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Blixtexperten. American Meteorologist. Manager of @Wisconet . Lightning Safety Specialist - @LtgSafeCouncil . Friend of the Show - @twcalexwilson

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

We're gearing up for the #Artemis launch on August 29! But wait, Chris, isn't this happening in Florida? In August? You know, a place that gets a lot of #lightning in the summertime? Yes, yes it is. How about a thread that has a bunch of stats and maps? ⚡️🚀🌕🧵 (1/12)

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Mike Massimino

2 years

There is a really big rocket on the launchpad heading to the moon on Monday! Go @NASAArtemis !! Go @NASA_SLS !! Go @NASA_Orion !!

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

This is the most incredible #lightning loop that I have ever put together. #HongaTongaHungaHaapai #HungaTonga #Volcano eruption today with nearly 400k lightning events in just a few hours!

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2 years

This is amazing. #BCstorm

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

3 years

Ok, so now that I've picked my jaw up off the ground... Yesterday was a terrible #pyroCB #lightning event in #BCwx and into #ABwx . Between 3pm June 30 and 6am July 1 (Pacific Time), the North American Lightning Detection Network detected 710,117 total lightning events.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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Incredible shot of lightning hitting a Boeing 787 in the Seattle area this afternoon. You can clearly see how the lightning enters the plane at the nose and exits near the tail. The electricity travels through the shell of the plane and keeps passengers safe.

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Michael Snyder

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Can you see the plane just below the clouds? Direct Hit on an A380 out of SeaTac. If you were in the South Puget Sound at about 4:45pm, this is what you heard #wawx #Lightning #thunderstorm

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2 years

The multiple MCSes yesterday produced a ton of #lightning - more than 1.7 million events detected by the National Lightning Detection Network. This is in the top-10% of lightning events that occur each year.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

I've been analyzing the data and this area has a risk for severe weather this spring.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

11 months

Hey @RedRocksCO , how about working with those of us in the event/weather safety communities to ensure your weather plans are up to snuff. This was a well forecast event and there should have been no one in the venue after the lightning began around 7:15pm.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Here's the minute-by-minute #lightning data from #HungaTongaHungaHaapai #HungaTonga #Volcano eruption. At the peak of the eruption, there were 5000-6000 lightning events per minute being detected by @VaisalaGroup GLD360!

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

1 year

Life update: I will be leaving Vaisala at the end of March after 8 and a half years. I have accepted a position at the University of Wisconsin as manager of the new Wisconsin Environmental Mesonet (Wisconet).

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5 years

Did a quick search for #lightning within the orange box between noon September 18 and 10am this morning. Nearly 500,000 events, with most of those occurring since midnight. #HOUwx #TXwx #Imelda

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

3 years

BREAKING: Oklahoma has supplanted Florida as the #lightning capital of the United States, according to new data released today. Over the last 5 years, #OKwx has more total lightning per square kilometer than #FLwx . Find out more:

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

3 years

Early season #snow at the Lower Falls of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone #WYwx @YellowstoneNPS

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Almost 1000 #lightning events detected by the National Lightning Detection Network in the last hour in the eyewall of #Ian .

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

5 years

I've always found #volcanoes and #lightning to be fascinating - that #Krakatau / #Krakatoa has been producing volcanic lightning for nearly 24 hours and in these quantities is nothing short of amazing to me.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

9 months

I’ve been watching radar for a long time…this is one of the top offerings for inland hurricane I’ve ever seen. And that includes Erin reintensifying over Oklahoma.

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Alexander Hall

9 months

Hurricane Ditka, as was foretold

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

8 months

Was someone at NHC not available CNN? Come on. Use people with expertise, not some dude who has a weather website.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Another quarter million #lightning events counted across the US yesterday as the crazy weather continues.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

27 days

Big difference in the amount of low-level cloud cover before and after the eclipse.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

The first #lightning in the latest #HungaTongaHungaHaapai #HungaTonga #Volcano eruption today was detected at 15:34:12 UTC. Since then, GLD360 has detected more than 86,000 lightning events. Rates are exceeding 10,000/hour - the most extreme I've ever seen!

