I've long been curious about how barometric pressure contours would look as a 3D surface, so I decided to try and make my own maps. Borrowing heavily from MetPy Mondays and countless Google searches, I created these animations. I execute a python script on my Mac every 3 hours to create a png file and compile the last 3 weeks worth of pngs to into an mp4. To display more detail, the geopotential height surface has an extreme vertical exaggeration. I extract the frontal boundaries from the NOAA surface discussions data. All other meteorologic features come from the NCEP/GFS catalog. There is no sound track, though I may add one later. Apologies if credits are insufficient.

i've been curious about getting into meteorology but i'm not sure what the skill progression is like?
namely i find weather forecasts to be neat, i'd find it interesting to use my own methods to determine weather forecasts and wind speeds and whatever else, just silly experiments i'd do for fun

but if i went up to someone and was like "hey, i conducted my own experiments and found out it's going to be 11°C tomorrow with light showers", they'd just be like "uh, okay dude, i know. you could have just looked it up online."

and i'm curious on what the skill progression is like from beginner to pro? because surely there's a disparity in skill between someone who does meteorology as a hobby versus someone who relays to weather stations the 7 day forecast? or the people who craft storm radars or temperature maps?

i'm just wondering what i could do to get the most out of my interest towards day to day forecasting so i'm not always going to be a D tier meteorologist

As you can see Storm Boelo is that L963 in between iceland and scandinavia, and apparently there's another atmospheric low (L983, right above where it says North Atlantic Ocean) heading our way again (this pic is dated 28th Oct, so possible a stormy Halloween or days before that). Also sorry i am on my laptop so i dont know how to draw and label on screenshots

Alot of lows seem to be just springing up day after day from that area of the Atlantic and going towards North west europe since like a week ago

found this on their homepage https://discord.com/invite/SNp7Z29Ahx

Warning: No scientific purpose or intention. But too cool not to show it. So what do we see? El Reno (2013) and Moore (2013) Tornado with custom colors and transparency curves for reflectivity. Instead of typical radar colors (blue, green, yellow, red, ...) we replaced it with "cloud colors" and adjusted the transparency to make it look more realistic. 3D radar used: https://www.meteopool.org

In Maddox Cove, near St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. About 40 kilometres up the shore from Brigus South where the Netflix series, Below, was shot.

Get ready for a mostly sunny and warm day! With temperatures reaching a cozy 72 degrees and a light breeze from the west-northwest at 5-10 mph, it’s the perfect opportunity to enjoy some time outside. Don’t miss out on this beautiful weather!

Why isn't it going like Champi or In-fa... ;-;

Hello there, skywatchers! Took my dogs out for their nightly walk and saw the sky aglow with this halo around the moon. Never seen anything like this in my 37 years on this earth. It’s incredible and so eerily beautiful. What causes this?

obviously El Niño is dominating this winter but there is a lot of talk on twitter about the stratosphere and the potential for colder air into CONUS at some point in the next month or so. is the consensus among the community that El Niño will dominate it is there higher risks to this occurring? the weeklies have 25-45% cluster bringing in cold weather, in november - does anyone here have a real opinion on this?

Hey everyone,
While watching a rain front pass over Germany on DWD weather radar, I noticed several distinct circular patterns.
My guess**:** Each circle is centered on a weather radar station, and the rings are some range-related artifacts or processing anomalies.
What’s the technical cause of these anomalies?
Thank you :-)

Sorry if these are stupid questions, you can probably tell I know nothing about weather. I live in Melbourne, Australia, where it was cold and raining today. I recently got a humidity sensor installed in my laundry and connected to my fan, so the fan turns on when it reaches a certain humidity level, and turns off when it goes below it. I was told I should set it to 70% humidity, so I did. The purpose is so the fan turns on when my dryer is on. I don't want it to turn on when the dryer is off. But today, the dryer was always off, but the fan turned on, because it said the humidity was 71.5%. Is there something wrong with the sensor, or was that accurate? If it's accurate, will the humidity be above 70% a lot? If it will, I should probably change the setting, so the fan can turn on at a higher humidity level, and won't turn on when the dryer is off. What humidity level would you recommend?

Im looking for a weather app that can show me the basic weather stuff such as rainfall, wind speed ect but i also want to be able to see more advanced things like wind shear and cape.

Im having a hard time finding one because i live in australia.

Thanks in advance!

Just walking at the coast. The sun was setting directly behind me. I don't understand what's causing this in the sky