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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
2 years
Watching the arctic cold front blast through at @NWSCheyenne . We could see the density difference via waves in the air as it crossed the airfield. Drop from 43° to 7° in 15 min. Instant drop into the freezer. #WYwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
How it started: How it’s going: No drifts 3-4’ drifts
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Jared Allen
4 years
Two distinct long-track rotational/shear tracks per NSSL MRMS across SE MS. These were likely strong to potentially violent tornadoes. #MSwx
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Jared Allen
1 year
Wow. A brief tornado/landspout was not on my bingo card driving home. CR 126 looking west towards Carr, CO. Taken at 5:48pm MT one mile east of I-25. On ground 1-2 minutes. @NWSBoulder @NWSCheyenne #COwx
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Jared Allen
7 years
Of course #NWAS17 had to pick a conference center with a pool in the shape of a slightly sheared cumulus cloud.
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Jared Allen
3 years
Snow & shadows beautifully accentuating the Front Range topography. Hello North & South Table, @CityofGolden , & Pike’s Peak. #WindowSeat #CO
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Jared Allen
11 months
That’s no moon..it’s a space station! Actually it’s @NWSCheyenne KCYS radar dome being lifted for the 1st time in 29 years to replace the pedestal (spins/tilts dish). Cool to see NWS’s hardware workhorse get an upgrade firsthand. Ready to keep watch into the 2030s! #WYwx #NEwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
Gorgeous convective sunset across the Colorado High Plains. #COwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
7/21/2020 - A day I won’t forget. From severe storms (ping pong hail at office) & getting news of my grandma passing away, it was a day. She was stronger then all the updrafts that have ever occurred.
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Jared Allen
3 years
Cheyenne, WY reached 70°F today. Broke the daily record high (64) by 6°F & set a new December record (69) by 1°F. Today’s current low of 50°F is +9° above the normal high of 41°. Since records started in 1871, Cheyenne has never had a 70°F day in December - until today. #WYwx
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
2 years
Severe warned storm with ragged wall cloud/updraft north of Fort Collins, CO with pronounced TBSS off KCYS radar. Up to 2” possible per @NWSBoulder . #COwx
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Jared Allen
3 years
Mountain waves aglow at @NWSCheyenne . #WYwx
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
5 years
It’s official - starting up a WSO in Crested Butte to supplement observations & provide IDSS. Who wants to join? USAjobs post coming soon
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Jared Allen
4 years
Took a wrong turn north of Fort Collins & ended up on Mars. #COwx #CameronPeakFire #ColoradoFires
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Jared Allen
7 years
Close proximity of upglide with an advancing warm front and sinking air on north edge made for a sharp altostratus line across south-central Texas. #txwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
The final @NWSCheyenne dig out is complete. After 12hr shift operations for 5 days, egress for all vehicles/personnel is now possible. We gained a new mountain range too. #WYwx
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
4 years
Golden lenticular fish jumping out of an almost frozen pond. #COwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
Vivid rainbow on backside of storms in north Fort Collins, CO. #COwx @CReppWx
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Jared Allen
6 years
Inland & river flooding will likely be a sig risk late week/weekend due to #Florence . (Subject to track/moisture convergence areas). NC has a top notch river flood inundation mapping system that started due to #Floyd in 99’. This is a site to bookmark:
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Jared Allen
4 years
The Day After Yesterday. First light around the @NWSCheyenne building. There’s a road there somewhere. #WYwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
The #CameronPeakFire made a HUGE 17 mile eastward run today due to 45-65 mph wind gusts. The current forward edge of this high heat section is now 5-6 miles west of Horsetooth Mountain Park & Lory State Park ( @LoryStatePark ). #COwx #cofire
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Jared Allen
5 years
Stunner of a colorful sunset along the Front Range. #COwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
10min time lapse (24sec) of the robust #CameronPeakFire smoke plume this morning. Fire is ~24 miles west of Fort Collins, CO. Note the changing light as plume edge waffles across the sun. @NWSBoulder #COwx
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
5 years
Here we go! Ready to stay over at the office tonight if needed. Latest forecast for Cheyenne - 12-16” with possibility of 16-20”.
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Jared Allen
4 years
Close refractions of the second kind! #COwx #FoCo
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Jared Allen
2 years
2 hours later from arctic cold front passage: Now -10°F, wind chill of -40°F, 30mph winds gusting 42mph, 1/4mi visibility, +SN, & blowing snow. Most impressive cold front I’ve ever experienced. #WYwx
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
2 years
Watching the arctic cold front blast through at @NWSCheyenne . We could see the density difference via waves in the air as it crossed the airfield. Drop from 43° to 7° in 15 min. Instant drop into the freezer. #WYwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
These jellyfish sure are getting big. #COwx
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Jared Allen
2 years
It’s snowing at #AMS2023 ! Snow will never not be cool.
