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It was refreshingly windy in Everett last night, probably not as refreshing for folks east of the Cascades.

Its weird to watch those 2m SSTs go into the warmer part of the color table, only a couple miles off shore.

San Antonio Sentinels will get a chance to rebuild, kind of like how the Thunder did.

There are several cities in Texas that need a ball team.

Yeah. Weirdly controversial for some, but there have been some good papers on the influence of melt water. A recent Antarctic paper though says we might be overestimating the ability of melt off to influence an ocean current. We’ll probably find out in a decade unless Oregon’s Clathrate Gun goes off.

The Oakland fires should have been the wake up call. I look at the Seattle Eastside and all it’s going to take is a couple hot months, serious issues with water pressure, wild fires consuming aerial resources, and an east wind event. A lot of factors that seeming come together more often than not in our new Italian-esque climate.

There was recorded rainfall and pooling in the center of the Greenland Ice Cap. It has happened a few times before, but not to the extent of leaving large ponds of beautiful deep blue water. i find that ice cap so fascinating due to it’s lower latitude, proximity to the North Atlantic current and a how seasonal melt off can impact regional climates. It’s geologically a bowl of ice that was and is in prime position for heavy snow. As marginal summer temps move about the slush mark, that precip becomes a double edge sword. We’ll see though, I’m more confident in the rapid melt down of the southern third of the ice sheet than headlines proclaiming no more snow south of Alaska.

Against the wall with them all! - Some Phish Head in Spokane

I called him back and gave him a stern talking too about “Flatirons Law of Recency Bias As Applied To Weather Community Dialogue”.

The Colorado reservoir system did a great job of waking people up when the wildfires didn't. Talking to a friend in Philly, the persistent heat makes this year "feel" different. We are probably 3-5 years out for a wet bulb event in India which will be absolutely horrific and probably another 5 years for one in the US. By 2035 we will probably a wildfire hit a suburban area in Washington and Oregon, a significant Appalachian or Pine Barren fire, a glacial melt lahar on a west coast volcano, and probably an unprecedented meltwater event in Greenland (this year's rain-on-the-cap should be enough to give someone pause). In 2035, the forum will still be around even some personalities here will have changed, with a certain Wizard on the edge of his seat over a 63º low. All that said, people and the planet are pretty resilient and nearly every time someone has screeched from the rooftops or from Twitter that private vehicle ownership is the reason why your children will not see snow, they miss the mark.

July 21st is the first big “oh, it’s nearing the end”, kind of like Jan 21st when it’s still bright out at 5:30pm. Next jump is August 21st when the 8pm sunsets fade and the white balance has a noticeable shift into warmer colors.

There are some jokes here, but we’re both family men.

Gut feeling says that we are in for a smoky last half of summer. Quite a few 911 calls for smoldering bark in the Snohomish County area.

Still beautiful country out there.

The hard core dems in my family hate her. Her desire for power blinded her to the fact she would have been a great AG. She spent the first two years sitting on her hands and spent the last 18 months riding coat tails, and most of the establishment dems see that. If we come out of the convention with some kind of "Uber Progressive Checklist" candidate with the idea of "it is doing the right thing" as opposed to winning, then I how we get Walter Mondale outcomes.