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JimmyC
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Atmospheric scientist. Ideater. Curiously Creative. Liaisoneer. @NWSWPC HydroMetTestbed Coordinator @ CU Boulder.
He/Him
#signaldetection #science #cats #birding
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Friends know me slightly well
Socks from vermont, that say they are slightly irregular. Very fitting
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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slow and steady down to 890s. love the eye orbit data!
tropicaltidbits image of the hurricane hunter aircraft observations inside the eye of major hurricane Melissa. station plots indicate derived surface pressures around ~895 millibars
October 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Cornell lab of ornithology!!
Lincolns sparrow, ruby and golden crowned kinglets, yellow rumped warbler. Wonderful Saturday tour
Cornell lab sign Sky views picturing trees and mackatel clouds Boardwalk path of tall trees, mackerel clouds. Listening to blackbirds
October 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Such color and texture
Cloudy crispy orangy texture to the sunet Orangy, crispy crunchy texture to sunset
September 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Gulps. Lots of sunshine needed
Picture of a yellow beer can labeled “sips of sunshine”. A fine liquid. Much happy.
September 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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long term weather change smokey moon
Smokey moon
September 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Ruby sure was thirsty today
Hummingbird feeder with its cylinder marked from 24h of feeding. A solid quarter to half inch has been consumed
September 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Good morning Ruby
Ruby throated female hummingbird flutters and eats at the hummingbird feeder Ruby takes a contemplative break at the hummingbird feeder
August 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Welcome back Ruby
Hummingbird hovers next to a red based feeder above a remnant butterfly bush stub on my back deck.
August 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Nice tiny swirl to the left. #mdwx
Dark clouds cyclonically swirling
August 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Beauty at Brookside Gardens
Butterfly atop flowers in the garden Sea of red flowers soaking up sunshine Sea of black eyed susan Perfect yellow petal flower with greenery background
August 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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this flash flood season has been crazy, and yet somewhat steady as it goes.
local storm reports for flash flooding from May, June, July to date. 6 big days with over 100 reports. flash flood warning issuance calendar, showing an intermittent May and relative steady June and juy to date ... 20-40 warnings nationwide issued per day
July 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Bats and bores
July 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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The optics were nice for a change
A rainbow glistens above a tree filled neighborhood, a secondary bow lurking in the background of the rain soaked area
July 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Finally catching up to my reading list after a stress filled hiatus
Klein: snapshots of the mind, book cover
June 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Got to swim with this guy unexpectedly. 11/10 highly recommend
Tired turtle on a beach taking a well deserved rest
June 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Nice bore.
Amplitude ordered bore from thunderstorm outflow over kansas
June 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Love the Ting.
I didnt know it delivered weather updates. Also can see the huge spike before power went out in the neighborhood.
Voltage time series from the Ting, pic from the app. Big voltage spike before losing power
May 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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impressive none the less
precipitation bounds for OKC starting march 1st of every year with 2025 outpacing all years to-date
May 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Yellow breasted chat. Audio, picture. Wow.
Then scarlet tanager. What a lunch walk. #md #birding
Yellow breasted chat. Chatting vigorously and wow
April 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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nice visual of where BWI sits in climatology, rock bottom...
BWI water year precip accumulation with 24-25 coming and going on record low precip
April 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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OKC, via IEM, going to higher highs, surpassing 10"+ in april
water year precipitation accumulation for OKC, 2024 climbing higher in the distribution after a 10"+ april, with help from large november precip
April 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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These foxes were out and about today
Mama fox ran away 2/4 kits were just looking around
April 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Sheep maintained Solar. #baahh
Low productivity sheep Higher productivity sheep
April 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Sculptured sky this morning
Cloudy with whispy wavy texture Zoom out of cloudy with whispy wavy texture
April 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM