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Wind-driven drizzle is a real “Mistwetter” for bicycling. I enjoy that expression because in English it sounds like ‘misty weather’ but actually means “manure weather”, so both are apt!

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

New lidar crew! They seem eager to get on the road, but I don’t think they have licenses to drive.

Two Canada geese stand watch on top of the pickup truck that Carrie’s a lidar instrument

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Oklahoma Mesonet @mesonet.org · 21/01/2026

You should be preparing now for a significant winter storm to impact you with a good chance of 6-12 inches of snow or significant ice, at times near white-out conditions, impassable roads, and life-threatening cold. ticker.mesonet.org #okwx #okmesonet

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Bridge freezes before road surface. Or, please turn off your darn sprinklers when it’s freezing out

A pedestrian/bicycle bridge with a layer of ice because sprinklers were run in subfreezing weather

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 16/01/2026

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

You can set the aspect ratio on the command line with the -box i j k option (e.g., -box 2 2 1)

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

What isn’t there to still love about Vis5D? 😀 Running on Windows? Nice!

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Let it dew, let it dew, let it dew!

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Public service message: the “Almondnog” at Aldi is lousy, but probably much better than this (but, still, don’t buy it)

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Well that’s a bad deal!

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

What a liar. This is clearly lava

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Who needs decencies, anyway. I say be more indecent!

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Do you have milkweed vine? I’ve had caterpillars show up on it. It does need something to climb onto?

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

What does driftwood even smell like?

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Nice! Seems like a jellyfish sprite, doesn’t it?

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

And they hiked the “standard” smart hours rate by 72% (11 to 19¢ per kWh). Doubled the low rate from 6 to 12¢

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Maybe it was a “dictionary” but definitely not Webster’s

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Maybe the ones that get crush tested? 😅

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

These were collected west of Sterling, CO where a rain disdrometer had been deployed

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Yes, I’ll have the hail variety pack, thanks

A small cooler full of hailstones ranging in diameter from 1-3+ inches

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Updated this article yet again to note that a federal judge issued a 2-week temporary restraining order halting any reorganization or reductions-in-force in a number of agencies, including NSF and NOAA.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/04/2025

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

propublica.org

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On

Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Normal policy is that they could go on their own but not as representatives of the govt. and could not present their work. So not really worth it.

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

So sorry. This is the worst admin

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

So you’re saying that smoking and autism rates are anticorrelated? Must be causal!

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Supposedly a house owned by Stitt (near Luther?) was destroyed

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Ted Mansell @tedmwx.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Forsythia is at about peak bloom I think

A forsythia bush near peak bloom with hundreds of small yellow flowers

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Elizabeth Leitman @wxliz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I’ve never once been afraid of or harmed or felt threatened by a trans person (or any other LGBTQIA+ person for that matter). I have however been intimidated, belittled by, afraid of, and assaulted by white men. That’s right, men, plural. Women’s rights are not threatened by LGBTQIA+ people.

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

18f.org

We're not done yet | 18F

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GCarbin @gcarbin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

See my alt text descriptions… I’m so very sorry it has come to this. I will never forget and will speak openly and freely about the threat this President and his enablers and sycophants pose to our nation.

I have so many thoughts and emotions about what’s going on. I feel ill with the news I’m seeing about probationary employees being fired en mass across NOAA today. I’d certainly share how shortsighted I believe this all is. I don’t see a method to this other than madness. These firings are deliberately designed to elicit fear. The Trump administration is literally a terrorist organization bent on destroying the U.S. Government from within. Plain and simple and in the bright light of day. Apparently, that’s what the people who voted for him expected from the President. Or, is it?

It’s a devastating day for science, it’s a sad day for STEM, it’s an awful day for capable young adults who have worked hard to get to where they are today and may be burdened by student (and other) debt for years to come. This is not how early career scientists are treated by anyone thinking themselves a “leader”. I’m disgusted and dismayed.

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