As we approach the 1 year anniversary of #Helene, I have one final thread for you. Most of my posts this week are about the meteorology and hydrology of the event, but there's one aspect of the storm I haven't covered yet. And that's the photography.

The tropical wave labeled 94L (no, I won't name it in advance) has warm water, moderate to low vertical wind shear, and plenty of moist air ahead of it. The system is partly over land today, delivering heavy rain and gusty winds to the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

You're telling me they were letting Bowser run Nintendo????

incredible that the Abundance guys took a dead-simple idea (it's better to talk about a future where there's more things and it's good) and made it toxic in part by being the whiniest dweebs.

the weather in the mid atlantic today feels like someone took a 20 minute shower in a windowless bathroom and forgot to turn on the exhaust fan

He's absolutely right. And also uh mowing the uh lawn is another big Antichrist facilitator so as a precaution I think it'd be incredibly irresponsible for me to get up early this weekend to do it...

#Gabrielle (now post tropical) achieved major hurricane status this week, rapidly intensifying into a Cat 3. Now Tropical Storm #Humberto is also poised to become a hurricane by tomorrow & potentially another major this weekend. Fingers crossed it stays a fish storm. Invest #94L worth watching too.

And not just that; he wanted to sell machines to help diagnose a disease he made up, and bribed other shitty doctors into massaging the data. It’s really difficult to articulate how shitty Wakefield was, because the whole thing was a scam wrapped inside a scam inside another scam for good messsure.

WH Press sec demanding people get fired, Fox News saying the US should bomb the UN, credulous idiots like Piers Morgan claiming it was "clearly deliberate". Turns out a videographer from the US delegation accidentally tripped a safety mechanism trying to capture video of Trump going up the escalator

this is the sort of nonsense TASS was putting out 2022 pre-invasion

“In some respects this was the most unhinged discussion of autism that I have ever listened to. It was clear that none of the presenters knew much about autism — other than the mothers’ lived experience — and nothing about the existing science. This may be the most difficult day in my career.”

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Liberal Democracy remains very much worth defending

If I saw these guys in the woods I wouldn’t be a fucking narc but I sure as shit wouldn’t let them talk to me

The only thing thinner than the evidence base for claiming Tylenol causes autism is the width of RFK Jr.'s neckties.

This information is so widely socialized across the interagency that it was shared with the Utah governor to beg people to not believe conspiracy mongers. So then having Tucker Carlson as a featured speaker spouting blood libel? Internal polling about the base for the midterms must be abysmal.

Did this story not get any traction because it turned out to be about gendered violence? Really weird for 3 police officers to be killed in a shooting and it not be plastered everywhere. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

No apparent threat to land, but #Gabrielle has gone from almost sputtering out to now a hurricane and set to become a major hurricane Tuesday. When high pressure isn't smothering them, systems seem to have plenty of ocean fuel to work with. www.nhc.noaa.gov

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

August 2025 comes in third hottest for NASA's GISTEMP surface instrumental record, behind only 2024 and 2023. 🧪⚒️ A bit less spatial coverage than typical due to underlying GHCN data delays. Data freely available from GISS: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

A subject in a separate FBI investigation claimed Homan was soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the presidential election. Homan was subsequently recorded accepting a $50,000 cash bribe for contracts within the Trump administration. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Ok one more: Why is the trailer every major plot point in the entire movie

🌊 Key oceans treaty crosses threshold to come into force www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

⚒️🍎🧪 WOO HOO! Every Rock Has A Story just hit 200,000 views! Would never have expected this when I started this project at home during COVID. Parents, teachers, kids please take a look at this FREE educational resource! Inspire kids about the geosciences! www.youtube.com/@EveryRockHa...

this exists it is called thinking

Me after 3 Rickeys in Northwest

Here are some horror movies they have on Kanopy: The Vourdalak, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Train to Busan, Exhuma, Oddity, Let the Right One In, The Wicker Man, Birth/Rebirth, Titane, Crimes of the Future, Starve Acre, Ganja & Hess. Their library is awesome.

JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report

My friend and former colleague at UWM, Sergey Kravtsov, is looking to hire *two* postdoctoral fellows, one in climate dynamics and the other in data-driven modeling for global precipitation. Please see the advertisements below for more details and share with your networks!

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"Meathelths?"

As technologies hurl our data into more complexities at dizzying speeds, I’ve come to adore even more the most beautiful score of poetry in our work. Once in a while, we get a call or note, sometimes even a low-tech letter from an adoptee. Friend, me share my appreciation for that with you. 1/n

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves. Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

"some [xAI] employees quit over sexbots" Yes well, that was over the summer. Surely he got the message and has stopped perving out by now. Let's just see what he's up to toda— Ah. I see.

I saw this circulating on twitter, I thought it was a joke but it’s real

I found a phrase that is resonating with my Intro Geosci and lab students this semester: It’s not about “right answers” in our labs, it’s about “reasonable answers” based on evidence. They’re taking a lot more chances and seem to be even more engaged than usual.

ABC’s decision was announced almost immediately after Nexstar... Nexstar is currently seeking approval from Trump’s Federal Communications Commission for a $6.2 billion merger with rival TEGNA. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...

Is that... good?

Is that... good? The system that moves water around the planet is increasingly ‘erratic and extreme,’ new report finds @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/c...

Is that... good? Leading Indicators Continue to Show Weakening Economy @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

Is that... good?

Is that... good?

Is that... good?

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"Democrats are barreling toward a shutdown with no clear plan to get out" @politico.com , despite Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House, is a beautiful example of Murc's Law.

Nexstar is currently awaiting approval from the FCC and FTC on a $6.2 Billion acquisition of TEGNA.

Trump: Jimmy Kimmel is next Trump admin: We will definitely exploit this murder to censor our critics Carr: ABC must fire Jimmy Kimmel ABC, minutes later: We have suspended Jimmy Kimmel Anti-cancel culture crusader: I sure wish this clear business decision didn’t look so much like censorship!

Comedy is legal again.