Sam Gardner

Just found out these two mobile radars (SMART-R) are being decommissioned and becoming museum exhibits. I had the honor of operating these for multiple studies during their lifetime. Got to be there for the maiden deployment in Key West during 9/11 and drive one from PHX to OUN.

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this bothers me an unreasonable amount. it’s called a VORTEX to take revenge I will from here on be calling the plural form “vortexes”

Big if true, & great use of AI! Microsoft developed an open-source machine learning tool, Probabilistic Bias Correction (PBC), to improve weather forecasts two to six weeks in advance. PBC corrects systematic biases in existing weather models, improving predictions of precipitation and temperature.

⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

HARVARD HAIL MARY AND LATERAL TO WIN

they’re making fun of our battered Aggie syndrome :( @sickoscommittee.org

Arky needs to be kicked out of the SEC. They can’t even beat us when we’re complete and utter garbage. Personally I’m all for geographical conferences. Long live the SWC! but if you’re going to insist on having two “premiere” conferences, two “mid” conferences and 6 “no one cares”, arky is mid.

we’re apparently at the point in college football where I’d rather derive a jacobian matrix than watch my favorite team lose (I am listening; we’re winning but it’s painful)

there needs to be an emoji that is widely agreed upon to mean “clanker”, to describe people/code/etc that depend on LLMs to function. Something like 🤖 but more derogatory

That's not what you want

Some lightning on tonight’s long run, which was more entertaining than the aggie’s radio call while we were getting demolished.

we lost, and we lost BAD, but I’m taking a moral victory in saying that at least we didn’t do this:

Tennessee grabs the onside kick

The Texas Rangers (to be clear, law enforcement, not baseball) are engaged in a criminal investigation into Camp Mystic and the tragic flash flood deaths there on July 4 2025.

everyone posting the new RadarScope update with the CarPlay support… I did it in 2021 via CarBridge (jailbreak tweak) on a screen that had backported CarPlay through the reversing camera input 😎 This worked better than you might expect, but still not great.

LUB continues Severe Thunderstorm Warning [wind: 60 MPH (RADAR INDICATED), hail: <.75 IN (RADAR INDICATED)] for Hockley, Lubbock [TX] till 6:00 PM CDT Link

bluesky needs a dislike button

literal lol

*all six cows and four people that live there, that is

new favorite website: nomeatproxy.com

I hate this sport. My heart rate laying on the couch has been over 100. We’re winning by 4 touchdowns.

Marcel needs to chill he’s too nervous

So what I'm seeing is Western Michigan > Oklahoma.

NSF is consolidating its geoscience research grants into a new program, GEOcore and reducing annual grants to $110 million total in 200-350 awards. Typical was about $300 million in 1,200 awards. Not including institutional grants ($1.3 billion/yr) and those may be gone. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

cloak and dagger navier stokes cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

I can't FanDuel imagine why Kalshi Michigan got a PolyMarket second opportunity there brought to you by DraftKings

It wasn't even particularly close.

Remember how power bricks used to be bigger, heavier, hotter, and less powerful than power modern power supplies? The SNES power supply can provide 8.5W and this much smaller GaN USB-PD can supply 65W, at greater efficiency. Well, the same thing is probably going to happen to grid transformers. 🧵

this is a bit disappointing, but I’m glad they tried

There has been a lot of finger-pointing in the weather community recently about NWS problems. The recent comms outage during severe wx spurred me to write about the issues the agency has - and the need to understand it's not just DOGE/OPM to "blame." balancedweather.substack.com/p/balancedwx...