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Patrick Marsh Profile picture
@pmarshwx
Sep 29, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Maybe I'll talk about how 9 year old me said I'd grow up to be the director of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center & then 16 year old me wrote in the KFSM Almanac I'd be the director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory or the Storm Prediction Center. #LivingTheDream Image
I was so young and naive back then ...
The real question is does anyone else have a copy of the 2000 @KFSM almanac or do I have the last copy in existence!

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Sep 22, 2020
I'm touched by the outpouring of support from everyone. It means a lot to a kid from fly-over country.

I'm tired. Between continuous telework as a supervisor and taking care of the tornadotots during the pandemic, I'm tired and don't have the mental energy ... (1/6)
... to deal with emotional responses to what I see on Twitter while keeping up with work and giving the tots the attention and love they need and deserve. And for those who know the real me, my kids and family mean everything to me. ... (2/6)
For example, as soon as I finished the earlier tweet storm, @tornadotot2 had a night terror and I spent the next hour getting him back to sleep. I then came back to "work" to put together various presentation that are to be given tomorrow. It's currently almost 3AM. ... (3/6)
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Sep 22, 2020
When I finished my undergraduate degree I was faced with a choice: go to graduate school and pursue a PhD or go to law school and pursue a JD. I chose science. (1/13)
I joined Twitter over a decade ago now. It initially served the purpose of promoting a stupid New Year's resolution to write a daily weather blog post to my website. (2/13)
My presence here has evolved. I have picked fights with others (including many in media) to make myself appear smarter and better ... only to learn from my mistakes and realize that I was stuck in an ivory tower. (3/13)
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Aug 4, 2020
The apparent collapse of the wind field as the center moved over the radar is amazing. Guess the hurricane is strengthening again!

Wait ... 😉

For those who don't understand what happened, Doppler Radar only "sees" wind components that are to/from (parallel) a radar. (1/3)
As the eye of a hurricane moves over the radar, the wind to/from component of the wind approaches 0, meaning the wind is orthogonal to the radar beam everywhere. This shows up in velocity data as a decrease in wind speed. (2/3)
As the hurricane moves away, the wind component parallel to the radar beam rapidly increases and the radar depicts this as a rapid intensification of the wind (which was always there, hiding in plain sight!). (3/3)
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Jun 25, 2020
Twister 2 should be about a former hotshot, arrogant severe storms researcher/programmer who loved to poke bears but ended up taking a job in middle management. (1/5)
Our first main character (let's call him Pat for simplicity) is asked by a group of friends to "chase the big one" since "NSSL is predicting an F5". He declines because he has to attend a budget meeting. (2/5)
At the same time, our second main character, a woman, does something similar with her group of friends to attend a faculty/department meeting. (3/5)
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May 23, 2020
I'm sitting in my living room and a commotion drew me to look out the front door/window. Apparently two birds are ... um ... doing what birds do in the spring. Do I just sit here? Do I leave and give them some privacy? It's my house, though ... And now one of them is cooing ...😳
Looks like they've taken a break and now sitting on part of the roof. But, man, the porch light is swinging pretty strongly. Image
Now @tornadotot is in her room singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and whether she intends to or not is serenading the birds ...
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Apr 11, 2020
Lots of interest in SPC categories today. Specifically Moderate being level 4 of 5, and not being "in the middle". A couple comments. (1/17)
SPC originally only issued categorical outlooks: Slight, Moderate, and High. Moderate was the middle category, where many now say it belongs. (2/17)
Starting in the late 90s and continuing into the early 2000s, SPC worked with scientists at NSSL to determine what the appropriate probabilities should be to achieve the different categorical thresholds. (3/17)
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