Sunny and warm in the Twin Cities!
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Dang. Weather in the U.P. can feel bleak sometimes, but at least it’s in color.
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Love that medieval-lookin’ church. The brutalist things near it, not so much. It’s a great image.
We Trolls* get such dark, gray, gloomy, gets-into-yr-bones damp cold Februaries, it seems like the longest month.
*Troll - Pr. n; Frequently playful pejorative applied to residents of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula by residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
See also Yooper: Pr. n; A resident of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
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I’d add that the T word is used because Lower Peninsulapodes live under the Mackinac (silent “c”, of course) Bridge.
I gotta say that the Internet has taken most of the fun out of using the term.
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here we go again.
traffic in and out of the keys is shut down, due to yet another drought-worsened brush fire on the 18 mile stretch:
https://www.flkeysnews.com/news/local/article306031896.html
this some bullshit, man.
no onebox. here is info from.the article:
The fire has grown to 350 acres and was only 25% contained as of Friday morning, according to the Forest Service. Shortly after 7:00 p.m., the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office announced the brush fire had closed Card Sound Road and the 18-Mile Stretch of U.S. 1 connecting Florida City on the mainland to Key Largo. Intermittent closures are expected for both roads. MCSO said to expect continued disruption entering and exiting the Florida Keys due to the fire’s migration. The closures, on the Miami-Dade County side, have already started to cause large traffic jams.
Read more at: https://www.flkeysnews.com/news/local/article306031896.html#storylink=cpy
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OMFG! WTAF! Hope that shit ends sooner than soon !!!
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finally!!!
it’s raining in Key Largo! w00t!
dear dog, we need this. good soaker started early this am and still going.
this should keep those fires out on the stretch calm, keep the roads open. good thing. gotta take the mum to her retinologist in miami tomorrow.
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Summer rainy season is late starting in the Bahamas, the Keys’ “cousins” across the Gulf Stream, too. Hope the Bahamas will get some of your rain too. Worst bush fire season on Great Abaco, Grand Bahama, and even New Providence (Nassau) in a long time. On Abaco last week, one of the second homeowners with a place on one of the fancier cays had one of his crop duster planes fly in from Texas to do water drops on some of the fires threatening residential areas on the outskirts of Marsh Harbour. Almost all the firefighting is volunteer on Abaco, with donated equipment and a modicum of training.
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This morning it was 55 degrees at 6am. This afternoon’s high is 91. Currently 87
Tomorrow’s high is predicted to be 101. Day after 104
A decade ago we didn’t hit the over-100 temps until at least mid July
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That’s miserable, I’m sorry. It got to the upper 80s here today and I’ve been opening doors as little as possible and keeping shades drawn.
Yesterday, Hallock, MN (almost as far north as you can get in the state) hit 100 degrees. I’m not feeling great about this summer.
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whoa! ain’t that some shit?!
no, i don’t feel good about this summer, either.
and 104F in central texas, in early May?! wowsers, @Kii , having grown up near there, that is concerning.
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So humid. So much rain.
Not hot. The high today is 64 (18 or something like that). But very humid.
I can take heat, but not humidity.
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Temps greater than that at Death Valley. This while near 1 in 4 Texas citizens deny Climate Change and many of its politicians continue to downplay it. Difficult to process information and facts when ones brain is boiling.
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So spooky! Just imagine how much more spooky it would be in black and white!
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Windy! Seeds from the trees have been blowing in through the open skylight.
There was a tornado watch today. Then a tornado warning (more severe than a watch) for the Twin Cities a few hours ago and the emergency sirens went off, and there was a 40-minute ground stop at MSP. A tornado was reported about 70 miles away or so. Looks like the watch has been lifted now though.
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saw that on the nightly news just now. it seems so out-of-place to me.
y’all look out, man.
as someone who has to face down hurricanes couple times a year, it is the possibility of tornadoes that may spin up on the skirts of a cyclonic storm, that frighten me more.
tornadoes scare the piss outta me!
tornadoes are scary AF! don’t mess around!
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Here is tonight obligatory dense fog photo.
It’s starting to feel normal.
Aye. 'Tis a gnarly night on the Atlantic, matey.
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We had a big sudden storm with cherry-sized hail, really strong wind, and then the tornado sirens went off. Went down to the basement and… our wall was pouring water from a leak down low. At least it was near the sump so most of it drained there. But we’re gonna have to get the crack looked at.
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