Chris Stinson

Weather nerd. Sailor. Past Commodore, Charleston Ocean Racing Association. Michigan roots. Certified #SKYWARN and #CoCoRaHS. #Hamradio since 2003. AKA @stinsonc

[WeatherNation @WeatherNation]

NEW VIDEO: The College of Charleston Sailing team was able to seek shelter as a powerful storm swept through Patriots Point on Saturday evening.

What would your reaction be if you got caught in a storm like this? #SCwx

[Chris Stinson @KC8YTK]

@WeatherNation The rapid wind shift was rather concerning

[Chris Stinson @KC8YTK]

@WeatherNation Yes!

[Chris Stinson @KC8YTK]

17:04 at College of Charleston Sailing at Patriots Point Mount Pleasant, SC @NWSCharlestonSC #scwx #chswx

[Chris Stinson @KC8YTK]

17:01 EDT at College of Charleston Sailing at Patriots Point, Mount Pleasant, SC @NWSCharlestonSC #scwx #chswx

[James Spann @spann]

As you might expect… comments on this post are gold

[໊ @emma_gifs]

mexico genuinely has one of the best stadiums at this world cup, but they’re not getting the hype they deserve. that view is absolutely insane man.🇲🇽

[Chris Stinson @KC8YTK]

@EdPiotrowski And The Lord said “FUCK THAT FISH!!! THAT ONE, RIGHT THERE”

[Chris Stinson @KC8YTK]

That’s a nice looking storm @NWSCharlestonSC #scwx #chswx

[Chris Stinson @KC8YTK]

@MiStormChasers Just when you were done with winter, WINTER WASN'T DONE WITH YOU.

[MichEMHS @MichEMHS]

While water levels have dropped at the Cheboygan Lock and Dam Complex, they’re expected to fluctuate further as water moves into the basin from upstream. @ConsumersEnergy, @detroitdistrict, state agencies and other contractors worked long hours to reopen the powerhouse.

📰Get the latest from the @MichiganDNR news release.

👍Click “follow” to ensure you see important updates. This page is the official source of emergency and disaster information from the State of Michigan.

@MichStatePolice | #micheboygandam2026 | #emergencymanagement | #miwx | #michiganflooding | #PublicSafety

[Andrew Briggs @FishBio_Briggs]

The only way to transport DNA samples when you work with “living dinosaurs”!

#JurassicPark #Dinosaurs #Sturgeon #LakeSturgeon #GreatLakesSci #DNA

[Chris Stinson @KC8YTK]

A whole generation of us interprets their weather information from this format - WeatherStar 4000.
https://t.co/GCRLXOBne0
#weatherchannel #localforecast #weatherforecast #weather #nerd #retro

[Jesse Ferrell @WeatherMatrix]

This was the last view from the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility on top of Mount Kea, Hawaii before the power went out Friday. I've never seen this much snow on the cam and I've also never seen the cam go down. 54,000 ppl are without power in Hawaii this morning.

[Collin Gross @CollinGrossWx]

On this day in 1993, the "Storm of the Century" formed in the Gulf. It produced a blizzard from Dixie Alley to the Northeast, widespread damaging winds, and a storm surge up to 12 feet along with a deadly tornado outbreak in Florida. 318 were killed & damage totaled $5.5 billion.

[Chris Stinson @KC8YTK]

I haven’t felt this excluded since grade school. #chswx #scwx #drought

[Meteorologist Will Haenni WWMT @WillWWMT]

One of the more impressive tornado videos we've received in my time here. This from TJ Second in Union City. Looks like a strong, multi-vortex tornado. #MIWx @wwmtnews @NWSIWX

[Chris Stinson @KC8YTK]

Hmmmm. I’ve had this repo for a while but haven’t tried it yet.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨 Someone just turned your WiFi router into a full-body surveillance system.

No cameras. No wearables. No video. Just radio waves.

It's called RuView. It uses the WiFi signals already in your room to detect human poses, track breathing, measure heart rate, and see through walls.

Not a concept. Not a research paper. Working code you can run right now.

Here's what this thing actually does:

→ Tracks full 17-point body pose using only WiFi signals
→ Detects breathing rate (6-30 BPM) without touching anyone
→ Measures heart rate (40-120 BPM) from across the room
→ Sees through walls, furniture, and debris up to 5 meters deep
→ Tracks multiple people simultaneously with zero identity swaps
→ Self-learns from raw WiFi data. No labeled datasets needed

Here's how it works:

WiFi signals pass through your room and hit the human body. The body scatters those signals differently based on position, breathing, even heartbeat. RuView reads that scattering pattern and reconstructs everything.

A mesh of 4 ESP32 nodes ($48 total) gives you 360-degree coverage with 12 measurement links, 20 Hz updates, and sub-30mm precision.

Here's the wildest part:

It has a disaster response mode called WiFi-Mat. It detects survivors trapped under rubble through concrete walls, classifies injury severity using START triage protocol, and estimates 3D position. The kind of tool that saves lives after earthquakes.

The Rust implementation processes 54,000 frames per second. That's 810x faster than the Python version. The entire Docker image is 132 MB.

The AI model fits in 55 KB of memory. Runs on an $8 ESP32 chip.

Train once, deploy in any room. No retraining. No recalibration.

1,100+ tests. SHA-256 verified capability audit.

22.4K GitHub stars. 2.7K forks. MIT License.

100% Open Source.

[Chris Stinson @KC8YTK]

IT'S COMING...

@SheaGibsonWx @RobStormTeam2 @BILLWALSHTV @LCWxDave
#POLLEN #POLLENSEASON #POLLENSEASON2026 #GOODBYECHARLESTONSC #CHARLESTONSC #CHSWX #SCWX

[Shea Gibson @SheaGibsonWx]

Well, well. Looks like a nice long stretch of spring weather is here to stay as an early Bermuda High pressure locks into place starting Wed/Thurs. So...I'm sure that the pollen will be about ready to explode all over us soon. We could go right into The Pollening with a later "cold snap" as a brief 3rd Winter before Actual Spring eventually wins out. I mean seriously - here I am haggling over 12 secondary intercardinal seasons vs a standard simple 4 like some sort of twisted compass. Dang I need a taco and it ain't Tuesday.