Jillian Johnson⚡️

KWTX Meteorologist — Houston Native — University of the Incarnate World Alum

[Texas Softball @TexasSoftball]

YOUR TEXAS LONGHORNS ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS… AGAIN 🤘🏆

#HookEm

[ESPN @espn]

LONGHORNS TAKE GAME 1 🤘

Texas is one win away from a national championship.

[Texas Softball @TexasSoftball]

for the fourth time in the last five years, TEXAS IS HEADED BACK TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES 🤘🏆

#HookEm

[Texas Softball @TexasSoftball]

bringing home the first ever SEC Tournament title in Texas Softball history 🤘🏆

#HookEm

[DFW Scanner @DFWscanner]

Extensive damage has been reported in Mineral Wells after a tornado-warned storm moved into the city. This is in the area of Washington Avenue and Mineral Wells Highway. Unknown injuries at this time. Thanks to David Dixon for the video. #txwx #ntxwx #tornado

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Mission complete ❤️❤️❤️

[NASA @NASA]

A new milestone for humankind: The crew of Artemis II are now the farthest any human has ever travelled, reaching a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.

This surpasses the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 by about 4,102 miles.

[NASA @NASA]

Make new friends, but keep the old.

A new photo captures the Moon's near side on the right (the side we see from Earth, identifiable by its dark splotches) and its far side on the left. The Artemis II crew are the first to see the far side with human eyes.

[e! @ethxooo]

it’s so crazy how literally everyone ever except for 4 people is in this photo

[Chris Williams @Astro_ChrisW]

Godspeed Artemis II! Our crew on the @Space_Station stayed up to watch the launch of our friends on their historic mission to the Moon. We were over the Northern Pacific Ocean at the time of launch, so we couldn’t see it directly (we watched it on NASA TV). However, about a half hour later, as we orbited a few hundred kilometers from Florida, I was able to catch a glimpse of the remnants of the trail the rocket made as it passed through the atmosphere! You can see the effect of the wind at different altitudes.

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

That's us! 🌍

The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Some fun facts about NASA’s Artemis II mission:

- It’ll travel 4,000 miles farther than Apollo 13
- First woman ever going into deep space
- Astronauts are bringing their smartphones on board
- The Orion capsule is roughly the size of two minivans
- They’ll have a 41-minute communications blackout behind the Moon

Bonus: They’ll get to watch a total lunar eclipse from space

We’re about to send humans farther from Earth than anyone since 1972 and they’re doing it with phones and a minivan-sized spacecraft.

Source: ABC News

[CFP @CFBPlayoff]

Back-to-back for the Bulldogs!

No. 3 Georgia repeats as champion of the SEC with a 28-7 victory over No. 9 Alabama!

#CFBPlayoff

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

The infamous Hurricane Hunters just had one of the wildest flights in history today.

Flying straight into the heart of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa, a Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules aircraft, call sign TEAL 75, was slammed by violent turbulence

The G-forces were so extreme they may have stressed the aircraft’s frame, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return to base in Curaçao for inspection.

Inside Melissa’s eyewall, the C-130J was thrown hundreds of feet up and down in seconds, nearly 700 feet of vertical motion within a single minute.

The crew also reported that the eyewall had a “sawtooth” appearance, an indicator of the storm’s chaotic and extreme structure.

Yet even amid chaos, the crew captured historic data, a central pressure of 893 mb and astonishing wind gust of 252 mph just above the surface, setting a world record for the highest wind gust ever measured by dropsonde in a hurricane.

The plane then spent more than 35 minutes circling inside the eye of one of the most violent storms ever observed in the Atlantic, searching for a path out of the hurricane that wasn’t filled with lightning and extreme turbulence.

These brave men and women risked their lives, without pay, to gather critical data that helped forecast the track and intensity of Melissa.

A legendary plane ride that will go down in history.

[Jeremy DeHart @JeremyDeHartWX]

This is from today's #Melissa mission. Honestly might be my favorite eyewall penetration video ever. Never seen this vantage point before. Side view of a near peak intensity Cat 5 monster. Looks like flying thru Niagara Falls. Unreal. Check out this entire thread 🧵

[Mike Madrigal @MadrigalWxViz]

175 MPH Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Monday 2PM.
Melissa now up to 175 mph at the 2PM update with pressure dropping to 906 mb! Destructive winds, catastrophic and life-threatening flash flooding, and numerous landslides are expected on Jamaica and portions of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Easten Cuba through Tuesday night per NHC.
@weatherchannel #HurricaneMelissa #Huracán #hurricane

[Justin Bieber @justinbieber]

see u in april

[Texas Football @TexasFootball]

LONGHORN NATION ‼️ WAKE UP, IT’S GAMEDAY🤘