Low-carb, high-silicon dioxide diets are all the rage, now, right?

Want to see how smoke affects temperatures without seeing any temperatures? Away from the thicker smoke, enough sun came through to warm up the ground to create cumulus clouds (and even storms). But areas with thicker smoke weren't as warm, and so those puffy clouds didn't form.

This is neat - showers and t-storms firing up west of Chicago along the thermal boundary caused by smoke and no-smoke. Weather doing cool things.

The Target USA Cup youth soccer tournament — held at the National Sports Center in Blaine — suspended all games for the remainder of Thursday due to record poor air quality.

Widespread, life-threatening considerable flash flooding is expected in south-central Texas through at least Friday. It's important to always follow instructions from local officials including NEVER driving around barricades into floodwaters. weather.gov/safety/flood-turn-around-dont-drown

"This Is Fine" meme, except it's in reference to hazardous levels of particulate matter (PM2.5). 😩

Not okay.

The Babbitt Municipal building, about 20 minutes south of Ely, is open from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. Organizers say the center is available for evacuees to clean up, rest and get information about what to do next.

It's gotten worse. Quickly. Cannot imagine how bad it us up in northeastern Minnesota - already coughing and eyes burning this far away in central MN.

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Students:

For more context. 😬 And if you're curious as to what the AQI value is at your place, you can visit www.airnow.gov. 😷

For context (though I am not currently in the BWCA): www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

*Cough* *Hack* *Wheeze* Make. It. Stop. 🥺😩

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Me: "It's time to start eating healthy." Lettuce: "I'm going to give you explosive diarrhea!" Chips and cookies in my pantry: "I would never do that to you."

Thick smoke from Canadian wildfires descends across the U.S. East Coast.

3/ When wildfire smoke occurs during heatwaves in areas where a portion of the population doesn't have access to air conditioning, people face the dilemma of opening their windows to avoid heatstroke, but searing their lungs with smoke. Smoke + heat can become even deadlier than either alone.

2/ Known as the "silent killer", long-term exposure to wildfire smoke is estimated to kill ~24,000 people per year in the U.S. There is no safe level of wildfire smoke exposure, with mortality effects estimated to occur up to 3 years after exposure. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you live, work, or are visiting that area, be sure you have multiple ways of receiving alerts:

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Sam Neil’s passing shows if you work hard, are nice to people, make some mistakes but own up to them, & try your best to do what’s right, most everyone will speak well of you at the end. Basically, just don’t be a murderous ghoul. Be a normal person. That’s all it takes.

Le sigh. Make it stop., please.

Personally, I just appreciate the color table for the map. It's the attention to the little details that make for an engaging map. 😅

Status: Gross.

apnews.com/article/adam... 😬

Cats are delightfully weird. 😅🐾❤️

This is, hands and fins down, my #1 weather movie franchise, and it's not even close!!! 🤩👍🦈🌪️ HAPPY SHARKNADO DAY!!! 🥳

🌇Celebrate Manhattanhenge, 7 pm ➡️Join Associate Curator Jackie Faherty in the LeFrak Theater for a lecture on the rare alignment of the setting Sun with Manhattan’s street grid, using the Museum’s OpenSpace software. Ticket required.

😭 So beautiful!

Do it! gradient.horse

Quick reminder that in typical years, extreme heat kills more Americans than all other so-called natural disasters…combined.

So, NPR is reporting that CNN is reporting that you-know-who is dropping out of you-know-what in Maine. 🤷‍♀️

The hell? Since when does an NWS AFD end with the forecaster closing with "<Forecaster Initials> OUT." What is going on at the NWS Twin Cities WFO?!?!? 😬

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We continue losing daylight for 167 days.

Guys, c'mon...Buck up...It's baseball season. ⚾👍

Types of Tornado Alert xkcd.com/3267/

NARRATOR (Morgan Freeman voice): As far as seeing this coming, well... I suppose we all did.

Widely scattered severe thunderstorms capable of large hail and severe wind gusts are possible across the eastern Dakotas and western Minnesota this afternoon/evening. Isolated to scattered damaging wind gusts will also be possible in the southern Mid-Atlantic, Carolinas, and ArkLaTex.

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

Just a few factoids about the color of today’s fireworks.

Torn between wanting to slap someone else so hard that they pass out or slapping my own forehead so hard that *I* pass out. 🤦 🤷‍♀️

July 4th and the atmosphere is like, "'Scuse us. Forced atmospheric storm socialization, comin' though..."

Oh. Okay, then. Umm...

Why the hell are people setting off fireworks...DURING THE DAY? 🙄

Should snarf down copious amounts of Nathan's fries to soak some of that up. 👍

Please rise for our national anthem. youtu.be/VYOjWnS4cMY?...