Upper Midwest Storm Chasers

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[Upper Midwest Storm Chasers @UpperMidwestSC]

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[LACoFD @LACOFD]

USA-2 team members arrived safely in #Venezuela yesterday as part of the @StateDept USAR response team.

USA-2 (#LACoFD) joins USA-1 (@VATF1) from the Fairfax County Fire & Rescue Department & FLTF-1 from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

The 3 USAR teams combined total 312 members & 18 canine teams, comprising highly trained firefighters, physicians, structural engineers & canine search specialists.

Together, they bring more than 200,000 lbs. of highly specialized equipment to aid in search-and-rescue operations in Venezuela.

[VA-TF1 / USA-01 - Urban Search and Rescue @VATF1]

Today, members of USA-01, working alongside local firefighters, rescued a mother & her nine-month-old baby from a collapsed structure. Both were found alive with only minor injuries, brought to safety to the cheers of neighbors.
This is our why: the delivery of hope.

@StateDept

[Intelschizo @Schizointel]

Updated list of international emergency response to assist Venezuela by country

🇦🇷 Argentina 26 personnel / 4 dogs
🇧🇷 Brazil 44 personnel / 6 dogs
🇨🇦 Canada 7 personnel / 2 dogs
🇨🇱 Chile 45 personnel / 0 dogs
🇨🇴 Colombia 64 personnel / 4 dogs
🇨🇿 Czech Republic 70 personnel / 8 dogs
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic 32 personnel / 2 dogs
🇪🇨 Ecuador 47 personnel / 2 dogs
🇸🇻 El Salvador 300 personnel / 4 dogs
🇫🇷 France 65 personnel / 4 dogs
🇩🇪 Germany 48 personnel / 7 dogs
🇮🇳 India 41 personnel / ? dogs
🇮🇱 Israel 25 personnel / 0 dogs
🇮🇹 Italy 34 personnel / 3 dogs
🇯🇴 Jordan 100 personnel / 8 dogs
🇱🇹 Lithuania 23 personnel / 2 dogs
🇲🇽 Mexico 261 personnel / 18 dogs
🇳🇱 Netherlands 64 personnel / 4 dogs
🇵🇦 Panama 61 personnel / 4 dogs
🇵🇪 Peru 44 personnel / 1 dog
🇶🇦 Qatar 90 personnel / 6 dogs
🇷🇸 Serbia 10 personnel / 1 dog
🇪🇸 Spain 97 personnel / 4 dogs
🇨🇭 Switzerland 80 personnel / 8 dogs
🇸🇾 Syria 15 personnel / 0 dogs
🇹🇷 Turkey 67 personnel / 2 dogs
🇬🇧 United Kingdom 68 personnel / 6 dogs
🇺🇸 United States 312 personnel / 18 dogs

Total: 2,140 personnel / 128 dogs

[Jeff Gluck @jeff_gluck]

Oh my....Carson Hocevar just went P1 in Cup qualifying over SVG.

......

WHAT??

[U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South @MARFORSOUTH]

U.S. Marines with Littoral Combat Force-24 load personnel and supplies aboard an MV-22B Osprey in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, on June 25, 2026, to prepare for potential disaster relief operations in Venezuela.

@USMC #MARFORSOUTH #HumanitarianAssistance #LCF24

[VA-TF1 / USA-01 - Urban Search and Rescue @VATF1]

USA-01 members are on the ground in #Venezuela — conducting search and rescue operations around the clock across multiple structures to reach any potential survivors. Operations are ongoing.

@StateDept
@USForeignAssist
@usembassyve
@ffxfirerescue

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

I'm absolutely in love with small town America. This is a place called Island Pond in Vermont. They have a population of 750 people but there was quite a lot going on. They had a flea market, a nice deli, and a beautiful lake with people out on their boats.

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

Have weather forecasts seemed less accurate lately? There's a major contributing factor: nearly half the morning weather balloons in the Lower 48 are "missing."

This is an ongoing crisis that is degrading critical severe weather forecasts that we all rely on. It's having real, tangible impacts on degrading forecast quality.

