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Jeff Caughel
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Always learning.

Got a degree in meteorology, but wound up in IT.

Love weather, microbrews, spicy food, photography, and traveling.

Lucky enough to be husband to a wonderful person. Working on being a good parent in trying times.

He/Him.
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There is something deeply unsettling about this layout and I will be getting a different replacement keyboard.
Picture of a keyboard with the arrow keys circled. The left and right keys are adjacent to each other with the up and down keys respectively centered above and below them.
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Double rainbow this evening. The second one is barely visible in the photo but was more apparent to the naked eye.
Double rainbow over woods behind a parking lot with a gas station in the background.
September 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Snacks...
A camp fire, logs burned down to mostly coals, with two pie irons sitting at angles over the middle, the words "PIE IRON" in relief on the back of one.
June 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Lucy wants attention.
May 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Still my favorite capture of Westley when he was young and spry.
A golden-colored King Charles Spaniel, toy in his mouth and ears mid-flap, alights on a couch while playing fetch. The flash was too bright, so the highlights are all overexposed on his left side.
April 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Lucy says, 'hi'.
#Caturday
A closeup of the face of a pastel tortoiseshell getting the back of her head scratched.
April 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Guess what's not happening any time soon...
A screenshot of my mail app showing 116846 unread messages
April 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery, if you have one.
Nighttime picture of a beach on the western end of Lake Erie, looking north to see the green and red shafts of the Aurora Borealis. Patches of puffy grey cloud interrupt the view here and there, and lights from the distant shore dot the horizon. A few people stand in scattered groups at the edge of the water, also taking pictures.
February 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Hard to see, but it's -4⁰F at our poorly-insulated kitchen window... probably a degree or two lower further into the yard.

Coldest air in several years. 🥶
A close-up picture of a snow-covered, outdoor, analog thermometer showing a reading of -4⁰F.
January 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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#SilentSunday
A leafless tree, perched on the edge of a cliff, overlooks a roiled Lake Erie. Flurries slowly accumulate on the sidewalks that run up either side of a tree-lined lawn leading to that tree, which towers over a wooden bench sitting to its left. A fence runs along the cliff to keep folk from wandering mindlessly to their doom, and the wind has toppled over a few of the black, wrought iron chairs that are placed at regular intervals along the sidewalk. A lone, curled-up oak leaf alights briefly on the snow-covered sidewalk, its points barely contacting the surface, waiting for the wind to whisk it away again.
December 1, 2024 at 5:56 AM
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This is supposed to continue for something like 36 hours... #lakeeffect #wnywx
Heavy snow is blowing across a snow-covered yard and field. Leafless shrubs and branches poke into the scene at points. the unplowed streets and driveways between are indiscernable. The houses one street away can barely be made out through the snow.
November 30, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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It keeps getting worse... #lakeeffect #wnywx
Snowfall total graphic from the NWS Buffalo office, covering the period from 7a-11/29/24 through 7a-12/2/24, showing snowfall totals nearing four feet on the southeast Lake Erie shore, and exceeding 5 feet on the northeast end of Lake Ontario.
November 29, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Normally, Canada's out there. Today, the fog made it seem like you could fall off if you went too far.
Lake Erie... fog just off shore consumes the view, making it seem like the world just ends a few hundred meters out. A spit of land juts out in the distance on the left periphery, leafless trees poking out over the water.
November 21, 2024 at 2:53 AM
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#Aurora #NorthernLights
Northern lights in green and red, towering over Lake Erie, looking NW towards Canada.
October 11, 2024 at 3:32 AM