

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I did look at GLM data following that event and it was inconclusive as there were also thunderstorms across the southeast, so it's hard to pull out out of the background environment, if that makes sense.
I do believe it was also a meteor entry/bolide event though based on other context clues.

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I did look at GLM data following that event and it was inconclusive as there were also thunderstorms across the southeast, so it's hard to pull out out of the background environment, if that makes sense.
I do believe it was also a meteor entry/bolide event though based on other context clues.

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@John_Winkopp @FelixSchlang @Spacepointorg @SpaceX YOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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@ChrisJacksonSC Nothing obvious on GOES GLM which can track bolides. It's a little complicated as there are storms across the state also triggering the lightning element.

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@skydrama Only product I've found I liked similar to this was the way WoFS shows severe 90th percentile gusts. Looks good!

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Gotta beat this Florida heat.

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Based on model guidance, it's finally time to replace the plants that did not survive the Great Florida Winter of 2025-2026. Bring the rains.

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The CFS chicklets are always entertaining to look at, but it's remarkable how quiet the next 7-10 days are. Mid/late June, however, looks a lot more active.

My same outlook equally showed an above-normal period by mid/late June. Pattern may just be reloading here.

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May 23 has been a pretty good chase day for me:
Post, TX - 2020
Morton, TX - 2022
Kit Carson, CO - 2025

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I would normally be on my storm chasing "Chasecation" this week but we made the decision to delay it to June (back in February) after assessing the seasonal trends and analogs. So far, anyway, it appears that was a wise decision.

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@DelCrossV ☠️

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@DelCrossV I hope to read that word for word in an upcoming AFD.

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Pretty good garden haul!

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That was absolute perfection 💥

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Sunrise space jellyfish early this morning over the Florida Space Coast.