The watch area covers 18 counties across Southeast Texas, including Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, Brazoria and Galveston counties. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
"Earlier forecasts suggested storms would arrive later in the afternoon, but a faster-moving line of storms is bringing Houston’s severe weather risk earlier in the day." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
WSJ flags an important trait of the Epstein class: they're functionally illiterate, demonstrating a less-than-grade school mastery of grammar and spelling. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/je...
SXSW typically falls around the second and third weeks of March, when temperatures in Austin are usually quite pleasant. However, we know that March in Austin brings its fair share of wild weather during this time of year. www.statesman.com/weather/arti...
A large cutoff low churns near Baja California.
This upper-level system will aid in the development of severe weather tomorrow across the central US.
We know a lot is going on right now, but we just realized that:
cabinet/board/panel = things made of wood
cabinet/board/panel = terms for organizations
Congress will vote on the Iran war tomorrow, just in time for the war that started last week
A dust wrapped Storm Regina brings rain and storms to Spain.
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
Weather events like El Niño can be notoriously hard to predict, but this year could mark its return
“We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
Another example of human activity expanding faster than our ability to understand its consequences.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Nebula PMR 1 looks uncannily similar to an electrified brain inside a semi-transparent skull
as my colleague John Nielsen-Gammon says, "if you don't like Texas' triple digit temperatures, use Celsius"
27 February 1964:
The Beatles record And I Love Her, Tell Me Why, and If I Fell, all for the A Hard Day's Night LP.
John Lennon, 1980: "You can never be twenty-four again. You can't be that hungry twice. That can never, never be."
Full session info:
www.beatlesbible.com/1964/02/27/r...
'O’clock’ is a contraction of "of the clock."
‘Clock’ comes from the Medieval Latin ‘clocca,’ which meant “bell.”
Church towers would ring bells to mark the passing hours.
‘Cloak’ also comes from ‘clocca’ as the garment takes a bell-like shape around the body.
A swirling low off the coast of Morocco wraps itself in Saharan dust.
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
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Although seasonal changes and the switch to daylight saving time both occur in March, the two sunlight-related events still can be weeks apart. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Hey, so all those rocket launches people love cheering on are probably destroying the upper atmosphere. Repairing the ozone layer in the 90s is one of our all-time great achievements as a global civilization; private rocket men seem intent on reversing that.
A lifetime look at the impactful nor'easter that pounded the northeastern U.S.
Many locations in the Northeast US have received over a foot of snowfall since yesterday morning due to a relentless winter storm and blizzard from a powerful nor'easter.
New from 404 Media: how ICE and CBP are using the free walkie-talkie app Zello to coordinate their operations. We've linked multiple Zello accounts to ICE, found group chats with names referencing immigration. App previously criticized for allowing far right channels
www.404media.co/how-ice-and-...
Great game, Canada!
It was an honor/honour to
play against such fantastic neighbors/ neighbours.
Prepare to by hypnotized by this mesmerizing low pressure system swirling over the Pacific Ocean.
Nazgul isn't talking, but his owners come clean about how he got loose, got famous, and how they feel now n.pr/3ODMRyx
The Sierra Nevada mountains are sporting a fresh new snowpack following a barrage of winter storms this week that dropped up to multiple feet of snow in some locations.
