Loren D. White

Meteorology professor at Jackson State University. Mobile measurements of weather at multi-scales. I chase fronts, hike through forests, paddle through swamps.

[Loren D. White @LDWhiteWx]

@inmet_ Is it possible to obtain a higher resolution version of this chart?

[Tomas Pucik @Djpuco]

Yesterday, very large hail fell in SW Czechia, reaching up to 8 cm in diameter. Despite marginal deep layer shear, transient right-moving supercell interacting with another updraft along convergence zone created favorable conditions for growth of massive hail.

[Dakota Smith @weatherdak]

An absolute beast of storm charging from the Northern Plains into the Upper Midwest today.

[Loren D. White @LDWhiteWx]

This is embarrassing.

[National Weather Service @NWS]

NWS is aware that https://t.co/gsCba9xgtZ is still down. We have restored https://t.co/qk3BcVP5M8.
Technicians are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. NWS’s local Weather Forecast offices continue providing forecasts, alerts and decision support without interruption. Other NWS websites are not impacted.

[Loren D. White @LDWhiteWx]

@MatthewCappucci What confuses me is why the staffing issues seem to be so regionally coherent? Why are the missing balloon launches not more randomly scattered across the country? And it does not seem that NWS HQ has been at all transparent about what is really going on.

[Aaron Rigsby @AaronRigsbyOSC]

Check out this epic timelapse from my drone of the tornado near Beaver condensing for the 3rd time before it gets wrapped in rain. Just mesmerizing structure! #OKwx

[Dakota Smith @weatherdak]

Trippy gravity waves gliding over Texas this morning.

[Will Day @wx2day]

Powerlines down with transformers exploding #mswx. In NE Jackson

[Dakota Smith @weatherdak]

OTUS is the coolest thing happening right now in severe weather/chasing.

just incredible perspectives.

[Hinds County Emergency Management @HindsEOC]

JAN issues Severe Thunderstorm Warning [wind: 60 MPH (RADAR INDICATED), hail: <.75 IN (RADAR INDICATED)] for Hinds, Madison, Rankin [MS] till Jun 22, 12:45 PM CDT https://t.co/jArYbJ3cf7

[Loren D. White @LDWhiteWx]

@MatthewCappucci Actually the wind speed at the surface is not always 0 if the ground is being scoured or debris removed from the surface. Possibly the bigger question on 'safety' by hugging the ground is the issue of objects falling on top of you.

[Loren D. White @LDWhiteWx]

@MeteoroTamps Ya aumentado asi

[Loren D. White @LDWhiteWx]

@BackpirchCrew Convection over Tamaulipas has even gotten crazier.

[CIRA @CIRA_CSU]

Yesterday, stratus clouds flowed northward along the California coast, filling in bays as it passed.

[IBHS Hail Study @ibhshailstudy]

What makes one hailstone stronger than another?

In our latest hail field campaign, IBHS engineers tested how hailstones respond to compression—then analyzed their internal structure using machine vision. 🧊

These insights help us better prepare homes and buildings. ⛈️

[AGU (American Geophysical Union) @theAGU]

Last week, the Administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a proposed rule that would politicize federal science grantmaking, replacing scientific rigor with ideological gatekeeping.

AGU President Brandon Jones spells out all that's at stake and why it's more important than ever to make your voices heard and submit a public comment today: https://t.co/8txtf6yMb1

[Roger Edwards @SkyPixWeather]

Yes to all Matthew stated. In addition, this makes hand analysis of upper-air charts (for optimal understanding) nearly impossible.

Finally, @NWS is violating its agreement with the @WMO to provide RAOBs at international standard 12Z time.

[𝓖𝓷_𝔀𝔁 ⛈ @gnn_wx]

Tornado violento en estos momentos en coahuila mexico. Situación extremadamente peligrosa, TOME REFUGIO

[Loren D. White @LDWhiteWx]

@burgwx Even if this was statistically valid, it includes one of my most hated statistical extrapolation phrases: "every single week". Whether you're talking about a mean value or a statistically common pattern, you simply can not say it happens "every single" time.

[Mashford Mahute @MashfordMahute]

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗔𝗡 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 + 𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗗𝗘 𝗠𝗔𝗣 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝗤𝗚𝗜𝗦

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