Lourdes B. Aviles

Associate Provost at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, atmospheric scientist, originally from Guánica, PR, two adult children, one husband

[American Meteorological Society @ametsoc]

Climate change is dangerous to all people everywhere, and the weather and climate-science community has a responsibility to communicate this. Here is our statement on intimidation faced by Chris Gloninger and others for their climate coverage. https://t.co/aZRdqftq2t

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@ChrisGloninger Your professors are proud of you!

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@ChrisGloninger Even though this did not come from a happy situation, I think focusing on climate change is something you have had in you from the beginning. Let us know what you are up to when you are ready. Take care of yourself.

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@EmilyWGME @FOX23Maine @WGME Good luck tonight, Emily! Looking good!

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@WxMarissa @PlymouthState Thank you for all the work you did. You showed true leadership and did an excellent job MC-ing and running the alumni panel!

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Today was an overdose of awesomeness! What a pleasure it was to have so many of our alumni join us to celebrate everything that Plymouth State Meteorology IS for our 40th Anniversary celebration! Here is our group picture on the roof of Boyd Hall!

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Tomorrow Tuesday 11 April at 7pm, MWOBS Science in the Mountains. Free and on zoom. I've had a lot of fun putting this together. To register, go to https://t.co/86YGezpalB

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Plymouth State Meteorology alumni, if you are up for it, please go to this link and tell me what state you came from to us and where have you been since you graduated. Thank you! https://t.co/slvXksELnA

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https://t.co/KI3ZAVFB8k

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On 11 Apr 7pm I will be the speaker for the Mt. Washington Observatory virtual series Science in the Mountains (link in comments). I will be highlighting optical effects seen from the observatory and talking in detail about auroras, featuring photography by observer Ryan Knapp

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From roof of Boyd Hall, Plymouth State University. Photo credit Stephen Seslar. Taken 11pm Thursday 23 March 2023, 3 second exposure.

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Dear all, our meteorology program is hosting two slideshows: Weather/Seasons, Clouds/Optics. If you have any pictures you think we should add to these, please post them here as comments or send them to me in any other mode you wish. Cheers!

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@WxMarissa @MyNBC5 Woohoo! Congratulations @WxMarissa!

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For students interested in coming to Plymouth State to earn BS degrees in Meteorology or in Climate Studies, I will be hosting an info session Wednesday 22 March at 7pm. Sign up at https://t.co/fLLjqzON9H

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Plymouth State Meteorology alumni at the 103rd AMS Meeting in Denver, come find us tonight at the AMS Social. It will be great to say hi, catch up, and take some pictures.

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Here is a better link: https://t.co/HIxb1KjeN0

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Hi friends and alumni. Help Plymouth State Meteorology update our electronic map wall. We are 80% there. Here is a direct donation link (ugly link but it works): https://t.co/suqoNwPvOp

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Full explanation together instead of broken in tweets in the Plymouth State Meteorology FB page: https://t.co/y9kFL6YtDN

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We saw this interesting pattern this morning and after a long and thoughtful brainstorm, myself, @ericho_4511, @jaycordeira, Sam Miller, and Eric Kelsey, the entire Plymouth State Meteorology faculty. See comments for the explanations.

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@SurfSkiWeather Here's the full explanation with which we came up as mentioned above by @jaycordeira: https://t.co/y9kFL6YtDN

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The sudden freezing caused by the supercooled water being disturbed into freezing thus trapping the bubbles, also releases heat (freezing releases heat and melting uses heat), which would stop the pattern from continuing outward, thus keeping the round-ish shape.