Just to emphasize how poorly hurricane & global models performed for Hurricane Otis... here's the intensity forecasts initialized 24 hours ago, with the dotted black line showing verification:

𝚆𝚎𝚕𝚕, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚠𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚝… 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚐𝚘𝚝 𝚊 𝚍𝚎𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚛 🤓… 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 🔥🌡️🥵 ✨𝙲𝚑𝚎𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚘 Emily Luschen , @atmo_blake , @mesoanticyclone , 𝚃𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚊, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸!!! ✨

Bill Wurtz's music is phenomenal and you can't tell me otherwise.

Grad school nightmares: Dreaming that you dropped your NAS on the floor while it was running (2 RAID mechanical Hard Disks). It contains all of your research and 3 TB of custom model output. #gradschool #wxtwitter

It is one of those days where hand surface analysis will be very helpful to our forecast process. Monitoring the status of the low-level moisture and developing secondary low across Illinois will be important today.

Little late on this but the KFFC 0Z sounding is cool #gawx #wxtwitter

Iowa makes ok burritos

I have never seen a more perfect supercell shape in terms of what you would see in a textbook. Absolute insanity. #wxtwitter

These are on the SAME STORM AND TORNADO. 2024 is not real

Nasty storm in northwest Georgia capable of 60+ MPH winds. There is frequent lightning and some small hail too. It has previously produced tornadoes as well, but rotation has since broadened. You should still be weather aware!

My long ass messages/emails to my advisor explaining every thought I've ever had vs. my advisor's responses

A first look at the last major hurricane to make landfall in Georgia... In 1898 (yes.. it's been that long). A nice 'first look' of WRF-ARW output for my Master's work here at UGA.

The Saharan Air Level (SAL) has been put on administrative leave.

Wow... Just wow.

Me, versus the guy she tells me not to worry about. #gawx #wxtwitter

Just zero-metered some brookies fresh out the oven.

Honestly the people on this sespool of app don't surprise me with their support of mass firings in NOAA. Remember, these are the same folks who get mad when a forecast 'busts' because a wedge didn't decimate a small town and kill people.