Beautiful view of Destin from wintertime... thanks to @WDEFNews12 viewer Donna for Friday's Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWIndow #PictureOfTheDay.

Go to News 12's RoofQuotes.com wdef.com/votenow website to make your choice for the favorite Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow Picture Of The Day from last week. We'll announce the winner on Monday's @WDEFNews12 Prime News At 7.

The most difficult moment of my 41 year career happened eight years ago today (9/19), warning my compatriots on a livestream that the worst was about to happen.

My co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I spoke with @drkiki.bsky.social about our new book #ScienceUnderSiege earlier today on the #ThisWeekInScience podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILJE...

(snort) https://www.independent.ie/world-news/train-named-ctrl-alt-deleaf-to-tackle-leaves-on-the-line/a1086375853.html

For #TalkLikeAPirateDay, I usually post one of the best #SeaShanties ever, especially being from the delightful #LittleDee #webcomic from Christopher Baldwin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Zt...

Friday night football forecast: warm for kickoff, pleasantly mild through halftime with no chances for showers and thunderstorms to cause game interruptions.

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather #BlipCast Friday Evening: Hot finish to the week with the last weekend of Summer 2025 looking to be just as hot. Better chances for rain/thunder into next week. Your week-ending forecast coming up tonight on @wdefnews12.bsky.social at 5:30, 6, 7 & 11.

"The president of the United States and the Federal Communications Commission just bullied an independent network into dropping a show because they didn’t like what the host, Jimmy Kimmel, had to say. What are you going to do about it?" - #GarryKasparov www.thenextmove.org/p/i-saw-how-...

Sweet potato season is in full swing in Merced County CA. Workers sort the potatoes the machine digs up into large plastic bin - depending on size and variety. "Monica" shares, "My back and neck ache from bending over and organizing the potatoes into these deep bins". #WeFeedYou

Friday's @WDEFnews12 Air Quality Report courtesy of Chattanooga Allergy Clinic

I wrote about a proposal to replace the Saffir-Simpson scale with a new system to rank the severity of hurricanes. I'm not sure it would work very well for lots of reasons, but it's interesting to think about.

Following #Gabrielle, just off of Africa, a tropical wave with disorganized thunderstorm activity moving WNW into the eastern Atlantic. Some slow development possible through the weekend into next week.

#NecessaryMadness - "The very talented and rather amusing Lord Vinheteiro dressed up as #DarthVader and performed the “Imperial March” from Star Wars on rows of #rubberchickens that were laid out on a table like an instrument." laughingsquid.com/imperial-mar...

In a conversation with @ichotiner.bsky.social, Michael Idov, who formerly ran GQ Russia, discusses Donald Trump’s role in Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension and what it says about authoritarian leaders and their relationship to comedy.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

Many things are terrible, but try the slider on this map to see how much the share of electricity generated by solar has changed in recent years #climate #energy

you can immediately clock WKRP fans just by seeing whose face lights up with these 10 little words: "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."

This is what the sky looks like today. The solar app says our array is still meeting more than 40% of our energy consumption from the sun ANYWAY.

Microplastics are less than 5mm. Primary microplastics are pellets, microbeads, capsules, or fibers. Secondary microplastics are larger pieces of plastic that have broken apart when exposed to sunlight, salt, and wave action. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #Microplastics #Microfibers

Thanks to everyone who voted in our @WDEFNews12 RoofQuotes.com #WeatherPoll #QuestionOfTheDay. Correct answer: "Box of Rain". New question goes up at midnight at wdef.com/votenow

"Condensation does not linger in the skies for hours" remains one of my all-time favorite comments from The Vane. Clouds. They're called clouds. That's literally a cloud. And now this doofus probably runs DHS.

Shocking news - Marine life will be devastated as Upwelling fails in Panama waters for first time since records began Upwelling is a process that allows cold, nutrient-rich waters from the depths of the ocean to rise to the surface to feed marine life stri.si.edu/story/upwell...

As the low pulls away from the area, any morning cloud cover scatters out and become mostly clear later this morning and into the afternoon. Highs this afternoon into the upper 70s to mid 80s. #NYwx #NJwx #CTwx

The sun rises on Tropical Storm Gabrielle fighting wind shear in the Central Atlantic Ocean.

