The demand is high for precise crop condition data! New article with Victo☈ Gensini, PhD, CCM, Walker Ashley, and AM Haberlie in Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment 🌱🏞️ shows that National Agricultural Statistics Service gridded crop condition data are a significant covariate of yield at the county level 🌽📈 Read more here: acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

The ICECHIP field campaign to study hail in May - June 2025 is considered flexible, allowing deployment and the collection of hailstones from Texas to Montana and east towards the Mississippi River, where terrain permits. Learn more🧊➡️ eol.ucar.edu/field_projects…

Just a boy and his pods…taking the office outside for ICECHIP prep 😎

The rare morning full rainbow from campus of NIU. Go Huskies!

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Hail yeah 🎾🥚🪙!! It’s a party at my place 🪩 🥳! Be there…or be a square (shaped hailstone 😁)

Major crop damage for apples in Henderson County. One farmer estimates over $10-million potentially in losses. WLOS

Literally every single day now, United States leadership in scientific research is being tossed in the trash like rotting food and being set back months, years, or worse. That power and economic engine is being ceded to Europe and China. An endless stream of devastating news.

The AP is tagging along with scientists from Project ICECHIP to chase one of the nation’s costliest but least-appreciated weather dangers: hail. It's rarely deadly, but it causes about $10 billion in damage each year in the U.S. Follow along for the journey.

The variety of hailstone growth regimes from ICECHIP IOP #20.

After 42 days and 15,000 + miles driven, #ICECHIP completed 24 IOPs across 11 states, including within 75 miles from both the Mexico and Canada borders. This totaled more than 10,000 hailstones collected by our teams while data was gathered on different types of hailstorms!

New BLOG post: gensiniwx.com/2025/07/we-nee…

NIU Weather Cams catching the shelf move across NIU this evening. We'll take the rain! NWS Chicago

Quoted in this piece from TIME with J. Furtado from OU. time.com/7302364/most-r…

🔥⚾️ MLB Pick of the Day Let’s go Ketel. He might just hit one out of the park. Show some love if you tail! ❤️