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Jared Allen
5 years
When you’re coordinating a SVR Watch with @JaredGuyer at 1045pm in WY/NE - it’s going to be a wild night. 🔸41 LSRs (many sig hail/wind) of golf ball - tennis ball size & 77mph wind gust 🔸First time in career placing +TSRAGR in 3 TAFs. Twice at same site 🔶 90 DbZ Radar Z
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
1 year
KCYS shelfie from @NWSCheyenne #WYwx
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
4 years
Wow wow wow. Augmented reality 3D satellite data right on your phone. Hurricane Harvey in the NWS CYS Ops area! Excuse me while I issue a hurricane warning. (Actually worked Harvey when in TX) #NWAS20
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Jared Allen
7 years
Taking a sleeping bag & air-mattress with me to work as office starts 12-hour shifts. Could get flooded in/trapped at office. 🌀 #Harvey
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Jared Allen
5 years
With 6” on the ground & climbing, roads super bad, heavy banding moving in overnight, & day shift at 7am - here’s the sleeping arraignment tonight. #officesleepover
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
4 years
50mph winds, 3 to 4 foot snow drifts in the parking lot & a new 2-day snowfall total record of 25.8” at @NWSCheyenne . Snow & drifting continues with extreme impacts. Not going anywhere for days but with a great team for the long haul. #WYwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
The cars are one with the snow drifts & the snow drifts are one with the cars at @NWSCheyenne . #WYwx
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Jared Allen
2 years
Front edge of impressive dust storm along gust front over CO High Plains. #COwx
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Jared Allen
3 years
Humbly honored & excited to serve in this NWA role. Looking forward to working with the whole team! The NWA means so much as it opens mentorship, learning, & growth pathways. Ready to further expand these frameworks for even more inclusion, support, & connection. 🤝
@nwas
National Weather Association
3 years
🥁Drumroll Please... 🗳NWA Election Results Are In ✨2022 President-Elect is Christina Crowe ✨Jared Allen, Sam Ng, Kim Runk, & Melissa Sizemore will serve as directors from 2022-2024 👏THANK YOU to all candidates who ran for seats on the board & members who voted this year
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Jared Allen
1 year
Sunflower sunset sky #COwx #FoCo
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Jared Allen
4 years
Wouldn’t be 2020 without a QLCS survey for a possible tornado at 8k-9k feet in the north Snowy Range. Should be an interesting trek.
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Jared Allen
4 years
❄️ Reports of 6”-9” across town with 18-24 hours to go. Moisture conveyor belt pointed right at SE WY & NE Panhandle. #NEwx #WYwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
The #CameronPeakFire plume underneath altocumulus standing lenticular clouds. A bad combination indicating strong winds aloft that can (& are in this case) mixing down to the surface for extreme fire behavior. #COwx
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Jared Allen
3 years
Wildflowers, Cumulus, & the Tetons - the best Wyoming view. #Wyoming
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
7 years
CAPE & CAKE: Positive and uplifting
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Jared Allen
4 years
Holy smokes - this is terrifying. When a plume dominated wildfire can no longer sustain the smoke/particulate mass away from the main updraft - it collapses. Kinda like a forward flank downdraft on a supercell. #CAwx
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Jared Allen
2 years
Mountain Atmosphere 🤝 Wave👋 #COwx
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Jared Allen
5 years
First convective looking sky I’ve seen in ~6 months! Is it spring yet? #WYwx
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Jared Allen
5 years
Per historical IEM Cow stats/forecaster input, here is the seasonal hazard parameter space for Wyoming. Discussion/thoughts? In season of transition now: 🔥Fire Weather Watch tomorrow ❄️Winter Storm possible near Yellowstone (& especially MT) 💨High Wind Warnings soon
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Jared Allen
4 years
View looking east from HWY-85 & CR46 north of Torrington, WY. @NWSCheyenne
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
1 year
Looking south from @NWSCheyenne in the sunset light. Had pea/dime sized hail at office + quick 0.52” downpour. #WYwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
How it started (August 13): How it’s still going (October 17): Same fire. #CameronPeakFire #COwx
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Jared Allen
5 years
Extremely low visibility in many spots from blowing snow & near ground blizzard conditions in north Fort Collins. @NWSBoulder @NWSCheyenne #COwx #WYwx
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
2 years
Moose at Kenosha Pass, CO!
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Jared Allen
3 years
As Acting MIC, had the congratulatory honor of presenting retirement well wishes & commemorative frames to Rich today. Always quick with a joke & great w/office tours & teaching kids weather - he wrote his last AFD after a 30yr career. Thank you for your @NWSCheyenne dedication.
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Jared Allen
4 years
Got the chance to use frontogentic forcing, isentripic upglide, & synoptic lift in the AFD today for mesoscale snow band potential on Thursday. Exciting to be back on an Ops shift!
