"Excessive Heat Warning" (more humid than Dubai as dew point approaches 80)

"Susie's Magic Weather Station". One of my friends and colleagues at WeatherNation, meteorologists Susie Martin, has a La Crosse Research weather station at home. This thing is remarkably accurate - so much so that there are some days we toss out all the other model runs and go with "Susie's weather station". Glad we invested a few million dollars in state of the art weather research. All we as a matter of fact needed was a $30 weather station. Ugh. Then, this remarkable little weather gizmo is predicting 95 Saturday, 98 Sunday and a sizzling 100 for the Twin Cities on Monday. With a dew point forecast to be in the 75 degree range that could translate into a heat index of 110-120. I suspect we'll see a lot of problems with heat-related ailments in the days to come. Please take the heat in all seriousness.

Global Weirding: Get Ready For 21st Century Revolutions In Climate, Politics And Religion. The story from Business Insider: "If the green movement hasn’t done much for the planet lately, it has given us some cool new expressions. One of the best is "global weirding," the trendy new way of branding the apocalypse formerly known as global warming. It combines the virtue of "climate change" with the catchiness of global warming. Not bad. And unlike some green scare propaganda, the global weirding hype is as a matter of fact true—even though more about the human in other words than about the natural world. Politics, economics, international relations, religion: Everything in our world is getting weirder, and the weirding is happening faster all the time. These are the best of times and the worst of times in ways that would blow Charles Dickens’ mind."