Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)
The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
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NWS Incident Meteorologist in CO | Talk fire weather, Spain, occasional politics. Opinions my own. 🇪🇦 Meteorólogo de respuesta a emergencias para el NWS en Colorado. Hablo de IIFF, España, divulgación y puede que algo de política. 🏳️🌈✊️🌹🔥🎿
Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)
The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
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14.09.2025 21:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Including *two* positions in Boulder!
Challenging forecasts, a plethora of collaboration opportunities with collocated atmospheric science groups, and the mountains at your doorstep are just some of the draws.
Locality pay helps offset cost of living!
Happy to chat with anyone who's interested.
Even under lighter winds, this fire moves. Live fuel moistures below 40%, fire behavior in oakbrush almost indistinguishable from pinyon-juniper. Extreme drought conditions are evident.
May be done with Red Flag days for a while, but the #LeeFire will continue to run. It's no ordinary season. #COwx
Today's environment had the ingredients for deep pyroCb formation from the get-go. The final factor (clearing cloud cover) arrived late afternoon, and boom.
Needless to say, significant expansion to evac zones southward along CR 5/Hwy 13 corridors for the Lee Fire today. #COwx #LeeFire
Lee Fire as seen from Meeker - 3 PM MDT, Aug 8.
06.08.2025 21:36 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Tragic accident on the Million Dollar Highway derailed today's arrival in Meeker.
Detoured via Telluride, and captured some images of the Stoner Mesa fire which punched some pyroCu.
Hectic day of travel and weather support for 4 separate incidents.
Webcam view of the Lee/Grease fires southwest of Meeker from the Meeker airport.
En route to Meeker to support the emerging fires (Elk RBX, Lee, and Grease - the latter two of which have merged).
They've grown to ~16,000 acres in 2 days. Unfortunately, extreme drought and prolonged critical fire weather conditions through at least Friday will make for a very tough week ahead.
Oh no, so scared.
I'll take a nation that doesn't cower to dictatorial impositions over one that blindly caves to nonsensical spending spurred on by a top tier bootlicker (Rutte) any day.
Las condiciones meteorológicas están siendo favorables de momento. Tras una prueba exitosa, proceden con la aplicación controlada de fuego con métodos aéreos.
29.04.2025 16:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Primer día apoyando al bosque nacional de San Juan en su campaña primaveral de quemas prescritas.
Tras explorar el área del proyecto y recopilar datos, toca refinar el pronóstico. Mañana será la primera oportunidad. Eso sí, con posibilidad de algún chubasco - no deja de ser primavera en Colorado 🌦
A riesgo de que me acribillen, me parece de los líderes democráticos que más aciertan en cuestiones geopolíticas 🤷♂️
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Every single Irish person I spoke to this morning after 2 1/2 minutes of filtered sun: "Isn't it a beautiful day?"
The day:
So great to see the support today, thanks Boulder! 💙
03.03.2025 19:34 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm so sorry Cole 😔
27.02.2025 22:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We're pretty bummed about it, these are always good fun to teach.
26.02.2025 06:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bueno, ¿basta ya de justificaciones, no?
¿Soltó o no esos comentarios? Pues ya está. Los ciudadanos tienen todo el derecho del mundo de escrutinar, y más cuando se trata de racismo sin cortinas.
Do NOT respond until you receive direction from NWSEO.
22.02.2025 22:43 — 👍 37 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 2Valid, lol
22.02.2025 22:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You should just schedule this tweet for daily recurrence
22.02.2025 22:08 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Two options:
1. No reply (resignations must be voluntary, so request has zero legal basis).
2. List your week's work. Request 1 hr OT to complete required duty. Include said duty and expense to taxpayers in your reply to the king's butler.
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18.02.2025 21:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Starting to"?
14.02.2025 02:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The family got a little bigger today. Say hello to Mojo and Jojo 🐇
10.02.2025 04:56 — 👍 76 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Yes but they're rewarding our low productivity with an 8 month paid vacation! #Winning 🤦♂️
31.01.2025 04:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well lucky for you it appears all the spam emails have now been removed 😅
31.01.2025 04:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Likewise! Stoked to finally ditch that hellhole
31.01.2025 04:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nothing is a more effective deterrent from resigning than our current NOAA inbox.
It's been a long time since I've shed tears from laughter!
The lowest of productivity. There's never been lower!
Truly comforting to see how "HR" has our back every step of the way, ensuring we know that we're the biggest of scum as they tempt us with a year under the palm trees in Fiji...
Last year, in my "low productivity job", I worked over 540 hours of Overtime, and spent 68 days away from home deployed to wildfires.
So let's hear it. In what ways have you taken away from "American prosperity" in your lOw ProDuCTiVity jObS?