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An impressive view of the tornadic supercell that produced massive hail in Illinois earlier today.

Piggy held like a baby by me, Tom. Piggy is a goblin like American staffy puppy with brown fur and a white spot on her nose, a huge underbite with visible lower teeth and huge outstretched ears. She is wearing a small pink harness

Piggy on a small bed chewing a pigs ear

Piggy wearing a small mortarboard and looking demure after graduating from puppy school

Piggy in her crate. She looks like she’s in jail and is expectant of getting out.

Introducing: Piggy

We’ve had Piggy since January, she’s an American staffy puppy who’s now six months old and she’s the most fucked up little rescue dog you can imagine.
Part of the paperwork we got from the shelter was just a sticky note with “brown. deformad face” [sic] on it

This needs to be immortalized.

Some really solid MCDs tonight

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IWX continues Tornado Emergency [tornado: OBSERVED, damage threat: CATASTROPHIC, hail: 2.50 IN] for Starke [IN] till 9:00 PM CDT Link

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IWX issues Tornado Emergency [tornado: OBSERVED, damage threat: CATASTROPHIC, hail: 2.50 IN] for Starke [IN] till 9:00 PM CDT Link

Skew-T and hodograph, with data tables below.

For those who are curious about the environment over Indiana, here is tonight's 00Z weather balloon from Bloomington.

3D structure of the tornado warned storm northeast of Peoria, IL. Core is pushing 50kft with another interesting low-level core based ~5ft. View is looking toward the storm from the south. #ilwx

1-minute Visible and Infrared images from @noaa.gov #GOESEast (GOES-19) included time-matched plots of SPC Storm Reports, showing thunderstorms that produced tornadoes and hail as large as 4.00" in diameter across northern Illinois. #ILwx

March 10 (7:30pm CT): It is already a very impactful evening of US severe thunderstorm activity. Several suspected tornadoes already reported, but what is going to really drive damage impacts will be due to hail.

Some monster hail reports already seen in TX, IL, MO, OK, IA.

More to come tonight.

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The Storm Prediction Center issues Day 1 Convective Outlook (Max Risk: Moderate) at Mar 11, 0:34z Link

estrogen is magic 🩷

A FIVE INCH HAILSTONE has been found near Buckingham, Illinois by senior meteorologist @matthewcappucci.bsky.social as he frolics through farmland.

This may be the state record if confirmed!

An intense supercell will continue eastward in a favorable environment for all hazards. A downstream watch is also likely. Intense tornadoes possible next hour or two. For portions of NE Illinois and northern Indiana

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OUN issues Tornado Warning [tornado: RADAR INDICATED, hail: 2.50 IN] for Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma [OK] till 7:15 PM CDT Link

this is popping off, damn

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LOT continues Tornado Warning (PDS) [tornado: OBSERVED, damage threat: CONSIDERABLE, hail: 2.75 IN] for Kankakee [IL] till 7:00 PM CDT Link

got visual on it from chasers, thing is big

Just your typical elevated hailstorm moving into Chicago where it’s 39F at the surface but with >1000 J/kg MUCAPE

Incredible super-res GOES visible satellite loop showing the W-E band of building towering cumulus along the warm front with thunderstorm initiation beginning in central Illinois.

we need the DHL Pride livery back on Palou's car more than ever, for the "Freedom 250"

The track map for the Freedom250 Grand Prix

I haven’t stopped thinking about this all day. I’m so happy the collapse of empire finally did something truly funny

Darren Rovell, tweet from 19 Oct 2016, edited to say “i feel bad for Indycar. But this is tremendous content.”

Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’ LOS ANGELES—Facing fierce backlash for remarks deemed deeply ignorant by devoted fans, actor Timothée Chalamet came under fire Monday for dismissive comments about traditional Japanese bunraku puppetr...

“I never want to end up in a position where I’m one of the Ningyōzukai manipulating the arms and legs of this puppet that frankly hasn’t been relevant since the early 17th century,” said the Marty Supreme star