Bus crashed into a fenced off area.
Having a university bus hit your meteorological research area due to a vehicle accident was not on my agenda for today.
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Bus crashed into a fenced off area.
Having a university bus hit your meteorological research area due to a vehicle accident was not on my agenda for today.
Students and professor installing weather instruments on a station.
Professor talking with a student using a laptop out in the field.
My university's marketing department came and took photos of my instrumentation class. Here are a couple of me in action. Be on the lookout in the near future marketing items from the University of Oklahoma with more photos of the class.
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Father and daughter watching Olympic hockey together.
Nothing like watching USA win Olympic gold with your daughter. Core memory created.
GOAL !!!!!!!!!!!
Picture of WFO followers focusing on a 67 region.
Sadly, my child would point out this one.
A text exchange between a child and parent.
This hits a little too close to home.
A room full of Girl Scout cookies.
(George Takei voice) "Oh, my!"
A truck full of Girl Scout cookies.
Anyone want any Girl Scout cookies? My daughter is selling again this year so she can spend a night at a museum. I love that she chose that goal. You can also find me at the NWC or go to digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/olivia...
Students installing weather stations.
A new year of Univ. of Oklahoma meteorology students learning to install, wire, and program weather stations in my course. This year the stations are built with the National Weather Center watching over them.
Camera notification of a "dark colored bear".
I got excited for a moment until I realized it was our black labrador.
A group of students in a classroom.
Packed house for the first day of Measurements class at the Univ. of Oklahoma. Record setting enrollment. Looking forward to teaching all of them the joys and pains of dealing with meteorological instruments.
Me standing in a forest with a weather station and Peruvian scientists and students.
Peruvian scientists assembling a weather station.
Had a wonderful day teaching professors, scientists, and students from Peru on how to build and deploy weather stations. This station was deployed to study the micrometeorology and soil conditions under cedar groves.
Me standing in front of meteorological stations out in a field.
Students installing a weather station.
Had a great day installing micrometeorological and soil stations at the University of Oklahoma's Kessler Atmospheric and Ecological Field Station with students and faculty. This is just the beginning of the suite of sites at the field station to collect data for current and future research.
Multi-year time series graph of rainfall from 2006-2025.
Another calendar year in the books. 2025 ranked 7th out of the past 19 years that I have been tracking rainfall at my house in Norman, OK, USA. A very wet spring was countered by the very dry fall and winter.
Multiple weather stations being configured in a lab.
Some days you are out in the elements and some days you are in the cozy lab configuring weather stations for an upcoming deployment. These stations will be part of a research micronet and also training for international partners.
Floor Rep at your Doorstep
Me being pied in the face.
Me all dirty after being pied in the face.
Had a great time being pied in the face for helping raise money for weather disaster relief in Jamacia and Alaska. What a great cause and excited to see students, faculty, staff, and others contribute to the efforts.
Kindergarten children watching a meteorologist on a video chat talking about hurricanes.
Had a great time video chatting with kindergarteners about hurricanes and the weather. They had some great questions and Hurricane Melissa is giving them a real-time demonstration of the power of a hurricane.
Model-T cars parked in front of the National Weather Service.
Breaking edge technologies in their respective eras almost 100 years apart.
My mind went to Dobby.
So a relative of mine is making headlines on all of the news networks right now. I guess I should turn off notifications on social media for a bit.
Please share and/or forward to anyone you think might be interested.
The School of Meteorology and College of Atmos. & Geog. Sci. at the Univ. of Oklahoma is looking for a Researcher with experience in field work and instrumentation. Message me if you need more information. Apply at the link below.
I had a great time this week talking with kids from three classes (Kinder, 2nd, and 5th grade) out in Oconee County, Georgia about being a meteorologist, fun weather information, and interesting places I have traveled doing my job. It gives me so much joy seeing the curiosity of our next generation.
Had a wonderful time talking to the amazing people associated with the Oklahoma Homeless Alliance on how they can use weather data to assist our unhoused population. They were quite interested in Wet Bulb Globe Temperature and its utility.
The answer is....and I am not kidding....two more corn snakes. My wife is going ballistic.
Giant wolf spider last night and a corn snake tonight found in the bedroom. What critter will join us tomorrow night? #CountryLiving
It was the AI response at the top of a Bing/CoPilot search. I guess they use the Prometheus model. Interestingly, I just redid the search and it comes up with correct information and sources.
AI generated response with the wrong information.
Swing and a miss on AI response to a weather history question on lowest mean sea level pressure in Oklahoma for March 2019. Another example for me to share with my students on using AI. It didn't even double check itself on units or reasonableness of the response.
