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Chris Vagasky

@coweatherman.bsky.social
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American Meteorologist Blixtexperten Weather Measurements Guy Award-Winning Communicator AMS Certified Digital Meteorologist #18

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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 3h
This is the Windows background. Stop lying.
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Kyla @boysek.bsky.social · 9h
This is precisely why herd immunity is so important. Achieving high vaccination rates is how we protect the most vulnerable among us. Civilized societies value life and health, and protect their most vulnerable members. Federal appointees in charge of our health systems are acting with barbarism.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 12h
Found a cold and sleepy bumblebee on the driveway this morning, so made a leaf hammock for it and set it in the asters so it will have some nectar and pollen when it warms up. 🐝🌱
A cold bumblebee on a leaf hammock in the asters.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 13h
There never should have been any optimism to begin with. Ilitch is destroying that which he inherited from his father. Red Wings have the 4th worst record in the NHL since 2017. Tigers have the 4th worst record in MLB since 2017. Both teams are listless with clueless leadership.
A photo of hockey players on ice with a headline “Niyo: Red Wings’ optimism already feels like a lost cause”.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 23h
static.klipy.com
Monty Python's Celebration Trumpets
Alt: Monty Python's Celebration Trumpets
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Larkin booed. “Sell The Team” chant. Shut out loss on opening night. Off to a great start.
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The latest conditions, forecasts, watches, warnings, and advisories are available on our website or our app! wisconet.wisc.edu
wisconet.wisc.edu
Wisconet
Wisconet is a statewide network of weather and soil monitoring stations in Wisconsin, delivering high-quality data every 5 minutes to support research, agriculture, and public safety.
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
More cold weather tonight - with Frost Advisories and Freeze Warnings in place for northern and northeastern Wisconsin. It would not be surprising to see patchy frost into some of the more prone locations of central and southern Wisconsin, with lows dipping into the 30s!
Map showing frost advisories and freeze warnings for northern and northeastern Wisconsin. They are in effect from tonight through tomorrow morning and cover Bayfield, Ashland, Sawyer, Iron, Price, Vilas, Oneida, Lincoln, Langlade, Forest, Florence, Marinette, Menominee, and Oconto Counties.Map showing the forecast low temperatures for Saturday morning. We could see 30s all the way to the Illinois state line.
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pretty good frosting across northern Wisconsin last night, and Grantsburg really bottomed out, where they've taken a pretty solid freeze with around 4 hours sub-freezing so far.
Map showing today's low temperatures across Wisconsin.Chart showing the temperature at Grantsburg today and how much time has been below freezing.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good. But you don't get credit for not doing something you should never have even have considered in the first place. #MLB www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
washingtonpost.com
MLB drops proposal to host a baseball game at Grand Teton National Park
After The Washington Post reported on the proposal, local leaders sent letters to the Trump administration and the MLB commissioner expressing strong opposition.
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Background: Cumulative rainfall in the upper Pecatonica River basin through mid to late September:
Plot of cumulative rainfall in inches at three Wisconet stations. Althree show a steep rise on Sept 18-19, with a little more gradual increase to between 4 and 6 inches total by Sept 21. Curves are then flat until yesterday and today.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m calling for a general fan strike against all four major Detroit sports teams until their owners and GMs show they actually want to win.
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wet morning in southern Wisconsin, with many of our stations reporting more than an inch of rain since midnight. If you've got your wipers on - make sure you've got your headlights on! It'll help other drivers see you.
Map showing the amount of rain that's fallen since midnight through 8:15. Many places are near or above an inch of rain in southern Wisconsin.
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On the flip side of the rain is the drought. We've seen a slight expansion in Exceptional Drought on this week's Drought Monitor, and a broader expansion of extreme drought across northern Wisconsin.
Current drought monitor for Wisconsin.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am completely losing my patience with the so-called leaders of Detroit’s sports teams.
Cowboys trading for Joey Porter Jr.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I found some dinosaur tracks in my yard.
Three-toed footprints.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s really not that mind-boggling…except for maybe that the decreases are almost on par with the Covid numbers.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every state needs to send out the blue book and do elections like Colorado.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Obi-Wan Kenobi: That's No Moon
Alt: Obi-Wan Kenobi: That's No Moon
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The @ametsoc.org is looking for volunteers to help write a new statement about weather information and prediction markets. If you’re interested in volunteering, read more and apply here: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
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Call for Volunteers: AMS Statement on Prediction Markets and Weather Information
Deadline: 15 October, 2026
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Even this might be too high on the rankings of Power 4 QBs. www.espn.com/college-foot...
John Mateer is an awful quarterback.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gee Yelp, I don’t think there are too many body shops on *checks notes* car-free Mackinac Island.
Yelp suggesting to find body shops on Mackinac Island.
