Dennis Mersereau 🛰️

Official map from NOAA depicting the relative rank of winter 2025-2026 temperatures at a county level across the contiguous U.S. Many counties in the western and central U.S. are depicted in dark red color, signifying record-warmest winter. All other counties in the west and central U.S. are depicted in dark orange colors, signifying a "near record warm" rank.

The official NOAA stats out this week confirm that winter 2025-26 was the warmest on record across a huge portion of the western and central U.S., which has contributed to extremely low mountain snowpack & worsened the CO River crisis. Meanwhile, record March heat is in forecast.

A temperature map of the Midwest this afternoon. Readings range from 41 in Chicago to 77 in Peoria.

A map of the Storm Prediction Center's severe weather outlook for Tuesday

A map of the Storm Prediction Center's tornado probabilities for Tuesday

That's quite the front over Illinois and Indiana this afternoon.

This boundary will serve as the focus for rotating storms into the evening hours.

A moderate (4/5) risk for severe weather is in place across the region, driven by the tornado threat.

I dove into the weather behind the crash of Air Ontario Flight 1363 on this day back in 1989:

We've already seen fake AI content muddy the waters around natural disasters.

AI-faked content about humanmade disasters will be that much worse since blame, punishment, and vengeance can be involved.

Me holding a mocha frappuccino

Who doesn't need to start the day with a giant cup of delicious sugar? 🤤

The dopamine hit of a package arriving this afternoon is the only thing I have to look forward to for [looks at notes] the rest of the year.

I want to pay taxes because I want a society worth living in.

Taxes aren't a punishment and I wish we would stop treating them that way.

A pair of Canadian geese on a rooftop

Cool to see the Canadian Air Force in town today.

Refrigerator cases blocked off by tape

Empty meat cases

The Reidsville Walmart lost all of its cold products overnight to a power outage. Oof.

School would be closed for weeks. Adults sobbing in the bread aisle. Pandemonium.

A parking lot shrouded in fog.

It's a little foggy, too.

Dewey Defeats Windshield

It's a little dewey this morning.

Pop music is about to get so good again.

A hand-drawn map of the April 1974 "super outbreak" by Dr. Ted Fujita.

Looking through old files and had to stop and admire Fujita's map of the 1974 tornado outbreak.

I would give anything to have a full-size physical copy of it one day.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Which spots are the best? Many of the spots I know about are "no trespassing" and heavily patrolled.

It's even worse today.

It's unreal to think I used to feel like this all the time. Antidepressants are a modern miracle.

Depression is cranked all the way up tonight.

I can't believe a string of disappointments on top of everything else might send me spiralling.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

That's strange on both counts! Aside from the site card not populating on Bluesky anymore, I haven't had any site trouble and nobody's said anything.

Hello hello! You've stolen from me, yes? Oho! What fun I'll have at your expense.

The Storm Prediction Center recently made some under-the-hood changes to help better communicate the risk for significant severe weather in your neighborhood.

www.damweather.com/2026/03/spc-...

Additionally what so many of the "No one's talking on Bluesky" people are actually saying is "I am lost and confused when there's not an algorithm to shove content into my eyeballs with no effort on my part"

I just heard a radio ad for WeatherBug and now I'm nostalgic for 2005.

The U.S. tried permanent DST in the 1970s and people hated it more than just switching the clocks.

Kids walking to school in the dark usually doesn't play well.

A dog taught me how to ride my bike.

Just want to be gay and nerdy

Melissa is the 100th Atlantic hurricane name retired since the practice of regularly naming storms began back in 1953.

www.damweather.com/2026/03/meli...

I paid $2.81 for gas on Monday. The same station is $3.19 today.

The Prairies blizzard that caused 12-metre snow drifts - The Weather Network A historic blizzard in March 1966 swept through the eastern Prairies, building snow drifts so deep that they covered windows and doors

It's the 60th anniversary of the infamous Plains/Prairies blizzard of March 1966, which produced the iconic photo of a man standing near the top of a utility pole.

www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weat...