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Aug 21 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Today’s #nwas22 keynote is “How to Weather the Weather” with our own @JaniceHuff4ny and @mikerawlins! Image
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“It’s about people.” #nwas22 Image
Huff: Success should not be measured by where you are but by who you are.” #NWAS22
Huff: The business is changing, and we have to evolve, bend a little, be more creative. Take what you know and do new things with it. #nwas22
Rawlins: It’s not about the money, even if it pays the bills. You have to make yourself happy. And if this doesn’t make you happy, it’s OK to find your happy somewhere else. #nwas22
Q: How do you handle social media trolls? Huff: I usually don’t pay them any mind. Think before I react. Lean on others & social media team in the newsroom for guidance. #nwas22
Rawlins: Over time, your viewers will step in and defend you. And sometimes if it was forecast related, I would go back and address the underlying comment. #nwas22

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Aug 23
While some of us are gathered here and online for #NWAS22, I wanted to kick off a conversation about how we use purple aka magenta aka fuchsia, especially in short-fuse weather warning graphics.

I'm concerned we're backing ourselves into a corner we don't want to be in.

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More than a few presentations so far this week have included images or video clips of tornado warnings or other short-fuse events (e.g. TOR or FF emergencies) using purple (or fuchsia or magenta, but I'll stick with purple for simplicity) as the outline or fill color.

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This is a marked changed from 10-15 years ago, when there was near-universal agreement on how we displayed tornado warnings: A bright, in your face, attention-grabbing red color. And that was for good reason: Red means stop, this is important, this is dangerous, etc.

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Aug 23
Biggest challenge next 5-10 years?

@NWSDirector - Shift to probabilistic
@Wxmanms1 - Climate chg; decisions at various timescales
@AlanSealls - Effective comm, serving the underserved
@CommDocPA - Evolving role of fcstr; vuln pops
@WxComm - Bombardment of info/data

#NWAS22
One problem where soc sci and met should work together?

GE: Defining impacts using data
KG: Getting out into comms & tailoring outreach
SJ: Partnering with folks who contact underserved comms
AG: Being intentional about gaps to get equal results
AS: Messaging

#nwas22
Example of where met & soc sci work together successfully?

AS: Panels like this, collab on surveys, etc.
AG: Co-creation in examples like HWT
SJ: Service assessments
GE: OU Wx & Soc survey, Vuln. Tool,
KG: That this conversation is happening at all!

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Aug 26, 2021
Now that I’m back home from Tulsa, I wanted to reflect for a moment on #nwas21, which was, to the best of my knowledge, the first open meeting in the weather enterprise with an in-person component in a year and a half.

TL;DR So much pride. So much gratitude.

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Over the last year, we’ve been watching COVID trends like everyone else. Two months ago, it looked like we’d have been able to have had a pretty large in-person meeting, potentially without many restrictions.

Then the variant-that-shall-not-be-named reared its ugly head.

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For the last few weeks, @JaniceBunting and I were talking daily, sharing stats, reviewing guidance, and so forth. That lead to more conversations with folks in Tulsa on case rates, hospitalization figures, and guidance from civic leaders.

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Apr 13, 2020
Hey, everyone - couple of quick thoughts about the severe threat around these parts.

Not much to say that hasn’t already been said - Storms are likely early tomorrow morning through midday. Can’t rule out something squirrelly overnight, too.

Bottom line: It’ll be active.

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Biggest threat will be damaging winds. Even what would normally be a garden-variety shower will be able to tap into winds and bring them to the surface.

Storms could also develop tornadoes, and unfortunately, the potential is for them to be strong.

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Even so, this event is one where you should treat severe thunderstorm warnings like you would a tornado warning. The stronger storms will be able to produce winds stronger than a weak tornado.

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Sep 13, 2018
Another day, another couple of totally expected track wobbles. Minor and not shifting impacts all that much.

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Florence is HUGE. Put the eye in Columbia SC and the cloud shield would darken the skies from Manteo to Murphy. Plenty of wind in there, but that’s not the main story!

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Yes, 40+ mph winds extend some 200 mikes from the center. And yes, the storm weakened in terms of wind.

But that’s not what Florence will go down in the record books for, friends. The winds will play second fiddle to the water - both storm surge and inland flooding.

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Sep 11, 2018
Late Monday thoughts about #Florence.

If you look at the NHC forecast, you’ll notice that the track has shifted to the east a couple dozen miles or so.

Don’t celebrate.

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The track has shifted, yes.

Here’s the thing: We knew this would happen.

And if history is any guide, it will shift again. And it could just as easily shift back toward the SW as it could shift toward the NE.

In fact, a 3-day NHC forecast has an average error of 120 mi.

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What’s concerning - and something the NHC has mentioned in their last discussions - is that the model spread has actually gotten looser the last couple of cycles.

As @gbfishel said at 10pm, we know less about where #Florence is going now than this time yesterday.

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