Chris Schammel

incredible north of Keyes #okwx

A building supercell over an area known as "Little Grand Canyon" of Nebraska; a gentle canyon with hilly grass sides.

"Little Grand Canyon" of Nebraska

Some lightning at sunset last night near Sanford, Manitoba. #mbstorm #lightning #canadaday

2025 didn't just have tornadoes...
It had solid supercell structure, too
w/ Juston Drake

Ideal tornado is unrated. It's not a contest to experience the most powerful storm. Higher rating means more damage means ruined lives. You'd think getting run over by a grain silo might humble a person.

BalancedWx Special: NOAA releases its FY26 budget justification document It's still the OMB budget - but now with all the gory disastrous details

The NOAA budget justification doc that finally was posted today didn't contain a lot of surprises - but as the first time all of the cuts were listed in their destructive detail, it is a depressing read. I tried to distill and explain the weather part, sad as it is.

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I do not remember how I came across this but there is some useful information here www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

If this proposed budget comes to fruition, it would be devastating for the weather and climate enterprise and a threat to the safety and security of the American public

Shelf cloud

Something north of town

cloud, maybe?

Spinny.

Aerial downburst peeping in southern Champaign County, #ILwx this evening. Electric little storms!

Some slow-mo lightning from my back patio this evening in OKC.

Impressive cloud to ground (CG) lightning is currently occurring near Snyder, Texas. This image captured 10 mins ago. Watch live via: www.youtube.com/@DanielShawA... @NWSLubbock #txwx

Welcome to the high plains...land of the living skies

today was one of those days i’ll remember for the rest of my life. we saw no fewer than seven or eight tornadoes, including twins. morton did it again, producing a photogenic wedge at one point that looked almost identical to the morton, tx beast of 2022. a surreal experience overall.

Crazy tornado event between Causey, New Mexico and Lubbock, Texas! We possibly documented 16 twisters, several anticyclonic, 3 wedges, and twins developed RIGHT NEXT TO US! Also, the windshield took a baseball hailstone.
#TXWX #NMWX
Juston Drake

This image captured earlier as a dusty tornado moves north of Morton, Texas. Watch live via: www.youtube.com/@DanielShawA... @NWSLubbock #txwx #nmwx

7:35 PM CDT, 6/5: A confirmed, dangerous #tornado is west of #Lubbock, #Texas and will be entering the west side soon. Seek shelter now!

Ennadai Lake, Nunavut recorded a pressure minimum of 981.2 hPa at 6 am local today/June 2, 2025.

This broke the old record by nearly 7 hPa.

lmao we're posting hour 294 GFS hurricanes let's gooooo

An amazing new supercell shot I can share! ✨

Large tornado forming over the fields of Colorado. Multiple chaser vehicles visible in the foreground.

For a solid couple minutes, I thought Friday's Merino tornado (eventually the Akron tornado) was going to be a full-out wedge. The tornadic wind field was in fully beast-mode and was rapidly expanding. There were panicked chasers fleeing the scene as quickly as possible.

Beautiful structure!

A wide angle timelapse of last night’s supercell near Haskell TX as it’s dropping frequent bolts while ingesting more moisture as it was preparing to drop a tor!

25 May 2025 | 7:30p CT

#TXwx

Floyd, NM tornado sequence. Estimated start time was 5:18 p.m. and rope out at 5:40 p.m. Photos captured at 5:21, 5:25, 5:31 and 5:38 p.m. this evening.

It's been a dream of mine to get epic structure like this...happy I finally got to see it.

Otis, CO
5.23.25

Chased a super cell out of Archer City Texas down to Graham Texas today.
Put in a great show, the was a slow mover. Made things easier!

perhaps waiting so long to take time off to chase was a bad idea lol

Incredible structure on this tornado warned storm near Delta City, Mississippi earlier this evening. Watch live via: www.youtube.com/@DanielShawA... @NWSLittleRock @NWSMemphis #arwx #mswx