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LOS ANGELES—Rolling their eyes and mocking the pathetic attempts to navigate the narrow space, passersby reportedly mumbled “Must be a Waymo” Monday while observing a local moron stuck backing up in an alley for half an hour. “These companies act like it’s only a matter of time before every car on the road is an autonomous vehicle, but this technology still can’t handle more complicated maneuvers,” bystander Gia Zelaya said of the panicking driver who had attempted the same three-point turn 10 times in row while barking “Fuck, fuck!” at himself. “These cars might do great in regular situations, but throw one unexpected scenario at them and they freeze. How stupid is this thing to try and make such a tight turn in a narrow alley, anyway? And it keeps robotically repeating the same couple moves over and over. You can see these cars don’t actually know how to think. I don’t know why this is even legal. They’re testing a dangerous technology on us. Maybe it will be ready in five or 10 years, but until then, I’ll stick with a human I can trust.” Witnesses watching the doofus with 12 infractions on his license scrape his bumper against the wall of the building admitted that while the Waymo’s pathfinding was suspect, they were impressed by the autonomous vehicle’s humanlike crying.

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Joe Flint and John Jurgensen, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):

But digital advertising revenue hasn’t made up for the fall in ad dollars going to traditional broadcast programming. Spending on linear advertising for the late-night segment on ABC, CBS and NBC fell from $439 million in 2018 to $221 million in 2024, according to Guideline, an ad-tracking platform.

That’s a precipitous decline, if accurate. But still, given that Colbert’s The Late Show has consistently been the highest-rated overall and tied with ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live for the 18–49 year-old demographic, it feels very safe to presume that it generated at least a full third — say, $75–80 million — of that $221 million total. It’s reported that Colbert’s salary is $20 million per year, and Colbert himself said the other night the show employs 200 staff.

If, as anonymous CBS sources are claiming to multiple outlets, the show lost $40 million last year, that means it costs something on the order of $120 million per year to produce, or $100 million after Colbert’s salary. With a staff of 200 people, that’s an average salary of $500,000. I know it costs money to heat and cool the Ed Sullivan theater, and I’m sure there are other costs. But there is no way the average salary of a staff member on the show is half a million per year.

And, even if somehow The Late Show did lose money last year, it seems implausible that CBS wouldn’t first ask for budget cuts — staff reductions, a salary cut for Colbert, whatever else might possibly be running up a $120 million/year budget — before just shutting the whole thing down. NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers sadly cut the live studio band last year, for example. $75 million per year in ad revenue is way down from its Letterman era heyday, but that’s surely more than enough to produce a talk show. Also, all of this back-of-the-napkin budget analysis neglects to assign any promotional value to the show. CBS gets to promote everything else on the network to over 2 million people per night with house ads during commercial breaks and guests on the show from other CBS programs.

Cory Ondrejka joins in on the 40-year-old retro computing reminiscing:

For being otherwise bright folks, it’s remarkable how completely wrong they all are. The Atari was the best computer to have.

This whole friendly debate reminds me of the oft-cited adage that the best camera is the one you have with you: The best computer in the 1980s was whichever one your parents bought you. I honestly don’t remember anyone I knew who had an Atari computer. Atari game consoles, sure — almost everyone I knew had a 2600, and we all coveted the 5200. But they sure were cool-looking.

Oddly enough, Jack Tramiel^* — who founded and named Commodore in 1953 as a typewriter company and was running the company when it launched the PET (1977), VIC-20 (1980), and Commodore 64 (1982) — left the company after a dispute with the board in 1984 (a common industry occurrence in those days, seemingly), founded a new company briefly named Tramel Technology (not “Tramiel”, for ease of spelling), which bought the then-failing consumer business of Atari from Warner Communications and took the Atari name for its own. In 1985 Tramiel launched the Atari ST line at CES. To me the 16-bit Atari ST barely registers in my memory — I don’t think I ever encountered one anywhere, including in a store. When I think of Atari personal computers I think of the 8-bit Atari 800 (pretty cool!) and 400 (horrible — perhaps the worst keyboard ever shipped) from 1979.

