Happy Pride Month from OWL! This month, and always, we celebrate and are grateful for the members of the LGBTQIA+ community in our organization and in the atmospheric sciences as a whole! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Happy Pride Month all!!! We are dedicated to celebrating diversity in this organization and all our members in the LGBTQIA+ community. We are lucky to have members who uphold love and respect in our program and are great student leaders!
Where our photo contest winner would normally take place on our pages, we’re instead honoring 3 cherished students of the
@ousom
that we suddenly and tragically lost this weekend.
May their passion for weather live on in their memory.
#OU3
♥️
Big congratulations to our newly elected executive board for the 2023-2024 school year!
President -
@robbyfrostwx
Vice President -
@stratosarah
Secretary/Treasurer -
@weltywx
As Women's History Month comes to an end, OWL would like to highlight some of the women leaders that make our organization so great. Here's Amelia Urquhart!
The Oklahoma Weather Lab is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of three of our valued members. We cannot thank them enough for their many contributions to the Lab. Our thoughts are with our membership as well their friends and families.
The
@NWSSPC
has issued a (2/5) Slight risk for SE Oklahoma and a (1/5) Marginal risk across the I44 corridor. Main threats to look out for are wind, flooding, and a small tornado threat. See the thread below👇 for a more technical discussion!
As Women's History Month comes to an end, OWL would like to highlight some of the women leaders that make our organization so great. Here's Savannah Southward!
Next Thursday:
@OU_SCAN
and OWL are bringing back the Forecast Series, a multi session lecture series with speakers from all over the field of meteorology! Session 1 will be lead by
@chasetolive
, we hope to see you there!
Here is our
#SafePlaceSelfie
for today! The OWL Board took shelter in 1350 of the NWC which is our sheltering location! Hope you all have a safe place to shelter when severe weather strikes!
We’re happy to announce that OWL and
@OU_SCAN
will be hosting
@CameronJNixon
IN PERSON for our joint November meeting!!! Better yet, students who aren’t active members of OWL or SCAN can still attend this meeting for just $5. Put your hodograph caps on everyone!
Thank you to our friends at
@NWSSPC
and
@NWSNorman
for stopping by for our General Meeting tonight! We are so amazed at tonight’s turn out and incredibly fun forecast exercise!🌪⛈
The November
@OU_SCAN
/
@OKwxlab
Meeting was a hit! Thank you
@CameronJNixon
for teaching us about hail development and growth, hodographs, and storm behavior!!🧊⛈️🌪️
As Women's History Month comes to an end, OWL would like to highlight some of the women leaders that make our organization so great. Here's Emily Barbini!
Thank you to everyone who attended our first HOOT meeting! Stay tuned for new website updates and information about future HOOT meetings and office hours🖥🦉
Have you ever wanted to issue your own warning? Wonder how
@NWS
forecasters do it? Well good news, you can! Join us on March 29th from 4 - 7 PM in NWC 4890 as instructors from the Warning Decision Training Division walk you through your own warning issuance!
🚨HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
For the first time since 2020, Oklahoma Weather Lab forecast shifts will return to FULL CAPACITY!!! Put your forecast hats on and get ready for a hands on forecasting experience starting tomorrow!!🎉
The people have spoken! Congratulations🥳 to the winner of our April Photo Contest,
@VortexMavCam
! Check out her picture here, and as our cover photo for the rest of the month. Check back in before May for our next contest👀
#lightning
#stormhour
#okwx
#severewx
Huge thank you to Dr. Bob Palmer for speaking with us last night at the final OWL monthly meeting of 2023-24. Also congratulations to our newly elected Executive Board!
President -
@stratosarah
Vice President -
@jeff_tessitore
Secretary/Treasurer -
@MalachiBowen2
Big thank you to
@vmahale
for presenting at our October General Meeting tonight and teaching us radar applications for severe and winter weather!🌪️🌨️ We loved seeing all our members here today!
Summer Spotlight! *Thread*
Nash, our Director of Broadcast Media, is interning at CNN in Atlanta!
His responsibilities include publishing articles for , creating graphics, drinking too much coffee, and finding content for use on
@CNN
,
@CNNi
and
@HLNTV
.
Save the date: February 10th 🗓
is our first general meeting of the new year!
There couldn’t be a better way to kick things off than to be meeting with the one and only,
@Ginger_Zee
!
Note the earlier time, 3pm.
Can’t wait to see everyone!!
We had a great time at the National Weather Festival this year! Thank you to everyone who came for a tour of the lab and your support of the Hurricane Fundraiser!
A HUGE thank you to everyone who donated to our Fundraiser with
@OU_SCAN
and SAC for
#HurricaneDorian
Relief
As promised, here are the professors who got pied🥧 this afternoon :
What a wonderful way to end our general meetings for the year. HUGE shoutout to
@Jeff_Piotrowski
for the awesome talk tonight and thank you for the DVDs! Also thank you to all our members who attended!
#blueshed
Happy
#nationalweatherpersonsday
. Today we celebrate those who make up the community that constantly works to forecast and warn the public to keep people safe!
We’re excited to announce Dr. Matt Brown will be joining us for our first general meeting on September 12th! Come by to learn about his research on severe thunderstorms and QLCS tornadoes. Dr. Brown will also be giving career advice to up students and answering questions!
