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Stu Ostro

@StuOstro

5 years

Who's that in the @weatherchannel video from 1991? 🤓🙂

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2 years

Mesmerizing, suspenseful satellite imagery of the life of #Ian From tropical wave to catastrophic to post-tropical #weather #meteorology

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2 years

Current size of #Ian 's eye and eyewall, compared with Charley's in 2004 when it was in a similar location approaching the coast #flwx

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5 years

Hypnotizing & horrifying -- from a shallow cloud swirl to the landfall of an extreme Category 5 #hurricane #Dorian

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1 year

#Lee 's life story, Chapter 1: From African easterly wave to sudden extreme intensification into a Category 5 #hurricane (wait for it)

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4 years

🌧️↓

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1 year

whoa #okwx

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3 years

I don't usually post imagery of high pressure systems because they're typically less visual 👀 than storms... but this über #ridge aloft has been the product of an epic case of "anticyclonic Rossby wave breaking" 🤓 and is responsible for the historic heat 🌡️

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2 years

❄️ The Band ❄️

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6 years

#Harvey #Florence #radar 100 hours

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4 years

Watch the 🌈 form

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3 years

#KonaLow ➡️ Pacific jet ➡️ catastrophic December #tornado outbreak

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2 years

Cirrus from #Ian flowing north over Georgia

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3 years

From tropical wave to Category 4 hurricane landfall #Ida #meteorology

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8 years

Sinister-looking face of #HurricaneMatthew at landfall in #Haiti [Un-doctored #weather #satellite image]

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3 years

My jaw dropped last evening 🌦️😍 #gawx

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3 years

The 👁️ of this beast and its roiling, supercharged eyewall. Praying for the safety of everyone in the path of #Ida .🙏

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5 years

Rocky Mountains to Atlantic Ocean

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6 years

Extraordinary #sunset w/jaw-dropping #mammatus Tue eve as severe storm approached #Albuquerque . Pano stitch accentuated the curves a bit, but the clouds really did look like that – in fact hard to do justice to what it was like to see this from N to S & horizon to overhead! #nmwx

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2 years

🌧️🎆😍 #nmwx

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2 years

👀

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3 years

Watch the wave emanating from the #HungaTongaHungaHaapai eruption initiate new convection #volcanology #meteorology

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4 years

The sun sets on boiling convection in the roiling core of #Laura , on this eve of destruction. It's going to be a long night and days ahead, and long recovery. Thinking of those in the path of this extremely dangerous #hurricane .

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1 year

#Idalia convective burst at sunset

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6 years

Wild #eyewall replacement in Super Typhoon #Trami

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2 years

Ferocious #Fiona , from the #Caribbean to #Canada

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1 year

Electrified hot towers around the eye of dangerous #Idalia

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4 years

#Delta from tropical depression yesterday morning to Category 4 #hurricane this morning 🌀

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2 years

🌧️⬇️

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1 year

16 days of the life of #Lee : Chapter 1: African easterly wave → sudden intensification into Category 5 #hurricane Chapter 2: Eyewall replacements and restrengthening Chapter 3: Expansion, post-tropical transition, and landfall in Canada #meteorology

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6 years

Wait wut? Looked to see where ex- #Michael was, and found that it and part of the morphed remnant of #Leslie have done a #Fujiwhara dance & merge. Yes, really >>

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2 years

whoa ⚡️ and that bolt was approximately 50 miles away #gawx

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4 years

Why I've been obsessed with #weather since I was an infant, this cloud yesterday being example # 827,091,011,091,461,719,750,814,199,411,719,978,181,917,121,819,203,091,946,316,194,850,114,530,747,393,493,264,759,067,043,431,090,873,645,178,398,630,807,256,362,848,475,912,171,958

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4 years

#Sally #Ivan

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5 months

What a week

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4 years

#Cirrocumulus #sunset !😍 #gawx

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4 years

#Atlanta missed the storms but got the #sunset ! #gawx

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5 years

Not every day you see a Category 4 hurricane and the shadow of a total solar eclipse passing by! #HurricaneBarbara #EclipseSolar2019

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5 years

Textbook #ExtratropicalTransition #Dorian

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3 years

#Larry 's core swirling & bubbling

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2 years

Was looking at storms to the east with the drone and oblivious to what was going on to the west -- then just happened to look around and oooh glad I did at the right time as the #sunset was amazing! #gawx

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7 years

>100 hours, >1000 images: #Radar of #Harvey 's extreme catastrophic rainfall

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1 year

Here we go -- rapid intensification now well underway in #Hurricane #Lee , and our first glimpse into mesovortices in the 👁️

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4 years

#Cutoff can be an overused/misused term, as there are many closed lows which aren't truly cut off from the jet stream -- but this one is textbook!