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NWS Seattle

2 years

Meanwhile in the South Pacific in the past few hours... The eruption of Hunga Tonga in the dark of night.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

5 years

20 years ago, the storm that became the @RadarScope logo was born

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

18 days

There have been nearly 4,000 #lightning events detected in the eruption plume of Gunung Ruang since 17 UTC yesterday.

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INFOMITIGASI

18 days

Visual Aktivitas G. Ruang Malam hari ini. Teramati erupsi dengan bertekanan sedang hingga kuat dengan intensitas dan tinggi lk 800 meter di atas puncak kawah.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

3 years

Just truly extreme fire behavior in British Columbia today. 3800+ #lightning events detected by the North American Lightning Detection Network in the #pyroCB since 3pm PT. #BCFire #BCwx

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Just had this radar loop of #Fiona approaching and making landfall on the Dominican Republic shared with me. The country recently had a @VaisalaGroup dual polarization C-Band radar installed near the airport in Punta Cana.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

5 years

#Krakatau / #Krakatoa #volcano continues to produce significant amounts of #lightning 3 days into the eruption. Here's a full 3 day loop of the GLD360 detected lightning - absolutely amazing!

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Look, I grew up watching Bill Nye, but cold air squeezing warm air, gravity, and the earth’s spin don’t make hurricanes go brrrr. He shouldn’t be on @CNN or @MSNBC talking about this. We have legitimate experts in climate change and legitimate experts in hurricanes. Reach out.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

10 months

Video of one of the Elgin tornadoes from my parents’ neighborhood. #ILwx

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

5 years

Zoomed in view of what appears to be a significant volcanic #lightning event from #Krakatoa . Reports of dozens dead from a #tsunami caused by the volcano.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Total #lightning count for UTC day June 22. A total of 54,329 lightning events detected across California. The most in a single day since September 8, 2017, when 56,059 were detected. This is the 6th highest daily total since 2015. Unfortunately, 1 woman was killed. #CAwx

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

11 months

Besides #RedRocks being under a severe thunderstorm warning starting at 9:04pm last night, between 7:16 and 11pm, there wasn’t a single period longer than 5 minutes that didn’t have #lightning within 15 km (9.3 miles) of the amphitheater. #COwx @EventSafety4All @texasembassy

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

11 months

@theweathermanda @WestMetroFire Red Rocks is usually pretty good about advising people to get to a safe place, don’t know the full details here, but it was pretty apparent Red Rocks was in the firing line of this storm. And they were placed under a SVR at 9:04.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

#CAwx Since the lightning began last night, the National Lightning Detection Network has detected more than 25,000 total lightning events across California. According to my #AMS2021 research, this would rank in the top-2% of daily California lightning totals. #LightningSafety

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

1 year

Totally normal response to someone ringing your doorbell

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

1 year

Never never NEVER stop under an overpass during a hail storm, torrential downpour, tornado, or any other severe weather.

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Jen Walton

1 year

Yeah, so it’s hailing - a lot - 470 & 120th. Estimating the biggest here we’re about 1” (not getting out atm to confirm). ⁦ @NWSBoulder ⁩ #cowx

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

1 year

Sure did and it was a big one. #CAwx @GoldenGateNPS

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1 year

@COweatherman Did lightning just strike the south tower of the Golden Gate bridge? That'd be quite the photo!

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

1.5” rain! #COwx

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

4 years

Doesn’t happen often that you get all the symbols on the map

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

This seems high. Is this high?

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

The mesocyclone is the powerhouse of the supercell

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

1 year

If you happened to lose Hedwig at @DENAirport , I turned her in to the @United baggage service

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

3 years

I have never seen a forecast like this for a non-mountain, non-nor’easter event. And it goes without saying that I have never been in a forecast like this. #COwx

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

26 days

This really shows just how bright the sun is. Even with 0.03% of the sun showing, it is still quite light out.

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Mount Washington Observatory (MWO)

26 days

Missed the totality path by that much🤏 Our location still had great views of a partial eclipse with 99.97% of the sun obscured. While we remained in the light, the shadow of totality can be seen extending to the right of the frame as it passed through northern VT/NH. #eclipse

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

1 year

We want people to pay attention to what meteorologists have to say on social media, and then you have meteorologists on social media who find the most unlikely scenario and blast it out for the clicks. And we wonder why there is so much mistrust around science.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

4 years

“What’s your major?” “Meteorology.” “Cool, I love space.” “No, it’s weather.” “Are you going to be on TV?” “Maybe.” “Must be nice to be wrong half the time...” “Haha, haven’t heard that before.” “What’s the weather going to be like next month?” “I have to go.”

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Jess Phoenix, Lava Connoisseur 🌋

@jessphoenix2018

4 years

"What's your major?" "History." "What are you going to do, teach it?' "No, I'm going to make it." (Yes, my undergrad major was history.)

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

3 years

@KopelmanWX @NStewCBS2 About 8% of 2020's lightning occurred during the derecho

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

1 year

We need fewer Bill Nyes, Neil Degrasse Tysons, and Michio Kakus talking about science to major news sources. Being a physicist doesn’t make you good at geology or climate change. Media friends: reach out to scientists in the field you’re reporting on

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Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer)

1 year

So disappointing that someone as well-respected and intelligent as Michio Kaku would go on live TV and absolutely butcher this story to a massive audience This “Earth core stopped spinning” thing has become the biggest SciComm failure in recent memory

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

1 year

As I was telling some people yesterday, be prepared for people to be upset that this gets rated 4 because of building standards. There is also the likelihood that these towns didn’t have the damage indicators that could rate at a 5. But what really irks me: the obsession with 5

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Derek Ortt

1 year

EF4 was what I thought the Rolling Fork tornado would be rated as. EF5s simply are not given out these days, unless it compares to Jarrell or Joplin. This was what was said after the Kentucky tornado 2 years ago. Basically, it needs to be what Fujita would've rated F6 to get EF5

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

3 years

This is about 5% of Canada's annual #lightning in just 0.2% of the year! 112,803 events were classified as CG strokes, 102,848 -CG and 9,955 +CG. #BCwx #ABwx

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

To whomever needs to hear this: Climatology does not, will not, can not be used to pinpoint weather for any given day in the future.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

There are the waterspouts most people think of, generally produced under growing cumulus clouds, and then there’s this. This is a legitimate tornado over the water produced by a thunderstorm.

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James Spann

2 years

Remarkable scene at Destin early this morning… Video from @boo_freeman (IG)

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

3 years

Huge #lightning outbreak in convective core of #Ida in the last 30 minutes. It appears to be dominated by positive strokes, which is something we saw in the rapid intensification phase of Hurricane Michael.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Cat brushes against a Christmas tree: -ornaments shatter- Strong tornado destroys a house: -ornaments fine- It’s always remarkable the kinds of damage you see (or don’t) after tornadoes. I think that is going to continue to be one of the great mysteries in this field.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

4 months

Looks like @vaisalaxweather released the Annual #Lightning Report today and the National Lightning Detection Network detected 242,101,157 total lightning events across the United States. This is the most total detections since at least 2016 (which had 241,159,991).

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

4 years

Oh look. Earth is round.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

1 year

*clears throat* You’ve waited 12 long months, I finally set it free. You tell me, “I can’t lie, it’s the Vaisala Annual #Lightning Report for me.” All the lightning stats that are fit to print!

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Each year, one place in each state gets more #lightning than anywhere else. These are the lightning capitals. In 2021, @FlatoniaChamber #TXwx was the overall United States lightning capital. Where are the rest of them? Find out here:

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

4 years

@janinekrippner Combing two of the great natural forces of the world

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

What a poll

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

The National #Lightning Detection Network detected 10 CG strokes within 1 mile of Launch Complex 39B between 1:04pm and 2:17pm. Four of the strikes had high potential for damage to metal objects (like a rocket). #LightningSafety #FLwx (1/3)

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Nick Stewart

2 years

240FPS video of the strike to the #SLS #Artemis Pad 39B #lightning towers. Looks like they did their job, they took at least three hits from my vantage point. #FLwx @natwxdesk

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

5 years

If you had Northern Arizona for the first tornado report of the day, you win!

