Melinda Berman

Was looking through some old plots and found this gem: the Skew-wind!

Bye radar snow hole! Waiting for another 3-4" of snow on top of the 7-8 we got over the weekend!

Flakes are probably now hitting/close to the ground in CIL close to the radar!

Improved Understanding of How Kinematic and Thermodynamic Environmental Changes Impact Modeled Overshooting Top Characteristics Overshooting top area is well correlated (ρ = 0.6) to updraft core (UC) area for all three representative levels in the troposphere Tropospheric kinematics are important to determining the area o...

The first three figures in my poster were recently published in GRL and can be read here: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Just returned home from an outstanding week of science in Utrecht at the 12th European Conference on Severe Storms organized by @essl-ecss.bsky.social! It was great to share our OT work as well as grow connections with our European colleagues! Thanks to all who made this possible!

This is definitely my favorite picture from last night:

I think this is the best we've had in CU! Truly stunning!

Wow!!!!

This substorm!!!! Definitely a rival to October 24

Unreal aurora now outside of Champaign, IL!

Clouds today are trying to eke out every last drop of snow before we warm back up to 70! by the weekend

Having crochet as a hobby is constantly humbling because I'm reminded of the fact that while I can solve differential equations, I, in fact, cannot count to save my life or my projects.

Sunrise from somewhere over Utah on Saturday was STUNNING

Improved Understanding of How Kinematic and Thermodynamic Environmental Changes Impact Modeled Overshooting Top Characteristics Overshooting top area is well correlated (ρ = 0.6) to updraft core (UC) area for all three representative levels in the troposphere Tropospheric kinematics are important to determining the area o...

Excited to share new work out now in GRL: doi.org/10.1029/2025...! We simulated supercells to understand how changes in the environment impact their updrafts and the OTs they produce.

We found:
⛈️Increasing 0-6 km shear via hodograph curvature or length leads to increased updraft and OT size (1/x)

⛈️Increased static stability in the stratosphere decreases the depth of the OT. The vertical velocity of the updraft core from 8-12.5 km is equally correlated to OT depth.

Many thanks to my coauthors: @jefftrapp.bsky.social, @70dbz.bsky.social and Larry Di Girolamo for their support and advice!

Improved Understanding of How Kinematic and Thermodynamic Environmental Changes Impact Modeled Overshooting Top Characteristics Overshooting top area is well correlated (ρ = 0.6) to updraft core (UC) area for all three representative levels in the troposphere Tropospheric kinematics are important to determining the area o...

Excited to share new work out now in GRL: doi.org/10.1029/2025...! We simulated supercells to understand how changes in the environment impact their updrafts and the OTs they produce.

We found:
⛈️Increasing 0-6 km shear via hodograph curvature or length leads to increased updraft and OT size (1/x)

The amount of people I've seen with zero hands on the wheel and zero eyes on the road because they're using their phones while driving recently is terrifying. Feels like getting hit is a matter of if, not when.

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