The 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: A New Perspective on an Old Storm: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

I was today years old when I learned that flapjacks in the UK are just granola bars and not deliciously thick larger pancakes 🥞.

When fire season declines in the western U.S., it picks up in the east. Dry October & Novembers are wildfire season before winter freeze, especially in Appalachia. Same solutions: more prescribed fires, cultural burning, fuel treatments & public awareness of risk. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Some good news for your timeline. Prescribed fires are important to reduce wildfire risk as well as to improve the ecology of the landscape.

A thermal signature of the UPS Flight 2978 crash and resulting fire near Louisville International Airport (on November 4) was evident in both #GOESEast and #GOESWest, especially using the Next Generation Fire System -- details on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

A quick overview of my command-line viewers: 🟢 viewtif – interactive raster viewer 🟣 viewgeom – interactive vector viewer 🟡 viewinline – non-interactive viewer for rasters, vectors, images, and CSVs, compatible with iTerm2 All available on PyPI. pypi.org/project/view... pypi.org/project/view...

I did a HIIT workout this week where the instructor picked 80s music based on a random search of Spotify playlists. I felt like I was in a fever dream.

Peak California: We are experiencing an atmospheric river with high wind warning and men are still outside using their f@€£ing leaf blowers.

The Louisville airport is very close to downtown, University of Louisville, and Churchill Downs plus major intersection of two busy interstates (I-64 and I-65). A shelter in place of 5-mile radius is a large impact . Kentucky is a small state, but Louisville metro is 1/3 of population.

I am glad I gave up coffee (and caffeine) last year. I gave up alcohol this year, so my extra expenditures are mainly gym membership. And the occasional dark chocolate.

This year’s Halloween was much more subdued and a lot less candy, houses participating. Doesn’t help that it’s on a Friday and many adults are out partying themselves instead of handing out treats or prizes. Still a good time and lots of steps.

Do you love bogs and Halloween? If so, please follow and share this thread to explore the eerie, the dark and the supernatural side of bog ecosystems. BogBoo. 1/ You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, something not everyone knows how to love. -Warsan Shire

New article🚨 in the #FireEcology Journal! "A tale of two fire systems: Indigenous fire stewardship in British Columbia and California" by William Nikolakis, Gabe Schepens, Scott L. Stephens, Russell Myers Ross, and Don L. Hankins #SNFECO 🔥 Read it here: ow.ly/WfMw50Xczcq

As the Internet becomes a series of insular walled gardens, more “think” pieces look like early work science students. Science educators + scientists will tell you that when a science student first encounters a theory/result that does not match their lived experience, the first reaction is… (1/2)

I made Pineapple chess pie with layer of dark chocolate and marzipan on the bottom. It was my first time making this Southern favorite for the family (I generally cook more savory dishes from my family recipe book). Great flavors. Will not use Trader Joe’s pie crust again.

Inflation got me down to 1-2 pumpkins max currently, when previous years I was like:

My Sleepytime©️ ritual is old episodes of ‘Murder She Wrote’ and highly moisturized face, lips, and hands.

📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon! ➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.

2021 saw Iceland’s first “danger alert” due to wildfires. Wildfire risk in the Arctic has also increased due to climate change. www.arctictoday.com/icelands-fir...

Between 1 in 8 and 1 in 10 folks in the U.S. rely on SNAP (aka EBT or food stamps) benefits. Every $1 spent by the government on SNAP food benefits generates $1.50 in economic revenue across the private sector (think grocery stores & ag jobs). Due to govt shutdown, SNAP benefits end October 31.

Wake up babe sesame street just dropped some new iconic scicomm

Anyone who has ever been around cattle can tell you that cows are actually pretty picky eaters compared to other grazers. In Kansas, land managers have to use fire to restore grasslands for grazing - because cattle don’t eat woody veg. Y’all know what would reduce fuels via grazing? Goats.

Tonight I made a 15 bean soup with collard greens plus sautéed mushrooms, carrots, onions, garlic, and bacon. I ground my own spices with a mortar and pestle. Combined that with rice vinegar and a smidge of tomato paste in a multi-cooker. Delicious and speedy, and also a taste of home.

The AWS outage today is a good reminder that there is no "cloud", there's just somebody else's computer.

Most people incorrectly use the term “gaslighting” to mean A) that other person is disagreeing with me or B) I don’t like my current situation and someone else must be to blame for it.

Shared by a fellow Appalachian. 10 out of 10, as a descendant of moonshiners (What revenue men? We ain’t seen no revenuers.)

‘Miserable’: Hundreds sheltering in Western Alaska schools in dire conditions "In Kwigillingok, some 400 people were sheltering at the school, without functioning toilets ... in Kipnuk, where the water plant wasn’t working and electricity was limited." www.ktoo.org/2025/10/15/m...

the "protein powder has a zillion percent lead in it" story explains a LOT of the conversations i overhear while waiting for a bench to free up

This is basically all open ag burning and prescribed fires in timber areas within the southeastern U.S. This is not wildfire smoke.

Something to learn today - a little over 1/2 of U.S. state names are derived from Indigenous words and languages. brilliantmaps.com/us-state-nam...

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

My long held opinion is that the Norwegians should stop handing out peace prizes. Like, they are damn near batting a 1000 for awarding it to folks who have or want to start military conflicts.

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

Even when I was a bratty teenager, I never understood making fun of people for liking the music they like. I don’t like all music, & fans of certain genres are puzzling to me (lookin’ at you, Latino/Hispanic fans of self-described racist pop country musicians). Let folks like what they like.

You know those AI nostalgia generated videos are 1,000% missing the mark when the “algorithms” didn’t just copy & paste an entire episode of ‘Community’ to represent the late 2000s / early 2010s.

Old folks in Appalachian Kentucky will tell you that during that administration, they would trap groundhogs, or “Hoover pigs”, for stew. 🍲

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’m furloughed. A bit less science than usual. This begins my spooky 👻 🎃 season thread. #SpookySeason (1/31) youtu.be/70NrA13iYlw?...

Sacramento was nice.

The stupidest timeline.

The parenting culture in California is so foreign to me. Many treat their young adults (18-30) kids like actual minor children. I will not do that, causing conflicts. If the federal + state governments treat you as an adult (you can vote, join the military, pay taxes, own property), so do I.

OMB instructing federal agencies to prepare RIF plans for mass firings during a possible government shutdown, reports Politico. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Spending most of my time searching for fat bears this week.

Same, tbh.

During the lunar eclipse on 07 September, the Moon briefly blocked @NOAASatellites #SUVI images of the Sun. More on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

NW Compact members share firefighting resources, tech, + expertise when wildfires exceed a single jurisdiction’s capacity. In 🇨🇦: Alberta, Yukon Territory, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, & British Columbia In 🇺🇸: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Montana, & Hawaii

Disneyland > Disney World

Please keep posting sunflowers 🌻, tomatoes 🍅, and pumpkins 🎃.

California communities can reduce wildfire damage by half. Here’s how: Our new study "Fire risk to structures in California’s Wildland-Urban Interface" was published in Nature Communications today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/28/c...