Ian Livingston

June tornado in North Dakota is now the first EF5 in 12 years We continue to watch the tropics and various other spots.

June tornado in North Dakota is now the first EF5 in 12 years

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CSSL/NTP assists NWS with rating historic EF5 tornado in US CSSL/NTP assists NWS with rating historic EF5 tornado at Enderlin, North Dakota in June of 2025

And yes I read this - Canada still likes science woo uwo.ca/ntp/blog/202...

I partly expect HQ to come back and be oh sorry you can't do that. But also this is 2025 and rules are lol.

The most perplexing thing about the EF5 rating is NWS used a new technique that hasn't gone through 3 decades of debate before implementing.

Confidence growing for weekend Nor'easter. The model map may be made up?

Steve may have been on a bender when he put this graphic together.

A near full Harvest Moon this morning.

Be on the lookout for the supermoon 🌝 rising in the east!

It's the first of 3 consecutive supermoons to end 2025. AKA the Harvest Moon, since it's closest full moon to the equinox.

Nice view of it from Ron Cohn/Flickr this morning.

Lol

This is what I was looking for. The EF5er.

Oh no

If only there was some kind of warning.

On Hegseth's meeting with top brass.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

TikTok - once a gov tool always a gov tool
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"To all of those young people of TikTok,I saved TikTok, so you owe me big," Trump said in the video posted to his own account.

Parkdale Mills to lay off 68 in Hillsville The job cuts at the yarn maker’s Hillsville plant in Carroll County come just two years after hundreds of layoffs there.

Manufacturing closing because of rising energy costs. Thanks, Trump!

"The recent letter says the Hillsville facility will be permanently closed. It cites a 'declining economic environment created by rapidly rising energy costs.'"

Maybe I can be the next YouTube star. do people still use YouTube

Hmm every middle aged white guy (me at least) is supposed to have a podcast

SAFE SPACE TO SMOKE, CONNECT, WORK & RELAX NOW SERVING Flower Flights SAMPLE DIFFERENT STRAINS Edible Flights SWEET & CHILL VIBES Concentrate Flights CURATED DAB

Huh is this legal?

Barely any weather lately has been painful before this. Freelancing is harder than ever to survive by. I chose a great time to need a better job lol.

Update: now very broke.

Need a better job -- will travel.

ICE ad blitz aims to lure local law enforcement officers to join Trump mass deportation efforts An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforc...

This is gross but also they are weak. apnews.com/article/trum...

‘The president is unhinged’: Trump’s online behavior grows increasingly odd The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferences

Because he is losing it. Yeah harder to tell since he’s always been a nutbar but still. Brain melting in front of our eyes and few seem to care or wonder who is really running the show. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is the first F5/EF5-rated tornado in North Dakota in almost 70 years (last F5/EF5 tornado was the Fargo tornado on June 20, 1957)

Haha yeah. So many damage indicators there! Cements the year of the northern Plains at least.

And in ND of all places, just as we all predicted

A sad day for the there will never be another EF5 bros. First confirmed since Moore in 2013! Longest on record without by far.

:o

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Ominous red and orange skies had Capitol Hill take notice as shutdown loomed

"In fact, there are meteorological reasons for the recent dynamic sunsets in Washington. They have nothing to do with a lapse in appropriations, Obamacare subsidies or Budget Director Russ Vought." www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

I did have a visceral reaction to remembering moving those tvs

A fuckin huge tv don’t move it you’ll throw out your back

An ancient relic, that also appears to have been peed on hopefully by a dog.