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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️

@wxdam.com

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I make it rain and then write about it. 📡 Weather reporter, author, aspiring flâneur. Bad opinions are all mine. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈 📍N.C. || http://www.damweather.com/p/the-skies-above.html

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · Feb 22

My latest book—The Skies Above—is a celebration of what we overlook when we look up.

I cover everything from asteroids to hailstones, and even why every rainbow you see is unique to you.

Get your copy today! www.damweather.com/p/the-skies-...

A spread showing the book cover for THE SKIES ABOVE, plus a few glimpses of pages within the book.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 1h

I wish I'd opened up sooner.

Keeping to myself was a defense mechanism from being relentlessly bullied as a kid.

By the time I started making friends and doing things, it was over.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 14h

13. If you could do college over, what would you do different?

Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 8h

This country increasingly feels like Wile E. Coyote running off the edge of the cliff.

We can pretend that everything is fine, but something will eventually make us look down and start falling.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 8h

Shutdowns are bad, full stop. This needs to end now.

"The longest government shutdown" would mean 2.75 million people going without multiple paychecks.

Kids and adults going without food and medicine. Evictions. Repossessions.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

PIMCO, on the #shutdown:

“.. At this point, this standoff feels like a war of attrition with neither side suggesting they will blink .. we think is likely to last until November and possibly extend to Thanksgiving.

“.. we are on the precipice of the longest full government shutdown in history.”

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 10h

This pops up in my memories every year and I do a little bit better every year. I remembered 413 U.S. cities off the top of my head this time around—up from 371 back in 2019.

cityquiz.io/quizzes/usa

Congratulations! You named 413 U.S. cities!

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 11h

Let people enjoy things in this cruel, unforgiving world.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 1d

This shouldn't surprise me, but...do people really not have any important numbers memorized anymore?

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 1d

My big trip is in 19 days and I'm itching to pack already. I would leave for the airport right now if they wouldn't kick me out.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 1d

Modern authors are too descriptive. I don't need to know every detail. Let my imagination work or I'm gonna get bored fast.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 1d

Blown away by Google DeepMind's performance this year. We'll see if it carries into 2026, but it's been just head and shoulders better than any other model trackwise this season, including the gold standard consensus guidance. Big win for the addition of LLMs 👏

James Franklin @franklinjamesl.bsky.social · 1d

With about 80% of the precincts reporting I've seen enough. GDMI - Google DeepMind is going to win the seat for best track model in 2025. The race for best intensity model is still too close to call, but GDMI is right there with the consensus and OFCL. Quite a remarkable campaign.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 1d

Ooooof. 😭

Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 1d

Midwest in the springtime:

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 2d

I have so many questions, including but not limited to:

1) why
2) what is the cone of uncertainty based on
3) did they predict this 180 days ago
4) why

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 2d

Out of curiosity, I dove into Canada's climate normals to see how many freezing nights major cities have lost over the past couple of decades.

The answer is...grim.

Freezing nights are disappearing across Canada as the climate warms - The Weather Network

The number of subfreezing nights across vast swaths of Canada has declined over the past couple of decades

www.theweathernetwork.com

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 2d

The Great Lakes are running hot right now.

A map of water surface temperature anomalies for the Great Lakes region. Most o the lakes are running 2-3 degrees Celsius above average for October 10.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 2d

The council is deciding your fate.

Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 2d

Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 2d

These super informative maps provide such a soothing hit of nostalgia whenever I see them cross my feed.

Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 2d

I am literally willing to spend $18 on a giant sub from Jersey Mike's just to avoid Subway on principle.

Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 3d

The $5 footlong has become the $6 six inch. I don't even eat Subway and I still think it's time to knock all this shit over

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 2d

This has been a strange Atlantic hurricane season. It seems like every storm fell into two categories: struggled mightily, or reached for the stars.

Here's a recap of what we've seen so far this year:

Checking in on the strange 2025 Atlantic hurricane season

It's been a strange hurricane season across the Atlantic basin so far this year—and it's not done just yet.

www.damweather.com

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 3d

Hallmark released their Timmy and Tommy ornament today and you better believe I am keeping this out 365 days a year. 🥹

A screenshot of Hallmark's website showing a Timmy and Tommy ornament from Animal Crossing

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey.

I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 4d

What a weird hurricane season that our two options were apparently a Category 5 or...this.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 4d

Like in the Edith Wilson way or the Claire Underwood way?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 4d

Today in Extremely Real Autoplay Facebook Reels:

- A corgi gets crushed by a boulder. Another corgi recruits two-dozen groundhogs to eat the boulder and free his friend.

- A man holds onto a helicopter as it lifts off

- A man in an electric wheelchair does sick stunts at a skatepark

A screenshot of three videos on Facebook. One shows a corgi trotting toward groundhogs. One shows a man holding onto the bottom of a helicopter. One shows a man in an electric wheelchair doing stunts at a skatepark.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 4d

It'll never not be hilarious that the people obsessed with alpha-manliness worship the world's loudest whiner.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 5d

I hate that Google Gemini nags you to make your sentences concise while you're writing an email. No! I am sickeningly sweet! Don't push me to be short and snippy!

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