Summer fermentation experiment homemade pickles. Taste is great but some are mushy. Any ideas to avoid mushy pickles?

It was a lovely day in late March.

Outstanding explainer by @wxmanms1.bsky.social. As someone who teaches intro meteorology and spends a lot of time discussing the challenges of predicting extreme weather, I was especially moved by the highlighted section. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Mixed severity burn from 2022 at Kootenay Lake, British Columbia. Photo taken in spring 2025.

I've released the 2025 update of the WGLC global lightning dataset today. Daily and monthly data lightning density and stroke energy covering the period 2010-2024 are now available! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Coronation Mountain then.

So much for your “light snowshower”

Headed home from Tucson after an intense week of biome modeling with @elkezeller.bsky.social, dreaming about vegetation of earth millions of years ago. Thanks to @leafwax.bsky.social for making this happen! And great to see you and the new lab @thirstygecko.bsky.social!

Tidying up the other day. Procrastinating, I arranged my transit passes - some quite classic by now - in geographical order.

I see your sunrise and raise you one.

Weather forecast for next week. Get ready for whiplash, and mud.

Would you like some global lightning data?Today I released the latest version of the WGLC lightning climatology and timeseries, covering 2010-2022. zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/...

I have complicated feelings about being back in Hong Kong this week. But this transdisciplinary project on the history of China is one of the most inspiring things I am working on at the moment. It is so great to see the progress my incredible collaborators are making.

On this National Day of Truth and Reconciliation 🇨🇦, we are thinking about the peoples who first lived at Kootenay Lake, thankful that we can enjoy their temperate rainforest and use the western red cedar that was so important for many First Nations in the Pacific Northwest.