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A nebula. The top-left is dense with layers of fluffy pink and greenish clouds. Long strands of green clouds stretch out from here; a faint layer of translucent blue dust combines with them to create a three-dimensional scene. A sparse network of dark dust clouds in the foreground adds reddish-black patches atop the nebula. Blue-white and orange stars, from our galaxy and beyond, are spread amongst the clouds.

🕷️A dramatic scene from the Tarantula Nebula shines in the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image

Did you know that this nebula is home to the most massive stars known, some of which are roughly 200 times as massive as our Sun?

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A new face in the Atlantic. This is the first time the name #Dexter has been used, replacing Dorian after 2019.

I feel like I haven’t had a good night of sleep in like two years.

August 3rd, 1970:
Hurricane Celia made landfall as a Category 4 near Aransas Pass, Texas. Storm surge reached 9 feet, and wind gusts well over 130 mph (some reportedly up to 180 mph) damaged or destroyed thousands of homes in the state. 15 people were killed.

Like Dennis, Emily, Franklin, and Gert before it, Harvey set the record for the earliest forming "H" storm at the time.

Other than that, maybe the most interesting fact for this one is that there were two storms named Harvey in 2005, the other striking northern Australia in February that year.

Terra MODIS RGB composite image of Tropical Storm Harvey near peak intensity (50kt, 995hPa) passing ~150 km ESE of Bermuda on 2005 August 4, around 14:32 UTC. The system is compact with a big convective burst occurring near the center and most of the storm activity to the north. Data from NASA.

Best track map of Harvey showing a tropical depression forming far east of Florida (~1000 km) and quickly becoming a tropical storm, passing just south of Bermuda, then traveling generally east-northeastward in the open Atlantic. The storm becomes extratropical far from land and eventually dissipates near the Azores. Plot credit Sarah Ditchek, UAlbany.

#wxhistory #OTD in 2005: Tropical Storm Harvey develops in the Atlantic. Harvey reached a peak intensity of 55kt on Aug 4 shortly after brushing Bermuda and causing minor damage. The storm became post-tropical on Aug 8 and its remnants spent the next ~five days meandering in the northern Atlantic.

Personally, learning about this event was a big influence on me for getting into severe weather/meteorology in general. Also somewhat related, for some time growing up I wanted to work at the NTSB.

Hard to overstate the ramifications this incident had on aviation meteorology and commercial air travel safety.

We cannot and must not look away.

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Last month was the most anomalous in recorded history for temperatures in Japan.

Almost 3°C above the 1991-2020 average.

Records date back to 1898.

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Looking up at the sky covered in cirrocumulus (small puffs everywhere). A void in the cloud field looks like a black hole or hurricane eye or something.

Is this real life

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WMO certifies megaflash lightning record in USA The megaflash occurred in October 2017, during a major thunderstorm complex. It extended from eastern Texas to near Kansas City - equivalent to the distance between Paris and Venice in Europe. It woul...

There is a new world record for the longest lightning flash - 515 miles!

The World Meteorological Organization has certified a lightning flash that extended from near Dallas, TX, to near Kansas City, MO, on October 22, 2017, as the new longest lightning flash.

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Really cool, and given that GLM only became operational in late 2017, I'm wondering if this record will be broken somewhat frequently.

From the paper: "Flashes at this extreme scale always existed, and are now becoming identifiable as our detection capabilities and data processing methods improve"

Plot showing the percentage of SSMIS scans to all global tropical cyclone imagery from conical scanners from 1987 to 2023. The plot shows the dramatic rise in reliance on U.S. Defense operated SSMIS since around 2010, with about 65% of all conical microwave scans coming from SSMIS in recent years. Data credit: Naufal Ranzin/Colorado State University/TC PRIMED

I cannot overstate what a victory yesterday's about-face was for hurricane forecasting. We're lucky to get 6 or 7 scans of a hurricane from these critical satellites on a *good* day. The defense satellites account for 60-70% of them. This would've been a massive, unforced error.

Our research on the connection between African easterly waves (AEW) and ENSO was accepted! Using a wave tracker, we show that there is increased circulation, moisture, and convection around AEWs during La Niña, especially in the wave's mid- to low- levels near Africa. This may have TC implications.

Non-paywall NYT article link: archive.md/yZVNY

"... The agency has decided to keep the program running indefinitely. According to a Navy spokesperson who declined to be identified, it will remain available until the sensors stop working or until the program formally ends in Sep 2026."

For now, DMSP satellites will continue to generate and distribute crucial scientific data.

Thank you to everyone who spoke out.

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Aw it’s all blocked off now, but I swear the very first post was something about communism.

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You’ll never guess how this thing started.

Japan records highest temperature on record Temperature hits 41.2 degrees Celsius (106.16 degrees Fahrenheit) after hottest June on record.

Temperature hits 41.2 degrees Celsius (106.16 degrees Fahrenheit) after hottest June on record.

Good resource for good info from experts in seismology.