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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 12h

From the movie The Blob. Closing line - cop says “At least we’ve got it stopped”.” Steve McQueen responds “As long as the Arctic stays cold.” Seems like an unintentional foreshadowing of a future sequel. 🤣

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A visible image for comparison. Satellite imagery is frequently quite striking.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With a bit of imagination this looks like a sunrise. 🌱

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fall and trees turning color are just around the corner when frost and freeze highlights start popping up in the Upper Midwest.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GOES mid-layer water vapor showing moisture from Polo streaming towards the Midwest. Predecessor Rainfall Event from a Pacific system in the central US, if too much moisture does not get cutoff in the southern Rockies? Wonder if that would be a first.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still plenty of color in the fall garden. 🌱 And the pollinators are loving it.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The under appreciated pollinator, moths. 🌱 I’m not sure of the species here, but there are many of them around doing their thing.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

3.25 inches measured this morning and 6.07 for the week. A single bolt of lightning at 3am sounded like an explosion.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A recent addition to the new garden. I get a monarch or two from time to time, but looking forward to getting more by planting lots of milkweed too.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sometime nature is tough but everything is a balance. Life ends poorly for this tomato hornworm as it becomes food for a new generation of parasitic wasps. 🌱🍅

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Goldfinch hiding in the sunflowers waiting for a turn at the feeder. 🌱🕊️

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I received 0.99 inch of rain in my newly mounted gage. Just couldn’t get that extra 0.01 to make it a full inch.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Saved by the back door cold front bringing cooler easterly winds off of Lake Michigan into eastern Iowa. One of Midwest summers true pleasures, the lake breeze.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ring of Fire. Note the location of the two MCSs relative to NWS extreme heat warnings and advisories. Classic pattern recognition is a forecast technique that has value from today’s forecast through week 2 outlooks.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Dew points across Iowa are quite high. Since corn and soybeans are maturing rapidly now, evapotranspiration is not a key factor. Rather the importance of the boundary in southern MN serving to pool the moisture is key.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My first dahlia. I think there will be more in the future if I can overwinter them successfully. 🌱

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Cool family event this weekend - Scott County Emergency Management Fair. Great opportunity for learning disaster preparedness and meeting the people behind those services.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Very chaotic evening sky over eastern Iowa as indicated by the mini cumulus castellanus clouds.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It’s a pollinator palooza in the backyard. Took awhile for them to find these plantings, but hopefully we are on the way to developing a vibrant local population. 🌱

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Stopped at my favorite Italian bakery while visiting Chicago. The diversity of ethnic food options just in this one northwest side strip mall is outstanding.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Becoming a bit concerned regarding how few pollinators I’m seeing on these two sunflowers. Typically they are loaded with all sorts of different bee and butterfly species. 🌱

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Garden flower containers are doing quite well showing that plenty of water and fertilizer can overcome variable weather. Notice the color dissonance on the left with yellow-orange pansies tossed in amongst the impatiens. 🌱

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Mutual nap enablers. Perfect on a gray, cloudy, and rainy day.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Any 🍅 tomato experts out there know the cause for the leaf curling on this tomato. The variety is Wisconsin 55, an heirloom. I’m guessing herbicide damage from nearby corn fields. 🌱

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Winter or summer in the Midwest? Widespread rain with this storm system is welcome toward slowing drought development.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Salvia never fail as an attractor for the ruby-throated hummingbird. 🌱

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Shrub color in the garden. Chartreuse color really brightens up shady spots. Hibiscus, arania, butterfly bush, and arborvitae. 🌱

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Color in the new garden. 🌱 Cosmos, sunflower, kniphofia, and the common green June beetle.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Classic Midwest meal shows everything is better with bacon. First pick of green beans from the garden and Yukon Gold potatoes all boiled together resulting in a nice subtle smoke flavor.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Here’s the yellow variety. It pairs nicely with the orange variety, and the soft leaves are neat for a sensory garden.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Sadly these are the sort of summer days in the Midwest we will see less often due to a warming climate. This is the inverse of more days with high temperatures in the 90s. #climatechange

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

@chicagotribune.com -example of poor journalism. Wind over Illinois is very predictable so the expectation of smoke from Canada or the western US is a certainty for our future. Too often journalists falsely utilize the term "unpredictable" with weather and climate when its not appropriate.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Quite the interesting sky today in eastern Iowa with two MCS passages. Here are some evening mammati.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Cumulus castellanus? Certainly a hint of things to come.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The transition of nocturnal MCS to decay mode or reinvigorating to become severe again remains among the most significant convective forecast challenges.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It’s a subtle signature, but a collapsing rain shower over the KDVN RDA resulted in a circular outbound ring of velocity and a reflectivity boundary surrounding the radar.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Kind of an odd Ring of Fire setup in the central US.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Historic timeline of select climate change benchmarks. Climate change is far from a new issue.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Didn’t realize Red Rocks Amphitheater was a CCC project from the Great Depression. Those damn Democrats putting people to work and leaving legacies like this all across the country. 😁

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Breakfast and a view at one of my favorite Denver area food venues, the Wondervu Cafe.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

If you are a #railfan, don’t miss a stop at the world’s largest freight yard and Golden Spike Tower in North Platte Nebraska. The cool viewing center and museum was developed by local citizens, not Union Pacific.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Tornado shelters being built in an apartment/ condo complex in North Platte Nebraska. Great to see.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

One of the fun things I miss from living in Colorado is watching storms in the distance then seeing them on the radar. Life’s simple pleasures.

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Ray Wolf 🇨🇭🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱 @raywolf.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Snow moving in as viewed atop Pikes Peak followed by a snowbow. Also never realized there was a year round weather observing station on the peak many years ago. How about that for a job. Taking observations at ~500 mb.

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