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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 8h

There is a risk of significant flash flooding in parts of interior SW today as deep tropical moisture associated w/remnants of East Pacific #HurricanePriscilla interacts w/jet streak associated w/an incoming trough. Risk will be highest central/northern AZ and SW UT. #AZwx #UTwx

Excessive precipitation (i.e., flash flood risk) outlook from NOAA's WPC for today (10/6/2025) as visualized on pivotalweather.com. It shows a broad region of slight risk over the interior U.S. Southwest, and a two substantial lobes of moderate risk (i.e., second-highest tier) over northern Arizona and southern Utah, respecitvely.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 8h

Next week is looking quite active in CA as a high-amplitude flow pattern develops over North Pacific in downstream response to perturbation of jet stream by West Pacific #TyphoonHalong. NorCal looks quite wet & stormy (rain & iso. tstms/mtn snow); SoCal impacts TBD. #CAwx #CAfire

Snapshot from ECMWF ensemble of an unseasonably deep low pressure system centered just west of San Francisco by early next week. It will likely bring widespread rain, isolated thunderstorms, some mountain snowfall, and possibly some gusty winds though exact path and impacts remain TBD.

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Jonathan Erdman @wxjerdman.bsky.social · 10h

Here is our comprehensive, updated forecast on the coastal storm/nor'easter and all of its potential impacts, from significant coastal flooding to high winds and flooding rain.

weather.com/forecast/reg...

A Nor'easter Will Target The East Coast Beginning This Weekend | Weather.com

It may only be early October, but a nor'easter lies ahead for the East Coast. Here are the forecast details, including potential for wind, rain and coastal flooding for days.

weather.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10h

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 1d

BILLION BIRD NIGHT!!!
#birds #fall #migration

BirdCast map showing 1.24 billion birds headed south at 9:50pm EDT on October 8, 2025. Most of the migration is concentrated in the east, especially the southeast.

NEXRAD radar composite map showing birds and weather.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 1d

The entire city of Kotzebue, Alaska, is being evacuated for potential record coastal flooding. Kotzebue is the "hub" community for northwest Alaska. @alaskawx.bsky.social

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 2d

kotzebue, alaska declared a mandatory evacuation order

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 2d

Ope, here it is: hudson.dl.stevens-tech.edu/sfas/d/index...

But of course other ideas are welcome!

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 2d

Anyone have a good source of tide/inundation forecasts beyond the 48 hours on NOAA Tides & Currents site? I seem to remember that Stony Brook University used to have something, but I can't find it.

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 2d

WPC has initiated Key Messages for an impending coastal storm that will look to generate strong wind gusts, heavy rainfall, and significant coastal impacts that include coastal flooding, rip currents, and beach erosion along portions of the East Coast over the upcoming weekend.

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Nick Bassill @nickpbassill.bsky.social · 2d

One important part of the possible coastal storm is that winds will be roughly from the NE. This is already a rare direction, and last winter featured basically zero nor'easters.

*If* ~45 mph NE gusts occur in Long Island, it could be 1000+ days since the last occurrence. Rare wind = more damage.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 2d

This extratropical transition will perturb the jet stream and could cause a major early-season rain and snowstorm in California next week. Stay tuned! #CAwx

Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 4d

Energy from Typhoon Halong near Japan may amplify the jet steam (excite the storm track) across the Northern Pacific / western North America this weekend. Scientifically known as tropical cyclone recurvature & extratropical transition.
Maps: @aliciambentley.bsky.social

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 2d

We probably need to go back to ~350 ppm CO₂ equivalent for temperatures to stop rising.

We are now above 573 ppm (GHG forcing of +4.1 W/m²).

That's without aerosols cooling things down.

There's too much uncertainty to be sure, but going back to 350 ppm is already a Herculean task.

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 2d

A trio of cyclonic eddies in the Gulf of Mexico are creating record-high Ocean Heat Content values for the date. Absolutely something of importance during this part of hurricane season.
@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 2d

Add in the fact that libraries are inherently quiet "third spaces" that provide everything from makerspaces to auditoriums and software subscriptions, and you have a winning combo

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2d

Cities are developing a new approach to developing housing: Integrating it into mixed-use library projects. These investments improve neighborhood vitality, add housing & improve services.

In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I create a database of such projects & point to success stories ⏬

Aging Libraries Could Offer Cities a Unique Opportunity to Build New Housing While Improving Public Services

Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartment units have been built in combined library-housing developments. These projects not only address local housing needs but…

www.urban.org

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I read somewhere recently that what the rich really want is slavery and it's hard not to read this article through that lens

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

this was really hard to read. my son is almost exactly the same age as the kid in here that Trump and Musk deliberately starved to death apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Russ Schumacher @rschumacher.cloud · 2d

Highly unusual situation approaching western Colorado with the moisture from Hurricane Priscilla. Grand Junction has never had precipitable water over an inch (25mm) so late in the year, but looks like it will be near that level on both Fri & Sat. Six standard deviations above average! #cowx 1/2

Global Ensemble Forecast System mean precipitable water and 700-mb winds valid on Saturday morning, 11 October 2025. A big plume of moisture will be transported into the southwest US ahead of decaying Hurricane Priscilla. From https://schumacher.atmos.colostate.edu/weather/ens.php

Standardized anomaly of precipitable water from the ECWMF ensemble mean on Saturday morning, 11 October 2025. It shows a broad swath of greater than +3 standard deviations in the western US. From https://schumacher.atmos.colostate.edu/weather/ecmwf.php

Ensemble forecast plume showing precipitable water at Grand Junction, Colorado in the members of the ECWMF ensemble. Values are predicted to be around 25-30 mm with high confidence on Friday 10 October through Saturday 11 October, far above the 90th percentile for the date. From https://schumacher.atmos.colostate.edu/weather/ecmwf.php

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo brought *Arnold Schwarzenegger* on the stage for this event.

Calling for climate unity w/ the Terminator (who also happens to be a leading GOP voice for climate action)…

I hope my fellow American Catholics are watching.

Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 5d

Pope Leo Calls for Unity on Climate at a Divided Moment - New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...

Pope Leo Calls for Unity on Climate at a Divided Moment

www.nytimes.com

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 4d

Peak water levels in the #Miami area have been above the minor flooding threshold for the past four days, and our tide forecasts show that continuing for at least the next ten days! #KingTide
bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tide/
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

reading this book in october on a beach day in new york city really drives (pun intended) the point of this book home.

congrats @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social !

the book Life After Cars by Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon, photographed on the beach

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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 6d

Looks like Minneapolis hit 90°F today, October 4th — the latest 90-degree day in city history.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 9d

The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.

A screenshot of a post by the Jane Goodall Institute on LinkedIn stating that they learned that Dr. Goodall passed away due to natural causes in California while on her speaking to her current speaking tour there.

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