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Jared Allen
5 years
Not sure why #BagelGate got so outta hand from @AlekKrautmann . Dual-pol radar has been making vertical slices of bagel shaped hydrometeors since 2011. (But seeing this all go viral has been the best thing since sliced bagels)
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
4 years
She’s a beaut, Clark. #COwx
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
4 years
Can confirm seeing cloud to cloud lightning in the #EastTroublesomeFire plume driving from Cheyenne & Fort Collins. The Colorado Lightning Mapping Array (COLMA) is detected lightning at 8-10km altitude. #COwx
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Jared Allen
5 years
Wx twitter right now: 4 Cats in a symmetric circle. #Dorian
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
4 years
On a non-snow related note - 11 years ago, today, issued & verified my first tornado warning at NWS Action Jackson, MS. Issued at 314am & surveyed it later that same day. Ah, AWIPS 1.
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Jared Allen
6 years
Managed to get to CSU-Foothills campus/CIRA just in the knick of time for good lighting of the mammatus. #cowx #CIRA #CSU
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Jared Allen
6 years
I find it disheartening some of #wxtwitter is “sad” & “disappointed” in the overall low tornado count & SPC TOR watch count this year. One less tornado/watch means some factor less of psbl weather impact likelihood on someone’s crops, ranch, home, health, and possible life.
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Jared Allen
4 years
3 record breaking wildfires, all within 40 miles or less, all the same year: 170,163 ac - #EastTroublesomeFire 206,977 ac - #CameronPeakFire 176,878 ac - #MullenFire_WY ————— 554,018 acres burned 5.5 Denvers (City limit area) 2 Rocky Mountain National Parks 26.7 Cheyennes
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Jared Allen
3 years
🟩 More exciting news at @NWSCheyenne - in addition to our current SOO position, we have a general meteorologist position open too (thru 4/14)! Hiking, skiing, nearby national parks + innovation, research, & fun office camaraderie - all here! Be glad to chat/DM for any questions.
@amsbogm
AMS Board of Operational Government Meteorologists
3 years
This is no joke, the @NWS has a vacancy announcement for 32 entry level #meteorologist positions! Applications are due by April 14th:
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
2 years
Update: Down to 3° now. Drop of 40°F in 35 minutes. Over a degree per minute drop. Impressive.
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Jared Allen
2 years
Time flies when you’re having a blast! 15 years total with 13.5 full time. Still remember receiving my SCEP/Pathways letter in grad school. What an amazing, humbling, & growing journey with so many wonderful friends & colleagues. Thankful & excited for the next 15 & beyond!
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Jared Allen
5 years
Impressively defined downdraft & rain/hailfoot north of Fort Collins, CO. #COwx #nature @CReppWx @KathySabine9
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
6 years
Wild afternoon and evening shift with a very picturesque tornado north of Laramie, WY. Sadly, damage occurred & a survey is set for tomorrow for one of the weaker supercell dBZ structures I've seen while having a nearly 140kt GtG velocity couplet. #wywx
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Jared Allen
2 years
Cumulonimbus sunset progression reaching for the moon. Both reflecting light from same star. #COwx
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
5 years
Relentless 35-45mph wind & 5” fresh snow pack compounding snow drift heights all over Cheyenne, WY. #WYwx
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
1 year
So proud of @NWSCheyenne as this is the busiest we’ve been convective wise to-date. So many have put in extra hours, being selfless, looking out for each other, & going above & beyond for partners & the public. An astounding team & excited to be a part of it.
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Jared Allen
4 years
The tradition of baking cinnamon rolls when waking up to falling snow continues. #COwx
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Jared Allen
5 years
And two human types at conference networking events: 🤣
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
4 years
Wow. Like I’ve said before - TOP GUN level piloting skills. The scoop & drop are on point. 👏🏼👏🏼
@heli_CvP
Colton von Pertz
5 years
9.18.2019 | BRUSH FIRE AT THE SANTA FE RECREATIONAL AREA | Quebec-1 & Quebec-2 (the SuperScoopers) were on-scene with @LACoFireAirOps and @LACOFD . The fire was quickly taken care of. // @KTLA @WelkAviation @Sky5Tim
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Jared Allen
4 years
Storm survey at 9000ft now complete from last Saturday’s derecho event. Big thanks to @ChrisHammer1989 & @GRshaftedalways for all the help cataloging & navigating the rugged mountain roads. 🔘 Survey Link:
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
4 years
Subtle forcing + ~2000 J/Kg SBCAPE + 50-55kts effective bulk shear + High Plains magic =
@Dan_Fitts
Dan Fitts
4 years
#Tornado evolution NW of Hemingford, Nebraska earlier this afternoon @NWSCheyenne @RRNStormCenter @severestudios #newx
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Jared Allen
4 years
Was looking forward to running at sea level in New Orleans during #AMS2021 , but alas. First #AMSVirtualRun of the week! 4 snowy miles on the along the CO Front Range. #COwx
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
6 years
Well, he’s not wrong on the snowpack description. 🤣 Official report from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC)
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Jared Allen
4 years
These geese are painting with all the colors of the wind. Colorful mountain wave sunset from Fort Collins, CO #COwx
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@Jarallen
Jared Allen
4 years
Exciting but also important work with a joint EMA & NWS tornado exercise today. Awesome @NWSCheyenne teamwork putting the numerous injects together for a realistic (but hopefully not realized) scenario.
