Wouter Mol

4 weken geleden al op de post! (hoop dat het aangekomen is..)

Super circumzenithal arc

Fog rolling into Vienna this early morning

Another shot from early September. Mountain goat posing just long enough :)

Clouds forming along the ridge line of Hochzinoedl, Sept 27 this year

Awesome catch!

So this is pretty amazing - yesterday EarthCARE sampled Hurricane Humberto straight across the eye! The eye of a tropical cyclone is small so a direct hit is rare: this is the first time EarthCARE has hit one after over a year in orbit! (Showing here also VIIRS on NOAA-20 for context.)

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

Lightning flashes within a powerful, Category 4 Hurricane Erin.

An incredible view this morning from GOES-19.

Unsuccessful (solo) chase in Styria, storms were too disorganized and in each other's way. At least the heat is gone for a few days

Dat is zeer welkom

Pretty swirl over the Tyrrhenian Sea, visible in radar imagery of the Aleria radar in the last 12 hours: streamable.com/7ov5sl. It corresponds to a small surface low.

Interesting week ahead! ⛈️

Great piece in today's NYTimes on the recent acceleration of global warming (and its impacts), featuring comments from Kate Marvel, Daniel Swain, Cecilia Bitz, and me: www.nytimes.com/2025...

Supercell near Rouen, France, June 13 (last week)

Went chasing yesterday, and saw this very beautiful supercell near Rouen in France 🙂The marker on the radar images shows our location at the time of these shots.

Supercell incoming just north of Rouen, France

Nice one just over NW Vienna, from 10 min ago #Wien #Wetter @uwz.bsky.social

Fun storms over Vienna and Lower Austria yesterday, mostly a lot of rain and wind from what I could see but some brief moments with good structure

Some ice clouds

Lightning south-west of Vienna a few hours ago (photo stack from 2 seconds of video)

Beautiful structure!

Two more photos of the storm

Nice thunderstorm passed Vienna just now, right around sunset

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Really good light at sunset too!

First thunderstorm in Vienna since I moved here, view from my local hill

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

I talked to Nature about the latest development at NSF, which is a five-alarm fire for American science. The scale of immediate impact is massive. We narrowly escaped this affecting @viralemergence.org for now, but will have to shut down in a few months if this stays.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...