no snow here last night, but a mid-30s, overcast, drizzly day, on par with most of spring so far. clouds did clear some a little bit ago and we're in the low 40s, but I can't wait for some 50s!
not sure how many of you know about the ICECHIP hail research project this summer - a hail study led by CMU & NIU, with like 20 other orgs involved. I'll be going out to the front range/central plains for like 6 weeks this summer working on it. There's this website: http://icechip.niu.edu if you want to learn more, or feel free to ask me any questions, super excited about it
what a long night, insane wind gusts in IN/OH, with a 100mph report from the Muncie area. was posting warnings until like 2am for all the little 3 frame spin-ups in the wilmington area
Big swath of 75kt+ winds at 850mb early thursday AM on the latest HRRR, over western ohio. I'm thinking a moderate is coming at 1:30, probably for both wind and tor potential.
Probably thread worthy given the huge d3 enhanced covering a lot of the southern sub, and the slight risk all the way into MI. Interesting that the SPC keeps mentioning the significant hail probs as almost the primary risk with this event. Just rare to see this far east I feel.
I can start a thread for Sunday tomorrow if it looks to continue the uptrend around the area. Saw a gif of the GFS actually trending towards the ukmet solution which is concerning
It's the chatbot on Twitter ("x"), https://x.com/i/grok. Not sure if it's accessible without an account, but in my experience it's pretty similar skillwise to deepseek/chatgpt, although I haven't used it to do analysis on data like that.