Melinda Berman

Some mammatus over CU earlier today ahead of the rain!

I will try this, thank you! I've had difficulty going from Overleaf/Latex in the past but will try this!

Given the nature of the work and my desire for it not to be used as training data without my consent, I probably won't use these tools, but thank you for the response!

Also no AI tools please. I'm very very weary of my research/work being used as training data without my consent. I just need a way to compare two PDFs and track the changes.

Any tips for doing tracked changes between two PDFs without using Adobe would be helpful. Currently trying to not rip my hair out because it claims I'm not online and don't have a subscription 😭

Illinois ended the game with more yards of offense yesterday against Ohio State and limited them to 34 points when imo Ohio State easily could have scored at least 10 more.

4-2 Illinois with losses to two of the best teams in the country while 4-2 Notre Dame and a 5-1 USC who Illinois beat staying in the poll makes negative sense

One of my most favorite days of the semester: launching weather balloons with the @climasillinois.bsky.social undergrad thermo class! So much fun to help them learn how to radiosonde and collect their own data!

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Oh hey cold front

It was a fantastic game, truly shocked that UCLA pulled it off

Sko Brus!! Peak Big Ten season where you lost to Northwestern and then beat Penn State the week after

Apparently I've about that meteorology experiment life since 5th grade 😂

We found that 55% of pyroCb events injected smoke within 1km of the tropopause or higher. 2023 was also a record-breaking year for pyroCb activity led by Canada with 142 events. Cumulative annual smoke mass injected by pyroCb can also rival mass injection by volcanoes or large pyroCb events

We analyzed pyroCb activity and the amount of smoke aerosol mass injected into the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere on a yearly, regional, monthly and hourly basis. The inventory file is also available online as Supplementary File 1.

Worldwide inventory reveals the frequency and variability of pyrocumulonimbus and stratospheric smoke plumes during 2013–2023 - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Worldwide inventory reveals the frequency and variability of pyrocumulonimbus and stratospheric smoke plumes during 2013–2023

Excited to share a new publication led by @drdavepeterson.bsky.social with contributions by Mike Fromm, René Servranckx and others, that analyzes the inventory of all known, worldwide, observed pyroCb events from 2013-2023! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We must have a decently strong inversion tonight because whoever came all the way here from Oakland was rather loud!

Good move by UCLA. Not waiting around to see if the situation would improve. Sad because Foster was a UCLA guy but hopefully we can turn the ship around.

10° temperature gradient in less than 20 mi between Rantoul and Savoy. Can really tell who had a brush with the earlier storms and who didn't #ILwx
Note these obs were taken ~20 mins apart but still a strong temp gradient within the county!

Top 10 Illini!!!

Greetings from the CliMAS Fall 2025 Welcome BBQ!

I maintain my SEC is overrated argument

**last headgear pick

Heck yes Lee Corso's last pick is THE

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It must have gone on a massive run to produce a pyroCb like this. Thanks for sharing the geocolor!

Very impressive #pyroCb/#pyrocumulonimbus plume from the Dollar Lake Fire this afternoon in Wyoming! It's currently stretching nearly the entire length of the state with activity still ongoing near the fire. #WYwx

Found the prettiest blue jay feather today! But left it for others to enjoy and because collecting blue jay feathers is apparently illegal!

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This is the only video I have of him because I got too excited and forgot to hit record 😂