@paige-ashlyn-h.bsky.social
wisconsinite, weather girl, metal bird enthusiast
I haven’t processed that such an amazing experience is already over 💛🖤
Paige’s SPOTTR review coming soon…
A topographic map annotating all the places SPOTTR traveled over the 7 days of the trip, circling westward from Indiana to Wyoming and back again.
#SPOTTR 2025 wrapped up its trip on Saturday!
Miles driven: 3,442.
Thanks to @paige-ashlyn-h.bsky.social for the wonderful graphic of our trip!
This is a dangerous lie.
30 of 122 WFOs don’t have an MIC.
NWS is famously flexible, but you can’t let 14% (600/4300) of an already thin workforce go - especially the senior staff - and then claim “overstaffing”.
You can only stretch a rubber band so far before it snaps.
“Our worst nightmare is that weather forecast offices will be so understaffed that there will be needless loss of life.” - Former NWS Directors, May 2025
07.07.2025 16:44 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A group of people standing in front of a trailer.
Departure group photo! Get ready, storms, we’re coming! #SPOTTR
29.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Three hunks of play dough on a table, with colors fading from brown to red to white in the middle.
A man holding up colored globs of play dough
A classroom full of students holding up globs of play dough
Today we learned about how radar takes slices through storm cells using colored Play-Doh (reflectivity isosurfaces) and plastic knives (the radar beam)!
19.06.2025 22:55 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Two people standing on grass holding a large white balloon
Skew-T log p diagram showing the thermodynamic and wind profile for the Lafayette, Indiana, area around 1500 UTC on 18 June 2025
Our #SPOTTR class launched a radiosonde this morning to help NWS Indianapolis collect extra upper air data in advance of today's storms! It was great training for our upcoming trip! Photo from @paige-ashlyn-h.bsky.social. #inwx
18.06.2025 20:19 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
