#Indiana

Jasmine

@jasminespirit.bsky.social

25 minutes ago

When someone is dying in the hospital & has no family or friends to sit with them, trained volunteers step in. They stay by the bedside in rotating shifts so that the person does not have to be alone in their final moments.

#dying #alone #hospital #Indiana #indianapolis #volunteers #NODA

@matthewbarron.bsky.social

1 hour ago

Indiana Week in Review Democrats, Republicans and insiders debate politics, the Indiana Statehouse and more.

This week's WFYI #Indiana Week in Review #poll: Should the state be partnering with a White #christiannationalist org?

I'm obviously against even a verbal endorsement of a #racist #theocracy organization being involved with our kids + schools.

www.wfyi.org/programs/ind...

Ralph M Larmann

@ralphmlarmann.bsky.social

1 hour ago

Ralph M Larmann, Oil Mech Bay, 2010. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist. #art #painting #artsky #Olmec #Gulf #Bay #oil #oilplatforms #Ralph #Larmann #Evansville #Indiana #oilspill #environment #pelican #tankers #seascape #OlmecHeads #redsmoke #redoil #petroleum #burning

Indiana Coalition for Open Government

@indianacog.org

2 hours ago

An Indiana public records fight went to court. The journalists (and the public) won. • Indiana Capital Chronicle Battles over public records are becoming more commonplace and sometimes end up in court.

An Indiana public records fight went to court. The journalists (and the public) won!

"Niki Kelly wanted to know how much money Indiana spends to buy the drugs they use to execute prisoners."

indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/03/11/a...

#opengov #transparency #indiana #apra

WheelieWeather

@wheelieweather.bsky.social

5 hours ago

#Severeweatheroutbreak likely 3-15-26/3-16-26 YouTube video by Wheelieweather

Updated synopsis on #Severeweatheroutbreak for 3-15-26/3-16-26 across East #Texas #Arkansas southern #Missouri #Tennessee #Kentucky #Illinois #Indiana western #ohio South-central #Michigan to #Northcarolina #southcarolina #Virginia #Washingtondc. All modes possible

youtube.com/shorts/3L90O...

GardenThymeHerbs

@gardenthymeherbs.bsky.social

6 hours ago

Pots legal in TX???
Wtf #indiana

Witch With A Camera

@jessie-faye.bsky.social

10 hours ago

Silver spotted Skipper butterfly sitting on a purple flower

Silver spotted Skipper butterfly
Photographed at the outdoor garden in the Botanical Conservatory, Fort Wayne Indiana.
September 2025
#butterfly #indiana #naturephotography