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather #BlipCast Thursday: On the downwards slide to the last weekend of summer, conditions to be hot and dry with our next best chance of rain/thunder well into next week. Details tonight on @WDEFNews12 at 5:30, 6, 7 & 11.

Thanks to @WDEFNews12 viewer Theresa McGill of McDonald for a spectacular #sunrise for Thursday's Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay. Submit your #weatherpix at wdef.com/photos

NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center: TSUNAMI ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALEUTIAN ISLANDS A TSUNAMI THREAT EXISTS FOR PARTS OF THE PACIFIC LOCATED CLOSER TO THE EARTHQUAKE. BUT IT IS STILL TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE WHETHER THERE IS A POSSIBLE TSUNAMI THREAT TO HAWAII.

#DidYouKnow some electric rays can emit over 200 volts to fend off predators like tiger sharks? This effective self-defense strategy highlights the incredible adaptations of marine life. Dive into the topic with @annieroth.bsky.social : www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Good morning with good news: Solar and battery techs now provide much more for much less! Solar cell efficiency surges, as PV module price drops 99.6% since 1980! Battery cell density skyrockets, as battery cell price plunges 99% since 1991! P. 15-16 ember-energy.org/app/uploads/...: #energysky

Since 2012, at least 2,253 environmental defenders have been murdered or disappeared. Far more have been abducted, threatened, harassed and assaulted.

We're setting the kind of records we like seeing this hurricane season! The latest from @bhensonweather.bsky.social and I on newly-formed Tropical Storm #Gabrielle: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/the-...

Gorgeous sunset light Wednesday over Lake Chickamauga from Island Cove Marina & Resort. www.wdef.com/weather-cam-...

It’s as though each dawn tries to outdo the one before it. Absolutely breathtaking.

The concluding paragraph of #ScienceUnderSiege (www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...)

Over half a billion birds right now!! #birds #fall #migration #LightsOutForBirds

"We are entering an era where the challenge of anticipating the unprecedented is becoming part of daily operations." —statement from @nwas.org & @iaem-org.bsky.social urging sustained investment in tools, partnerships, personnel, and policies in an increasingly dangerous era nwas.org/nwa-iaem-joi...

Thanks to everyone who voted in Wednesday's RoofQuotes.com #WeatherQuestion of the day. Correct answer for the crimson snows of #Pluto: organic molecules known as tholins. New poll goes up at midnight at wdef.com/votenow

BREAKING: ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely following comments he made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. Trump’s FCC chair earlier appeared on MAGA propagandist Benny Johnson’s show and threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcast license if they didn’t take action against him.

The flames of the burning Bear Gulch Fire on the Olympic Peninsula shone brilliantly last night, appearing as bright as the city lights of western Washington.

An asteroid about the size of a skyscraper will pass very close to Earth early Thursday AM. The totally safe flyby of #2025FA22 will be shared on a free livestream by the Virtual Telescope Project, which will track the object. www.livescience.com/space/astero... www.youtube.com/watch?v=P59g...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR SE DEKALB COUNTY #ALwx. At 520 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Rainsville, moving SE at 15 mph while another severe thunderstorm was south of Pine Ridge, just along and east of I-59 moving SE at 15 mph.

MEDITERRANEAN HISTORIC HEAT WAVE Extraordinary hot day in #Spain 40.7 El Granado,dozens of stations >35C allover the country including the highlands. Unprecedented heat for this time of the year and next days can be even hotter. Record heat also in MOROCCO MINIMUM 30.6 Semara

THIS Stanford University? www.latimes.com/business/sto...

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather @WDEFNews12 1% Lists Scenic City Dog Walking Forecast for Wednesday evening.

Did you know? It’s not true that day and night are precisely equal on the day of an #equinox. But here’s an equinox fact that is true. The #sun rises due east and sets due west at the equinox. It’s true no matter where you live on Earth (except at the North and South Poles). buff.ly/jYjjpNg 📸 NASA

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather #BlipCast Wednesday: Stray showers and thunderstorms wandering through the area into early evening. More heat into the last weekend of summer. Details tonight on @WDEFNews12 at 5:30, 6, 7 & 11.

Thanks to @WDEFnews12 viewer Celeste from Bridgeport for a view of #riverboat American Serenade... Wednesday's Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay. Got #weatherpix to share? Go to wdef.com/photos