WDEF Chief Meteorologist Austen Onek

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9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for October 21, 2025 | GoComics Read 9 Chickweed Lane—a comic strip by creator Brooke McEldowney—for today, October 21, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!

Thorax's Thought For Tuesday. #9ChickweedLane

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@wdefnews12 #PetOfTheWeek: Letti Spaghetti is up for adoption again at HES Chattanooga. Mild mannered and very loving but would do best to find a #FureverHome without cats. Find out more at heschatt.org to inquire about adoption, donations, vaccines, volunteering and much more. #AdoptDontShop

@wdefnews12 #PetOfTheWeek: Letti Spaghetti is up for adoption again at HES Chattanooga. Mild mannered and very loving but would do best to find a #FureverHome without cats.
Find out more at heschatt.org to inquire about adoption, donations, vaccines, volunteering and much more.
#AdoptDontShop

Congratulations to @WDEFnews12 viewer Tracy Forgey taking the most votes in our RoofQuotes.com #PickThePic contest where the viewers pick their favorite Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay from last week.

Congratulations to @WDEFnews12 viewer Tracy Forgey taking the most votes in our RoofQuotes.com #PickThePic contest where the viewers pick their favorite Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay from last week.

Thanks to @WDEFNews12 viewer Sue from the Sale Creek area for our Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay. Got #weatherwindow pictures to share? Go to wdef.com/photos

Thanks to @WDEFNews12 viewer Sue from the Sale Creek area for our Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay.

Got #weatherwindow pictures to share? Go to wdef.com/photos

Thanks to @WDEFNews12 viewer Sue from the Sale Creek area for our Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay. Got #weatherwindow pictures to share? Go to wdef.com/photos

Thanks to @WDEFNews12 viewer Sue from the Sale Creek area for our Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay.

Got #weatherwindow pictures to share? Go to wdef.com/photos

#WDEFNews12 #SkyBlog12 Satellites Tonight -- Chinese space station will be visible over the @WDEFnews12 viewing area rising in the WSW around 6:27 PM EST, fading in the WNW near constellation Perseus at 6:32 PM EST. #KeepLookingUp

#WDEFNews12 #SkyBlog12 Satellites Tonight -- Chinese space station will be visible over the @WDEFnews12 viewing area rising in the WSW around 6:27 PM EST, fading in the WNW near constellation Perseus at 6:32 PM EST. #KeepLookingUp

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather #BlipCast Monday: Nice start to November. Trouble lurking towards the end of the week with a 1-2 punch of systems moving in.
Details tonight on @WDEFNews12 at 5:30, 6, 7 & 11.

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather Night Planner forecast

#WhoIsMyNeighbor? Visit the @WDEFnews12 website to find various agencies and local food banks taking donations. With the government shutdown continuing our neighbors need help. Please donate food or money where possible. Check with each organization for hours and locations. https://www.wdef.com/foodbanks/

#WhoIsMyNeighbor?
Visit the @WDEFnews12 website to find various agencies and local food banks taking donations. With the government shutdown continuing our neighbors need help. Please donate food or money where possible. Check with each organization for hours and locations.
www.wdef.com/foodbanks/

Science Moms lean into ‘humanness’ to educate on climate change risk Science Moms works to demystify climate change and motivate moms to demand plans and solutions that will protect the planet for their kids—and their kids from dangerous, climate-change fueled extreme ...

"Science Moms... most high-profile ad to date ran during the 2025 Superbowl, when millions heard the message: “#Climatechange is like watching them grow up: we blink and we miss it.”

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#WDEFWeather #News12Weather Friday #BlipCast: Calm, dry and sunny as the last day of October passes by. Conditions for trick-or-treating tonight will be dry and chilly. Rain for the first weekend of November.

Details coming up tonight on @WDEFNews12 at 5:30, 6, 7 & 11.

Despite what’s happening in the USA, renewables are winning globally The world is betting on solar and wind, despite Trump’s championing of fossil fuels in the United States.

“Overall—we’re talking globally—#renewables overtook coal,” said Malgorzata Wiatros-Motyka, a senior electricity analyst at Ember and a co-author of the company’s report.
“And I expect this to hold.”
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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"Here’s the thing... There is no “patch” for the #climatecrisis. And there is no way to reboot the planet if you crash it. The only safe and reliable way out when you find yourself in a climate hole is to stop digging—and burning— #fossilfuels ."

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The not-so-spooky origins of 'ghost' — and why the word still haunts our language It wouldn't be spooky season without ghosts. But they weren't always the evil spirits we see in books and movies today. For Word of the Week, we look back on the origins of "ghost."

It wouldn't be spooky season without ghosts. But they weren't always the evil spirits we see in books and movies today. For Word of the Week, we look back on the origins of "ghost."

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather Night Planner Forecast: Looking good for #BooInTheZoo at the @ChattanoogaZoo this evening. Chilly overnight with clouds increasing on Saturday.

Many important weather and climate data streams have gone silent as the U.S. government shutdown continues on.

As just one example, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory did not release its regular monthly update for greenhouse gases, such as for carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

Go to our RoofQuotes.com #WeatherPoll page at wdef.com/votenow to choose your favorite Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay from last week. We'll announce the winner on Monday's Prime News At 7.

Go to our RoofQuotes.com #WeatherPoll page at wdef.com/votenow to choose your favorite Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay from last week. We'll announce the winner on Monday's Prime News At 7.

Thanks to @WDEFNews12 viewer Darlene Hylton of Lafayette for a view off the back deck... Thursday's Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay. Got #weatherpix to share? Go to wdef.com/photos

Thanks to @WDEFNews12 viewer Darlene Hylton of Lafayette for a view off the back deck... Thursday's Clay Kissner Paving & Seal Coating #WeatherWindow #PictureOfTheDay.

Got #weatherpix to share? Go to wdef.com/photos

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather BlipCast Thursday: Plenty of clouds today. Skies will clear tonight giving the area a sunny and dry Friday. Trick-Or-Treating looks good as well.

Details tonight on @WDEFNews12 at 5:30, 6, 7 & 11.

"Melissa is moving toward the northeast near 31 mph (50 km/h). An even faster motion toward the NE is expected into Saturday. A gradual turn toward the ENE is expected on Sunday." NOAA NHC

"Melissa is moving toward the northeast near 31 mph (50 km/h). An even faster motion toward the NE is expected into Saturday. A gradual turn toward the ENE is expected on Sunday." NOAA NHC

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather Night Planner forecast: Skies will clear later tonight. As they do, without that blanket of clouds temperatures will be much colder.

The age of oil is over. #LeaveItInTheGround

Map of September to November sea surface temperature trends in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. All areas are warming over the 1982 to 2024 period at around 0.4°C per decade. This data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1.

Here's now a map view of the warming of the Caribbean during the months of September to November. While there are many environmental factors that impact hurricane intensity, this warming certainly plays a role in fueling that rapid intensification.

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Bill Gates to Jamaica: "Let them eat Bulla and Toto"

A galaxy with non-smooth features from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 46 volunteers.

A galaxy with non-smooth features, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 0.76 (lookback time 6.83 billion years) with coordinates (149.68122, 1.93296).

46 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

An amazing picture taken by the ESA's Sentinel-2 Satellite, that was directly over the eye of Hurricane Melissa as it was making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday... #SpectrumNews1 #ncwx #Melissa #ESA

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

It’s Public Radio Music Day. It’s a celebration of art over algorithms. It’s a celebration of discovery, diversity, and deep listening. Keep the music playing in stations across the nation.

Stand up for the NPR Network’s commitment to free, public-access music at the link here: n.pr/47jpe4d

Hey @billgates.bsky.social: Thought you might want to read our new study: