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Marc Schwager
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Growing Rhone Varietals on the west slopes of Mt Veeder in the Moon Mt AVA. Local flora and fauna of the Mayacamas. Fire info if anything gets close. K6GSM
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nwsbayareabot.bsky.social
🍃High Wind Warnings issued for coastal North Bay and Wind Advisories issued elsewhere from 10 PM Wed to 10 AM Thu due to strong south gusts up to 50-60 mph. Secure loose outdoor objects! Prepare for damaging winds! Be careful when driving hig... https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1988447965376028681
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
cavedalerhones.bsky.social
Northern lights visible on iPhone camera (barely naked eye) from Sonoma California (39 degrees N)
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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nwsbayareabot.bsky.social
An atmospheric river remains on track to impact the region this week. Tuesday will be the last dry day before it arrives so complete any outdoor preparations by then. Most areas will see at least 1" of rain with locally higher totals (2-3") acro... https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1988087070565577062
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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cw3escripps.bsky.social
An #AtmosphericRiver is forecast to bring heavy rain and mountain snow to California this week. The NWS Weather Prediction Center has issued a marginal risk of excessive rainfall for much of coastal California.

See our latest AR Outlook for more information: cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-ar-upda....
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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nwsbayareabot.bsky.social
💨We still have High Wind Warnings and Wind Advisories in effect through this afternoon. Here's some of the strongest winds we've seen so far. North Bay coast has been the windiest. #cawx https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1986088038800204275
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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weatherwest.bsky.social
Quick Weather West update today for sake of discussing fairly strong atmospheric river that will arrive in NorCal Tue-Wed, bringing widespread rain, gusty winds, and maybe isolated t-storms. Warm still, though, so Sierra rain vs snow, & dry in SoCal. #CAwx
After anomalous late Oct warmth, a sooner-than-expected shift back toward wetter conditions in (at least) NorCal - Weather West
A quick blog update amid shifting conditions I suspect that more than a few of us, at our busiest and most chaotic moments, have exclaimed to exasperated friends and colleagues that we "wished there were two of us to help share the load!" Well, in this present moment, I am not sure a single clone
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November 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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⚠️🍃Wind Advisory issued for most of the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains Tuesday night through Wednesday due to gusts 35-45 mph. Unsecured objects will blow away, downed tree limbs will cause isolated power outages, and high profile vehi... https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1985522269741879799
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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nwsbayareabot.bsky.social
🌧️🍃Impactful early season storm expected Tuesday evening thru Wednesday. Most notable impacts include southerly gusts of 40-50 mph in the higher elevations and 1-2" of rain in the North Bay valleys. Turn around, don't drown, prepare for ... https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1985187846374691090
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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nwsbayareabot.bsky.social
🌧️🍃A strong system expected to arrive middle of the upcoming week with strong, winds, widespread rain with potential minor urban/nuisance flooding, and a chance for thunderstorms. Clear out drains and gutters, prepare for travel disrupti... https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1984814308748865927
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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COTS in Petaluma is providing free meals to any Sonoma County resident seven days a week due to possible CalFresh funding lapses. See below and contact COTS for more information.

#sonoma #Sonomacounty #Petaluma
Screenshot of a community notice stating that COTS offers free hot to-go meals for Sonoma County residents at 900 Hopper Street in Petaluma, available daily for lunch and dinner, no questions asked.
October 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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1. Rising electricity bills are becoming a hotbutton issue, but pundits and politicians often talk about them in ways that are misleading or flat-out wrong. A new paper from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory examines actual data on retail electricity prices.

The results may surprise you. 🧵
Factors influencing recent trends in retail electricity prices in the United States
This study analyzes the primary drivers of recent state-level trends in U.S. retail electricity prices. We summarize pricing trends, explore descripti…
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October 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
No Kings Coalition says two million more people protested today than in June. Nearly 7 million total.
October 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Yes the CO2 rise 2023-2024 was faster than we predicted at Mauna Loa and was a record rise there - now the WMO confirm the global mean rise was also a record

Also the rate of CO2 rise is now above the IPCC scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5C

www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
October 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Approaching 4pm: Soggy evening commute is verifying with flood advisories up for localized runoff and roadway flooding through 6:45 pm 10/13/2025 #CAwx
October 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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nwsbayareabot.bsky.social
Our colleagues at the @NWSWPC have placed the Bay Area and Central Coast in a Marginal Risk for excessive rainfall next Monday and Tuesday. This means there is at least a 5% chance of rainfall resulting in flash flooding in the area. #CAwx https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1976746077601906880
October 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
cavedalerhones.bsky.social
I think this timeline could use some more puppies.
A pile of sleeping puppies in the corner of a metal pen
October 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
barnes@dailymemphian.com
mcashiola@dailymemphian.com

Stand with Dan.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country." My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five. He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor. "Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk." "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city. That was last week. This week changed everything. This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia. He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities. Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight. The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own. Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield. "Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..." As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government. The president who would be king. Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York. A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish. Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man. You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong. Nothing excuses this. Nothing. Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front. The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet. We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible. Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart. Here, ready to rumble. Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble. Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us. Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice. What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis. "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us. You're right, Dad. I know. I'm a Memphian, soon under siege. (Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)
October 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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wildwoods.bsky.social
California's eastern Sierra in fall splendor, happening now. #ForestFriday
October 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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September 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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So basically Kimmel made Trump look bad by showing that he was more interested in showing off his ballroom than in Kirk's death and now he's banned

This is going to be a really fun country
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Sep 18
The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."
September 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Don’t let this make you quieter.

Get louder.
September 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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nwsbayareabot.bsky.social
Fire Weather Update: hot and dry conditions from Mon-Wed will be followed by a chance for dry lightning Thu-Fri. #CAwx https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1967388235170259005
September 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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weatherwest.bsky.social
Quick update now but will have blog update/livestream Mon-Tue: It's looking like a very active weather week in California once again, with burst of humid heat followed by major thunderstorm outbreak (mix of wet & dry storms) as remnants of Tropical Storm Mario move overhead.#CAwx
Snapshot from ECMWF model prediction of extremely moist air in the atmosphere near the Central California coast later this week thanks to remnants of Tropical Storm Mario.
September 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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sarahstierch.com
🦆 Bird watching elevated to new levels in Sonoma today.

#sonoma #birds #california #roadsideattraction
A silver pickup truck towing a trailer with a giant duck statue parked along a street in front of a one-story building with trees in the background.
September 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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weatherwest.bsky.social
Significant pattern change this week will bring much cooler weather & widespread rain/isolated thunderstorms to portions of U.S. West Coast (esp. far NorCal and Oregon)! This will be substantially wildfire-mitigating in NW/far N CA & central/southern Oregon. [1/4] #CAwx #ORwx
Snapshot from ECMWF model ensemble depicting a low pressure system centered over Northern California early this week.
September 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM