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[Paul Douglas @pdouglasweather]

I run a private weather company and can confirm what Josh is saying is true. If it's a weather forecast, an app, TV weather graphic, Doppler radar stream, or weather model map, the raw data is coming from NOAA.

The US experiences more severe weather than any other nation on Earth. NOAA has been up to the task (death tolls have been falling due to improving tech, timely warnings and collaboration with local meteorologists). Firing 800-1000 experts from NOAA is a giant step backwards.

The tornado, hurricane and flood warnings you receive at home aren't automated. They come from local NWS meteorologists with many years of experience. Best forecasts are man + machine. NOAA was already short-staffed.

These cuts will make it harder to keep your family safe when skies turn threatening. Hype? Wait for it.

This isn't efficiency. It's insanity. A potentially deadly edition of FAFO.

[Las Vegas Issues @VegasIssues]

Guys, the sphere is down.

[Mineral Cup #MinCup @MineralCup]

#MINCUP2022 FINALS

After a month-long elimination of many fine minerals, it all comes down to two worthy contenders who need no introduction.

#Zircon
#Fluorite

You have just 24 hours to share, teach, recruit, campaign, and most importantly, VOTE.

[John Patrick Hogan @rockswhisperer]

@MineralCup Many have been waiting billions of years, others, somewhere in the fiery depths of a volcano are just joining the crusade, the legions of crystals that will never go away, our time has come to be recognized, resistance is futile, join the #timelord vote #zircon in #MinCup2022

[Ty Yok @Tyleryok01]

#GoUtes

[Mineral Cup #MinCup @MineralCup]

SEMI-FINALS MATCH 1
It’s all about opposites for Time Lord #Zircon vs Lady of Darkness #Vivianite.

Geochronology’s resilient & diligent timekeeper is competing against a mineral so dynamic it darkens in sunlight. Both are beloved beauties but only one can go to the finals. VOTE!

[Mineral Cup #MinCup @MineralCup]

ROUND 1 MATCH 11

It’s the gold telluride #Calaverite vs calcium titanate #Perovskite.

Will you be drawn in by the Fool’s Fool’s Gold and ripped-up streets? Or the tourist accessory to violent eruptions and burning brown dwarfs?

Learn, share, persuade, and vote!

[Ty Yok @Tyleryok01]

@conner_fausett Just waiting on the announcement that an asteroid the size of Texas is inbound...

[Ty Yok @Tyleryok01]

Welcome to Apocalypse 2.0. The sequel is even better than the 1st. The pandemic is subsiding and the wildfire smoke in the sky is blocking the sun, keeping us at a refreshing 90°. The high today is only 103° . Life is good. https://t.co/VVSLUGzd7G https://t.co/kX9zz841xn

[Ty Yok @Tyleryok01]

The EPA's maximum contaminant level goal for lead is 0 - stating no presence of lead is safe for consumption.

However, their "action level" for lead is 15 micrograms/liter - acknowledging that delivering water with 0 lead is often unattainable given our current infrastructure

[Ty Yok @Tyleryok01]

The word "plumbing" is derived from the Latin word for lead, Plumbum, which is why its elemental symbol is Pb.

The Romans had the most sophisticated aqueduct system on the planet, mostly constructed out of lead pipes. Too bad it's a potent neurotoxin.

[Ty Yok @Tyleryok01]

In 2014 Flint Michigan switched their drinking water source to the Flint River - the water was more corrosive than the previous source and dissolved the carbonate layer inside the lead pipes, leaching lead into the water at a level well above water quality standards

[Chase Thomason @ChaseThomason]

According to @IQAir, Salt Lake City has the worst air on the planet. #utwx #smoke

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Relative to a Schoolroom Globe…

Planet Mars is a mile away (1.6 km).

The Moon is 30 feet away (10 meters).

The International Space Station orbits 3/8th of an inch (1 cm) above the surface.

Branson & Bezos this month ascend the thickness of two dimes (2 mm) above the surface.

[Ty Yok @Tyleryok01]

Apocalypse 2: Electric Boogaloo

[NWS Salt Lake City @NWSSaltLakeCity]

[5:43 PM] 107°F. We have now tied the highest temperature EVER recorded at Salt Lake City in any month of the year, in the last 147 years of records. It has only happened twice before: July 2002 and July 1960. #utwx

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Not that anybody asked but if, in fact, anti-pasta were the antimatter counterpart to pasta, then a serving bowl of each, when mixed, would generate a 20-Megaton nuclear blast.