notanowl

@brotherpsyche.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

11 hours ago

What the Climate Is Telling Indiana This Growing Season There is a particular kind of knowledge that comes from watching large systems move. Not the seven-day forecast, not the radar loop — something slower and more structural. The kind of signal that tells you what kind of season you're actually in before the season has made up its mind. Right now, that signal is worth paying attention to. * * * La Niña is ending. The cold anomaly that has been sitting in the equatorial Pacific since late 2025 is dissolving — warm water rising from below, trade winds weakening, the whole system losing coherence. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center gives it a 4% chance of surviving into spring. The models agree. It is, for all practical purposes, already gone. What matters is what comes next, and how fast. The current forecast has ENSO-neutral conditions dominating through spring — a kind of atmospheric clearing, the Pacific holding its breath between phases. But the breath doesn't last long. By June through August, El Niño emerges with 62% probability according to NOAA CPC. Some models are more aggressive than that. The European ensemble, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, NOAA's own dynamical models — they converge on a strong event developing by late summer and peaking in winter 2026 into 2027. A few are using the phrase “Super El Niño” without apparent embarrassment. The peak impact lands in next winter. But the growing season catches the leading edge of it, and that matters. * * * For central Indiana — Boone County, the Indianapolis metro corridor, the agricultural heart of the state — the official NOAA long-lead outlook is specific. The Ohio Valley and Great Lakes are called out by name. Spring brings above-normal precipitation. That signal is already materializing. The state came out of January in drought, below-normal precipitation across most of the region, but the pattern is shifting. Wetter conditions are moving in through the March–May window. The ground that was locked and dry is softening. April and May temperatures run above normal. Not dramatically — this is not a heat event forecast, it's a warm lean. But it means soil temperatures climb earlier than average. It means the planting window opens fast and closes fast for anyone trying to time cool-season crops against the heat. Summer, following the El Niño analog from 2015 — the last time a full El Niño summer hit the Midwest — runs warm and wet. Above-normal temperatures across the CONUS. Above-normal precipitation persisting over the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley through July and August. That combination has a specific character: not brutal heat, but sustained warmth with humidity and rain. Good for soil biology. Harder on disease management. Anyone running nightshades in raised beds should be thinking about airflow now, before the season starts. Wet warm summers in Indiana are early blight summers. They are downy mildew summers. The infrastructure answers — drip irrigation rather than overhead watering, aggressive pruning for canopy airflow, black plastic that keeps soil moisture consistent and soil-splash disease vectors off the lower leaves — these aren't optional in a season like this one. * * * Then there is the West. As of this week, an anomalously large upper-level ridge is building over the Desert Southwest — record-breaking early season heat for multiple days, the Weather Prediction Center flagged it in its morning discussion on March 14th. That ridge is not staying in Arizona. It never does. When a heat dome anchors over the interior West in spring, it buckles the jet stream eastward, and what gets loaded into the trough downstream — the trough sitting over the middle of the country — is instability. Moisture pumping north from the Gulf. Temperature contrasts that build thunderstorm potential into something harder and faster than normal. This is the mechanism behind Indiana's most violent spring weather. It doesn't announce itself as a western phenomenon. By the time it arrives here it looks like a local event — a line of storms on radar, a warning on the phone. But the architecture was assembled a thousand miles away. Four days ago, on the evening of March 10th, a cyclic supercell thunderstorm tracked from northeastern Illinois into northwestern Indiana and produced an EF-3 tornado through Lake Village and Roselawn. Grapefruit-size hail struck northern Illinois — potentially a new state record. Wind gusts recorded at 60 miles per hour at South Bend International. The storm system killed two people. This was March. Before the growing season has technically started. Before the atmospheric instability of May and June has had the chance to fully develop. * * * The La Niña to ENSO-neutral transition itself is a particularly volatile atmospheric state. When the Pacific loses its organizing influence, the pattern becomes harder to predict and more prone to extremes at the regional scale. The jet stream position becomes erratic. Storm systems that in an organized La Niña pattern would track predictably can instead stall, reload, and hit the same geography repeatedly. For Indiana, this means several specific threats worth holding in your awareness from now through September: **Derechos.** The most underestimated severe weather event in the Midwest. A derecho is a line of thunderstorms that maintains itself over hundreds of miles, producing straight-line wind damage indistinguishable from tornado damage on the ground — except that it happens everywhere along the line simultaneously. Derechos peak in late spring and summer. The warm wet El Niño analog summer increases their frequency. They arrive fast, they leave ruin, and the standard tornado warning system is not designed around them. Watch for bow echo signatures on radar. When a squall line develops a pronounced forward bulge, the wind threat underneath it is severe. **Microbursts.** A discrete, localized threat embedded inside ordinary-looking thunderstorms. A microburst is a column of cold air that descends violently from a storm's base and hits the ground — spreading outward in all directions at speeds that can exceed 100 miles per hour within a footprint of a few hundred yards. There is typically no warning. The storm may not even look particularly severe. They are common in the hot humid instability of July and August in central Indiana and they are not covered by tornado sirens. What they do to a garden — or a structure, or a tree — is complete and immediate. **Large hail.** The 2026 hail risk maps show a hotspot extending from Iowa and northern Missouri through the eastern Plains. Indiana sits on the eastern edge of that elevated risk corridor. Hail at two inches or larger shreds foliage, cracks fruit, and can destroy a garden bed's entire canopy in under two minutes. Row cover and cold frames offer real protection for brassicas and greens if you can get them down fast enough. For the open nightshade beds, there is no practical protection from a serious hail event — the calculus is knowing when the threat is elevated and making peace with the possibility. **Flash flooding.** In a warm wet summer with above-normal precipitation across the Ohio Valley, the frequency of convective rain events — storms that drop two or three inches in forty-five minutes rather than slowly over a day — increases. Raised beds with good drainage handle this better than in-ground planting. Drip irrigation already in place means the soil doesn't need overhead watering on top of what the storms deliver. The flooding threat in a rural Boone County setting is less about the garden and more about access — roads, low areas, the timing of outdoor work around storm cells. **Late frost ambush.** The ENSO transition creates erratic jet stream behavior in April. Above-normal temperatures in the forecast average can coexist with single cold air intrusion events that drop overnight lows below freezing well after the calendar suggests safety. The average last frost date of April 15th is a statistical midpoint, not a guarantee. In a volatile spring pattern, watching the ten-day forecast rather than the calendar is the only reliable protection for early transplants. * * * There is a second variable that has become a feature of Midwest summers in a way it simply wasn't a decade ago. In 2023, parts of Indiana recorded PM2.5 particulate levels on individual days that were five times higher than the federal safe threshold. This was not a localized industrial event. It was wildfire smoke — from Canada, from the western United States — carried into the jet stream and deposited across the Great Lakes region like sediment. The 2026 western fire season is being flagged early. The Four Corners region — Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico — came out of winter with record low snowpack and entrenched long-term drought. Before the vegetation greens up and creates natural firebreaks, the combination of dry fuel, warm temperatures, and the inevitable wind events of spring creates conditions for fast-moving fire. The smoke that results does not stay in the West. For a gardener, this is now a seasonal variable like any other. Heavy smoke reduces photosynthesis measurably — light smoke diffuses radiation in ways that can actually benefit understory crops, but dense haze slows fruit set on tomatoes and peppers. Particulates deposit on leaf surfaces. On code orange and red air quality days, outdoor labor itself carries a real health cost. The practical response is monitoring. AirNow's fire and smoke map runs daily. Building the habit of checking it before heavy outdoor work in June, July, and August costs nothing and is worth something. * * * The synthesis, then, for Spring 2026 in central Indiana: A wet, warm transition from a dying La Niña into the leading edge of an emerging El Niño. Above-normal precipitation through the planting window and into summer. Above-normal temperatures that reward early preparation and punish waiting. A western ridge already anomalous in mid-March loading the downstream trough with instability. A fire season in the West that will send smoke east by midsummer. And underneath all of it, the slow structural shift of a climate system in which the extremes are no longer exceptional — they are the new distribution. The season rewards people who build systems rather than react to events. The soil, the infrastructure, the timing — these are decisions made now, before the window opens. In Boone County, that window is approximately six weeks away. * * * _Sources: NOAA Climate Prediction Center Long-Lead Seasonal Outlook —https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/fxus05.html IRI Columbia ENSO Forecast — https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/forecasts/enso/current/ NOAA Weather Prediction Center Short Range Discussion, March 14 2026 — https://www.noaa.gov/weather-prediction-center NWS Northern Indiana March 10 Severe Weather Summary — https://www.weather.gov/iwx/03102026_severeweather NIFC National Wildfire Outlook March 2026 — https://www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/predictive/outlooks/monthly_seasonal_outlook.pdf AirNow Fire & Smoke — https://fire.airnow.gov_

