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The Guardian on Milton
The Guardian on Milton
“What marks Florida out is the disparity between the concern rightly given to the consequences of the storms and the widespread unwillingness of many there to acknowledge the causes of extreme weather – still less the role in it that the US plays.”
#weather
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The Guardian on Milton
Crazy weather
Crazy weather
“Grab them shades on the way out the door. Precip cast? Fuggedaboudit! I mean, we still need a tall drink of water. I just ain’t happening tonight nor tomorrow.”
#news#television#weather
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Crazy weather
Bread, milk, toilet paper
Bread, milk, toilet paper
A post that has been receiving a great many visits: Ready For the Snow, a painting of bread, milk, and toilet paper.
#art#snow#weather
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Bread, milk, toilet paper
Here in downstate Illinois
Here in downstate Illinois
We had strong wind and rain, but the closest tornado (quite close) bypassed our town, or nearly all of it. Other places were not nearly so lucky.
#Illinois#weather
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Here in downstate Illinois
After a storm
After a storm
Our backyard is looking rather painterly tonight.
#weather
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After a storm
What’s happening in Texas
What’s happening in Texas
Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter from an American for February 16 has a helpful explanation of what’s happening in Texas. Here’s the rejoinder to the claims that wind turbines and a Green New Deal will destroy life as we know it.
#energy#weather
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What’s happening in Texas
−0°
−0°
My iPhone tells me that the temperature this morning is −0°F. Not 0°, −0°.
#numbers#weather
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−0°
Hat and gloves
Hat and gloves
It is cold or colder these days. Having just come in from a walk, I want to express my gratitude to my Carhartt Acrylic Watch Hat and my Caiman 2395 Heatrac gloves.
#clothing#weather#winter
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Hat and gloves
Wilbur Ross at work
Wilbur Ross at work
The New York Times reports that Wilbur Ross threatened to fire NOAA employees after a tweet contradicted the presidential assertion that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama.
#truth#weather
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Wilbur Ross at work
An Alabama song
An Alabama song
WTF’s chief meteorologist: “Alabama was going to be hit very hard, along with Georgia.” So I thought of a song, Charley Patton’s “Going to Move to Alabama.”
#blues#music#weather
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An Alabama song
More maps
More maps
I don’t know how to read spaghetti plots, but I know that I don’t know how, and I know that there are people who do.
#truth#weather
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More maps
Shade
Shade
Oh, look, it’s shade, the only shade in the parking lot.
#life#weather
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Shade
Telegraph operators and weather
Telegraph operators and weather
“Every morning, telegraph operators checked with their colleagues in the surrounding cities to see what the weather was like. ‘If I learned from Cincinnati that the wires to St. Louis were interrupted by rain,’ one operator was recorded as saying, ‘I was tolerably sure a “northeast” storm was approaching.’”
#technology#weather
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Telegraph operators and weather