Brian Etherton

An air pressure of 947.9 hPa was recorded at Baltasound, Shetland, provisionally setting a new UK lowest pressure record for October.

I never see one here in the UK because the Tesla Cybertruck is currently illegal to drive on UK roads because it doesn't meet the country's safety and construction standards.

Indeed. So... what IS his future? I know that he got a pretty good contract extension back in April, but I have lost track of where he fits in to the Sox plans.

An interesting weather event in the western United States. Not at all unheard of, but interesting!

Two position players - but no pitching moves. Curious your take on Bernardino vs Campbell. I get the 'too many lefties' bit, but it seems that for someone to get outs in the 9th so you can avoid Chapman, I'd just take the best I've got - left or right. (Seeing your insights - I'm not well informed)

Wow. Just off the charts intensification from Hurricane Erin

What is it about this century? What could it be? ♨️🌎

From @agnes1972.bsky.social on his X account: "With Erin, the last ten years have now seen 11 category five Atlantic hurricanes. This puts us even further ahead of 2007, which held the previous record of nine. Remarkable."

Just 24 hours ago, #Erin was just a 65kt Category 1 hurricane. Now, after explosive intensification, it's increased 75kt to 140kt! Cool to see the structure improve, then completely bomb out

#Hurricane #Erin has just become a Category 5 hurricane (140 kt / 917 mb).

Earliest known occurrence of Cat 5 in open Atlantic (outside Caribbean & Gulf).

Rapid Intensification (+75 kt in 24h!)

To illustrate how remarkable this period of #RI has been check out this WV 18 hour animation below ⤵️

Also: Nick Pivetta is doing rather well for the Padres this year.

A July hurricane-force non-tropical low near Greenland on July 11, 2025.

Central pressure fell into the low to mid 960s. At least 5 July — including all warm season months — records were set by the storm.

From Thule/Pituffik Space Force Base in Greenland, who broke their July record by 15 hPa.

The June heat across Europe was the worst on record due to an intense persistent heat dome - a blocked upper level pattern - which are becoming more common this time of year due to global warming. Europe is a ground zero for these. Heat index numbers reached 48C (118F). 1/

I once was coming from London in such conditions - I ended up in... Dallas

This is not "The Onion", it is. This is actually real. Oh my.

I agree totally. If, for example, the NOAA research laboratories were 'zeroed out' (as they are in the 2026 President's Budget), that is 1000 folks looking for work. They will take what they can get, start on those new paths.

I agree with your position, Alan, and that of some of the responses. If what was NOAA ESRL (now GSL, PSL, GML, and CSL) were to be zeroed out (as per the 2026 President's Budget) that is over 1000 scientists. Many will move to non science paths, and yes, likely permanently.

Bad indeed. This brings up a dilemma.

In 2023 and 2024, the Red Sox were 2nd in the league in errors. In 2025, the Sox have more errors than any team.

To keep changing players (like Kike vs Story at SS), but get the same basic result (lots or errors) implies that, perhaps, it isn't the players?

Good to ponder. For a team that spent/traded their way to adding: Bregman, Crochet, Buehler, Chapman, and also 'added' via recovery from injury: Story and Giolito... to not have a better record than this time a year ago... well, yeah, seems something needs to change.

A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say

*crab-walked

"If Labour weren't such total cowards"... so why are they doing so? What is the reason to cave in? They WON the election by being not-Tory and not-Reform, yet here we are not even 1 year in and Starmer is turning Labour into the thing people voted against.

Alan Gerard has started a substack that I find very useful. Here is the latest: high temperatures 15 degrees above normal in the US midwest and Canada. Details below!

This is hot for Texas - I expect ERCOT will be challenged by these conditions.

I'll be sure to bookmark this when it's ready! :)

This is awful. Things are clearly 'spreading'

I did not realise how much of the impacts were known/predicted in advance. Science!

YouTube video by Choir! Choir! Choir! Choir! Choir! Choir! / Colin Hay - Men At Work "Overkill"

This is worth watching. Especially at night. Or when it is raining.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCZK...

Over the last 7 days, last 30 days, last 90 days, of these 3 models: the AI model from ECMWF known as AIFS, the traditional weather models ECMWF IFS and the NOAA GFS, it was the AI weather model AIFS that has the best 5-day Northern Hemisphere (20N to 80N) anomaly correlation. (image: Ryan Maue)

I have not yet figured out why 'placating the right' and "fawning the rich and powerful' is the choice most often made. Starmer made it, Biden in the USA made it. Why not stand up for the LEFT? Why not go AGAINST the right? Why not stand up for the many non-rich (the voters)?

Radar and SPC damaging wind report loop of the severe storm complex/derecho that expanded from Illinois into Pennsylvania on Tuesday, producing widespread wind damage especially across Ohio and Pennsylvania: