#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.
@chattwjonathan Thanks! All of my work was in thunderstorm modeling (and then a postdoc in Boulder, developing COMET modules), but teaching has taken priority over research since I got to Bloomington.
There's a really strong weather & scicomm community over at 'the other place'... am hoping some of them will consider migrating over.
@codykirkp I hope they migrate over too. I'm still in both, too many locals over there for now to let down the public. Probably in a few weeks I'll try to search out some of them too see who has made a jump, or at least waded in.
Love the Comet modules. I used to have a set of the basics of winter that I'd train my seasonal staff with but I've lost the list anymore.
Do you teach grad or undergrad? Do you teach thunderstorms/mesoscale or a bit more broad?
@codykirkp Hi from another Bloomington person.
I'm a software engineer, currently living downtown and working remotely at the Dimension Mill.
@bwbeach Greetings! I am much more teaching now, but grad school included a lot of code (numerical weather prediction & models of thunderstorms). Many of our big codes still run in Fortran; visualization has shifted from niche packages to Python for many folks though. Also a proud Backblaze customer.
Hi Cody, welcome to qoto. Nice to see another old-school guy here.
So I read your profile, you have a goal to get "a T1 line."
What?
@Pat Hi Pat -- the line "Peace, quiet, and a T1 line" was an advertising slogan for Laptop Lane, a series of pop-up business centers in airports back in the early 2000s. I've sort of adopted it as my life philosophy...but definitely prefer faster connections nowadays! 😀
@codykirkp - Welcome to the server, we can always use another met here. I'm operational for a trucking company down in Tennessee.
Did background work a couple years back for a couple of Mizzou grads on documenting Cold Air Damming in the Ozarks.
Only been in a couple of days and trying to add some daily US Hazard weather to my timeliness, hoping to get discussion and questions.