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5 years

Amazing evolution from upper low formation a week ago to quick development & landfall of #Imelda

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3 years

Was doing a drone timelapse with each image exposure at 1/500 of a second and the last one captured this ⚡ #gawx

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5 years

Was on my way to @weatherchannel this morning and looked up to the west and whoa -- had to pull over and get a photo of this #sunrise #rainbow ! 🌈 #gawx

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4 years

Deep convection boils, gravity waves radiate, and as the sun sets the eyewall is lit ⚡ #Eta #2020ing

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4 years

#Eta 👁️

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5 years

The sun rises on the core of the strongest northwest #Bahamas #hurricane in modern records as it inexorably spins toward the islands with its mesmerizing eye mesovortices, and now the catastrophic eyewall is onshore😰 #Dorian

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4 years

The first satellite view of the season of a spinning thunderstorm updraft, and wow

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5 years

The past 24 hours #SerialDerecho ()

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4 years

Took all day for the instability here to really be released and then just after #sunset the view to the east WOW ⚡⚡ #gawx

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1 year

Earlier today the core was actually looking a bit ragged... tonight, not so much... #Hurricane #Hilary

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2 years

😍 Those updrafts, that anvil #gawx

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3 years

#December 15, 2021

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3 years

So this is our view from the top of the #SandiaCrest #nmwx

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4 years

I began my career as a professional meteorologist 40(!) years ago this week, and back then could only dream of the #weather #technology we have now!

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4 years

View of storm sprouting this evening -- as Jackie Gleason would say back in the day, #HowSweetItIs !

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3 years

#Sam 👁️

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5 years

The inner core reorganizing and the outflow increasing to the north as the sun sets on #Dorian

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4 years

The sun sets on 2020

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5 years

Extremely rapid intensification of Super Typhoon #Hagibis in the western Pacific (loop is 24 hrs)

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4 years

😍 Beautiful sprouter! #gawx

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4 years

2020: The Year of #RapidIntensification

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6 years

Crazy collision/merger of MCSs (thunderstorm systems) moving to the east & west #WeatherNeverCeasesToBeFascinating

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4 years

#Weather #drone #photography on the #4thofJuly

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4 years

360° #panorama of this morning's epic #sunrise ! #gawx

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6 years

And at the end of the day, its structure resembles that of the tropical storm symbol

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4 years

Incoming❄️🧊🥶🌬️

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4 years

😍WOW the wave🌊 clouds over #Atlanta !

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4 years

The long, captivating, catastrophic life of #Hurricane #Laura -- from tropical wave over eastern Africa on Aug 11 through Category 4 landfall to merger w/a nontropical system & exiting the US on 8/30. [Change in appearance partway thru the 352 frames is a switch of satellites.]

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3 years

The long, resilient life of #Sam -- from its initial "tail" through peak intensity to extratropical transition/merger

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4 years

👀 941 millibar massive cyclone over the Pacific and its swirly core

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5 years

Fascinating merger of 2 MCSs into 1 swirl

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11 months

Well that was interesting #flwx

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3 years

Extraordinary view of the eruption of the #HungaTongaHungaHaapai #volcano 🌋 and its shadow

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4 years

Stunning #sunset on the edge of #Cristobal 's clouds #gawx

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3 years

#QuadState #supercell

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4 years

I usually don't use shouting caps but #Hurricane #Laura has RAPIDLY INTENSIFIED with this stunning outflow and is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS -- people in the path need to TAKE PRECAUTIONS NOW!

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5 years

#Dorian 's core has been pesky and resilient ever since it formed two weeks ago, and now north of 35° latitude it has become more solid yet again

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4 years

#Eta core convection collapse

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4 years

Need a peaceful distraction from #Election2020 ? Here's this evening's #sunset over Atlanta

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3 years

Was trying to come up with a caption but was hard to find the words to describe this magnificence 🌦️🌈 #flwx

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4 years

Incredible to see this -- while such eyewall structure & mesovortices in the 👁️ are common in very intense typhoons & hurricanes in the Pacific and sometimes elsewhere in the Atlantic basin, that's not the case in the NW Gulf & making a beeline for the coast #Laura #StaySafe

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5 years

Hour after hour after hour after hour after hour after hour after hour in the 👁️ #Dorian

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9 months

Lake-effect mesovortices are always fascinating, but I can't remember another sequence of them as amazing as this one... This radar loop is more than *30 hours* (0539z Fri to 1250z Sat) #weather #meteorology

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2 years

#ArcticFront #HereItComes

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5 years

What a wild & complex weather extremity—a 929 millibar beast followed by another meteorological bomb as the pressure of #StormDennis dropped to 920 (one of the lowest on record in this part of the world), & then the 2 combined into a massive cyclone while doing a #Fujiwhara dance

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2 years

That flareup of lightning in #Ian 's eyewall ⚡️

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6 years

We're used to seeing this type of spectacular imagery of mesovortices (typical of very intense tropical cyclones) spinning in the eye of W Pacific super typhoons; in the Atlantic and at this latitude not so much — a visual testament to how exceptional the threat from #Florence is

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6 years

#Mammatus and perfect timing of the back edge of the storms with #sunset 😍 #gawx

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2 years

Storm clouds over the #Atlanta skyline #gawx

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4 years

#Epsilon 👀

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4 years

Sunrise on Tropical Storm #Delta

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1 year

#Hurricane #Lee at sunrise/sunset today

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3 months

Sunrise on the earliest Category 5 on record #Beryl

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5 months

From cumulus clouds to #tornado outbreak via long-lived supercells

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3 years

The storm in SW metro #Atlanta this evening was lit 🌩️ #gawx

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4 years

So I was shooting a #drone #timelapse of this storm beyond the #Atlanta skyline, & captured something else.. Not #meteor , #cometNEOWISE or @Space_Station . That leaves plane or low-orbit satellite, illuminated by setting sun? Hard to tell what altitude is. Oh, and the storm is 😍

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3 years

That deep convective burst tho #Elsa

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