Jeff Frame

incredible north of Keyes #okwx

Tropical Storm #Dexter ADVISORY 1 issued. Tropical storm #Dexter forms over the western atlantic. Link

storm in Sharon Springs #kswx

Good pool day

good looking storm north of Burns, WY #wywx

Storms of 2025 - Jeff Frame I only lead one field course in 2025, in June. We observed the Wellfleet, Nebraska, tornado on June 16, which is a top 3 chase for me and the best tornado/structure combo of my career. We saw many oth...

Pictures from the 2025 field course are up vortexjeff.smugmug.com/Storms-of-2025

Congratulations to Richard Thompson on receiving the 2025 AMS SLS STAC award! Rich is the Director of Forecast Operations at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, OK. He received the award for conducting exceptional applied research to advance severe thunderstorm and tornado forecasting.

Wildfire smoke is THICK above the Midwest this morning, creating hazy conditions and reducing air quality near the surface.

This is the sunrise view from Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Visibility is down to a mile or two on what should otherwise be a pristine, blue-sky day.

4:48 PM EDT, 7/31: A #FlashFlood is currently occurring in #Queens, #NewYork City. Please avoid driving into flooded roadways. #NYWx

If you like wind, prepare for disappointment next Month. August is the least windy month of the year for most of the Contiguous U.S.

A count of smoke days using data from NOAA.

More smoke! I took a look at the current situation and a quick analysis at where it's been the worst this summer. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

NWS-Aberdeen rated Sunday's photogenic tornado near Watertown, SD an EF2.

Here's a photo from their survey of a destroyed home. The safe was moved onto the front sidewalk, apparently.

An end to the death heat has arrived in some places and is arriving in others.

Today's find the cold front is a tough one. Take your time.

Cone tornado

Elephant trunk tornado

Cone tornado viewed from less than a mile away

Cone tornado

Tornadoes I've seen after work in Urbana, IL:

Honey Bend, IL, 4/19/2011
Savoy, IL, 5/1/2012
Homer, IL, 9/9/2016
Riverton, IL, 3/31/2023

Excuse me, TLC?

sunsetwx.com still works!

Severe thunderstorm watch unlikely as this line of storms approaches from the west

CliMAS is proud to partner with Illinois Public Media to create a new podcast called Weather Realness - we’ll get real about the what’s and why’s about weather and climate and how it impacts you.

Our first episode airs on WILL-AM 580 at 11 am this Saturday, August 2 and anytime on the WILL app.

I have @nws.noaa.gov issuing 173 Svr TStorm Warns for yesterday (Central TZ) and 0 Tor Warns. Top 10 dates with the highest # of SVRs and 0 TORs.
2012/7/5 -371
2023/9/7 -300
2024/8/17 -249
2012/7/8 -244
2023/7/30 -243
2023/9/8 -218
2019/8/18 -216
2010/5/28 -210
2021/8/13 -193
2005/8/5 -187

1115Z, 7/30: Here are some of the highest #tsunami heights that were observed so far…

- #Kahului #Maui, #Hawaii: 5.7 feet
- #Hilo, HI: 4.9 feet
- #Haleiwa, HI: 4.0 feet
- #Hanalei, HI: 3.9 feet
- #CrescentCity, #California: 3.6 feet
- #ArenaCove, CA: 3.0 feet
- #Adak, #Alaska: 2.7 feet

🚨 #ÚltimaHora | Terremoto masivo de magnitud 8.0 sacude la costa de #Rusia
El sismo ocurrió a las 11:24 a.m. (hora local), a 131 km de Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
🌊 Autoridades evalúan riesgo de tsunami.
Se recomienda a residentes costeros estar atentos a posibles evacuaciones

A revision to M8.8 by the USGS. This earthquake off the coast of Russia is now the strongest observed across the globe since 2010. Only 5 stronger earthquakes have been measured by humans.

Tsunami Warning remains in effect for Hawaii with an ETA of 7:17pm HST

JMA Issued a Tsunami Warning for the Pacific Coast, with Estimated Maximum Wave Height 3 Meters (UPDATE2 ) <p>The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning and advisory for the Pacific coast from Hokkaido to Okinawa in Wednesday morning. The estimate of maximum wave height is now expected to be ...

#Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a #tsunami warning and advisory for the Pacific coast from #Hokkaido to #Okinawa. The estimate of maximum wave height is now expected to be 3 meter. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/gene...

Full video edit of the Watertown, #SDwx tornado up. It's rare I get a "video tornado" these days. This is the first time I've had chase video up within a week since...before grad school.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZh-...

GOES West captured von Kármán vortices streaming around Guadalupe Island this morning. These cloud formations typically occur when the prevailing wind is diverted by elevated land features such as islands, mountaintops, or volcanoes. More cloud science at: noaa.gov/jetstream/clouds

Loaded line up of conferences in Madison, August 2026

BREAKING: Department of Defense Makes Eleventh Hour Decision to Maintain Critical Hurricane Satellites After critical feedback, Navy officials step in to keep data flowing from three U.S. Defense-operated weather satellites scheduled to go dark this week

According to a Navy spokesperson I spoke with, the 11th hour decision to keep data flowing from the three weather satellites was due to critical feedback it received. A testament that our voices and concerns do very much matter. My full afternoon update ⬇️

Very impressive intensification tonight with #Iona. Well on the way to becoming a major hurricane. We'll see if it can keep overshooting the forecast before it starts to feel shear tomorrow

Just a relaxing summer lake day yesterday

Comic. [3-column table with headers Period, My Favorite Part, and My Biggest Complaint] [Row 1] P: *Precambrian*, MFP: Life develops, MBC: Snowball Earth episodes [Row 2] P: Cambrian, MFP: Trilobites!, MBC: Evolution could stand to calm down a little [Row 3] P: Ordovician, MFP: Earth might have had rings, MBC: Scary volcanic eruption in North America [Row 4] P: Silurian, MFP: First land animals, MBC: Earth’s newfound mold problem [Row 5] P: Devonian, MFP: Big mountains in Boston, MBC: Yeah, sure, what those giant killer fish needed was *armor* [Row 6] P: Carboniferous, MFP: Cool forests, MBC: Bugs too big [Row 7] P: Permian, MFP: Pangea, MBC: Google “The Great Dying” [Row 8] P: Triassic, MFP: Tanystropheus [dinosaur with extremely long neck next to tiny person for scale], MBC: Damage to Canada still visible from space at Manicouagan [Row 9] P: Jurassic, MFP: Birds, MBC: Parasitoid wasps [Row 10] P: Cretaceous, MFP: Raptors, MBC: Raptors [Row 11] P: Paleogene, MFP: Pretty horseys!!!, MBC: Paleocene-eocene thermal maximum [Row 12] P: Neogene, MFP: Forests of *Dracaena* Dragonblood Trees, MBC: Zanclean Flood [Row 13] P: Quaternary, MFP: Burrito invented, MBC: Whoever picked this name for the third period of the Cenozoic

Geologic Periods

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