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Remember as we head into spring, there is a TON of freely available material developed by the NWS Warning Decision Training Division that can give you a refresher on severe storm meteorology. Check it out.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

6 years

The real life version of the comic..

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

6 months

Can’t convince me this isn’t the same video shown over and over every year

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FOX 11 Los Angeles

6 months

'Twas the traffic nightmare before Thanksgiving as commuters sat through bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 405 Freeway in LA

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

This was a 6-stroke #lightning flash that occurred at 6:49pm. Between 2010 and 2021, 289 cloud-to-ground flashes occurred within 1 mile of the White House, an average of 24 per year. #DCwx #LightningSafety

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Lindsay Watts

2 years

WATCH: Fox weather camera captured this incredible lightning strike around the time the 4 people were struck near White House. @fox5dc

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

If you thought WxTwitter was bad tonight…wait until tomorrow.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

3 years

#LaSoufri ère is also producing volcanic #lightning !

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

4 years

Tom Herman drinks orange juice after brushing his teeth

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Instead of taking my big clock off the wall to change it, I made a high resolution cloud-to-ground #lightning density map of the @WaltDisneyWorld area. This may be a first of it's kind and shows the most lightning prone regions of the property. Data 2016-2021. #LightningSafety

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Sounds like Splash Mountain @WaltDisneyWorld was struck by #lightning yesterday. NLDN detected two CG strokes at 1510 and 1517 UTC within a couple hundred meters of the ride. #FLwx

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

1 year

You have GOT to be kidding me. #FLwx

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Looking at the California #lightning data again as the storms taper off. Between 00 UTC June 22 and 13 UTC this morning, NLDN detected 66,897 total lightning events. 45,129 were in-cloud, 21,768 were cloud-to-ground. This is a bigger event than the August 2020 event. #CAwx

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

7 months

Another day, more ridiculousness. Just as NWS should review the ambassador program, they should review every chat user and remove people who are not legitimate EM/media users.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

We often talk about the “Storm Chasers” - the shoddy contractors who come in after a storm to try and make a buck. And then there’s this. Trying to make a buck off of people wondering if their house is still standing.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

We didn't just drive into a tornado yesterday, we broke traffic laws. The storm chasing community has too many problems to list.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Unless you have a PhD, don't include your degrees in your signature. Best Regards, Chris Vagasky, MS, BS, OMG am I right?

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

6 months

An extraordinary amount of #lightning in the 24 hours leading up to the landfall of #Otis . The Enveloped Eyewall Lightning Signature is readily apparent south of Acapulco.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

The #lightning in this episode of #HungaTongaHungaHaapai #HungaTonga #Volcano eruption wound down a couple hours ago. In the 21 hours that it was erupting and producing volcanic lightning, GLD360 detected 191,309 events. For context: Anak Krakatau 2018 had ~337k over 7 days.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

We don’t yet have enough information from the #HungaTongaHungaHaapai #HungaTonga #volcano eruption to know about its effects on the climate. We’re waiting on the data. I haven’t seen any volcanologists saying it was larger than Pinatubo. Don’t share misinformation.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

1 year

Personally, as someone who knows lightning...this looks and sounds fake. Lightning that close to the cameras would have completely saturated the audio and video and all you would have heard is a loud boom and the video would have been entirely blown out.

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Kyle Keefe

1 year

Wait a minute. Drew Brees was struck by lightning? Is this real? All the coverage I see on Twitter is in Spanish and I barely passed that class.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

4 years

Is it just me or do most derechos have this stinger as they get started?

