James McCormick

I like most of them, having grown up in “the 308”

That Keola shot with the wall cloud doesn't take a back seat to anybody, IMO.

Love these dives into schools long ago lost to consolidation. Maps of this state before the interstates and US highways look so different with legitimate towns every 5-10 miles on each major path through the state.

I can stumble through .75 miles once every hour. The tacos are no problem.

But you gotta let me trycherry coke. I don’t think i could do 2 beers in 24 hours. One would be awful enough.

May it die on the streets of Boise the way our rental Rogue did last summee

Favorite album cover is s no brainer for me. Pink floyd - the endless river. Came out about 2 years after my dad died.

I remember chasing the previous day and thinking of sleeping in my car near Pratt for a Saturday Kansas cold core day. In retrospect I regret driving home on the night of the 23rd.

James McCormick (@writersonthestorm) Weather Memory: February 23rd, 2007 How many times have I fallen. When I was in high school, I bought a CD of Jimmy Buffett’s greatest hits. I did not realize at the time that one of Buffett’s favor...

Storm chasing short: February 23rd, 2007.
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As I work my way through some of the MIT online math classes, I am trying to put together small blogs that relate the exercises and lessons to how a future meteorology student could use them. I get that professors have a wide range of students in their classes. I wish I had a little extra supplement

I wish I had thought of homework this way when I was a kid. Practice always made sense to me. Homework... did not, until I was in meteorology classes.

Sidewalks beside the park covered in snow

Bikes covered in snow

View down the steps toward the Conservatory Waters

Benches in Central Park covered in snow

Snow update from Fifth Ave & Central Park

I loved purple today!

Mike gisell, chucky hepburn, arop brothers, mitchell hahn

Jess shephard, brianna craig, taylor Kissinger, rachelle tucker, bridget arens (rip)

Lot of good dynasties:
Central, south sioux city boys
Seward, crofton, pierce girls

Upset: pierce beats 3-kissinger minden with that suffocating zone

A real thing that is actually happening!

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore: June 18th, 2014 Photography from around Madeline Island in Lake Superior on June 18th, 2014, a much warmer day than this February day.

Revisiting Madeline Island, Wisconsin in June of 2014 following this week's one-day opening of the ice caves around the Apostle Islands. Was a beautiful day that June afternoon to bike the island with @clarkevanswx.bsky.social.
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I read Starr Smith's book from our local library. He was around Stewart a fair amount during his military career and provided a really good insight into Stewart the military man.

I just read a book about Jimmy Stewart's time in the military, which included a real section about D-Day.

Stalingrad was fresh, whispers of German atrocities were starting to leak.

D-Day HAD to happen. I hope the movie emphasizes wx isn't about perfect, it's about helping get real things done.

Tornado west of Flat Rock IL yesterday. #ILwx

Won’t argue with those who think this is the best rap song ever.

So you want to be a snowfall forecaster:

This really came out of nowhere, have fun tomorrow Omaha

All of us who ran with him are still furious about that 99 match. But he has built a wonderful life of integrity and doing things the right, hard way, and he doesn’t look back. Just an incredibly inspiring guy.

But he definitely ran that Skutt kid off of the mat for three straight rounds.

First lightning of 2026.

My "activity-related tantrum" is also quiz bowl related.

I threw my hands up on stage and walked away when a future superstar meteorologist from another small town in Nebraska got a 10 point bonus question about Psalm 23 and "the valley of the shadow of ____". End of the season and I knew it.

That looks like rotation in the fire plume on radar to me.

Kendall DeJonge, Minden. First wrestler to win 40 matches in a year. His knees failed him, but he was virtually unbeatable when he was healthy. He was always in far superior shape to his opponent. Opponents would gasp for air outside the ring. Scholly to Iowa State.

Great guy & water scientist now.

The Apostle Islands Ice Caves of Lake Superior Hikers are able, for at least one day, to hike across the ice of Lake Superior to the ice caves of the Apostle Islands. What are these caves?

Talking about the beautiful Apostle Islands in today's blog. For today, and maybe only today, people can hike from Wisconsin across the ice of Lake Superior to see the ice formations in the caves of the islands.
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Yeah, that’s GICC.

I thought Jones, Young, and Biggs were all no doubters. Outstate vote really showed up this round.

I’ve never been a huge fan of”media is great” person, but the total demise of the industry and facts in general has been something to see.