Weather nerd, foodie, and avid gardener. Associate Professor of Meteorology at Central Michigan University. | #firstgen | he/him 🏳️🌈 | Personal account: All opinions mine.
Jason Keeler
CMU and UIUC teams are near the IL/WI border for our second consecutive day sampling Lake Michigan's influence on thunderstorms using a Doppler lidar, two different radiosonde systems, and a mobile mesonet. Very interesting outflow and lake-breeze frontal structures observed so far!
Happy Caturday! 11 year old Merlin had a burst of kitten like energy playing with his favorite toy this morning.
The spring semester is almost over, which means it's time to get ready for giant pumpkin growing! These seedlings all come from 2,000+ pound pumpkins, so they have some serious genetics in their favor! 🌱🎃
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Looking north from Zion, IL at 6:17 pm CT along the Lake Michigan shore.
Another successful deployment - looking forward to digging into the data!
Reminder
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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NOAA GOES 18 weather satellite’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument detected the atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Artemis II Orion capsule over the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and southern California just before 23:56 GMT — too cool! #ArtemisII #NASA #NOAA
