Dr. Jeremy Gibbs

Low-level clouds moved in shortly after that previous pic, but not before I caught some cloud-to-air and cloud-to-ground lightning in super slow-mo...

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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wmo.int/media/news/w...

A man stands looking upward with arms outstretched and shirt off in the rain

After the magnitude 8.7 earthquake in Russia, there is a tsunami warning in effect for #Hawaii for all their coastal zones.

Please heed orders to evacuate if made.

U.S. Tsunami Warning Centers

TSUNAMI WARNING 3: See tsunami.gov for alert areas. M8.7 080mi SE Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka 1625PDT Jul 29

i know at times we all have frustrations with the peer-review process, but my experience with this paper reinforced that there are good people behind an imperfect process—people who serve their communities with humanity and with little fanfare despite their already busy and overburdened commitments.

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a special thanks is owed to the editor (and reviewers). i won't name them in case it's weird to directly mention people in the peer-review process, but they extended grace for long-delayed edits caused, in part, by <gestures wildly>.

my co-authors made it good. (cc @drstratman.bsky.social)

YouTube video by NASA NISAR Launch

Excited for tomorrow's launch of the NISAR satellite which will provide global information about water in its various forms. I have been working with NASA/JPL scientists on the ground verification instrumentation in Oklahoma for the past few years. The launch will take place in India at 6:00am CST.

NWS is here!

🎉 (easy pre-order)

"Complicated legacy" is almost always code for "I liked him and I don't want to talk about the bad stuff."

an orchestra is on a stage. in the background is organ pipes and deep brown walls

taking in the norman community band performance this evening!

For fun, a 1-km WoFS nature run for a case starting on March 14, 2025.

The M.B.P. (Most Ballin-ist Player) @ksquared812.bsky.social made the run for us (He makes his own rules here, we call him the mayor)

cumulative precipitation plot for Oklahoma City between 1948 and current day. x-axis labels are months, y-axis labels are inches of precipitation. the red line is max from 2007 with 56.95", blue line is min from 1954 with 17.84", black line is mean 34.23", and +/- standard deviation is 42.14" and 26.42". Yellow line is current year through July 13 at 30.94".

though this weekend's rain event, oklahoma city's airport rainfall total is just a tad more than 3" shy of the 1948–2025 annual average.

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I know I come across as a grumpy old Luddite about ML/AI. I know it can be useful. But my advisor really pushed me to understand how models worked, how my analysis worked, etc. As a result, I’m just constitutionally averse to trusting black-box output at the expense of understanding.

I had Claude reproduce my python function:. a simple routine that takes two independent WRF domains — one large/fine, the other small/coarse — and find the overlap region to compare stats. It created working code, but was needlessly complicated., Understanding, editing meant that time was a wash.

A cardboard cutout of the Scream character is next to three busted Linux boxes and a monitor.

It’s come a long ways. Although, i was able to create this frankencomputer in grad school (~2011) by daisy chaining three Linux boxes. If I recall, we had issues with varying cards working across systems. So we created a Linux Megazord and that shit worked lol!

Maybe this is the year of Linux on the desktop

My former master's student, Dominic Candela, passed his general exam and killed it! He proposed ways to study urban impacts on tornadogenesis and evolution using large-eddy simulations. Seeing students succeed and grow is so much better than any publication or grant.🧪🌊

Vandal disables power to lifesaving News 9 weather radar Surveillance captures vandal sabotaging News 9's NextGen Live weather radar in Northeast OKC—full story and how services have been restored.

This guy deliberately downed the News9 radar. This is equal parts troubling and confusing.

www.news9.com/story/686c14...

Please follow/support actual scientists and trusted messengers.

NOT these random anonymous accounts and “alt” whatevers.

It's been a bit since I've done a meteorological deep dive, but the devastating flash #flood in central Texas this July 4th/5th deserve a closer look. #TXwx

Yes remnants of #Barry were involved helping enhance moisture. A remnant MCV from Mexico on 3 July also played a role.

Full evolution below ⤵️

For no reason, here is composite reflectivity from a 1-km cb-WoFS nature run ensemble of 8 May 2024 that we are playing with. This is a zoomed-in portion of the domain that coincides with 3-km WoFS DA experiments. The full domain is 2/3-CONUS.

simulations by the g.o.a.t., @ksquared812.bsky.social

hit up @drkimwood.bsky.social

this is actually how brian reacts when someone presents promising results at our weekly group meeting.