(Anyway, neither of those aforecited adages are really true, though. Some cameras are much better than others. And the best computers back then were the Apple II’s.)

* Just me or was Tramiel a dead ringer for character actor Gordon Jump, of WKRP in Cincinnati fame?

Reuters, with a headline that truly could have come from The Onion, “Trump Threatens Washington Stadium Deal Unless NFL Team Readopts Redskins Name”:

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., unless the local NFL team, now known as the Commanders, changes its name back to Redskins. The American football team dropped the name Redskins in 2020 after decades of criticism that it was a racial slur with links to the U.S. genocide of the Indigenous population.

Trump had called for a return to the name Redskins — and for the Cleveland Guardians baseball team to once again adopt the name Indians — on other occasions, but on Sunday he added that he may take official action.

“I may put a restriction on them that if they don’t change the name back to the original ‘Washington Redskins,’ and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, ‘Washington Commanders,’ I won’t make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

The team moved from Washington to suburban Landover, Maryland, in 1997, but earlier this year reached an agreement with the local District of Columbia government to return to the city with a new stadium expected to open in 2030.

Trump has limited authority to intervene under the current home-rule law governing federal oversight of the District of Columbia, but he has raised the prospect of taking more control, telling reporters in February, “I think we should take over Washington, D.C.”

It should be emphasized — and shame on Reuters for not doing so — that Trump can’t just “take control” of the District of Columbia. Per Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, it’s Congressional authority that oversees the district, not the Executive branch.

Here are the two posts from his blog that got this obvious attempt to distract from his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. (“Look at me, I’m a crazy old angry racist, not a creepy old pedophile!”)

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In brief: A couple areas to watch in the tropics seem unlikely to develop much. Flash flooding hit just outside of DC yesterday and in Iowa overnight. The main flooding threat today will be across central Illinois, Indiana, and southwest Ohio.

Central Atlantic wave not a threat to land

The National Hurricane Center continues with a tropical wave highlighted on their outlook map this morning, but odds of development have fallen to 10 percent. This appears to be unlikely to do much of anything at this point.

It’s just not in a prime spot for development, and it’s quite a bit far south. So ultimately, this will likely meet its demise before arriving in the Caribbean as it encounters strong wind shear. Perhaps we’ll see some increased shower chances for some of the Lesser Antilles, but that would be all.

Gulf disturbance next week

Models continue to show that the remnants of 93L will reorient into a new disturbance and do a very similar thing to Invest 93L. A true meteorological deja vu. The new disturbance should emerge in the Gulf by about midweek this coming week. It will then likely track close to the Gulf Coast toward Louisiana or even Texas before coming ashore.

Because of how close this will again be to land, it seems highly unlikely that it would develop. Again. Still, this may produce another round of locally heavy rain for the central and eastern Gulf Coast, which you can again see on the rainfall forecast map from the NWS for the next 7 days.

Certainly something to keep an eye on, but this once again seems like a rain event more than anything.

Flash flood emergency outside of DC on Saturday

The latest in a spate of flash flood emergencies this month occurred in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside of DC on Saturday afternoon. Rainfall totals of 3 to 4 inches or more, much of which fell in a short time led to widespread significant flooding in the area.

Some of the pictures are certainly a bit scary for this area. The runoff caused a very rapid rise on Sligo Creek, which runs through Takoma Park and dumps into the Anacostia River near Hyattsville. The creek set a new record, though it appears that its records only date back into the early 2000s.

But again, notice the rapid rise there. In a little more than an hour, the creek went from about 20 cfs to 3,000 cfs and rose 7 feet. And while this was certainly a heavy rainfall, it was not the heaviest we’ve ever seen in this region. It just speaks to how quickly flash flooding can overwhelm drainage and watersheds.

Rain chances today

A number of flash flood warnings are currently in effect across Iowa where heavy rain fell overnight to the tune of 3 to 6 inches south of Des Moines.

Those thunderstorms have now pushed into Illinois, and as the day goes on, we could see heavy storms develop with daytime heating across Central Illinois and Indiana. A moderate risk (level 3 of 4) for excessive rain is in place from about Terre Haute, Indiana through Springfield and Decatur over to Quincy, Illinois.

While flash flooding may not be as widespread as it was in Iowa, it does look like we could see isolated pockets from northern Missouri into the Indianapolis, Cincinnati, or Louisville areas that see anywhere from 3 to 5 inches of rain later today. This could produce rapid onset flash flooding in spots. It’s a good day to be alert if you live there or your travels take you to those areas.

You can see the combination of a building heat wave (extreme heat warnings in effect in Kansas and Missouri south to near Memphis) bumping up against flooding risks (green indicating flood watches) in the Midwest. A very hot, swampy type situation for much of the middle of the country today.

Heat advisories ring the Southeast today from Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast to Florida and up into eastern North Carolina. Expect to see advisories and excessive heat messaging for the next 7 to 10 days across much of the country.

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…

1. How to coach an employee to stop name-dropping

I manage a small team of five people. We are a very busy team, but I have had the great fortune to end up with people who are friendly, easygoing, and hard-working. None of us take ourselves too seriously, which is critical for surviving the work we do.

One of my staff members recently went on maternity leave, and another employee in the organization came over on assignment (let’s call her Jane). Jane briefly worked with our group a few years ago, for about a year, and then moved on to a different area. Since she’s been with us, she’s done great work, but her name-dropping is uncontrollable. Any time I task her with something, she drops in a mention about how she did X the last time she was here. She also talks (name-drops) incessantly about which senior manager likes her cookies (she bakes), and she knows this person in X branch, etc. etc. It’s so tiresome, and it also really doesn’t matter — no one on the team cares about who you know, we just care about getting the work done.

She’s only going to be with us for the year, but in the interest of making the next 11 months manageable (and doing her a kindness for future work), I’d like to coach her on how to shift her habits in this area. Do you have any suggestions?

I’m not sure you should! This might fall under the category of “people are allowed to have annoying personalities.” It’s also possible that it will drop off as Jane starts to feel more comfortable and established on your team.

If it’s affecting her relationships with others on the team, I’d be more inclined to address it, but then you’d be focusing on the specific effects you’re seeing — like, “When someone’s explaining a project and you interject to explain who you know on the other team, it disrupts their explanation and takes us off track” or whatever specifically you’re seeing. But I suspect you’re better off just not reacting when she does it; hopefully over time she’ll see she’s not getting the impressed response she’s going for and will start feeling more secure about her place on your team.

2. Hiring a coach to teach someone not to be a jerk

I’m an executive assistant in a multinational company and in one management team meeting we were informed that an employee has accused another employee of harassment. After HR looked into it, it was agreed that it wasn’t necessarily harassment but a very serious behavioral issue with this employee, due to their personality and the way they address people. This person had been insulting the other employee on several occasions. One solution to this problem that was brought up was to get this employee a coach. Coaching sessions are quite expensive, and I don’t understand why the company needs to spend money on coaching to teach an adult how to behave in a professional environment.

What is your opinion on this? I actually brought this up, and the answer I got in the meeting was that we do it when an employee is otherwise valued and very good at their job.

It is a bit ridiculous to bring in a coach to teach someone how to behave civilly with colleagues. But yeah, if someone is extremely valued (not just “decent at their job” but unusually good) you do sometimes see companies try coaching. And sometimes it works! Some people really do have terrible interpersonal skills and do benefit from coaching on them. It’s also not wrong to say, “We don’t think we should need to teach you to act like a decent human” — but for a company that really wants to keep the person’s skills, trying some short-term coaching isn’t outrageous. That said, it needs to be short-term with clear outcomes laid out, and clear consequences if the person doesn’t change, not just a way to avoid dealing with the problem.

3. Explaining I’m giving myself meds with my phone

I just started a new job and it’s traditional in my field to go out for coffee and/or lunch with my colleagues. I enjoy this and want to do it! However, I have a medical condition that means that I need to give myself medication whenever I eat or drink most things that aren’t water. I am able to do this very conveniently using my phone, which is awesome. But when I get my coffee or sandwich, I need to give myself medicine, and I feel horribly rude fiddling with my phone without explanation. (It takes about 10 seconds to a minute, depending on how cooperative the software is being.)

