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! š±š
NOAA GOES 18 weather satelliteās Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument detected the atmospheric re-entry of NASAās Artemis II Orion capsule over the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and southern California just before 23:56 GMT ā too cool! #ArtemisII #NASA #NOAA
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Science is good. We should fund it.
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.