On way out to #TropicalStormZeta. Pretty eerie with an empty airfield. Let’s see if it’s getting stronger. Stay safe everyone. @53rdWRS

Off to mess with Texas 🤠✈️ We will continue our mission collecting data from #TropicalStormFrancine for forecasters from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Shoutout to everyone who works hard to keep our mission going wherever it takes us. #ReadyNow

Awesome day in Biloxi #Mississippi. Thanks, @oneyounglee, for your great hospitality at Ground Zero—& big thumbs up for all you're doing to revitalize city's historic downtown. 👊 Also great to see Hurricane Hunter @RyanRickert4. (Lunch conversation was Cat-5 hurricane nerdout.)

#Beryl continues to live on. 2nd to last @53rdWRS mission. Much better on satellite & radar. SLP continues to deepen & winds will most likely begin to increase during this mission. Wouldn’t be surprised to see it upgraded during this mission. #Texas

#Beryl is still packing a punch. We were stuck in the soup all day. Every radar blip in the northern half was rough. Went from an open eyewall to fully closed as it approached Jamaica with a really nasty NE eyewall. Got hail the last two passes. This thing is a fighter. @53rdWRS

Inside the eye of category 5 #HurricaBeryl, 4th mission from the #53wrs #wc130j. We will continue missions all the way until landfall and if it emerges into the #gulf we’ll continue until landfall again. Eye was pretty impressive stadium effect today at peak intensity. @53rdWRS

Here is a full list of all of the records Hurricane #Beryl has broken. Truly historic.

#Hurricane #BERYL is up to 145 knots now—earliest Atlantic Cat 5 on record. Next threatened landmasses are Jamaica (pink) & Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. But it's likely peaked & should be much weaker when it impacts these places. Not sure of my next move—thinking about it.

After #Beryl impacts the Yucatan Thursday night and Friday, hopefully as a weaker hurricane, more and more guidance starts to turn it north once it reemerges over the Bay of Campeche on Saturday. Even though some guidance has Beryl a TS at this point, some keeps it as a hurricane so the western gulf needs to be on alert potentially for the later part of the holiday weekend and early next week. Much of the future fluctuation and strength will depend on shear and land interaction, but we still have lots of warm ocean out there to keep it going or strengthen it up at times. Stay tuned!

Concerns about being trapped somewhere after a #hurricane do not factor into my decision about whether to chase. I've been trapped many times, & I go into these chases just accepting that's gonna happen. The single & only factor in my decision: my odds of penetrating the core.

Powerful #Hurricane #BERYL is racing W, toward S end of Windward Isles. Me: After days of obsessive deliberation, I've decided to hold off on this round & focus on next impact (Mexico or Central America). I'll sometimes play Island Roulette, but I like to go in with better odds.

Hurricane #Beryl continues to quickly strengthen this Sunday morning. The storm is now a very dangerous category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. Life-threatening winds and storm surge are expected in portions of the Windward Islands by early Monday. Latest at hurricanes.gov

TS #BERYL is closing in on Barbados (orange) & Windward Islands (pink). Likely to be a decent #hurricane when it crosses the islands Monday. Me: weighing my options. Ain't sold on any one scenario yet—& there are many. There always are with Caribbean Cruisers. The trick with these setups is picking the right penetration point along the conveyor belt.

Solar Eclipse seen from the International Space Station

From solar eclipse to Ocean Eclipse in one day! #Eclipse2024 #sunsetphotography #Dallas #delmar

The diamond ring effect at totality in Houlton, Maine! Cindy and I are emotional. It was so incredible and one of the most spectacular things I’ve ever seen in my life. #scwx #ncwx #Eclipse #Eclipse2024

Ended up being the perfect plan. Traveling to San Diego on eclipse day and picked the layover during totality. #SolarEclipse2024 #DallasTX

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:

Tropical Storm #Ophelia has formed off of the North Carolina coast - the 11th Atlantic named storm to form since August 20. The only season with more Atlantic named storm formations between August 20 - September 22 is 2020 (12 formations). #hurricane

Even though almost all of the ensemble blend members don't touch the USA, its all about the trends at this point versus actual individual operational model output. Therefore, lets watch how the some of these western players shake out. The farther west we go the harder it is to miss eastern North America. There is no reason to believe #Lee will weaken considerably over the next week.

#Jova Wednesday, September 6, 2023, 9:33 PM PDT: Jova is now a horrific category five monster with sustained winds of 160 mph moving NNW at 10 mph. This is the strongest storm on earth right now this is eerily, similar to Linda in September 1997 when she also became a category-five hurricane as well during a strong El Niño too. The water temperatures are running at 91 to 95° south of Cabo San Lucas right now which is fueling this monster. The trajectory of Jova does take her north into much cooler waters about 455 miles off of Southern California however because she is a category five right now our waters are much warmer due to El Niño. It’s something I’m going to have to continue to watch very closely into the upcoming weekend and early next week, for maybe more remnant moisture into possibly Southern California, and working with the monsoonal moisture into Arizona into Vegas, but this is again something that needs to be looked at very closely.