@dowfacility.bsky.social
I am an array of mobile/deployable weather radars (DOWs/COWs), weather stations, disdrometers, mesonets, & soundings. I look best in Carbone42.
20 years ago today, I intercepted my 7th hurricane eye as Rita made landfall near Port Arthur, TX. Led by Joshua Wurman & @kakosiba.bsky.social, I parked on a bridge to stay above the surge and mapped the intense winds: doi.org/10.1175/MWR-...
Ready to intercept landfalling hurricanes this fall!
Good morning San Diego 😎! If you are at #EsriUC2025 and haven’t come to visit me yet…why not?! But, you still have time! Come chat about mobile radars, severe weather, and how we use mapping to help us do our missions…all my favorite things!
16.07.2025 15:48 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hellooo KC 😎! I am in my reserved parking spot (s) 😁…and ready to talk mobile radar 📡 and severe weather 🌪️🌀 with @ametsoc.org Project Atmosphere!
16.07.2025 15:36 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Can I be in 2 places at once?
Why yes, I can 😁. Excited to be in KC for @ametsoc-radar.bsky.social Project Atmosphere to talk severe weather and mobile radar technology my favorite topics!)…and, of course, see what I look like before years of chips & gummy bears coat the interior operator cab 😁
Are you going to be at #EsriUC2025?
Good news…so am I 😁! Besides admiring my color coordination…come learn how mobile radars are used to study fires 🔥, hurricanes 🌀, & tornadoes 🌪️! See how we are using ArcGIS to help us find radar sites to get the best data possible in these high impact events!
End of Season, ND
Radars, Mesonets, Pods out 🎩
So happy to have been part of the @nsficechip.bsky.social field phase! After 24 IOPs…now the work begins 😁
Scanning hail-producing storms in North Dakota for @nsficechip.bsky.social…some dows get hail (and a rainbow!) and some dows get structure at their location
28.06.2025 01:47 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Some people pay extra for this view…so much better than some human twins are radar twins 😁
26.06.2025 00:57 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Scan. Scan. Scan. Scan. Sample. Sample. Sample. IOP21 of @nsficechip.bsky.social underway in northern Nebraska.
Mini COW (COW2) data at: svr.guru/data.php?id=...
North Dakota or South Dakota…why choose? Dows & Cows scanning storms in western Dakotas from Buffalo, SD through Dickinson, ND with @nsficechip.bsky.social
21.06.2025 00:22 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Montana noticed me 🤩
@nsficechip.bsky.social
mooseradio.com/storm-chaser...
MiniCOW up scanning a hail-producing (and tornado-producing) storm near Arnett, OK as part of @nsficechip.bsky.social IOP19!
Can watch in real-time (COW2)
svr.guru/data.php?id=...
⚡️🌈 a DOW, COW, MiniCOW at the end of every rainbow 🌈⚡️. End of @nsficechip.bsky.social IOP 17
16.06.2025 03:24 — 👍 62 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
Big Sky Country! Up north for @nsficechip.bsky.social!
COW, DOW A, DOW B (aka DOWvader), and MiniCOW scanning a hail producing storm near Grass Range, MT
King of the hill! 🐄📡 up and scanning in northeast WY ahead of anticipated hail-producing storms later today for @nsficechip.bsky.social
13.06.2025 21:48 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
DOW B is part of the multi-Doppler network with MiniCOW and DOW A. Scanning hail-producing storms in eastern WY/western NE as part of @nsficechip.bsky.social!
MiniCOW data: svr.guru/data.php?id=...
Hey! That’s me 🤩! Not only am I mapping the winds…but working hard to get all sorts of dual-pol…ZDR, Rho-HV, KDP…and LDR!
09.06.2025 01:48 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Up and scanning for @nsficechip.bsky.social IOP13!
(I look so small!)
The Dog Days of DOW (a little less well known than the Dog Days of Summer 😎).
08.06.2025 13:07 — 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Suns out…concluding IOP12 for @nsficechip.bsky.social.
07.06.2025 01:22 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Storm currently is tornado-warned…collecting data with 🐄📡 @nsficechip.bsky.social
07.06.2025 00:46 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0COW (🐄📡) collecting data in tornado-warned storm near Sundown, TX as part of @nsficechip.bsky.social
07.06.2025 00:36 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Scanning a storm near Morton, TX for @nsficechip.bsky.social IOP12 (yep, already on 12 😮)
06.06.2025 22:53 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Scanning tornado-warned storm near at Levelland, TX during @nsficechip.bsky.social IOP#11.
05.06.2025 23:59 — 👍 36 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
There’s always one…who chooses the dirt road 😁
04.06.2025 11:51 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season begins 💨🌊! I’ve been in 20+ hurricanes-including Helene, Milton & Cat-4 Laura. We are learning a lot about how intense winds make it to the surface.
Read the latest NSF research
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
There is no such thing as the perfect deployment spot…but one without antenna smashing hail stones ain’t so bad 😁! Collecting data in a hail-producing storm for @nsficechip.bsky.social near Christoval, TX.
27.05.2025 00:17 — 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Adding to the local scenery 🤩…scanning hail-producing storms @nsficechip.bsky.social…and there is always a blue radar at the end of the rainbow
26.05.2025 01:14 — 👍 38 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Almost a year later…collaborative analyses of DOW wind speeds and damage in the deadly Greenfield, IA tornado are underway in order to unravel the mysteries of how wind speeds compare to damage.
22.05.2025 13:48 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Scanning storms headed my way (maybe a left mover ‼️) for @nsficechip.bsky.social
20.05.2025 00:26 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 1
