Meteorologist | Director, NY State Weather Risk Communication Center (@NYSWRCC), & @nysmesonet proponent. Mostly Weather | Politics & WI Sports | Thoughts Mine
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Fun radar today, with four areas of precipitation moving in four distinct directions. This is due both to the location of the rain relative to the storm, as well as the height in the atmosphere of where the precipitation is formed. (Terrain may be giving a little boost too).
Your semi-regular reminder that stories about long lines at polling sites aren't feel-good stories, but rather, effectively stories about voter suppression. Voters for both parties may decide not to vote as a result - but these stories are almost exclusively for cities/campuses.
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Not many fans probably expected this was possible. Amazing series and season.
Imagine telling Wisconsin sports fans in 2011, at the start of Aaron Rodgers' prime & off a superbowl, that the @Bucks & @Brewers would win a championship before the @packers again. Inconceivable!
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The @NFL is becoming borderline unwatchable with current @NFLOfficiating. So frequently it feels like officials are making arbitrary calls or calling it one-sided on purpose. In an age of rampant betting, it calls into question the integrity of the game. One moment from today:
The @Brewers won the best-of-seven NLCS over the @Dodgers in the same length of time Zacharia lasted as press secretary. #gobrewers
President Donald Trump has fired Katie Zacharia as press secretary, advisers to the president said, ending her turbulent week-long stint as the White House's top spokesperson. cnn.it/3VPdpAE
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Hell yeah! That was thoroughly enjoyable. I hope the 132 Dodger fans who showed up to their NLCS game enjoyed it as much as I did.
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Quite ironic that Trump is pushing a name change from "artificial intelligence" to "super intelligence" while literally misspelling the name of our country. 🫠
Only President Trump could convene all the leaders of the top companies developing chips, data centers and frontier models for Super Intelligence. This new Industrial Revolution has already created a million new jobs and is spurring a bigger infrastructure build-out than the railroads, canals and grid combined. I was honored to witness history as the leaders of the frontier lab companies signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, accepting responsibility for the safe development of their products and imposing new internal controls and external audits. This is far better than waiting years for some international agreement that would probably never happen. President Trump continues to ensure that U.S. remains the technology leader while putting Americans first.
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Outages are spiking a bit in the Hudson Valley, even though wind gusts are "only" ~30-40 mph.
However, trees are nearly fully leafed, and a north-northeast wind direction is quite rare. Some @nysmesonet stations haven't seen these gust/direction combos in 2000+ days! #nywx
This is an absolutely insane story from my hometown.
Insane story: Milwaukee police swatted an innocent couple 55 times in a single year, only stopping after they filed a lawsuit.
"Body camera video shows one officer pointed a gun at the couple's door on their fourth response in a single day."
tmj4.com/about-us/lighthouse…
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I will also begin looking at other threats, like leprechauns.
RFK Jr: "We are also looking at chemtrails"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
RFK Jr. referred to "chemtrails," a conspiracy theory alleging secret chemical spraying by aircraft. No evidence supports this; trails are condensation (contrails) and a 2016 peer-reviewed survey of 77 atmospheric experts found 76 had seen none for such programs.
epa.gov/regulations-em…
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…
statnews.com/2026/09/17/rfk…
My "hot" take is that the wind chill calculation should be valid through at least 80F (instead of 50F).
A dry 75F day with a 30 mph wind will feel *much* cooler than a calm 75F mph day. Right now, meteorologists don't have a great commonly accepted way of describing this.
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Big Tobacco should be responsible for the safety of cigarettes, not congress.
Big Pharma should be responsible for the safety of opioids, not congress.
The oil industry should be responsible for managing climate change, not congress.
Etc Etc. Leadership in government is AWOL.
Tech companies must be responsible for AI safety, Mike Johnson says, not Congress dlvr.it/TVST4b
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In #NYC meeting with some work partners, and it (sort of) made sense to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge between meetings.
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