Alex Schueth, PhD

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

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Still working on it, trying to get turbulence handled well. I'll hopefully be presenting at the AMS annual meeting and maybe will try to throw some pretty animations on here before that!

Time-lapse of the arcus cloud that passed over Norman, OK this morning, as viewed from the NWC observation deck.

If it entices you: the essay prominently features a bonkers housing nonprofit called "Aspiring Anew Generation" that was almost entirely generated by ChatGPT and, shortly after their presentation at the OKC City Council (who voted to approve their involvement) was suspended on suspicion of fraud.

The latest eruption of Kilauea is underway, and she's shootin' sideways this time around!

USGS live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

This piddly downburst obliterated my pepper plant I've been nursing all summer long, and have been anxiously waiting to try. Some of the peppers probably only had 3 days left to ripen. 🤬

Unbelievable footage from NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters inside the eye of Hurricane Erin.

Simply incredible.

Was driving down 35 at the time. They had condensed wingtip vortices on some of the maneuvers. Was pretty fun to see them doing touch and goes at Westheimer

This is a remarkable image from the NOAA-P3 #Hurricane Hunters in #Erin.

You can actually see the wind speed gradient by the color of the ocean as you go from extreme #eyewall winds to the relative calm of the #eye.

Incredible images & data from @noaa.gov @nws.noaa.gov

I love that descriptor. I've looked for words to describe that and haven't found one as fitting as concrete. Also, despite it being very non tornadic, that is one of my favorite looks of a rainfree base.

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

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🌪️ 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
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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?...