Pat Hyland
AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist (#771) | Forensic Meteorologist | Outreach Specialist | Trivia Host | Marathoner | Game Show Champion
- Flo Rida
- Visible satellite imagery showing cloud streets streaming over the Gulf and Atlantic as cold air races over the warmer ocean waters
- Never in a million years would I have imagined that my trivia hosting would bring me to this moment
- You can travel from the NWS El Paso (TX/NM) CWA all the way to the NWS Caribou (ME) CWA and never leave a Winter Storm Warning
- She didn’t make it that far outside before turning around 🐾
- Oklahoma has upgraded their snowplow game ❄️
- Whole Lotta Love for Sled Zeppelin 🎸❄️ oksnowplows.org
- 142+ million people are currently under a Winter Storm Warning stretching from New Mexico/Texas all the way to New England This Winter Storm Warning covers 2,213,250 square kilometers, which is larger than the February 2021 Winter Storm Warning (2,151,716 square kilometers)
- 83+ million people are currently under a Winter Storm Warning 145+ million people are currently under a Cold Weather Advisory 🥶
- One of the Hurricane Hunter aircraft is currently sampling our impending winter storm/low-pressure system out in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles 😲
- Check out the spike for the word search “LinkedIn” (and specifically Fernando Mendoza LinkedIn) on Google after they promoted his page on the CFP broadcast
- The EF-2 tornado in Purcell, Oklahoma on January 8, 2026 is the earliest January EF-2 on record in the State of Oklahoma and the first occurrence of a January EF-2 in the NWS Norman County Warning Area (CWA) in 53 years (January 18, 1973 F2 tornado near Seminole) #okwx
- NWS Norman issued 5 Tornado Warnings this morning (January 8, 2026) - the most they’ve ever issued in the month of January This was the first time since 2020 (and third time overall) that they issued Tornado Warnings in the month of January (records back to 1986) #okwx
- In 2025, March 4 was the date of the first occurrence of tornadoes in Oklahoma for the year Pending ongoing damage surveys, it’s likely that the first occurrence of tornadoes in Oklahoma for 2026 will be January 8 Severe weather season runs from January 1-December 31
- Yesterday (January 3, 2026), NWS Eureka issued their first Tornado Warning in 8,419 days December 14, 2002 was the last time the office issued a Tornado Warning Based on available data back to 1986, these are the only two Tornado Warnings ever issued by NWS Eureka
- The first tornado of 2026 goes to… Arizona! A landspout occurred yesterday afternoon near Three Points just west of Tucson
- NWS Norman led the way with 1,159 severe thunderstorm warnings issued in 2025 (more than double the next closest office - NWS Midland/Odessa) and 184 tornado warnings issued in 2025 (next closest offices were NWS Memphis and NWS Paducah)
- Thank you so much to Sydnee Batzlaff and KFOR-TV for visiting us at the National Weather Museum & Science Center and helping to promote our urgent need for donations to keep the Museum doors open! kfor.com/news/local/n... Please visit our site and donate in any way you can: tinyurl.com/cjjr2s78
- The National Weather Museum & Science Center is at risk of closing and surrendering artifacts that we’ve collected over the years to preserve the rich history of meteorology in Norman, Oklahoma. Don’t let this treasure disappear. Consider donating to keep the doors open: tinyurl.com/cjjr2s78
- The current complete list of PDS Fire Weather Warnings issued by NWS Forecast Offices PDS FWW 30 and 31 are the first PDS Fire Weather Warnings ever issued for the State of Colorado
- IMPORTANT: NWS Boulder just issued a rare "Particularly Dangerous Situation" (PDS) Fire Weather Warning for Boulder, Hwy 93, and the Boulder + northern JeffCo foothills for tomorrow. Winds: 85-110 mph. Bone dry. This is a Fire Weather Warning with an exclamation point. #COwx
- Possible goofballs in northwest Tennessee
- The double cheeseburger at Bar Arbolada in OKC is next level
- Peak color in OKC 🍁 #okwx
- Wind Warning in effect for St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada as a strong area of low pressure moves across the easternmost city in North America
- You can see the smoke plume from the UPS plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky from the KLVX radar
- Without a doubt the most breathtaking and awe-inspiring imagery you’ve ever seen inside the eye of a hurricane (Video from TEAL76, a USAF Reserve Hurricane Hunter crew from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, during a pass through Hurricane Melissa)
- The Copernicus Sentinel-2 polar-orbiting satellite made an extremely fortuitous pass over Hurricane Melissa right before it made landfall in Jamaica to provide these stunning images of one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in history
- Per the National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Melissa made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica with estimated maximum sustained winds of 185 mph and an estimated minimum central pressure of 892 mb
- At a loss for words - about as textbook of a devastating Category 5 as you’ll ever see
- What is truly remarkable is this dropsonde data is the measure along one specific fall path to create a composite of the storm structure and average wind profile - stronger winds could very likely be present within Melissa (notwithstanding the overall wind field as a whole)
- Hurricane Melissa just eclipsed Hurricane Patricia (2015) for the highest ADT ever recorded (T8.5 intensity)
- The view of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa's pinhole eye from 22,000+ miles above the Earth as sunset nears 🛰️🌀
- The NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft had to vacate Hurricane Melissa early during their reconnaissance flight due to severe turbulence in the southwestern eyewall 😳
- The Hurricane Hunters (53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron) are actively providing weather reconnaissance and data sampling for Hurricane Melissa 🌀 Thank you to these individuals (and all essential employees) that are working tirelessly to protect life and property during the shutdown without pay
- GOES-19 satellite view of Hurricane Melissa’s rapid intensification into a major Category 4 hurricane over the past 24 hours 🌀
- The OKC Thunder just became the first team in NBA History to start a season with two double-overtime (2OT) games…and they won both of them #ThunderUp
- New album cover just dropped🗼🇫🇷
- It’s me…I’m the Doppler radar person 📡
- This is the first F5/EF5-rated tornado in North Dakota in almost 70 years (last F5/EF5 tornado was the Fargo tornado on June 20, 1957)
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- If you missed out on the Integrated Warning Team and Digital Meteorologists Forum from #NWAS25, definitely give it a watch! The way that people are receiving weather information is changing, and it’s vital to work together with a unified message to protect lives and property
- Fingers are numb, brain is mush, but my cup is full 😌 Another amazing @nwas.org Annual Meeting in the books! Our Social Media team pushed out more than 1000 posts covering presentations, special sessions, workshops, Showcases, and so much more! Let’s do it again real soon ✌️ #NWAS25
- 📍 #NWAS25
- Enjoying lounge life on the way to #NWAS25!
- Mesmerizing view of the eye of Hurricane Kiko 🌀
- Excited to represent Haag, a Salas O'Brien Company, at the 2025 @nwas.org Annual Meeting in Huntsville, Alabama (September 6-10, 2025)! #NWAS25 Looking forward to connecting with colleagues across the weather enterprise and showcasing careers in forensic meteorology!
