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Sam Lillo
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Mostly weather, dataviz, and some homesteading projects in Boulder, CO
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“global reinsurance companies have had what the researchers call a ‘climate epiphany’ and have roughly doubled the rates.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much. (Gift Article)
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The way model guidance is trending for tonight-tomorrow, I'm convinced it's not going to snow again until 2026
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This whole summer-in-November thing on the Front Range this week is just wild, kind of pleasant, and moderately concerning.

Another night in the 60s during a month that is typically the 2nd or 3rd snowiest out of the year.
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I have several credit cards, and just set up a new one with Bank of America. Easily the worst platform I’ve ever used. Just spent 25 minutes on the phone with a specialist and even they don’t know how to set up autopay, which I’d consider pretty much the main feature of a credit card platform.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Pretty sure the NOAA Space Weather page is about to crash
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
64 degrees at 11pm at my place in Arvada Colorado.

On November 10th.

Totally fine.
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Is it safe to feel a small ray of optimism after this election?
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November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 2025 World Series MVP 🏆

He joins Hideki Matsui (2009) as the only Japanese-born winners of the award.
November 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Obviously was rooting for Jays and gutted for Toronto and Canada to lose the way they did. But - what Yamamoto did in games 6 and 7 was unfreaking believable. Has any pitcher ever won games 6 and 7 of the World Series? If he isn't the MVP I don't get it.
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Double play is a rouuugh way to end it
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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UGH. I guess I’ll be happy for Japan
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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James Earl Jones agrees.
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Baseball is just the best
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Melissa is wasting no time getting reorganized back over the ocean north of Jamaica
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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I recommend anybody interested in donating uses the official website launched earlier today instead of the links I posted supportjamaica.gov.jm/donateq
October 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The circulation of Melissa rotating classically anticyclonically around the high terrain.
October 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I see some kind of bird...
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Track update. Substantial westward wobble
October 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Just my routine plea not to compare a hurricane to the EF scale. Please.
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I was worried for my crew mates when I saw them circling in the eye for over 20 mins. Looks like the very rough ride was confirmed. Plane had to leave early. They reported svr turb and a "sawtooth" eye. Looks like they moved 600-700ft up & down during this stretch in ~1 min.
October 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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219-kt peak wind would be the highest wind value a dropsonde has ever recorded, ahead of 215-kt value in Super Typhoon Megi in 2010 & the 210 kt recorded just yesterday in #Hurricane #Melissa.

Still needs to be validated… so this data is preliminary.
This is hands down the most extraordinary dropsonde in Atlantic recon history.
October 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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I'm not sure whether anyone's quantified the 3-D size of a mountainous island needed to deflect a TC's track, but if it persists, that could be a contributing factor (among others).
October 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Wobble west
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is hands down the most extraordinary dropsonde in Atlantic recon history.
October 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM