Kacie Nicole

An impressive view of the tornadic supercell that produced massive hail in Illinois earlier today.

A photo of the Chicago skyline at night with a tangle of bright lighting lignite gap the night sky during a thunderstorm

Boom! Had a great ight show over the skyline tonight. Here’s my first big lightning shot of the season.

This is a 2-frame composite. Best as I can tell, two large, branching bolts struck the eastern antenna mast of the Hancock. #wxsky #ilwx

Three spiky round chunks of hail and a measuring tape, around 2” each

LOUD

Photo of Atmospheric Scientist (me) accompanied by a camera man and film director doing an interview with Lake Tahoe in the background

Photo of snow sampling by a scientist with film director and other scientists standing in the background

9 year photo comparison of a scientist (me) standing on a cloud seeding generator at Ward Peak, NV

Three scientists riding a ski lift down the mountain at Palisades Tahoe Alpine

Yesterday's office - filming a German-language television documentary about cloud seeding in the western US with @driscience.bsky.social

a macros photo of a hailstone on the ground. multiple rings can be seen biting the stone showing where ice had grown

This was about 3/4." hail in Chicago. Thought the accretion rings in this split hailstone were pretty neat.

Had to do some sharpening because I was taking this macro shot quickly while trying to avoid getting pelted.

#wxsky

A large cone tornado sits in the background of a rural stretch of storage buildings. Chyrons showcasing radar information sit at the bottom of the frame

A snapshot of the tornado tearing through the NE side of Kankakee, IL. This image comes from Cory Gerkin's live stream of the ongoing severe weather outbreak.

Check out @Arab on YouTube. Doing good work. RIP king Bordain

Screenshot of a DJT "I did that" meme pointing at a tornado

Footage coming out of Union City, Michigan of the violent tornado that just hit the area.

The lake seen in this clip is frozen.

Footage provided by @WSLPIG on X.

#severewx #wxsky

I can't believe I've only eaten 2 hotdogs so far this year

Photograph of a dramatic pancake-stack layered supercell thunderstorm with multiple bright lightning bolts striking the surface around the impressive towering updraft looming over a rural landscape. In contrast to the illuminated cloud structure, a deep blue starry night sky is visible on the left.

The first photo I captured of the 9-23-23 Ada, OK supercell (after a few test shots). Yes, all three lightning strikes were captured in a single image! From my distant vantage point, this intricately-structured supercell gracefully danced under a sky full of stars with unmatched beauty. #Photography

THESE ARE NOT AURORAS: Montana is a good place to see auroras, so on Feb 17th when Jane Horton of Helena MT saw towering lights in the night sky. "Are these auroras?" Not exactly. These are light pillars caused by city lights shining into freezing air. spaceweather.com/images2026/2...

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NEW: The National Weather Service has confirmed that a 120-mph EF2 tornado touched down last night in Monroe County. https://fox59.com/news/indynews/ef2-tornado-confirmed-in-monroecounty/

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Thank you, Erin Moulton for sending in this photo. This is hail from north of Bloomington.

@cody.im

Beautiful von Kármán vortices whorl over the East China Sea.

This image contains the Day-Night Band (NCC) from the NOAA-20 weather satellite from 07:59 UTC on 2026-02-18.

The Ranger Road Fire in Oklahoma burns brightly at night among city lights.
Imagery captured early this morning by NOAA-20.

Redownloaded Duolingo recently and my doomscrolling is greatly reduced. Picked back up the Spanish and Korean lessons, and added Irish and Arabic to the mix.

Strong winds caused the Ranger Road and Stevens fires to experience rapid growth across the Oklahoma panhandle and into southern Kansas, seen this afternoon by the JPSS weather satellites.

The Ranger Road Fire, the larger of the two wildfires, burned over 15,000 acres today.

Today Israel murdered more children.

Hit with US missiles as they slept.

Israel still blocks all journalists from entering Gaza - they cannot allow the world see their barbarity.

Free Palestine

Oof...

halftime show

what a shot

Benito 💖

"Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be A Bad Person?" (Kaki King)

ICE employees vent on Reddit, saying they’re not getting paid and still no insurance despite promises

A scientist looking through a microscope

Tiny cells

The worlds smallest violin amongst the tiny cells

Abolish and prosecute ICE

Picture of a supercell tornado over the Atlantic Ocean

It's very likely that many (most?) strong cold-season East Coast cyclones produce waterspout outbreaks over the Gulf Stream. No doubt that this was a mesocyclonic tornado.

This happened 40 years ago today.

please move with compassion in how you speak with others as you see distressing information. bluesky has a tendency when news breaks like this to become an intolerable space where people yell at those trying to help them and be there. we need to hold space for community even as we’re in danger.

Muy mal (not, but ily Bad Bunny)

Noses are a lot