"The expectation is for the lake effect snow bands to be unusually intense with peak snow rates of 3 to locally 5 inches per hour, frequent lightning and thunder, and pockets of hail... Travel may become impossible with the potential for stranded cars during the morning commute"

Can't get over the fact I'm now seeing minivans with collector plates.

A gale of November, and some lingering snow, hit me brefly as I stepped out into the vast parking lot of Woodman's East this morning.

And techniques like artificial neural networks have been used in disciplines like climatology and geography for decades. A few examples from 25 to 30 years ago: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

You might see this and wonder why Christmas trees were shipped from Vermont to Chicago, not nearby Wisconsin or Michigan. However, as far as I can tell the business involves even more long-distance shipping today (Oregon and North Carolina are top producers by far, MI and WI are 3rd and 6th).

One reason that the number is dwindling, that you may not think of, is that in a lot of regions of the US, to really get familiar with stratigraphy and geomorphology you have to get access from a lot of private owners, i.e. by knocking on doors in rural areas; calling can work, but face-to-face

That's right, I'm 38, will be 39 next year and I look it.

This isn’t a small note. I don’t hate Biden with the intensity so many on here do (and not looking to relitigate that here). But he was always really conservative on policing, and he hadn’t really changed, and lots of changes he could have at least started never happened, and that’s really bad.

IU lecturer removed after *one* student complaint and no due process

Get your Sheboygan surf conditions here. Malibu of the Midwest, as the billboards in Iowa will tell you. www.surf-forecast.com/breaks/Shebo...

Forest canopy height of Zion National Park, Utah. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

It is pretty interesting to read some of the commentary on future sea level rise from the 1950s. This was from a symposium held in the Netherlands in 1954, before many of the aspects of climate change were fully understood, including Milankovich theory and CO₂ changes. #ClimateChange #SeaLevelChange

The idea that incarceration is a problem unique to big cities is a myth. Take a look at New York: People in state prisons come from every corner of the state, but upstate counties send the most people to prison per capita. #30DayMapChallenge | Day 8 - Urban

One of these images is a hillshade from lidar data showing oval-shaped closed depressions (High Plains playas) and dissected areas, but with extreme vertical exaggeration which completely changes the look of a very flat landscape.

Day 6 of the #30DayMapChallenge (3D), a render of Mount Rainier with a realistic atmospheric skydome generated w/ a lat/long/datetime, rendered entirely in #RStats with #rayshader and #rayrender! The atmosphere is annoyingly realistic: I now have to dial in the exposure depending on the time of day!

This in no way rivals the world's largest six pack in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

"If it pleases the court, our position is that the poor people should go hungry"

Since Cornell is in the news: This 1897 plat map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows a few of the parcels that still belonged to Cornell University. They are a small remnant of the vast areas of pine lands in Wisconsin bought with Morrill Act (Agricultural College) scrip by Ezra Cornell himself. 🧵

While Wisconsin Republicans are fully capable of coming up with racist policies like this on their own, I would not be surprised if there was some behind the scenes industry lobbying involved in getting the AI translation provision into the bill. Has that been proposed in other states?

UGGHH.

Big groups of geese, flying back and forth in all directions over our neighborhood, yelling at us.

Sad to hear of the passing of Joanna Bullard from @lborouniversity.bsky.social 🧪⚒️ www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/geo...

Beautiful fall light all week. A good morning to take the long way to the bus stop.

Given the prevalence of work on Tibet and adjoining regions with Chinese collaborators, this would lock out huge swaths of the tectonics community from federal funding.

"Rights, liberties, and freedoms are never secure when they lie dormant or unused." Interesting article in the latest volume of the Journal of Academic Freedom. Rather than thinking of #AcademicFreedom as a defense against attacks, we should make it an active practice. www.aaup.org/JAF16/conspi...

The bathymetry of eastern Lake Superior, the part that would be crossed by an ore carrier coming from the NW, trying to make Whitefish Bay in a storm, is fascinating. I have heard those N-S troughs explained as subglacially eroded tunnel channels, but there are probably other ideas out there.

Old cat looks at food, thinks something might be wrong with it. Young cat notices, gets suspicious, stops eating. I think, is there something wrong with it? Young cat gets hungry, starts eating. Old cat watches, starts eating. All is well.

Today #GarWeek is visiting some other species. Here are some pictures of spawning Lake Sturgeon in the Wolf River. Wisconsin is home to the largest lake sturgeon population in the world in the Lake Winnebago system, largely because of early protection of the species here.

Here are some of the forests that occur along the Sturgeon river gorge shown in the DEM image below. These pictures were taken at the north edge of the image looking south across the gorge or downslope. These fire-scarred red pines are somewhat uncommon as this area is mostly northern hardwoods.

Checking to see if you've turned off the new default rude post filter

The future of scientific research in this country is in grave doubt, and here I am fuming at a journal publisher's website for never recognizing my password or just letting me see the goddamn manuscript they want me to review without one.

Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months. Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...

No one noticed the footnote that said it would be paid, to the extent possible, in unsold and returned cybertrucks.

Utrecht Paleogeography model in prep! We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!

Letting my irritation at a lot of paleoclimate literature show: "While it is unfortunately common to show a few arrows on a figure like this and say they represent the Westerlies or the monsoon circulation..."

Legal term of the day: Jury nullification

Day 6 of #30DayMapChallenge ~ Dimensions. Half-marathon challenge route. #rstats #dataviz #rayshader #gis #map #spatial

Even if you think of it as a "marketplace of ideas" there are some stands selling such rotten, poisonous stuff that they should be shunned or better yet, yelled at, not given an hour-long podcast, New York Times.

It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.

Una reciente imagen satelital captó al extremo sur de Sudamérica libre de nubes (inusual), permitiendo apreciar a detalle los contrastes climáticos entre #Chile y #Argentina.

Thought for the late night: The impact of and recovery from Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica sure fell off the news cycle quickly.

Some comments from me on the geohazards that could impact an oil pipeline from AB to BC coast, following @davidebybc.bsky.social and First Nations' continued opposition. More thoughts in the below thread from ~6 months ago 🧪⚒️ @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Free ebook of Conevery Bolton Valencius's book The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEb... #HistSci ⚒️

Something to work on when I have more time: Lidar point cloud from the Dordogne River valley in southern France, just upstream from Les Eyzies, close to many of the famous archaeological sites in this region. LidarHD from IGN.

[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!

A kid is driving a brand-new but *very loud*, as in no muffler at all, Audi back and forth through the campus area, showing off. Made me think about how I don't actually mind loud machines doing work as much as other people (even leaf blowers!). It's the ostentatious noise for no good reason I hate.

Southernmost part of the relief model of California in the main stairwell of Science Hall. Geology, including faults, from a 1932 USGS map. The model dates to 1939 and was restored within the last 10-15 years.

Obscure question related to trying to interpret some slides I'm scanning: Are there a lot of Fouqueria columnaris (cirio, boojum tree) planted in, say, botanical gardens or as landscaping around Tucson or the Phoenix area?