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Prediction of a super El NinoSeasonal models are predicting an El Nino climate pattern that could be the strongest on record, bringing with it more extreme weather.
“I think we’re going to see weather events that we’ve never seen in modern history before,” WFLA-TV Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist Jeff Berardelli, in Tampa, Florida, said Friday.
An El Nino event is expected to develop from the middle of this year, impacting global temperature and rainfall patterns, according to the World Meteorological Organization. While the models indicate that this may be a strong event, the WMO cautioned that the models also have a harder time making accurate forecasts in the spring.
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Bloomscrolling--what's in bloom where you are?@AdagioM The stems on mine got longer, so they are dancing well above the foliage.
I do love the way they look and they seem to be both disease- and rabbit-resistant. However, as you've noted in the past, they do tend to invade the garden. I cleaned out an area of "volunteers" a couple of years ago. And I started deadheading the remaining plants to prevent the seeds from forming and re-populating the garden.
Seems to be working.
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Continuing to redecorate Washington DCPresident Donald Trump on Thursday went on an unannounced trip to the Lincoln Memorial to see the Reflecting Pool after he had it coated in a color he calls "American flag blue."
He did more than just see it — the Republican president was driven across the new coating before he got out of his SUV to make a statement and answer questions from reporters who had been taken there to await his arrival before the sun set.
The new blue coating will hide the pool's gray stone, a color Trump said was "never good." The project cost nearly $2 million, he said.
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Eat eggs!Add me to the egg brigade. Never gave them up, even when they were considered evil cholesterol bombs.
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ConnectionsMake an Impact: 85-year-old and 11-year-old team up to create greeting cards
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Canvas data breachThe online education platform Canvas went offline after a data breach on Thursday, temporarily leaving students and faculty at thousands of U.S. colleges — and K-12 schools — without access to course materials and communications during finals period.
"I'm sure somewhere in the country when the outage happened, there probably were people actually taking final exams on the platform when it crashed," says Damon Linker, a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thirty million users — including at half of the higher education institutions in North America — rely on Canvas to manage courses, submit assignments, view grades and facilitate communication, according to its parent company, Instructure.
But when Linker and many other users tried to do so on Thursday afternoon, they met a black screen and a warning message.
"ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again)," it read. "Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some 'security patches.'
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/08/nx-s1-5815956/canvas-data-breach-school-finals
Paging @piano-dad @nina @shirokuro
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Bugscrolling - what's buzzing/chewing/biting in your neighborhood?Looks like we're going to have a bad tick season here. We suburbanites never really saw a lot of tick activity in our yards, but they've invaded over the last few years.
We had a bumper crop of cottony maple scale last year and it's back again this year. We're getting the sticky sap spots all over the place now; I left my phone on my potting bench for less than an hour and it the screen got all speckled. The top of the fence is covered in sap; your hand sticks to it if you rest it on the top rail. This joy will be followed by black sooty mold on all the plants under the silver maples that the scale lives on. Oh joy.
Mosquitos are already here, too. I had one drill me in the neck and I got a huge red blotch. Little bastards.
On the positive side, I'm seeing lots of bees!
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Towns rebel against data center projectsTexas Republicans have a data center problem
Data center construction is unpopular among locals, and a majority of the facilities are being proposed in red, rural counties. That puts Texas Republicans in a tough spot, as the White House has encouraged states to let the centers flourish.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/07/texas-republicans-data-centers-rural/
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Tomato fraudI 've purchased and used their products and like them.
It's my go-to brand for most canned tomato products; I also like Red Gold stewed tomatoes.
We've also grown the San Marzano identified tomato variety in our own garden with great success in many years.
Rats! I was at the garden center today buying tomato plants and saw the San Marzanos. Haven't grown them before. Maybe I'll go back and pick up a plant to try this year
