Jaime Herriott

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Go Cubs Go! ❤️🐻💙🐻

Weather radar people: I’m on the steering committee for a Radar Technology Community Workshop to be held at NCAR in early 2026. We’re trying to nail down dates and topics to attract a good cross section. Please fill out this 5-minute survey and share the link! www.eol.ucar.edu/Radar-Techno...

Screenshot of the lesson, showing a radar dish overlaid with text: "Online Course Dual-Polarization Fundamentals 1h 30m - 2h Description Once an experimental type of weather radar, dual-polarized (“dual-pol”) weather radar is now deployed across the United States and many parts of the world. This lesson will introduce the basic principles of dual-pol weather radar. By the end of this lesson, learners will understand physical meanings of several commonly used polarimetric radar variables, including differential reflectivity, correlation coefficient, differential phase, specific differential phase, and linear depolarization ratio. Examples will be presented demonstrating the distinctive polarimetric signatures of different scatterer types, both meteorological and non-meteorological. Note: This lesson has as a prerequisite the prior lesson, Weather Radar Fundamentals. It is strongly recommended that beginning learners complete that lesson before starting this one."

I am so excited to announce that one of the radar meteorology courses that I developed with @comet-meted.bsky.social is now available! "Dual-Polarization Fundamentals" picks up where "Weather Radar Fundamentals" left off! learn.meted.ucar.edu#/online-cour... (Register on learn.meted.ucar.edu first.)

Presented my Master’s thesis research today at @ams41radar.bsky.social characterizing ZDR column behavior using X-band radar observations and simulations in potentially tornadic storms. Huge thanks to @tornatrix.bsky.social for all her guidance and contributions along the way. #radarnerd

It was nice to get a small vacation in (even if very brief) after working so hard to complete my Master’s this spring and then immediately jumping into a 2 month field campaign. All very rewarding and amazing experiences, but a couple days on the beach was certainly needed. 😊

GaGa in San Franscisco with my sister tonight! There is no better show on the planet. My sister’s first time ❤️🪩💿🍾

Learn more about the future of hail and ICECHIP’s contributions to the science in this story from NBC News.

Descubre cómo será el futuro del granizo y conoce las aportaciones de ICECHIP a la ciencia en este reportaje de NBC News.

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YouTube video by New Scientist These storm-chasing scientists are on the hunt for the world’s most extreme hail

I rode along with the meteorologists chasing the world's most extreme hail storms across the Great Plains in a massive effort improve our forecasts of these damaging events. Thanks to all involved in @nsficechip.bsky.social for having us. Had a hail of a good time. 🧪🌩️🌪️

Hail yeah! The ICECHIP field campaign (@nsficechip.bsky.social‬) has wrapped up, and the collected hailstones are being housed in the NSF NCAR Cold Lab for further study! 🌨️🔬 The project involved chasing storms from Montana to Texas to better understand the conditions that produce hail/hailstorms.

After 42 days and 15,000 + miles driven, #ICECHIP completed 24 IOPs across 11 states, including within 75 miles from both the Mexico and Canada borders. This totaled more than 10,000 hailstones collected by our teams while data was gathered on different types of hailstorms!

Got a tornado on MiniCOW’s ferry back to Bismarck, ND after ICECHIP IOP23. The highlight of the day for me, personally.

Scan. Scan. Scan. Scan. Sample. Sample. Sample. IOP21 of @nsficechip.bsky.social underway in northern Nebraska.
Mini COW (COW2) data at: svr.guru/data.php?id=...

North Dakota or South Dakota…why choose? Dows & Cows scanning storms in western Dakotas from Buffalo, SD through Dickinson, ND with @nsficechip.bsky.social

You can see the funnel forming to the left.

Short timelapse of the storm near Arnett, OK from MiniCOW view of the storm during ICECHIP IOP19.

Some photos from our MiniCOW deployment site on ICECHIP IOP19.

Check out some of the data I was part of collecting with the MiniCOW team for ICECHIP IOP19! This storm was absolutely beautiful. #radarnerd

Big Sky Country! Up north for @nsficechip.bsky.social!
COW, DOW A, DOW B (aka DOWvader), and MiniCOW scanning a hail producing storm near Grass Range, MT

⚡️🌈 a DOW, COW, MiniCOW at the end of every rainbow 🌈⚡️. End of @nsficechip.bsky.social IOP 17

Some shots from ICECHIP IOP18 near Roundup, MT. Some decent structure at the Mini COW deployment site today.

A little structure from yesterday near Lavina, MT.

Some structure shots as well.

ICECHIP IOP15 did not disappoint. Our storm put on quite the lightning show. Here are a few shots I captured.

Hail core from ICECHIP IOP13. Also had a tornado right in front of us in DOW B again but this time the forward flank got in the way of our view 😭 Finally leaving Texas today though 🙌

ICECHIP IOP8 shots. Very happy to be reunited with my radar 😊

🌈🌈 Happy Pride month!! 🌈🌈

Gotta protect those Berks! 🤣

Couple shots from ICECHIP IOP7. This time with the Purdue PIPs team while the radars are in Boulder. Nice to be reunited @storm-spotter-k.bsky.social

My best shot from ICECHIP IOP5 south of San Angelo, TX.

ICECHIP IOP4 pics from today near Matador, TX. With MiniCow this time!