Alex Schueth, PhD

I know salt is supposed to keep it safe, but do you pasteurize it at the end?

Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files Bondi told president at the meeting that Justice also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victims.

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

We are excited to announce the discovery of #GW231123, a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of two high-mass black holes to form one about 190–265 times the mass of our Sun

ligo.org/ligo-virgo-k...

#O4IsHere 🔭🧪☄️

I was torn on it. I was thinking it was written in a way that would be adapted for big screen pretty well, but yeah, I hope they get the CGI for rocky right.. I have some hope though, maybe it's just hype, but the trailer seemed well done!

YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer

Finally some good news

youtu.be/m08TxIsFTRI?...

🌪️ Tornado near Gary, SD.
Captured by MyRadar’s @jordanhallwx.bsky.social, this twister ripped across open fields on Saturday.

Single shot 70mm from yesterday. Ghostly. Etherial. And a photo I'll probably never be able to top!

Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25

Pretty good day over ranchland west of Wellfleet, Nebraska this evening June 16, 2025, think this tornado lasted an hour or so... #newx
with Juston Drake

Career tornado intercept just now Dickens Nebraska!

This is so very resonant with the philosophy seeping more every day into faculty affairs, and students are dragged into this same financialized logic that doesnt let them slow down enough to think vigorously. manganiello.social/objects/1bf4...

This Sunday, we collected a close range dataset of multiple tornadoes near Arnett, OK in RaXPol. Despite scrambling to find a position, we captured the debris cloud, a debris ejection associated with intense RFD, and surface-layer vorticity worms in the inflow and RFD.

Well that was fun, got great data from Raxpol on two tornadoes near Arnett, OK

Although I couldn't quite figure out from the satellite loop what the trigger for this was. Virga bombs from the initial storms?

YouTube video by tapao 2011 Lubbock dust storm "haboob" (full video)

Living in Lubbock for years, I'm not sure I agree. Any strong density current that picks up dust along the leading edge, making a 'wall of dust' I would think classifies as a haboob. Take this cold front back in 2011
youtu.be/2u50gcklmnA?...

You may have seen this news shared today and wondered why it matters. I could write a long report on the many ways Unidata impacts students, educators, scientists, and institutions. For brevity, allow me to share one small specific example that, until now, I have taken for granted.

NetCDF.

Unidata is responsible for developing, maintaining, and supporting software such as:

NetCDF4
MetPy
LDM
AWIPS2 Public version
GEMPAK
THREDDS

They also support realtime data access via a public EDEX server, THREDDS, and more.

YouTube video by Technology Connections Dehumidifiers are confusing. Here's why.

I wonder how much of the heat is from the dehumidifier alone. They are effectively space heaters when it comes to heating alone. Hopefully it dries up soon!!
youtu.be/j_QfX0SYCE8?...

YouTube video by Alex Schueth 4-24-25 Matador long-track tornado

Here a quick time lapse of the first 20 or so minutes of the Matador,TX tornado the other day. I love how the tornado carouseled around the meso multiple times!

youtu.be/O5S9Hqkkinw?...

2" report in Noble! I saw maybe 0.75" at my house

For sure and different microphysics produce very different results. It's rough.

That's a project I've been thinking of for awhile after struggling to initiate supercells for my PhD. Super interested and excited for what you find! Congratulations!

I northed the TTUKa radar data matching the ground clutter signals to features on the map, power poles, buildings, etc...

I think there may be an automated way to do this developed by someone here, but either way it can always be fixed for scientific analysis

Yikes, that sounds brutal. Aren't radar systems fun? Lol. We were actually doing a relatively slow rotation rate yesterday because we were capturing IQ data.

We weren't moving at the time, sounds like the strong winds can wobble the antenna a bit so the pedestal thinks it's at a different position than it is.

Yeah, the 4" in Moore a few days ago was catastrophic enough with a few lives lost....

To say that would've been catastrophic for Lubbock is an understatement. With little/no organized storm drains, the roads are used for drainage and it floods really bad with 0.5" of rain. Numerous lives and property would be lost, I can't imagine...

Another great day of #LIFT observations of a carousel SVC/vertical vorticity rollup producing some wild tornado dynamics. April in West #TXwx!

The Rapid X-band Polarimetric Radar (RaXPol) from OU'S Advanced Radar Research Center (ARRC) beautifully captured the tornado near Matador, Texas last night 🌪️

At it's fastest rotation rate, RaXPol can complete a 360° spin in just 2 seconds and a full volume scan in as little as 20 seconds! #txwx

Quick edit of a tornado NW of Matador, Texas, today. I made a poor repositioning decision earlier and was in catch-up mode the west side of it trying to get back in the lead. But I honestly really like the lighting while the rear flank downdraft was gracious enough to leave it visible. #stormchasing

Seining Season: Studying the Future of Great Lakes Whitefish Each spring biologists from the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) head out to the beaches along Lake Michigan to check in on juvenile lake whitefish. This popular, mild-tas…

GLERL and CIGLR scientists study larval white fish in the Great Lakes to try and understand why this popular fish is in decline. Just some of the work the lab does to help regional commercial and recreational fishing communities!

noaaglerl.blog/2025/04/24/s...