Can you help me with how to casually inform my colleagues that I am going to give myself medicine with my phone — without inviting a lot of followup or giving unnecessary detail? I don’t actually want to tell my colleagues what my illness is, but I also need to take my meds.

“Sorry, I just need a few seconds to do a medical thing with my phone.”

A lot of people won’t realize “medical thing” means “giving myself meds”; they’ll think you’re confirming a prescription or responding to a doctor’s time-sensitive message or similar … and since those things are pretty boring, hopefully you won’t get many people asking about it. But if anyone does, it’s completely fine to say, “Oh, just a minor medical thing, nothing to worry about” or “Oh, just a minor medical thing; I try not to bore people with it at work.”

4. How to handle blatant discrimination in a job interview

You have written in the past about professional situations that come up in movies and TV shows. I recently started watching the show “Younger” (even though it came out years ago). In the show’s opening scene, Liza, a 40-year-old seeking to re-enter the book publishing world after being away for 15 years raising her child, is interviewing for a job at a publishing house. Her two interviewers, 20-something women, are incredibly condescending regarding all of the latest media trends she’s unaware of, and one of them nearly blurts out that Liza is too old before catching herself and claiming, implausibly, that she was going to say she was too “orange.”

The purpose of the scene is to set the table for the show by establishing that Liza will never get hired, which then leads to her claiming to be 26 at a subsequent interview and getting the job. But I couldn’t help wondering: if such a scenario took place in a real-world interview, what would you recommend the job seeker do?

On the one hand, the age discrimination was pretty blatant. On the other hand, it would be the word of two company employees against her. And what would she have to gain by suing potential employers? She would almost certainly torch any future prospects in the industry. It might be good for society in general to expose that kind of discrimination, but as is frequently the case with whistleblowing, it would very likely come at a high personal cost.

I suppose one could engage in what’s known as “putting the gun on the table.” You write a letter to the head of HR documenting what happened but don’t explicitly threaten a lawsuit, and see how they react. But as much as I hate to admit it, it’s hard not to conclude that the smartest thing for Liza to do in that situation is exactly what she did do: nothing. (To be clear, lying about her age in subsequent interviews was decidedly not the smart thing to do.)

Yes, that’s why so many (probably most) incidents of discrimination in interviews go unaddressed. People do the same calculation you did and decide it’s not in their best interests to pursue it.

Your “this is what happened” letter to the company is a middle-ground option. You can also talk to an employment lawyer to get a better sense of likely outcomes if you do pursue legal action. But … yeah.

5. Is unpaid work like this legal?

I recently started pet-sitting for a national pet-sitting company. I am a W2 employee, so this is not really gig work. However, the company is not at all transparent about pay. They pay per visit using some formula, but there is so much work required behind the scenes that is unpaid that far exceeds the stated visit time. So yesterday, for a 30-minute meet and greet, I ended up working over 2.5 hours and making $11. (This does not include driving to and from the assignment; it’s all actual work.)

Now, some of this is me being extra thorough with notes and prep, or being inefficient because I am new, but this is caring for someone’s pet, so of course I am thorough! But some of it is actually required, like entering detailed notes into their app, and helping the customer sort out some confusion caused by the office in the name of good customer service.

Is this somehow legal? The offer letter stated an hourly rate, but the language around that was a bit weaselly so maybe they covered their butts that way? It just feels exploitative to me, which bothers me a lot, as we’re all just animal lovers trying to do a genuinely great job and make some money in a terrible job market.

It’s not legal. If you’re a W2 employee (not a 1099 independent contractor), they are required by federal law to pay you for all time you spend working. That’s true even if you do more work than they require (like entering more detailed notes). They can say, “You’re taking too much time to do this work and so we’re firing you for that,” but they do need to pay you for all the time you spend on the work.

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I know, I know. The electricity changed his trajectory. It’s not your fault. It’s not anybody’s fault.

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If you need an explanation of “two hearts’ love” in its purest form, I suggest listening to the song “Two Hearts” by Phil Collins, which lays the concept out as clearly as anyone ever has.

