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CTO/Owner @weatherpulse.com Posts about technology, weather data and storm chasing.

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Being a business owner is expensive...
$1/check is a RIP OFF

26.02.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Girls Who Chase We inspire, empower and equip girls & women globally to pursue storms, the sciences and their passions – through the use of media, the creation of accessible storm chasing/weather education products &...

Details and registration available here: www.girlswhochase.com/radarworkshop

20.02.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Colorado River situation is a big f*ing deal, more than most people outside the West realize.

17.02.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
Elk eating grass lawn in Loveland, CO

Elk eating grass lawn in Loveland, CO

I thought the stupid Canadian geese were destroying my lawn. I guess I can be okay with the local elk herd being the responsible party.

17.02.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Being confidently incorrect is a character trait that I will never understand.

15.02.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Great shot neighbor!

15.02.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Leadership Transition - New Chapter

AllisonHouse.com is now WeatherPulse.com! Tyler Allison has retired from the weather industry and Ryan Hickman (CTO) has taken over ownership. See Tyler's announcement below.

www.allisonhouse.com/tyler_retire...

14.02.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
AWS S3 Explorer

Sorry, I meant unidata-nexrad-level2.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html.

29.01.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Removing the index.html makes it list some of the (oldest) keys. I suppose you could surmise filenames from that.
The index.html usually exists to allow browsing the bucket, like at unidata-nexrad-level3.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html but is obviously missing.

29.01.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hm, maybe those should be in RS

24.01.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Those stairs would kill me within 24 hours.

Not happy with the cold snap but damn do we need the moisture.

22.01.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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stumbled on this awesome DIY record lathe project via @miunau.com slyka.net/projects/rec... - see more on mastodon i believe - its by @slyka@pawb.fun

20.01.2026 16:33 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These radars output Level 2 data but there is no Level 3.
DTN may be able to use their conversion to produce Super-Resolution Level 3 but there wouldn't be a standard Reflectivity product.

17.01.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

KLQR (Larned, Kansas) METAR has been added to the database for our data feeds, including RadarScope and GREarth.

16.01.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like the MRMS PTYPE flag was used to type the reflectivity. I do the same but that product is garbage. Would love a mask that isn't just abysmal.

06.01.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Absolutely. Here's my GOES Full Disk True Color on a zoomable/pannable 3D globe using GLSL with raw data tiles (raw values baked into the PNG bands) as the underlying data framework.
I really need to get back to work on a quicker/lighter delivery method like GeoParquet.

31.12.2025 20:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Seriously cool project, Tim. Thanks for sharing. Between this and @stormscale.io's sounding plotter, there's lots of great capabilities in the browser.

31.12.2025 19:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm going to be disappointed if Xcel cuts my power :(

16.12.2025 18:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We use freedom units in this country.

But yeah, the "Mag:" line with "-43 F" indicates the Fahrenheit measurement.

12.12.2025 19:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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When someone has an aortic dissection, there is a 50% chance of them passing before they even make it to the hospital.

I knew the signs and still nearly succumbed to this 2 years ago after making it to the hospital. Please donate to the John Ritter Foundation!

my.onecause.com/fundraiser/o...

08.12.2025 19:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just opened the Music app and bam "Replay'25" splash page but it appears if you miss that, it's the first option under the Search tab as "Replay 2025" or also "Replay Your music story is here" on the Home tab.

03.12.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Glad to get RTMA, satellite, single-site radar and mosaic radar in a single native app for my @allisonhouse.com customers and RS Pro subscribers.

12.11.2025 17:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@brianemfinger.bsky.social

06.10.2025 21:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It was great getting to work with you all.

01.10.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The U.S. used to have 400-500 lightning fatalities a year. Globally, we see 24,000 fatalities a year from lightning - many of them occurring at sporting events.

Really shameful to see this on Big Noon Kickoff.

27.09.2025 16:08 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4
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A couple of cold air islands in central North Dakota and South Dakota

22.09.2025 18:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I wondered about the 1626Z cutoff.

...GOES-19 YAW FLIP MANEUVER - DATA OUTAGE...

NESDIS's planned GOES-19 Yaw Flip maneuver with an ABI outage
expected for 1630-1740Z has been extended due to an antenna
configuration issue that NESDIS is working on resolving.

22.09.2025 18:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 BREAKING: Charlie Kirk has been shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University. This heinous and vile attack is a stain on our democracy. Violence must NEVER be the answer to political disagreementsβ€”our strength is in ideas, not bloodshed.

10.09.2025 19:01 πŸ‘ 8878 πŸ” 1748 πŸ’¬ 1821 πŸ“Œ 257

Cancelling the next PAR R&D phase is nonsensical. PAR technology is our best candidate to replace our aging fleet of WSR-88Ds.

Weather radar is one of the most lifesaving and highest-ROI technologies our gov’t has ever supported. Scrapping next gen radar is pound-foolish w/o the penny-wise part.

27.08.2025 11:17 πŸ‘ 91 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

Xfinity has been terrible anywhere I go so that's what I figured. Just wanted to clarify :)

19.07.2025 20:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0