Some of my favorite photos are in a previous post. Here, some quasi-random data posts that I saw out there, that I wanted to archive.
Temperature and radiation time series in Terre Haute.
Disruption of afternoon cumulus development in southern Indiana thanks to the eclipse.
A nearly 9 degree drop in Arkansas:
We had an 8.0 F temperature drop in Bloomington on campus.
Just a few of my favorite photos from April 8, 2024 in this post. Too many to really acknowledge, I know I’m forgetting several. Data in a following post.
Mount Washington — the difference between 99.97% and 100% is stark.
Comparison of 75% to 100% totality from Hunter:
Danielle’s photo is probably my Bloomington favorite of the day.
Arkansas:
Jack, from New England:
Rapidly-spreading fires, aided by wind gusts over 70 mph and relative humidity less than 20 percent, occurred on Thursday, December 30 between Boulder and Denver. Some of these images are harrowing.
As more images are shared, I’ll update this post. In a separate post, when time allows, I’ll save some of the meteorology of the day.
I’ve tweeted about that phrase a lot this week. “It’s a rivalry game, so throw out the record books!” and all its variations, in most cases, couldn’t be further from the truth.
Records of the favored team in rivalry games since 1995 are shown below; lines and results are from Odds Shark.
All games are alphabetical, just so no one gets peeved. 🙂 The favored teams have the worst results in Baylor/TCU, which may be because they’ve only played 9 times in those 20 years. For all the others, it is overwhelmingly true — on average 75 percent of the time — that the favored team wins.
(Disclaimer: results from this year are not included, since I just decided to do the post today. I’ll update it between now and next year.)
One of the highlights of my undergraduate synoptic meteorology course at Oklahoma was the first three weeks — the “all-star soundings,” our individual presentations of notable weather events which had classic signatures on the Skew-T diagram. Dr. Kenneth Crawford was one of the best teachers I ever had, and I loved this part of his course so much that I’ve kept the name and tried to carry on the tradition.
This post is simply a way for me to keep track of all the events I’ve collected on my “all-star” list. I’ll come back and add more as I find them, as people suggest them, etc. Don’t hesitate to submit your own: by sharing this list publicly I want to make it more of a community effort. Ideally, while the events from pre-2005-ish are good, there is much more data available online for those that are more recent; I’m most interested in those.
As of right now, the entries don’t have a common format–I’ll change that later. I might even add links. They are sorted only by date and season, the way it was when I was a student. Old habits die hard.
Cool Season Soundings
Warm Season Soundings