raywolf.bsky.social
Retired NWS SOO, meteorologist/climatologist, Master Gardenerš±Conservationist, Cyclone and Chicago sports, classic movies, trains, foodie. Upper Mississippi River Valley USA
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Knocking the 2024 White Sox out, thank you very much. š
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Other fowl too - chickens, ducks, geese. Learned from a friend who grows heirloom poultry.
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Opossums are healthy tick eaters. But something must be bringing them into the garden like deer or some other critter. Perhaps excluding them might help?
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Meanwhile in Iowa, the governor just signed a law permitting use of eminent domain on farm land to build CO2 pipelines. Benefits corporations but not the public. CO2 pipelines are a bad solution to a problem that should not exist, I.e., corn ethanol.
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Too bad the rest of the season is so insufferable just to see good games at the end.
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Reminds me of the old saying āEven a blind pig finds the trough on occasion.ā In this case, the focus is on the hits made vs. the NWS. But how many misses did it take for one hit?
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LSD trips without the drug.
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Not much. Some beautiful areas for fishing, hunting, camping and hiking. But not much else. Not a whole lot to build a strong economy on.
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Top heavy in population.
Top heavy in wealth.
Top heavy in education.
Top heavy in paying taxes to carry the rest of the state.
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Wow. Iāve not experienced an infestation that bad in the Midwest. Usually the hose and soap spray do quite well. And Iāve never had to do anything for this honeysuckle. Is there another plant nearby that is a source of the aphid population that returns?
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Iāll gladly discuss it. š Northeast Illinois carries the rest of the state, especially the south. And MAGAts are too busy being anti-urban to understand that. Let those counties go to Indiana and see how that plays out.
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The hose works well. Knock them off with a stream of water when the population builds up. Otherwise let the predators like lady bugs do their thing. š±
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How to forecast ~climatology 101.
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Glad to see some things moving forward.
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There is precedent for such things. š www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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I chased that event in south central Iowa back in the day. Two waves of storms; second was a very fast moving broken line of supercells that resulted in the Delta fatality. Got cut off by Lake Rathbun and that doomed us. Storms eventually produced the Barneveld WI F 5 later that night.
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He doesnāt have the authority to do that. Of course, same could be said for DOGE and a 100 other things he did.
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But whose counting. š¤š®
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You know if I lived there just once Iād have to mow after midnight just to say I did it. Having said that, electric mowers are much quieter than their gas counterparts.
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Actually weāre moving to a new house next month so weāll be starting to write a new book. Iāll document the process along the way.
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Thanks! Iāve never been one to hold back. Wish I could do more to help NWS and the greater NOAA.
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Thank you. Pleased to have been a small part of that story which puts a human face on the staffing cuts.
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Yes. All photos unless otherwise stated are from my garden. Thank you.
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Itās all about the grift. Grift, influence, and power-lust and bringing out the true MAGites in Amurica.
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Whatās the variety? I had some like that volunteer in my veggie garden.
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How about Zenith Z19s and Z89s connected to a Data General S140. Welcome to 1985 when a 10 mb hard drive was big.
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Blue text instead of green prior to AWIPS.
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Yep, and my response meant that 30+ years ago the old computers known as AFOS had blue type and blue line graphics. Also plaid flannel never goes out of style. š
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I have used a green screen since the 1980s when the word processor of choice was SuperWriter. And for the record, the AWIPS precursor, AFOS, had a blue screen.
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One of my favorite tornado-related radar products as it easily and clearly depicts trends with little effort needed for mental processing, i.e., fast and east to interpret.
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I understand the forward to the book was written by ChMartz.
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There is so much great learning info there for meteorologists in all sectors and serious hobbyists. Truly one of the great partnerships to have evolved out of the NWS Modernization.
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I have a presentation on this topic for Master Gardeners. Impacts are quite observable and there are actions they can take to help mitigate them. Thanks for sharing.
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Actually the radon issues in the state stem from soil geology, and is one area humans have not contributed to making worse. See uihc.org/health-topic...
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But letās not feed them lunch over the summer. š
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Ah yes, the old Satan defense. š¤”šš¤£
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The first cherry has hints of red.
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Fog or smoke? Down here itās smoke.
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And itās not like we canāt do tariffs if Congress would get off their thumbs and this guy would show some leadership in the House.