Congratulations to our May
#Photocontest
winner,
@tknep3
! Quite impressive that these auroras were captured in the Sooner State!
Thank you to everyone who participated!
#okwx
Congrats to
@jjhanestadwx
, our winner of the April Photo Contest! ⚡️👏🏼
We had lots of fantastic photos this month so thank you to everyone who participated.
#photocontest
Pie Fest 2022! Thank you to everyone who helped the Hurricane Relief Fundraiser reach over $3700, including our pie participants! We hope everyone enjoyed our student leaders and professors getting a pie to the face!
We are so back🔥 Join
@OU_SCAN
and OWL for session 2 of the forecast series! This will be lead by the
@NWSSPC
and focus on Hodographs and Supercells. See you all November 29!
As Women's History Month comes to an end, OWL would like to highlight some of the women leaders that make our organization so great. Here's Sarah King!
Big news!
@texasembassy
will be joining the Wednesday Night Shift this week to discuss his work in emergency management and operations! Come by the weather lab at 7pm tomorrow!
Our winner of the December
#PhotoContest
is Gabe Cenker who took this photo on Thanksgiving break in Florida!
Thank you to everyone who submitted a photo!
OWL Shifts start next Monday! We look forward to another year of great forecasts, learning experiences, collaborating with NWS partners, and so much more! Here is your shift leader line up for the Fall 2023 semester:
We are partnering with
@OU_SCAN
, OU SAC, and
@ousom
to support those affected by Hurricane Ian and Fiona❤️. If you are able, please donate here: and vote for who you want to see pied in the face!!🥧
We partnered with SCAN and SAC to put together this Hurricane Relief Fundraiser!!! If you want to see you’re favorite professor dye their hair, donate donate donate! We look forward to seeing the results!
We are so back🔥 Join
@OU_SCAN
and OWL for session 2 of the forecast series! This will be lead by the
@NWSSPC
and focus on Hodographs and Supercells. See you all November 29!
The decision is in and the call has been made! Here is your 2018-2019 OWL Board. President:
@Nolan_Meister
VP:
@mwxhitaker
Secretary/Treasurer:
@Rmacd24
Congratulations!
We will also be selling pride stickers at the Welcome Back Bash! All proceeds will go to local pride organizations in an effort to support our Norman/OKC LGBTQIA+ community! We’ll see you all at Reeves Park next Friday🏳️🌈❤️
A huge thank you to Bob Henson for joining us at our April General Meeting on Monday night! We had a wonderful time meeting you and learning about weather/climate communication!
We have an exciting announcement:
Our NEW OWL Board is finalized!
Congrats🎉 to all of our returning board members, and a warm welcome to our new board members! We look forward to another productive year
Our second General Meeting of the semester will be on October 10th from 6:30-8:30pm! Vanna Chmielewski, from the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), will be talking about her career path, research on storm electrification and more! Hope to see you all there! ⚡️
May’s photo of the month comes from Dylan Reif! His amazing picture of the OU Radar Truck in front of mammatus clouds will be on display for the month of May as our header. Nice shot, Dylan!
#okwx
Congratulations to the winner of our July photo contest,
@sooneremilie_wx
🎉! Check out her photo here, and as our cover photo for the rest of July. Great shot, Emilie!
#okwx
#mammatus
#stormhour
We are proud to present our August
#PhotoContest
now through July 31!
Be sure to reply to this tweet through the end of July up to three times!
On August 1, we will open a poll on Twitter for final voting, and our winner will be our featured banner for August!
#okwx
As Women's History Month comes to an end, OWL would like to highlight some of the women leaders that make our organization so great. Here's Rachel Emery!
Now that we're clear of severe weather, we can announce our winner of the May Photo Contest,
@robbyfrostwx
!! 👏🏼
Thanks to everyone who submitted!
#okwx
#photocontest
As Women's History Month comes to an end, OWL would like to highlight some of the women leaders that make our organization so great. Here's Alexa Dringus!
Make sure you mark your calendars for our October General Meeting next Monday, October 10, from 6-8pm. Come out and learn about radar analysis from
@vmahale
!
Summer Spotlight:
Tyler, a rising Junior member, participated in TORUS through CIMMS. His favorite part was watching his 1st land-spout 🌪 & learning about research from brilliant minds in the field.
He also completed his 7th swim season with the Sharks in North Barrington, IL
Designs so nice, we had to drop merch twice!
We're happy to bring some epic designs for the severe and winter weather lovers out there! Now through April 13th, you can buy from our store and pick between T-shirts, Sweatshirts, or both!
Summer Feature Series:
Elizabeth, our Director of Outreach, gathered research with
@TORUSupercell
!
#TORUS19
collects data from supercells to better understand tornadogenesis.
Her favorite parts: Driving the mobile mesonet vehicle and performing transects on the supercell
CALLING ALL OWL ALUMNI: We are putting together a presentation to celebrate OWL's history at our 25th Anniversary Banquet next month! If you have any cool pictures from OWL's past, please reply to this tweet with them or DM us to help. Thank you all!
Thank you
@KPegion
for speaking with us tonight! Your talk inspires all students by showing how career plans may evolve, as well as the incredible opportunities in sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting