Jami Boettcher
@jamiboettch
All about weather radar science at NSSL, keeping the research NWS-focused, and kindness ❤️
I doubt this little cloud is happy given the current heat index of 107. 😩
And since none of this is technically illegal (according to the grand jury), we’ll just move along…
To my younger colleagues: this is Routine Maintenance Graduate School. Surgery to correct severe arthritis at the base of the thumb joint. Yeah, it’s a thing. Ugh 😩 Hoping to post happy updates as I regain use of this hand!
You’ve motivated me to make another donation for these incredible people ❤️
Day 1 with more to come. Pause to consider the NWS forecasters doing all they can (STILL short staffed) for public safety. Dedication is deep, along with our EMs, media, and first responders. ❤️
Attention radar nerds! Spring radar quiz: Z upper left, SRV upper right, SW lower left, and CC lower right. See the white arrow pointing to an area of lowered CC. Is this a tornado debris signature (TDS)? Justify your answer please!
Happy Meteorological Spring* to all who celebrate. *I don’t know what the last 3 months was, but it wasn’t winter. Even accounting for the single interruption of snow in Oklahoma.
Still greatly recommend #EverythingWeather even when the forecast itself continues to suck. #MakeItStop 🤓🤣
Planes keep finding me. TSA & ABQ: living near airports on purpose. Back to Norman: east side, found out we got to enjoy flight line into Tinker AFB when north wind (sigh). Moved to southwest Norman, and we now have a parade of private jets heading into Max Westheimer on games days. 🤣🤓
This message is still so haunting to read. The TC equivalent of Tornado Emergency in its then unprecedented use. NWS stepping up to tell the story “this is the big one”. ❤️🩹
@hylandwx.bsky.social made me look 🤣🤣 So glad Erin is heading northwest. I’ll never forget what happens to our NEXRADs due to hurricanes. This one is KJUA thanks to Hurricane Maria 😢
Never get olds. Complete with noisy Oklahoma summer bugs. No, I don’t want to know which ones are making the racket 🤣🤣
Of all the graphics related to the catastrophic Texas flash flood, this guts me the most. A rainfall peak of almost a foot at the headwaters of the South Fork of the Guadalupe River. And this rainfall peak is just upstream of Camp Mystic. Rainfall maximum location, nighttime, holiday, etc. 😩😢💔
Pretty stout storm for ABQ. I hope the kids are out of the arroyos 🙏
May 31, 2013. Near miss mass casualty event. A study in storm and human behavior. Look at the vulnerability of all those people in cars. And now, we are more vulnerable than ever 😩
OMG, I will never forget (Sunday morning?) when you and others were learning about those losses. I still have photos from that awful day 💔
I can hear @coweatherman.bsky.social (among with the abundant thunder) telling me to step back into the garage this morning 🤓
Before looking at individual radars, the footprint of warnings is just jaw dropping 😳 Godspeed to so many 🙏
I noticed “gloppy” raindrops and couldn’t resist checking on the melting layer 🤓 Thanks CC ❤️