Fire temperature RGB satellite product from GOES-West depicting hotspots in the Los Angeles metro where fires are burning.

The Hollywood Hills fire is showing up on the Fire Temperature RGB product from GOES-West. Not good.


Went out on a limb and joined Team Trackball (Logitech MX Ergo) over on the weather computer, where there’s limited room for mousing anyway. Getting the hang of it, though drawing on the screen will take some getting used to. The precision mode is nice, though, and may help.


Ksox 20250108 0327 CC 0.4.

Just a casual 85 MPH wind gust earlier northeast of Los Angeles earlier this evening. Unfortunately, the worst fears around wildfire conditions are verifying here.


I’m “oh my god I can’t believe that amazing CSS property is so widely supported” years old.


iOS 18.2 seems to have nuked all of my iPhone-to-Mac notification settings. Ugh.


In the process of making Micro.blog the center of my slice of the fediverse by migrating my Mastodon account following and followers here. Pretty excited about this – ActivityPub gives us a standards-based opportunity to think differently and break old habits around how we interact online.


Folks, it’s The Holiday Season™.


If I ever find myself back in academia, this is how I’m writing my papers. Only way I can truly feel like I’ve achieved the “in-school” mindset.

A screenshot of Microsoft Word 97 running on Windows NT 4.0 within a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro. Clippy is swaying within his box in the bottom left corner, anxiously awaiting my next command.

I’ve not been paying much attention to Threads lately, and the growth-hacking notifications have definitely been picking up steam. If there’s one thing Meta knows, it’s how to sound desperate when you ignore one of its platforms.


Instead of sleeping at a reasonable hour, I’m considering consolidating my personal fediverse presence on micro.blog to get the benefits of using my domain. Will want to migrate my Mastodon following and the like. Probably worth investigating during my holiday time off. (NERD.)


Cracked open the chswxbot parser this weekend for the first time in a while. Starting to add some more metadata parsing for each product. This effort begins with the coastal flood products, hopefully making those automated alerts more useful.

I also need to do some better character-limit wrangling with the influx of folks to Bluesky. You get used to having 500 chars available here. (I’ve already baked in the concept of variable limits, of course, so Mastodon’s support remains first-class!)


Milton and I don’t exactly see eye to eye.


And so concludes probably the most head-scratching tropical storm warning we’ve had here in quite some time.


This long day of meetings is brought to you by Purity Ring and coffee.


My CoCoRaHS station recorded 61.37” of rain this past year, good for sixth wettest in Charleston County as well as in the NWS CHS CWFA. #chswx #climatology


‘23.


Never PGEN before coffee. #awips


Respectable elevated instability this morning from the 12z sounding from CHS supportive of some supercellular behavior if things really wanted to get feisty. Low pressure moving north of the area will move any severe threat with it, though. #chswx #fediwx

AWIPS II perspective primarily focused on the 12z sounding from KCHS.

Trying external display mode on my iPad Pro (M1). It’s interesting…though probably more of a novelty than anything else. Early days for windowing on the iPad, that’s for sure.


It’s above 60°, so the ice cream truck is making the rounds.


Very shallow wedge inversion on the way to being eroded on the 00z sounding from KCHS this evening. Looks like the warm front is starting to move ashore now; temperatures have risen a degree or two in the last hour.


Giving MarsEdit 5 a whirl from the new micropost screen.


I rescued my Tumblr account and unearthed this gem. A very young Charlie Brown, think he’s about a year and a half here.


So the Elon thing on the bird app seems to be going well. 😬


The first production commit to chswx.com in almost two years is a CSS fix for headers running into images. Look, it’s something. More to come.