#Introduction Hi everyone! #Meteorology and #climate faculty member at IU. Originally from #Alabama. Spend a lot of time watching the weather. Recently gotten more into #retrocomputing (just bought a 486, first time since a teenager). Try to vacation in Ireland & UK every summer (header photo is the Antrim Coast), love country walks there. I remember the BCS era of college football, and run my own computer ratings.
@freemo You forgot the best part!
curl wttr.in/dfw
Supply it with an area for local conditions. In my case, I use an airport code.
Screenshot from MacOS.
A little gutted to hear that President Carter is in the end game of his time on earth. Very few humans are as good people as Jimmy Carter. Compassionate and a man of action.
It’s not widely known but during the world’s first nuclear accident, a partial meltdown at Canada’s Chalk River reactor, as a USNavy lieutenant, he descended into the reactor as part of the team shutting down the reactor. He had radioactive urine for weeks.
Another dramatic look at tiny asteroid #Sar2667 burning up near northern France, just minutes ago.
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RT @Faytuks
Footage from France showing the meteor burning up
Remember, in a queue, items go in the back and come out the front. With a llama, it's the other way around. #DataStructures #ComputerScience #llama #llamas #LlamasOfMastodon #llamadon #mnemonic #pedagogy #drawing
This is how much the tectonic plates shifted during the Turkey earthquake, the entire road moved. This photo was taken by Prof. Hasan Sozbilir leader of the ATAG research group currently mapping the surface ruptures. #TurkeySyriaEarthquake #TectonicPlates
Codebreakers deciphered century-old letters stored for centuries in French archives and discover they were written of Mary, Queen of Scots. It turns out she was "well-trained in the art of cipher by her mother, Marie de Guise, from a very young age."
My Ars colleague @jenlucpiquant spins a fascinating tale that nicely blends #history and #cryptology.
Lots of talk about the potential for a major Ohio Valley and Northeast snowstorm next week. While the track and snow impacts are still up in the air, it's certainly going to be very windy and then cold for a while after that.
Seems like a big deal that @Techmeme is now featuring Mastodons prominently.
Also a good way to find other journalists on here.
Thanks so much for the vote of confidence, @markstos ! Glad to be here.
QT: https://mastodon.online/@markstos/109535196511073407
Time ago, the now scary bird site, was useful for science, knowledge building, hazard communication, etc...
We wrote a paper on that: Rapid collaborative knowledge building via Twitter after significant geohazard events.
One of the final exam questions in my intro class this semester related to the big Gatlinburg fire in 2016. A home weather station that kept reporting right up until it melted away gave this final report.
- Calculate the dewpoint right before failure.
- Draw a surface station model (like it would appear on a weather map).
"Take a look around you, Ellen. We're at the threshold of hell." #ChristmasVacation #birdsite
Ok #mastodon, let’s show our true colors.
Reblog this if you’re a champion of the Oxford comma.
We’re officially friends.
Hey @indianaclimate , I’ve been meaning to ask you, what’s the first version of #matlab you used? I recently got 4 working on an old machine. Seems like you had to write almost everything yourself back then!
I always have mixed feelings about trans awareness week and trans day of visibility, because most cis people who talk about it go exclusively for the "you are valid" angle instead of the "trans healthcare has collapsed entirely and we need to do something about that" angle. Like I appreciate the first one, don't get me wrong, but sometimes it reads as a little shallow when you don't also talk about the second. You get me?
Home: Bloomington, Indiana. Work: Atmospheric scientist and educator. Enjoy: Sports, computer ratings, and rain. Goals: Peace, quiet, and a T1 line.