Bob Capella

Big whirls have little whirls
That feed on their velocity
And little whirls have lesser whirls
And so on to viscosity

Mornings in RMNP

Changing colors in Medicine Bow National Forest, WY. [Fujifilm Klasse, Portra 400]

Immediately proceeds to collapse *sad chaser noises*

11/10 Medicine Bow day before the Jubilee Days/Rodeo!

Mammatus overhead at sunset in Firestone, #COwx tonight

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

What's insane to me is how much dialog/work/expertise it takes to change one person's mind on one subject, even (especially?) when the recipient is not informed on the issue. It's much easier to just.. not.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Single shot 70mm from yesterday. Ghostly. Etherial. And a photo I'll probably never be able to top!

Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25

Photo of a CoCoRaHS hail observation with a 2.5" hailstone from Wellington, Colorado at 2:30am on June 17, 2025. From https://www.cocorahs.org/ViewData/ViewHailReport.aspx?HailReportID=5595acd1-dca2-42df-a22d-65f6218d4087

Hourly distribution of large hail reports in Colorado, showing a big spike in the afternoon and evening, and almost none in the early morning hours.

was not expecting to wake up and see reports of an early-morning swath of large hail along the Front Range (apologies to those who woke up to damage.) Big hail in the early am is *exceedingly* rare. Prior to today, only 7 reports in state records of 2"+ hail between the hours of 2-5am. #cowx

Absolute insanity Dickens Nebraska tornado a bit ago at close range! Right off the iPhone lens spots and all!

Career tornado intercept just now Dickens Nebraska!

720pm: Tornado underneath stunning storm structure south of North Platte, Nebraska

Our biggest, bestest national celebration.

I expected this to be a terrifying fascist spectacle, but instead I actually feel a little sad, like the time my friend Charlie and I set up a lemonade stand when we were seven and nobody stopped all day.

Yesterday's storm on the Comanche National Grassland, #COwx

Our view deploying on a tornado at Spearman TX, which became slightly too far to reach while repositioning away from hail.

Table showing FY26 budget numbers for NOAA from the Trump Administration.

Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed.
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Justice's Stress live at Red Rocks was un fucking matched

Floyd, NM tornado sequence. Estimated start time was 5:18 p.m. and rope out at 5:40 p.m. Photos captured at 5:21, 5:25, 5:31 and 5:38 p.m. this evening.

Incredible scenes in Akron, Colorado as a long lived tornado moved over open plains. Tornado warning continues. Watch live via: www.youtube.com/@DanielShawA... #cowx @NWSBoulder

I'd bet AccuWeather was responsible for warning the derailed train to stop in the path of the 27 Apr 2025 EF2 Bingham NE tornado...

The eye of the Arnett, OK tornado, captured by one of our UAVs as it collected scientific data on the environment within.

We saw it on our way out east, said 'ooh pileus already' and kept driving. Should've hung out in Bennett for a while!

There's been lots of chatter, much of it uninformed, regarding the tornado warnings issued by NWS Jackson, KY Friday. The 2 sig tornadoes had lead times of 28 and 40 minutes respectively, pretty damn good for being short staffed, to their credit. Radar at issuance time. 1/2

Just gonna assume today was a billion dollar weather day.

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I just had one of the most relaxing & successful chases of my hobby chaser life.. it's taxing in the moment, sure, but you don't have to burn all other aspects of your life to enjoy it. The all or nothing perspective is strange to me.

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Our last view of the 27 Apr 2025 Hyannis NE tornado #NEwx