Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦

@raywolf.bsky.social

640 followers 530 following 1.5K posts

Retired NWS SOO, STN>DEN>DVN meteorologist/climatologist, Master Gardener🌱Conservationist, Chicago and ISU Cyclone sports, classic movies, trains, foodie, favors red and white flags. Zone 5b and 320 ppm. Upper Mississippi River Valley USA

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · Dec 22

The garden year in review. 🌱 Spring - columbine, summer - monarda, fall - color mix, winter - snow on bristlecone pine.

1 2 47

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 13h

Those ants died pretty easily once found. Not much of a competition.

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 17h

Nice!

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 1d

I think the LRC nailed it. 🤪

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 1d

I still remember my phone number from 60 years ago, and I don’t think I ever called it since we had subsequently moved.

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 1d

We don’t need Columbus to celebrate Italian Americans. There are plenty of other contributions, not the least of which is a good cannoli. And didn’t Spain finance the expedition anyway? 😁

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 2d

Downtown Davenport Iowa across the Mississippi River as seen from Schwiebert Park in Rock Island Illinois.

1 9

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 3d

No. We had a place in Leland called Cicero’s that was our bbq and catfish place, and another called Lillos for Italian and pizza. Both as good as restaurants anywhere I lived.

Reposted by Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦

Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 3d

OPM started laying off feds again yesterday - the administration and some Congressional leadership are acting like it's BECAUSE of the shutdown. I explain why that is nonsense and my concerns for how all this impacts federal science. Also discuss impactful wx East and West. tinyurl.com/yc7mtndv

OPM starts shutdown layoffs of federal employees

In weather: significant coastal impacts expected from East Coast storm, while rain and potential flash flooding continues in the Southwest

tinyurl.com

1 20 57

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 3d

Surveillance pricing. They are using your private info to charge more if you are in the right demographic.

1 2

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 3d

We used to go to Delta State to watch football and basketball games. Football was a hoot with college kids dressed in sport coats and dresses while us displaced Midwesterners were in jeans and sweatshirts. 😁 Cleveland seemed like a nice town for the area.

1 1

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 3d

Sad to see this in the town we lived in when I started in the NWS. Wife taught in the public schools which were the first to integrate in Mississippi. The Delta has lost fully 1/3 of its population due to economic and social reasons.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Six people dead in shootings during two separate Mississippi homecoming gatherings

Four people were killed and 16 injured in an attack in Leland, while two were killed in a shooting in Heidelberg

www.theguardian.com

1 1 1

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 4d

Who is processing all that paperwork if Feds are furloughed?

Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 4d

Federal Workers Fired From Agencies Amid Government Shutdown - Bloomberg news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Federal Workers Fired From Agencies Amid Government Shutdown (2)

The White House says it is making good on threats to fire thousands of federal workers amid a government shutdown now in its 10th day, with job cuts at agencies including the departments of Health and...

news.bloomberglaw.com

1 1

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 4d

There’s no fucking debate, only wild ass conspiracy theories promoted by people who don’t know their head from their anal sphincter.

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 5d

He’s a good one I’m sure. Having spent much time in Peru, he sees immigration from that perspective. Having grown up in Chicago he most certainly understands it there. You don’t become the largest Polish city in the world without immigration and anyone with a brain can see it daily if they look.

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 5d

There are some computers from the past feeling cheated. 🙄

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 5d

The Isabella Tiger Moth (Pyrrharctia Isabella) and its larval form, the wooly bear caterpillar. Contrary to popular belief by some in the US, there is no correlation between the color of wooly bear bands (bands may be black or rust colored) and subsequent winter weather.

1 1 6

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 5d

Hahahahaha source. Since when the fuck did these clowns ever need a source.

Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 @raywolf.bsky.social · 6d

There is one like it in Indianapolis. It was quite excellent with more types of chicken salad than I could ever imagine.

Reposted by Ray Wolf 🇨🇭 🇬🇱 🇨🇦

Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote several papers about how bad corn ethanol was going to be around 2010, so I am not surprised.
We should always remind ourselves that biofuels are complements not substitutes for fossil fuels, b/c they are used in ICEs and have limited scalability.
They are a big ag and big oil PR mechanism.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 6d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️