“Two Hearts” is taken from the 1988 film “Buster”, which is based on the story of Great Train Robber Buster Edwards, set in 1963. We are now further away from that nostalgic film than it was from the events it described. So I am currently writing a movie about the making of the film Buster, and hope to play the role of Phil Collins myself. I’m 11 years older, but will give it a decent stab (maybe with the help of CGI). The centrepiece of the OST will be a song about the song “Two Hearts” which will soundtrack the writing of the song onscreen. The working title for the film is “Busterer”. If you work for a film production company, please contact my agent.

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The drought in the Southwestern US is likely to last for the rest of the 21st century and potentially beyond as global warming shifts the distribution of heat in the Pacific Ocean, according to a study published last week led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.

Using sediment cores collected in the Rocky Mountains, paleoclimatology records and climate models, the researchers found warming driven by greenhouse gas emissions can alter patterns of atmospheric and marine heat in the North Pacific Ocean in a way resembling what’s known as the negative phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), fluctuations in sea surface temperatures that result in decreased winter precipitation in the American Southwest. But in this case, the phenomenon can last far longer than the usual 30-year cycle of the PDO.

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The Health Museum in Houston has announced an open call for its upcoming healing arts exhibition Age in Our Times. Writers and visual artists are invited to submit works that “reframe aging as a deeply human process with a particular focus on experiences in later life, whether through personal experiences, reflection on others, or imagining the future,” according to the museum’s announcement.

More than 20 works will be selected by a panel of jurors for an exhibition at the interactive health science museum to be unveiled at an opening reception in October 2025, with the show running through Spring 2026.

Rose Tylinski, the museum’s Healing Arts Manager, launched the Healing Arts Program in 2024. The inaugural exhibition, Healing Hands: A Collection of Caregiver Expressions on Mental Wellness, showcased work by caregivers who used art to tell their stories about caring for others.

Ms. Tylinski developed the program “to explore the intersections of art, medicine, and culture, and provide the community with an outlet for processing experiences relating to physical and mental health,” through exhibitions, workshops, and community engagement.

The Healing Arts Program proposes that “healthier communities can be built through collaboration between individuals, educators, artists, and healthcare professionals” to inspire “connection, creativity, critical thinking, and compassionate dialogue.”

Greater Houston area artists and writers age 18 or over are eligible to submit work. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, July 31, 2025.

For further details on submission guidelines and to learn more about The Health Museum, visit the open call web page.

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Mr. Haney, no!

Matthew Belloni, writing at Puck (paywall-busting gift link) regarding the claim from anonymous CBS sources that The Late Show lost $40 million last year:

Nobody can know for sure. All I can tell you is what I’m hearing. Several sources at both CBS and Skydance insist the decision was based on economics, not politics. After all, if this was about appeasing Trump, they argue, Cheeks would have pulled Colbert off the air ASAP rather than giving him 10 more months in the chair. “Trust me, there’s no conspiracy,” a very good source close to Colbert told me tonight. Still, two other people with deep ties to CBS and Late Show suspect otherwise. After all, when a network decides that a show is too expensive, executives typically go to the key talent and ask them to take pay cuts, fire people, or otherwise slash costs. That didn’t happen here — though with Colbert said to be making between $15 million and $20 million per year, a pay cut wouldn’t have solved the problem on its own. And given the company’s willingness to fold to Trump, there’s no reason for you or me to think they would stand up to any political pressure, or resist any specific demand (which, of course, is the reason to not settle frivolous litigation…). If Chris McCarthy, Cheeks’s counterpart on the cable TV side, cancels The Daily Show in the next couple weeks, I think we’ll have a good idea what’s going on. But for now, I cautiously (and skeptically) believe that this was mostly an economic decision.

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Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 PM EDT Sat Jul 19 2025

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America:

Central Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave interacting with a broad area of low pressure is
producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms more than 900 miles
west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. Environmental conditions
appear marginally conducive for gradual development of this system
during the next few days as it moves westward to west-northwestward
around 10 mph. By the middle of next week, environmental conditions
are forecast to become unfavorable for further development.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...20 percent.

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Forecaster Hagen

In brief: A disturbance in the Central Atlantic may try to develop before it dissipates near the Caribbean. Former Invest 93L may return to the Gulf next week as a new disturbance, but no signs of development are showing yet. More flooding concerns continue today in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. And some stronger than normal heat remains in the cards next week and into August.

Tropical Atlantic

Yesterday we mentioned the possibility of something low-end in the open Atlantic, and today we’ve got a lemon showing up on the National Hurricane Center outlook.

This one has about a 20 percent shot at development before it runs into a wall of wind shear in the Caribbean next week. Currently, it’s not a whole heck of a lot to look at. It’s a very broad area of thunderstorms from about 29W to 48W, with the primary disturbance to watch around 36W.

Wind shear is pretty relaxed out there right now, which could help it to develop, but there is a bunch of dry air and Saharan dust lying just north of this axis of thunderstorms. I would assume if this did develop, as a handful of various models show, it would be brief and lower-end. Semi-permanent high wind shear awaits this once it gets near the islands however, which should spell the end of the road for whatever it can become out there. Perhaps we’ll get an Invest out of this today or tomorrow though, so we’ll just keep an eye on it. But for now, this should not be a worry for anyone.

Ex-Invest 93L’s circle of life

The artist formerly known as Invest 93L is just going to meander around the Southeast this weekend and early next week. Eventually it’s going to be forced south again toward the Gulf and it could re-emerge around late week, likely as a new disturbance. There’s a fair bit of uncertainty as to exactly where this shows back up and in what shape it would be.

But at this time, there’s not any real reliable data showing development. For now, it’s mostly just a curiosity that could bring more rain to parts of the Gulf Coast between Texas and Florida by later next week. Still, we’ll keep tabs on it.

Flooding concerns continue

We saw an interesting assortment of weather on Friday, including a funky, odd system tracking east to west across Southern California bringing some flash flood warnings to the region. MCV’s (or a Mesoscale Convective Vortex) are not especially large, but they can bring some localized intense rainfall to an area as they pass through.

There’s something you don’t see every day — an MCV moving east to west into California towards the Death Valley region:

— Tomer Burg (@burgwx.bsky.social) 2025-07-18T13:48:18.720Z

In fact, we saw some heavy rain in spots between Death Valley (yes it does rain there!) southwest into the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains. There was also a pocket of heavy rain near the Castle Mountains south of I-15 in the Mojave Desert as well.

Additional heavy rain fell in other parts of the Southwest, as it has the last few days, with the area north and west of Las Vegas cashing in, as well as much of southwest Utah and northern Arizona, as well as New Mexico. Given the dry winter this past year in this region, rainfall is certainly welcome.

There were also additional flooding issues in other parts of the country as well, including Evansville, Indiana and (again) Petersburg, Virginia, which had another flash flood warning yesterday.

A slight risk (2/4) is in place over a wide swath of the country for flooding today, covering Iowa, most of the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic.

Heat wave cometh

We continue to see plenty of signs of a stout, long-duration heat wave establishing this upcoming week into the following week across much of the Midwest and Mid-South. There aren’t a whole lot of record highs being forecast yet, but there are a number of warm minimum temperature records being forecast. Models continue to indicate some risk of near-record strength to this ridge as it builds.

Regardless of anything, a wide area is expected to see risk for extreme heat next week and into the beginning of August. Numerous pockets of “extreme” heat risk from the newer NWS product that factors in other things besides just temperature show up by next Thursday and Friday (shown below).

The combination of these heat risk maps and wet-bulb globe temperatures reaching extreme values in spots means that the heat precautions will be necessary, particularly for vulnerable communities across the Midwest and Mid-South next week. Stay tuned.

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HAMILTON – As more Torontonians relocate to cities that offer more affordable housing, rock legend Sir Paul McCartney announced that his Toronto concert at the Scotiabank Arena is also being relocated to a city with lower rents: Hamilton. “Who do you think I am? Taylor Swift?” said McCartney, explaining that he can no longer afford […]

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Takoma-Silver Spring Thunderbolts forced to cancel Thursday night game

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I'm sorry to barge in like this, but it occured to me that we never met. #CowboyWho