Lauren Pounds

The Oklahoma City Thunder are the 2024-25 NBA Champions!

Bloomberg article about the OAR cloud computing contract services going away. I talked about impacts on severe wx R&D in my Substack post yesterday.

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Relative Short-Range Forecast Impact from Aircraft, Profiler, Radiosonde, VAD, GPS-PW, METAR, and Mesonet Observations via the RUC Hourly Assimilation Cycle Abstract An assessment is presented on the relative forecast impact on the performance of a numerical weather prediction model from eight different observation data types: aircraft, profiler, radioson...

From knowledgeable scientists we’ve talked to, RAOBs have the second largest increase in error for upper air metrics when removed, behind aircraft data.

On average, losing RAOBs will decrease mesoscale NWP forecast skill.

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Latest shortwave IR satellite loop of OK...again, all of the black spots are wildfires.

That’s too close to tempting fate for me. Good luck to all tonight🫡

Can’t forget to check for tornadoes tonight

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.

NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

and this is an example of perfect message

He can sit on my computer all he wants because he’s perfect.

We have a new friend in our home named Gus. He is perfect. Please enjoy these photos of him showing off just how cute he is.

I should probably plug my own talk here. If you’re interested in severe storms and tornadoes in the Southeast US, come check it out tomorrow afternoon. #AMS2025

On track to see more snow from today-tomorrow’s event than my all time snow event record and I couldn’t be happier.

Oh it’s going to be a looooong day isn’t it

Even though Louisiana didn’t give us gumbo weather for Christmas (typical), the Christmas gumbo still hits.

Enjoyed sharing some of the (not surprising) preliminary results from the start of my PhD work this morning! Come see our poster at 1:15pm for the other part of this work! #31SLS

Lauren Pounds contrasting tornadic and nontornadic environments in the Southeast. Not surprisingly, the tornadic environments exhibit stronger shear and storm-relative winds. #31SLS

I convinced myself we were playing in the Super Bowl at our home stadium this season after those two games (so silly I knew better). This is just painful now.