Tim Collins

🚨 🚀 A crude interface I built to expose an archive of College of DuPage GOES imagery since about 15 Apr 2017. The archive is around ~500TB in size over ~2.5 billion JPEG images. Yikes, but here you go.

mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/archive/cods...

Anyways happy for feedback. Not worth the effort?

when you intercept an anti vaxer it's known as a prick six

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Does Stan Van Gundy ever stop talking

Sunrise over an icy Turnagain Arm.

old tweet: Every year, Putting Away the Christmas Decorations Ken makes a series of decisions designed to infuriate Unpacking the Christmas Decorations Ken the following year. It’s a magical holiday tradition.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

Multi-panel view of the last few days of Hurricane Melissa:

↖️ GOES-19 infrared brightness temp
↗️ GOES-19 visible satellite
↙️ Hurricane hunter planes & flight paths
↘️ Recon-derived flight level wind swath
⬇️ Estimated minimum pressure from recon dropsondes

#Melissa's landfall intensity of 185 mph/892 mb ties it with the Florida Key's Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 as the record minimum pressure of any TC making landfall *anywhere* the NATL basin. I feel for the residents of #Jamaica 😞

Zoomed in G19 visible meso loop courtesy of @cyclonicwx.bsky.social

But they captured some historic data including the 893mb center drop, cementing #Melissa as the 3rd most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic. Mission for the ages.

I was worried for my crew mates when I saw them circling in the eye for over 20 mins. Looks like the very rough ride was confirmed. Plane had to leave early. They reported svr turb and a "sawtooth" eye. Looks like they moved 600-700ft up & down during this stretch in ~1 min.

#Melissa (#13L) has officially made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica at Category 5 status, with winds of 160 knots (185 mph) and a central pressure of 892 mb.

Melissa is tied with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 as the most intense landfalling Atlantic #hurricane on record.

Simply incredible imagery of Hurricane Melissa this morning as it approaches Jamaica.

Here is a 54h WV loop of #Melissa as it underwent rapid intensification from a 60 kt TS ➡️ 150 kt cat 5 #Hurricane.

Pay attention to how "warm" eye becomes at the end of the loop which ends at 18 UTC 27 Oct.

Color scale ends at -5C & eye temp on the last few frames was warmer than that 🤯

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

A spectacular view of Hurricane Erin swirling north as lightning flashes throughout the system.

Erin's deepening rate is now a staggering 7.8 hPa/hour:

Photo from the perspective of the NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft in the eye of Hurricane Erin. A blue ocean can be seen along with the clouds marking the edge of the hurricane's eyewall.

📸August 16: Images from the NOAA Hurricane Hunter and our NOAA Satellites Ocean Winds team show an intense eyewall in Hurricane #Erin This photo shows the ocean surface calm in the eye and roaring in the eyewall. For the latest forecast visit hurricanes.gov

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Fortunately well out to sea, but check out #Dexter & its resurrection as a powerful #extratropical cyclone over the North Atlantic.

Perfect case for a meteorological deep dive: Favorable trough interaction led to "sting jet" formation & #hurricane force winds as cyclone phases w/ shortwave. 🌀 🦂

my fellow excessive sweaters, rejoice!! the first comfortable air mass on the horizon since july 4, and maybe the second time we've seen dew points below 60 in about a month. 😍

T-minus 10 hours to the Avett Brothers and @joekwon80.bsky.social at Wolf Trap woooo hoooo! 🎻🤘🏻

Undefeated

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

Gunnar Henderson clearly checking his swing, but goofball CB Bucknor behind the plate not asking for help and ringing him up for strike 3.

lol CB Bucknor behind the plate, not even asking for help down the line. good freakin grief, man.

NOAA Weather Prediction Center Excessive Rainfall Outlooks all valid for 2-3 April 2025. The outlooks were very consistent in their location and the observed flooding occurred essentially right in the locations where the outlooks showed the highest probabilities.

NOAA Weather Prediction Center Excessive Rainfall Outlooks all valid for 3-4 April 2025. The outlooks were very consistent in their location and the observed flooding occurred essentially right in the locations where the outlooks showed the highest probabilities.

NOAA Weather Prediction Center Excessive Rainfall Outlooks all valid for 4-5 April 2025. The outlooks were very consistent in their location and the observed flooding occurred essentially right in the locations where the outlooks showed the highest probabilities.

NOAA Weather Prediction Center Excessive Rainfall Outlooks all valid for 5-6 April 2025. The outlooks were very consistent in their location and the observed flooding occurred essentially right in the locations where the outlooks showed the highest probabilities.

We often (rightly) see maps like these showing how good SPC convective outlooks are; let's also give some kudos to WPC for some outstanding excessive rainfall outlooks for this event. Especially impressive are the day 5 outlooks, giving advance notice of prolonged excessive rainfall and flood risk.

Sharing a WPC graphic regarding the incredibly concerning flood threat later this week.

$157 in mine 😳

A screenshot of a Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown can't sleep and wakes up to a baseball sun

It's the most wonderful day of the year 😍