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We'd certainly like to see more rain than this across northern Wisconsin, but we'll take every drop we can get to try and alleviate some of the drought conditions. New drought monitor comes out tomorrow morning.
Map showing 24-hour rain totals across Wisconsin.
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not enough people take seriously "funding delays"/"bureaucratic nonsense can kill people" but here it is right here. If I was mad when a patient died because it took a few extra months for lawyers to try to look for a legal basis for an international data transfer, I'm incandescent, now.
cnbc.com
NIH funding cuts delayed a promising childhood brain cancer trial. Patients lost time they didn't have
A delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me and my buddy waiting for the Red Wings to be decent again.
Two miserable red wings fans.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
-sigh- What was I just saying about being a fan of a completely mediocre team?
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here comes the rain again...but it's once again missing the extreme and exceptional drought in northern Wisconsin. Expansion of the extreme and exceptional drought areas seems likely.
Map showing forecast precipitation over the next 5 days, with the areas of worst drought delineated.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you say 12 minutes for a lunch order to be ready, I want to pick it up in 12 minutes not 22. I’m ready to go back on vacation.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You can’t simultaneously say that parking permits aren’t oversold and that there are 6 people looking for parking for every spot.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who imported the Casu Martzu again?
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cool story bro.
We moved from NYC to a rural beach town and struggled with isolation. We sold less than 2 years later.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hard to pick just 10 pictures from the weekend trip to Mackinac.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stop us if you‘ve heard this one before: We’re dealing with dense fog this morning across northern and northwestern Wisconsin. We’re in the middle of Wisconsin fog season, so pay attention to where the main foggy areas are - because they’ll likely be like that for the next couple months.
Map showing a dense fog advisory for northern and northwestern Wisconsin through mid-morning.Chart showing that we’re in the middle of Wisconsin fog season, which generally runs August through December.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren calls for the removal of climate denier Matthew Wielicki as head of the US govt's climate research office. Wielicki has no training in climate science, and regularly uses AI to invent non-existent sources to support his claims.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Shut it down. We need a salary cap and no ballpark in a national park. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
espn.com
MLB, White House discuss playing game at national park
The White House said in a statement that MLB asked the administration about hosting a game at a national park, adding that the National Park Service has not granted a permit to do so.
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s a tale of two halves of the state. The west side is mild, the east side is cool. Still dealing with a little fog in the eastern half of Wisconsin, so keep that in mind as you’re out and about this morning.
Map showing low temperatures across Wisconsin. Sharp division between the west and east parts of the state.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can’t believe they’d just display a Van Gogh outside.
A wooden facsimile of a Van Gogh.
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank you, Justin Verlander 🧡 JV leaves the mound for the Tigers - one final time.
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Break out the flannel…we’ve got low-40s all the way to the Cheddar Curtain. And with near 100% relative humidity and calm winds this morning, there may be patchy areas of fog, so take it easy on the roads if you’re headed out to the apple orchard for some fresh cider donuts.
Screenshot from an app showing temperature and winds across Wisconsin. Screenshot from an app showing relative humidity across Wisconsin.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MLB blackout rules are so dumb. Started to see the Justin Verlander retirement ceremony and then it went to black.
Pirates at Tigers is blacked out.
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Wisconsin Drought Task Force is looking for more conditions reports from northern Wisconsin. Please let us know how things are! Drop a comment below, email us at wisconet[at]cals.wisc.edu, or fill out a report: droughtimpacts.unl.edu/tools/condit... Thanks for your help!
droughtimpacts.unl.edu
Submit and view Condition Monitoring Observer Reports (CMOR) | Drought Impacts Toolkit
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He almost did it last weekend, but I’m waiting for LaFleur to go “R-E-L-A-X.”
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National Lightning Safety Council @lightningsafety.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every Clemson game has been delayed by lightning this year. Our John Jensenius spoke about the delays and why they were necessary. www.postandcourier.com/sports/clems...
postandcourier.com
Why has Clemson faced three lightning delays in three weeks?
Three weeks, three weather delays. Clemson football has been impacted by lightning in every game so far this season. Are these delays really more common in 2026 than in years past, and if so, why?
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t believe Truman made any public statements about the Canadian wildfire smoke in 1950.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pray for me. I just turned on preseason Red Wings hockey.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Phone says it’s a western conifer seed bug.
A true bug.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Alien invasion in northern Wisconsin! 😮
Lenticular clouds.
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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 24/09/2026
NWS Flood Inundation Mapping (FIM) now covers nearly 100% of the U.S. population! FIM visually displays projected river flooding for more than 3.3 million river miles across the United States and its territories. www.noaa.gov/news-release... or water.noaa.gov/fim
A map of the United States titled "NWS Flood Inundation Mapping Services," showing different regions color-coded by service implementation year (2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026), including insets for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chubbs’s gator!
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