You know that person is a _true_ Doppler aficionado if their go to radar app isnβt a mosaic of all the radars but _single site_ Doppler
07.10.2025 00:02 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0@wjmadden.bsky.social
Meteorologist, retired hunter of hurricanes, aviation, board gamer, World of Warcraft (HuntsTheWind) CAUTION: by following, you agree to be subjected to random puns! All opinions are mine and mine alone.
You know that person is a _true_ Doppler aficionado if their go to radar app isnβt a mosaic of all the radars but _single site_ Doppler
07.10.2025 00:02 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Candle-gram!
06.10.2025 00:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He's also looking for who ate the rest of the strawberries.
In other words, he's gone Wouk.
That day is not today π
26.09.2025 08:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you like mixing Downton Abbey and board games, you definitely should check out Obsession - not the perfume, the board game!
boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/23...
The inevitable appeals will take a long time to sort out.
So the case has a fart way to go before it is resolved. But Iβm sure it will sort itself out in the end.
Be _very_ careful never to be caught in the dark with a grue jay. _Especially_ in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
You are very likely to be eaten.
Last year I spent quite a while listening to Mike Duncanβs excellent History of Rome podcast, which he recorded from 2007 to 2012. There were so many observations he made on how the Republic collapsed that felt _way_ too spot on to our current situation for my comfort level.
14.09.2025 16:36 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And thus ended Descartes career as a meteorologist. :-)
11.09.2025 04:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0More like βIβll save youβ¦in two weeksβ
07.09.2025 16:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And the same song provides a timely warning about democracy:
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?
To paraphrase Joni Mitchell, they paved paradise, and put up a rich man's club. π
07.09.2025 02:25 β π 36 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0Carpe fission - cesium the day!
25.08.2025 18:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you're interested in following the plans for the Air Force Reserve and NOAA Hurricane Hunters to fly into Erin, check out the Tropical Cyclone Plan of the Day at www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIAREPR.... It's published daily by 1830Z (2:30pm EDT), and details the plans for the next day's flying.
12.08.2025 13:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The statistical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season typically runs from mid-August until early October. And right on cue, TS Erin is headed westbound across the Atlantic.
To get the latest watches and warning straight from the source, head to hurricanes.gov.
Sharknado chasing comes with some risks.
09.08.2025 07:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He also was on Nantucket recently. Must be nice. π‘
08.08.2025 23:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π₯
05.08.2025 23:50 β π 2975 π 907 π¬ 48 π 36At the end of his post Kessler compares the Post to the Titanic and Bezos to the Carpathia. Wrong. Bezos is the iceberg.
05.08.2025 23:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I hear the Golgafrinchans are offering very attractive rates for spots on their latest ark.
05.08.2025 01:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"The Impossible Dream" will be the lead song in the new Broadway musical about board gaming, "Man of La Granja" :-)
01.08.2025 18:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.
01.08.2025 07:38 β π 22768 π 4328 π¬ 2032 π 518So _thatβs_ where my Magic 8-Ball went!
But in all seriousness science and scientists in and out of government are under assault by a regime that is the embodiment of Dunning-Kruger. The damage will last decades. π€¬
When I played a bard, I ended up becoming the partyβs βnegotiatorβ due to having the highest charisma. It got old after a while, so I switched to a monk who took a vow of silence. Problem solved! π
30.07.2025 12:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I thought Chronic Venous Insufficiency described a narcissist whose actual achievements fell far short of their opinion of themselves.
Oh wait - thatβs Chronic Vainous Insufficiency.
My mistake - but in this case I'd argue it's an easy to get the two mixed up.
There was also his bellhop, Tip Appreciated
20.07.2025 00:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yep - legacy media is now only interested in profits for their corporate owners, not in fulfilling their role of being the Fourth Estate.
12.07.2025 18:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Harry gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'War on Drugs" :-)
10.07.2025 15:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The relationship was an apostrophe catastrophe
10.07.2025 15:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If the GOP passes a law that makes weather modification a felony, where will they find handcuffs small enough to fit a butterfly?
08.07.2025 01:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0