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Jared Allen
5 years
When iridescent saucers appear in the sky, the snow will be soon to fly. Farmers Almanac (probably not). #COwx
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Jared Allen
2 years
The @NWSCheyenne office issued its first known Excessive Heat Warning per the IEM database as temps soar near 110°F in NE Panhandle. Widespread Heat Advisories also in place today. Stay safe, cool, & take frequent breaks! #WYwx #NEwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
Can you imagine being a pilot of a wildfire fighting aircraft? Top Gun level accuracy & precision on these drops. #AlternateCareer
@dcsheriff
DC Sheriff
4 years
#chatridge2fire Crews working hard to keep homes safe!
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Jared Allen
3 years
Heavy on the earl grey & chocolate covered espresso beans. Day shift, followed by mission critical partner meeting then flip into a mid. But always exciting to diagnose the state of the atmosphere! Who’s up?
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Jared Allen
4 years
Quite impressive snowfall rates from the localized band over Fort Collins. Video taken at 12pm MDT. @NWSBoulder #COwx
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Jared Allen
3 years
Always get a window seat :) #CloudSurfing
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Jared Allen
3 years
Perfect sunset backlit towering updraft from the front porch. Bet there’s an overshooting top! #COwx
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Jared Allen
3 years
Professionally or personally, there’s few greater things in life than helping, supporting, & seeing others succeed.
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Jared Allen
7 years
Last mid-shift AFD at EWX. Of course it would be diagnosing & messaging upcoming storms/heavy rainfall hazard. Wouldn’t want it any other way.
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Jared Allen
4 years
The #EastTroublesomeFire plume is so robust that it tripped the KCYS radar from clear air mode (VCP32) to precipitation scanning mode (VCP215). #COwx
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Jared Allen
10 months
Loving these new elevation-based graphics. From wind to future snow events, we’re always looking for ways to communicate impacts better along high volume travel routes. Great teamwork putting these together.
@NWSCheyenne
NWS Cheyenne
10 months
15/405PM: Greetings! Attached are the forecast wind gusts for the upcoming wind event tonight through Thursday. High Wind Warnings are in effect for the wind prone areas, the Laramie Valley and Converse County. Be careful if traveling tonight into Thursday. #wywx #wyoroad #newx
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Jared Allen
5 years
Exciting day as 750-1000 J/kg & modest DCAPE formed well aligned cold pool outflows combined with steep lapse rates = horizontal corn stalks flying
@Dan_Fitts
Dan Fitts
5 years
Measured handheld anemometer 67 mph 6 miles SSE of Gering, Ne @KNEBStormCenter @NWSCheyenne #newx
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Jared Allen
4 years
Fun times changing out a flat tire on a co-worker’s car at -3°F. By far my coldest tire change (5 total). 50° would have been better but mission accomplished!
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Jared Allen
4 years
Quite the lightning show in Fort Collins. Some a little too close for comfort. #COwx
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Jared Allen
5 years
“There are no weather mistakes, just happy chaos theory accidents”. May you have happy clouds today & everyday!
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Jared Allen
5 years
Rice/pea sized hail along with lightning/thunder with the storm in north Fort Collins. #COwx @NWSBoulder
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Jared Allen
5 years
Sitting in a local restaurant & overhear a table nearby, “Winter is almost over, it was so sunny today.” Should I tell them March & April are our snowiest months?
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Jared Allen
6 years
Fixed the fridge screen display at Home Depot. #WRNAlise
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Jared Allen
3 years
Elk Mountain really bugling today. Gorgeous trek west forging strong partner connections & seeing windward orographic lift. #WYwx
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Jared Allen
5 years
Surfing down I-25 on a front range mountain wave cloud sunset. 🏄🏼‍♂️ #COwx #WYwx
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Jared Allen
4 years
Had a blast with @SteveGlazier at @WeatherNation today chatting about upcoming winter storm impacts, timing, & historical context. Thanks for inviting @NWSCheyenne on & sharing hazard information! #WYwx #NEwx
@WeatherNation
WeatherNation
4 years
We spoke with @NWSCheyenne warning coordination meteorologist Jared Allen about a massive snowstorm coming this weekend! Jared explains that this storm could be historic for the region! #WYwx #COwx #SnowStorm2021
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