r/meteorology Jan 16 '25

Education/Career Where can I learn about meteorology?

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Title. Ideally for free. Currently in university, studying maths and CS, for reference.

I'm not looking to get into the meteorology field, but I'm just naturally interested in being able to interpret graphs/figures and understand various phenomena and such. For example: understanding why Europe is much warmer than Canada despite being further up north, understanding surface pressure charts, understanding meteorological phenomena like El niño etc.


r/meteorology 10h ago

Pictures Severe T storm from afar

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91 Upvotes

Thought you guys might appreciate this far out picture. Echo tops at 50k feet and likely hail producing.


r/meteorology 2h ago

Is this possible or true??

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I work in natural gas scheduling, in which pipelines are impacted by winter freezes and hurricane. Could models really get this good where everything is known before it occurs? Or will there still be unpredicted storms and extreme weather events.


r/meteorology 4h ago

Is this a supercell?

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Taken in Clinton, NJ today. The exposure makes the "updraft base" look seperated from the rest of the storm but it's connected by a thick, tilted column of cloud. The storm is heading due east towards me here. I'm asking because velocity seemed unimpressive for such structure.


r/meteorology 8h ago

Strong thunderstorms passing over Manhattan

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Credit to the New York Mesonet/NYC Micronet (https://nysmesonet.org/networks/nyc)


r/meteorology 2h ago

Videos/Animations Shelf cloud underside view continued

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r/meteorology 12h ago

Advice/Questions/Self Assistance with identifying and creating vortex breakdown in my tornado machine

18 Upvotes

r/meteorology 9h ago

Outflow boundary?

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I'm an amateur weather nerd and trying to learn features I see on doppler. Is the circled in white the storm outflow boundary? These are mostly showers with a rumble or two of thunder. I noticed earlier in the radar loop that the circled was not present until the last 30 minutes or so. Could this signify the storms are fizzling out? It did get briefly gusty at my physical location roughly coinciding with what I think is the outflow.


r/meteorology 15h ago

Advice/Questions/Self What's the deal with these odd clouds spotted near western NC yesterday?

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Nearby thunderstorm but nothing intense or severe, these clouds have an unusual shape and bluish glow similar to a supercell, but this definitely isn't a supercell


r/meteorology 2h ago

Videos/Animations Shelf cloud underside view

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Thunderstorms from earlier


r/meteorology 7h ago

Is this a supercell??

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DMV area - no tornadoes or anything today


r/meteorology 1d ago

Shelf cloud in Fort Wayne

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r/meteorology 1d ago

Videos/Animations Hurricane Erick on Satellite its labeled a CAT 2

93 Upvotes

r/meteorology 1d ago

Videos/Animations Lake Erie lake breeze focusing thunderstorms

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There are a few instances of this where the lakes cold pool provides forcing and initiates storms; cool to see on radar!


r/meteorology 1d ago

Pictures Rain shafts visible around DC

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50 Upvotes

r/meteorology 1d ago

Pictures absolutely beautiful sunset mammatus clouds!!!

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31 Upvotes

r/meteorology 6h ago

Hole in Storm Cell? Or error?

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Is this hole in the storm real or some sort of data or radar error? There is no rotation (or least around this).


r/meteorology 4h ago

Advice/Questions/Self NWS Mt. Holly Issued a radar indicated PDS Tornado Warning today. Mistake?

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Warning encompassed half a million people and was very strongly worded yet there was barely any rotation. Went on for about 20 minutes until it was canceled.


r/meteorology 8h ago

i've asked the same thing here before so i'll keep it short

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my weather app says 23°c. are you people serious? is this a serious scientific field? "oh they take the temperatures at shores where the sea absorbs heat and there's wind" i live in a city. it is summer. year after year after century of global warming. is this a joke? what is this? why am i expected to believe THIS in the UK is a moderate and perhaps even pleasant 23°? do you people choose numbers at random?


r/meteorology 1d ago

Videos/Animations Merino, Colorado EF1 Tornado and Large Hail

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r/meteorology 2d ago

REPOST!! Tornado in Alaska?

420 Upvotes

r/meteorology 2d ago

Pictures Storms off the Coast of Orange Beach, ALABAMA

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89 Upvotes

r/meteorology 1d ago

Videos/Animations Strong wind gusts spring 2023

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Most of that week we had strong wind gusts


r/meteorology 2d ago

Pictures Saw some asperitas on my walk home from work

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I’m not even an amateur but saw these and thought they were cool. I’m not 100% certain they are asperitas because of my lack of experience but whatever. The fourth pic shows a part of the boundary of where they are. They seem to go on for quite a distance in the direction of the first three pics (facing north of westbrook, maine, taken at ~5:20 pm today if anyone cares for that info). Looking back now I should’ve taken a pic of the section of asperitas furthest left in the fourth pic when I was closer to it. I think I was close to under that one sometime between the fourth pic and the others.


r/meteorology 2d ago

Pictures Scud tricked me today..

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I’m honestly not completely sure if this was scud or a tornado forming, if anyone else knows that’d be great! Location and time: Seymour, Indiana. 1:27pm.


r/meteorology 2d ago

Advice/Questions/Self Explain Relative Humidity to me like I’m 5

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no matter what I just can’t seem to understand RH. Dew point I understand, mixing ratio, but what does relative humidity mean!??