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Looks like this plane flew right through the waves #COwx

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

9 months

If you don’t know Len, you should. She’s an incredible writer (has a book “Poyums” coming out even!) and educator. Now she’s helping drive awareness of climate change. @Lenniesaurus

@ClimateActFife

Climate Action Fife

@ClimateActFife

9 months

🚨 The climate is in crisis and it's up to us to act! 🌍 We've teamed up with @Lenniesaurus to highlight the need for everyone to work together to tackle the #ClimateEmergency .

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Chasers getting upset at me calling out illegal driving is all I need to know that I’m right.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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👀👀👀 so uh, this is a problem. Wonder which of the saving lives crew is trying to get an “impersonating a federal employee” charge added to their bio

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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It's true. ( @xkcdComic )

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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Bridges freeze first

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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18z up up and away

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

3 months

Is there a better feeling than waking up to an email that your article has been accepted for publication in #BulletinAMS ?

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

3 years

NLDN detected a very large +CG stroke near Dulles about 42 minutes ago. #VAwx #DCwx

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Capital Weather Gang

@capitalweather

3 years

Lots of reports of a BIG BOOM in northern Virginia. I also heard it in NW DC. Looks like source may have been lightning strike/thunder around Reston about 5-10 mins ago. Jason, CWG

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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ICYMI: NOAA anticipates making a decision on maintaining or replacing the WSR-88D in 2028

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

1 year

Buckle up, #wxtwitter …we’re going to be seeing our greatest hits in the coming days: * It shoulda been a HIGH * That shoulda been a 5 * Did you see the stupid thing Chaser X did? * Hey @ NWS check this radar image * NWS shoulda had a warning out 23 minutes earlier (1/2)

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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AFD from ⁦ @NWSBoulder ⁩ spitting facts

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

3 years

I call this “First snow in Yellowstone” #WYwx

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

4 years

Here’s an updated CONUS average #lightning density map showing total lightning from 2015-2019. An average of 216,978,014 in-cloud pulses and cloud-to-ground strokes detected by the National Lightning Detection network each year.

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Dr. Daniel Swain

5 years

Thunderstorms in general are much less common along the West Coast of North America than across nearly all other parts of the continent. Some parts of coastal California see one (or even fewer!) thunderstorms in a typical year. #CAwx (2/n)

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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#Ian is now at 155 mph and has the most electric eyewall I have seen in a Gulf of Mexico hurricane. This is more eyewall #lightning than Michael or Laura. The forecast has this storm larger and stronger than Charley at landfall. My thoughts are with the people of Southwest #FLwx .

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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The really unfortunate thing is that this could very likely INCREASE fire danger later this year. (1) Grasses and other vegetation that dries quickly will green up/grow more as a result of this moisture, leaving lots of dry fuels this summer.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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Our sweet Bailey crossed over the Rainbow Bridge this morning. I had her for 11 and a half years, ever since she was found on the streets of Norman on May 9, 2010. Our hearts are broken.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

2 years

Send some well wishes for this goodest girl. She’s suffering from anemia right now and isn’t feeling great.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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Dear people of earth, please don’t use gargantuan hailstones for margaritas. The ice really isn’t that clean and you could be missing out on setting a record!

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NWS Austin/San Antonio

3 years

After further review, the @NOAANCEIclimate has completed their report of the Hondo Hailstone, and we have a new Texas State Record for hail. Please see the final event write-up for more information. #txwx #Hondo #hail

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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#AKwx 13,603 #lightning events (8974 in-cloud, 4629 cloud-to-ground) detected by GLD360 during a 10 hour period in this unique North Slope squall line event on July 20.

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

4 years

Volcanic eruption at #TaalVolcano with AMAZING #volcano #lightning display. Remind me later to get counts. Data from @VaisalaGroup #GLD360 . #VaisalaDigital #AMS2020 @janinekrippner @C_MarieSmith @volcaniclastic @simoncarn @CorCima

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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But I, @ALNadoChaser4374 have been to a spotter class and have been looking at RadarScope for the last year and a half so I know far more about issuing tornado warnings based on radar

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Chris Vagasky ⚡️

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Incredible KH waves in Baltimore @brendonme

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