Rob Carver

I'm happy to announce the launch of malpais.app, a free NEXRAD/TDWR radar viewer that lives in your browser. malpais downloads Level 2 or Level 3 data from NOAA's Open Data Dissemination archives and renders it in WebGL on your desktop or mobile device. For free.

This is what the MRMS tracks showed for the storm responsible for the TO.W for Santa Fe last night, along with the LSRs that were available as of Sunday morning. And here's a link to the scan starting at 0058Z right before the warning: malpais.app#v=3&s=KABX&m... #nmwx @granttosterud.bsky.social

Here's a meteogram of the ZiaMet station in Milan as the line passed through. You can see the pressure jump as the outflow goes over the station. I've been working on ingesting MADIS stations into malpais.app, click on a station and then meteogram to make your own.

How hard was it raining? Well, here’s a video of my downspout. #nmwx

Three-dimensional view of the splitting supercell over Grants, NM. The right mover split the difference between Grants Ridge and Horace Mesa perfectly. We got a lot of lightning on the mesa tops with this storm. Which is kinda rare for October. Made with malpais.app #nmwx

It seems that while I thought I was done with IVT when I moved away from WA, IVT isn't done with me.

This is the most infuriating part of data center and water discourse. Alfalfa exports use way more water than data centers, and no one cares.

So, my games are just a little old. I think the median release date is the 1990’s. my9games.com/en/s/56c7bb0...

Completely befuddled. Especially when I answer the question, “Well, how did you get here?” Letting the days go by…

In ye olden days this would be a gargantuan pair of county warnings including both Grants and Rio Rancho. Kids these days have no idea.

This is a really good paper and fits the strengths of the coding LLMs (independent oracles keep the agents in line). Whats going to be hilarious is when Reviewer 2 uses your toolchain to prove you’re wrong.

Just to add on to this, Malpais.app started because I wanted to see if using the ICDs, could Claude write a L2 parser. And now it’s my daily driver for keeping track of my local weather.

A brief word about naming conventions for Malpais.app. Though bodies of water are not currently labeled, the canonical names include the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. And my state is New Mexico. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Ooh, I’m retired now, so I can say that this was not great for the geosciences either. I didn’t understand how switching from a quantified metric with known issues to unquantifiable metrics that could be gamed would be an improvement.

This little pipsqueak made the first thunder of the day in Grants. #nmwx

I've heard reports of snow on Mauna Kea as #Lala passes through. This cross section of reflectivity from PHKM on the north side suggests that's it's snowing HARD. We now have terrain in malpais.app thanks to @mapterhorn.com malpais.app#v=3&s=PHKM&m...

RHI of the eyewall of TS #Lala as it's passing south of the Big Island of Hawaii. #wx #hiwx malpais.app#v=3&s=PHWA&m...

someone is gonna need to write this book

@stormscale.io Since there's a live Flash Flood Emergency, I thought I'd share how my app handles the IBW tags. Basically, Emergencies float to the top of the warning list and the borders are very thick. I'm open to suggestions/comments since I'm not a UX guru. malpais.app#v=3&s=KJKL&m...

I've added the TIGER road shapefile to malpais.app to help people track the #Spokane wildland fire. #wa #wawildfire #wawx malpais.app#v=3&s=KOTX&m...

One of the papers I was working on back in my Google days is finally out: High-resolution simulations reveal positive global warming feedback from Pacific low clouds | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

For my peeps still in academia, only 3 mentions of weather in the report and ZERO climate mentions.

Velocity/Reflectivity panels of the TOR warned storm near Munsfordville, KY. malpais.app#v=3&s=KLVX&m...

Now that TS #Bertha is active in the Gulf of Mexico, I've added some new features to malpais to help track tropical storms. We now have links to NHC products, tropical watches/warnings, and peak storm surge forecasts. malpais.app#v=3&s=KMOB&m...

Well, I'm under a flash flood warning thanks to the first storm of the day firing off of Mt Taylor. Look at how good the polygon boundary matches the precip extent. #nmwx Permalink: malpais.app#v=3&s=KABX&m...

Last night was some pretty bad flash flooding in Gallup, NM, the El Rancho Hotel reported 4 feet of water in the basement. The moisture is still hanging around, KGUP's dewpoint is a muggy 53F. This is the view I'm using to maintain situational awareness: malpais.app#v=3&s=KABX&m...

First monsoon season in Grants, and I’ve already got my first rainbow over Mt Taylor.

Monsoon thunderstorm near Mt Taylor at 237 MDT. Radar and photo are valid at the same time. Link goes directly to archived scan. malpais.app#v=3&s=KABX&m...