The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.
We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.
Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.
This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.
Yall ever just like know someone and then randomly one day your brain will flick a random switch and its suddenly like "oh. I like you now i guess. Time to get used to this."
Not making excuses but a lot of times ppl with BPD are actually pretty chill when they’re not around people who constantly trigger them and make them feel crazy.
Carolina parakeets were the only parrots native to eastern North America. They had a green body, yellow head, orange face, and flew in noisy flocks across the southeastern US.
They ate the fruit in farmers' orchards, and farmers shot them by the thousands. They had a fatal social instinct: when one was shot, the rest of the flock circled back to "mourn" the dead bird, where they could be shot too. Entire flocks could be killed off in single afternoons.
In 1885, the Cincinnati Zoo bought 16 of them for $40, hoping to breed enough to save the species. The captive breeding program didn't work, and by 1917, only two were left: a male called Incas and his mate of 32 years, Lady Jane.
She died in late summer 1917. The zookeepers said Incas became "listless and mournful" and stopped eating.
On February 21, 1918, Incas was found dead in the morning after a cold night.
It really makes you wonder what the woods would sound like if their flocks still flew overhead.