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LINK TO THE NATIONAL DROUGHT MONITOR: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?Midwest

Smoke from wildfires out west has plumed towards the Midwest. This can happen from time to time as wildfire season gears up across the United States. This weekend, smoke was particularly thick and left mid-MO skies a hazy, milky grey, versus a typical clear-day blue sky. Below is a map of where smoke has spread

Fall foliage has already begun to pop across the upper Midwest and Rockies, likely aided by the big-time cooldown experienced in that part of the nation this past week. Our foliage tracker has mid-Missouri hitting peak color by late October and early November. For those with a keen eye, there have already been some leaves

Northbound on the #GoldenGateBridge at noon today. "Is this normal?" asked a tourist from Texas. And then another from Michigan. No. It's new. And definitely not normal. #abc7now #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/Pc4JL5rRsq— Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) September 9, 2020 People really don’t know what to do right now. Everyone on the Embarcadero is stopping to record the sky

Follow @TheAstroNick and @NHC_Atlantic on Twitter for lots of cool Hurricane Hunter updates! Today I installed a Turbulence Indicator (it's a dropsonde ribbon wrapped around a dropsonde cap and tied to the ceiling) to try to better illustrate the bouncing around. I think it works, personally.#Laura was a hurricane by this point but I hadn't

NOAA article on hurricane formation and how they’re named

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This past Sunday Furnace Creek, CA hit a scorching 130º. If this is confirmed, it will be the third-hottest temperature ever recorded on earth. The all-time record was set in 1913 at 134º. Many meteorologists dispute this record due to lower-grade technology employed in that time. If you were to disregard the old record, this