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11 months ago the Los Angeles area got a year's worth of rain and faced life-threatening flooding and mudslides now it's on fire after its driest start to a water year on record. These are the increasing extremes of a warming world.
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Just an insane photo of one of the damaging tornadoes in Fort Myers, Florida, this morning from Brandon Lucas
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Why are there oven mitts? Are you supposed to catch the iguana with oven mitts? Please advise.
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Tornado near Waynesboro, MS, earlier this afternoon via Devon Polansky
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#Beryl isn’t “unbelievable” or “defying all logic” it’s what happens when you heat up the planet with fossil fuel pollution for decades. The oceans store roughly 90% of that excess heat. The ocean is as warm as it typically is in when Category 4 storms form. June is now August.
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“Look into my eyes Griese, screw you. You know damn well that’s a totally different game!”
@MichaelRyanRuiz @ChrisWittyngham @Stugotz790 @__ChrisCote @billygil @jessica_smetana
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View from congresswoman @Jenniffer2012 's home in Puerto Rico before/after #Maria in before/after form
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Collapsed exit in Anchorage, Alaska, after the earthquake via Dillon Vought instagram.com/p/Bq0HpZHH9u-/
Ongoing updates from @weatherchannel here:
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The Capitol One Building got shredded by #HurricanLaura in Lake Charles, LA.
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Utterly devastating before and after the volcanic eruption in San Miguel Los Lotes, Guatemala via @DigitalGlobe
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Incredible tornado caught live on @weatherchannel near Madill, Ok #okwx @TWCAlexWilson @twcMarkElliot
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#Florence landfall plus a sunrise ... beautiful, devastating.
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Here are all of the mandatory evacuations in the U.S. in the path of #Dorian , along with links and maps to check if you're impacted:
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Just 3 days ago was the 31 year anniversary of the F5 tornado that hit Andover, Kansas, and killed 17 people. Now they’re dealing with another destructive tornado.
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750,000+ people under mandatory evacuations now in Louisiana & Texas combined #laura
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Bottle floating by a @houstontranstar camera on I-610 feeder road...this is how high up that camera is on google maps #houstonflood #Harvey
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Civic Center Roof blown out in Lake Charles, Louisiana by #HurricanLaura #laura via Josh C. Morrow
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This is what Californians are dealing with due to the #BolesFire #KingFire and #CourtneyFire weather.com/safety/wildfires…
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This is heartbreaking. Fires destroyed a kangaroo sanctuary in Australia and the kangaroos were feared dead. Some returned alive. This is what that meant to those who work there.
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The sanctuary: wild2free.org.au/
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Drought Lipo: Watch N Cal drought melt away from its worst in 7/29/14 to now. First time no drought N of I-80 since 12/20/2011h/t @wxjerdman
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#FortMacFire #ymmfire Appears to be at Fort McMurray Airport ... here's the webcam from last 6 hours until now #ymm
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I've covered hurricanes for nearly 8 years at a national level, but every single time I'm consistently amazed by what local newspapers & TV Stations are doing to cover their community with scant resources & little pay. They're an extension of the places they cover. Support them.
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Climate Change is making another Great Flood in California more likely and the billions spent to try to help protect Californians from it likely will be too little, too late. How public policy/planning is ill equipped to deal with climate change's threats features.weather.com/us-clim…
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Hurricane #Matthew track shift trend toward the U.S. coast over the last 36 Hours. via @NHC_Atlantic advisories.
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A highway bridge has collapsed in the deadly, historic floods in Nebraska. Highway 13 near Hadar, Nebraska. via @NewsChannelNE
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The Fort Lauderdale #tornado is a visceral reminder that more is coming Tuesday with the next winter storm
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Fellow Jags fans, I had a Tony Boselli childhood growth chart that I compared my own growth against. I framed an autograph from Bryson Barker I got from a preseason game. Bonafides aside, I think we can all agree it's the most Jaguars thing ever that our only HOFer is a tackle.
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Is there a more Florida way to deal with invasive species than having a competition called the "Python Bowl" to cull as many pythons as possible that's not only sponsored by Bass Pro Shops, but also features this photo of the governor? The winner gets an ATV.
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Two weeks ago I found out I have cancer. I'm still trying to figure out how to navigate that reality, but wanted to share what it's taught me so far, because you people have kept me going. link.medium.com/MnxPepSqlgb
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Just a man unloading a chair from the second story deck of his house into a boat due to historic flooding in Lake Travis, Texas. photo via @statesman via @AP_Images
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This study from @Weather_West might seem out of place given drought dominating headlines, but thats legitimately California’s hydro climate in the warming world: prepare for more extreme floods when you’re in an extreme drought and vice versa.
A harrowing new study finds that the risk of a terrible flood in California, even worse than the Great Flood of 1862 when it rained for 43 days, has intensified amid global warming, sprawling development and wildfires.