If you work in transportation, agriculture or commerce, this should matter to you.

Regardless of the causes, this negatively affects people of ALL political backgrounds. Weather affects everyone. And it's impacting ALL of us negatively.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

This is especially concerning for severe weather forecasts. We can't go 18 hours without ascertaining how the atmosphere is layered, how much storm fuel has built up and if severe thunderstorms are going to erupt. The Storm Prediction Center has even acknowledged forecasting frustrations in at least one public bulletin.

As an atmospheric scientist myself, I can say firsthand – the forecasts I'm able to offer you are less accurate than they would otherwise be. I'm not able to predict severe weather with the confidence I normally would. That is extremely concerning.

The United States is "supposed" to launch balloons at 0Z and 12Z ideally – a.k.a. around 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Eastern time. That's not happening. Many sites, due to staffing issues stemming from broader political and organizational issues, have pushed to 18Z, or early afternoon. That's not helpful for morning severe weather forecasts. In other words, you get less lead time. Less advanced notice. Quicker ramp-ups and ramp-downs to the forecast.

We're not able to get jet stream, temperature, moisture or wind profiles of the atmosphere each morning like we otherwise would.

Moreover, the World Meteorological Organization encourages 12Z soundings; that data is shared via the Global Observing System (GOS) under the World Weather Watch (WWW). That's not happening.

[Alejo @Aalejo_Arg]

tremendo puente aéreo 🇻🇪💪🏻
en unas horas llegara la tanda europea

[Orlando Avendaño @OrlvndoA]

#AHORA | Aviones, suministros y equipos de rescatistas provenientes de EEUU siguen llegando a Venezuela.

[Anny De Trindade @ADeTrindade]

Así vimos como se llevaban a los fallecidos este 25 de junio.

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

Finally some footage has appeared of Moron, the epicenter of one of the earthquakes in Venezuela 🇻🇪

And what does it show: a line of policemen preventing trucks full of critical supplies from entering the town.

For shame!

[CNW @ConflictsW]

A surreal sight this afternoon as a USAF C-17 carrying humanitarian aid and search and rescue personnel lands at Venezuelas main airbase (BAEL) in Maracay
#Venezuela

[VA-TF1 / USA-01 - Urban Search and Rescue @VATF1]

When disaster strikes, we answer the call. USA-01 is enroute to #Venezuela following the devastating earthquakes, w/ 79 personnel, six K9s, and 70k lbs of equipment. We are honored to represent the US, bringing our expertise, compassion, & unwavering dedication to those affected.

[Noah Bergren @NbergWX]

MAJOR HEAT DOME: Some of the hottest weather of the summer ahead of July 4th next week in the Ohio Valley and eastern U.S. Ridge of high pressure parks over KY/TN and will bake areas from Pennsylvania to the Carolina's, and out to the Deep South. Some of the highest heat index values each afternoon 7/1 & 7/2 of 110+ likely around Memphis to Paducah.

By the end of the week, the heat dome slides east to blast the Carolina's.

[Max Olson @MesoMax919]

Worked until 11am, drove a few hours, saw a sweet tornado, and will be home by 9pm. Plus @AdriMozeris got a birthday tor?? Man, today fucking rocked.

Beaver, OK #okwx

[Isaiah Montgomery @GumryWX]

The good version of Pontiac

[Doppler on Wheels (DOW) @DOWFacility]

Kicking off the 3rd FARM radar institute with some storms! Participants went from their planes to the Colorado plains 😁! Not too much vertical vorticity 🌪️, but several horizontal rotors 😃. @UAHChargers @NSF

[Upper Midwest Storm Chasers @UpperMidwestSC]

@ChrisJacksonSC Don’t forget LA County CA-TF2

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇻🇪 New footage shows a landslide tearing down a hillside in Venezuela after the back to back quakes

The 7.2 and 7.5 doublet didn't just collapse buildings, it destabilized the terrain itself, and clips circulating now reportedly show earth and debris sliding loose in the aftermath.

Source: Tabz on TG / Writer: Daniel