Cody K. @codykirkp@qoto.org

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).

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!

Today was a fun day in #e144 Extreme Weather (for those new: it's a first year university science course, for non-majors, where we learn about everything from hurricanes to blizzards). I showed several "tornado lookalikes" to help students distinguish between fakes and the real thing. Answer to this one is in the alt tag.

A photogenic 2.5 inches of snow fell in Bloomington this morning. Yesterday’s models indicated only a dusting, but expected totals went up over most of Indiana in evening model runs.

Tonight's national weather radar is full of activity. What's left of #HurricaneNicole is spinning in the southeast; rain along the cold front from Wisconsin to Oklahoma; heavy snow in North Dakota and Minnesota. And the appearance of nighttime bugs, bats, and other flyers across the southeast, too!

Today was a gorgeous day on campus. (Hodiaŭ estis belega tago en kampuso. #esperanto)

I downloaded an old piece of software (as in 1993 old!), and it had a tiny little text editor program included with it. When I went to search for info on the editor, what popped up? An article from PC Magazine in 1988 showing... the original assembly language code. Oh my. [insert old emoji]

It's not all exam writing though; there's also recreational #coding going on! Decoding some #json (in #perl) to create a no frills, no ads, simple text page of live sports scores. (Thanks to NatStat for the #data.)

Tonight I'm busy writing an exam for my Extreme #Weather class tomorrow afternoon, and I decided to use Friday's (11/11) forecast weather map for a couple of questions. With a tropical system & heavy rainfall in FL, and a big cyclone and a strong cold front in the Midwest, there's lots to choose from!

Will follow up my introduction with more over the next couple days. Here, a photo I took on holiday in May 2019, along the #PennineWay (somewhere between Marsden and Standedge). Didn't see anyone else for about two hours -- so wonderfully peaceful!