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It appears a small child with a box of markers got hold of the @NHC_Atlantic 's latest tropical weather outlook
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"It looks like someone almost just took a giant knife and scraped the ground" That Alabama Sheriff wasn't kidding. Before/After the EF4 tornado from space shows serious tornado scarring in Lee County. Photo: @DigitalGlobe
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My cancer center just announced that chemo patients can’t have company while getting infusions because of how bad COVID is in GA. Having my wife with me during my (non chemo) cancer stuff helps me hold it together. Get the damn vaccine so chemo patients don’t have to be alone.
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One Man’s Quest to Photograph Every Captive Animal on the Planet weather.com/science/nature/v…
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Holly Beach, LA, was wiped away by Rita's surge in 2005 & has since rebuilt. Currently 9ft+ surge forecast there in worst-case scenario from #Laura
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yo storm chasers, how many miles do you have on your odometer? I'd like to know who is the king of the miles #wxtwitter
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That's not fall color, that's flame retardant near Calistoga, California. #CaliforniaWildfires #Calistoga #Calfires via @AP_Images
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Details on 19 Deaths in North Carolina report from @AP is brutal proof to stay off roads/out of vehicles in flooding.
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All I can do now is imagine which words they're latching onto. I imagine they're really throwing a party over "We will be back in some form"
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How many hours of @LeBatardShow does it take to get your wife to finally get the show? I’m at 12.5 days-worth and it still hasn’t happened yet
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No words. Rescuers find shivering toddler clinging to mother, who sacrificed her life to save her child. weather.com/storms/hurricane…
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Where does one actually watch breaking news in America? There are hundreds of people dead in Haiti and entire towns flattened and hundreds more missing & a major humanitarian disaster with a tropical system headed that way & CNN, Fox, MSNBC…etc. haven’t had a mention.
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Theory: He had every intention of going down before the Lion started Lion(ing) and tried to actually tackle him, instead of letting him score. That threw him off both physically & mentally, thus Lion(ing) < Falcon(ing). It’s actually a microcosm of a greater battle of ineptitude
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Update: It kicked off today and this guy from the presser is definitely winning if he's playing
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Animated look at #Irma 's creeping track trend in NHC advisories since 8P last night. #HurricaneIrma
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It's actually insane that we live in a time where humans can predict the relative strength and position of a massively complex storm system on a massively complex planet, with such accuracy days in advance. (First advisory on 11/23 and tonight's 8p update) #HurricaneIan #Ian
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LaPlace is now an ocean at the I-10/I-55 interchange thanks to Ida
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Live look at me in hot yoga #90dayfiancebeforethe90days
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Nothing gets me more hyped for listening to the show later in the day than seeing a poll like this as the first poll
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Personal news: Today was my last day at The Weather Channel. It’s been a helluva (decade long) run at TWC, but I’m very excited to be joining CNN’s excellent climate team as the editor of extreme weather (just in time for an early season MDR storm!).
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The sheer number of wrinkles on his shirt at a presser is the only sign I needed to know he feels more comfortable without clothing.
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Extent of #EastTroublesomeFire (left) & all the beetle-killed forest (right) 1997 - 2019. So yeah, it's burning through that.
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My father-in-law DVR’ed the Super Bowl win and watches it when he needs a pick me up. 10/10 free Eagles fan therapy, highly recommend
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I've never wanted to scream at a computer screen more than now to tell these people playing in #hurricaneian storm surge/surf on Ft Myers Beach coast to get the hell into shelter
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The island of Tinian is now almost entirely within the eye of Cat. 5 Super Typhoon Yutu via @UWCIMSS h/t @wxjerdman
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In ode to #Nepartak every cat.5 equivalent (SSHWS) cyclone since 06 @TWCAlexWilson @MichaelRLowry @twcMarkElliot
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This one of the craziest weather photos I've seen, from flooding in South Africa. A fuel tanker washed onto Blue Lagoon Beach in Durban.
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Puppies.You guys, @TWCAlexWilson is live adopting puppies and cats on Facebook right now facebook.com/TheWeatherChann…
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This seems like a good opportunity for everyone to play the terrible weather headline madlib game we sometimes play at @weatherchannel
Scary Sounding Thing + Dangerous Weather Term = Super Tornado
alt:
Scary Sounding Adjective + Complex-sounding Weather Term = Bomb Cyclone
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Stall stork. Gotta protect animals from #Matthew somehow. @StAugGatorFarm keeping the critters safe indoors. Photo: @AP_Images
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For those asking/commenting to the effect: Florida has only averaged two tornadoes a year in January over the last 20 years, per @wxjerdman
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When the ice cream starts melting in the cone #PepsiHalftime
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Historic midwest flooding before/after from space via @NASAEarth
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I once filed a story in a BK that had an Internet cafe built into it. It felt like a competitive move aimed at cornering the journo market
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