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ImGregory📎

@imgregory.bsky.social

12 hours ago

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ImGregory📎

@imgregory.bsky.social

12 hours ago

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ImGregory📎

@imgregory.bsky.social

12 hours ago

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ImGregory📎

@imgregory.bsky.social

12 hours ago

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Hoosiers Rise

@hoosiersrise.bsky.social

13 hours ago

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Witch With A Camera

@jessie-faye.bsky.social

13 hours ago

Little dots of slime mold growing on a decaying log.

I'm always fascinated that slime mold can grow in the winter months.
#slimemold #fungi #naturephotography #nature #indiana #fortwayne

Greater Lafayette Indivisible ❌ 👑

@lafayetteindivisible.com

14 hours ago

Best sign spotted in #Indiana this weekend!

Greater Lafayette Indivisible ❌ 👑

@lafayetteindivisible.com

14 hours ago

See you tomorrow, in #Lafayette, #Indiana? www.facebook.com/events/s/sin... Starts at 3:00 PM at Mama Inez Bakery. Get there by 2:45 if you need a seat.

Cheryl

@cherylnix.bsky.social

14 hours ago

Sign days Save Eagle Creek. Information is at Protectindy org

You know what happens when Meta builds a data center in Lebanon #Indiana? They get permission from the state to dump millions of gains of wastewater in our source of drinking water!

ImGregory📎

@imgregory.bsky.social

14 hours ago

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ImGregory📎

@imgregory.bsky.social

15 hours ago

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ImGregory📎

@imgregory.bsky.social

15 hours ago

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ImGregory📎

@imgregory.bsky.social

15 hours ago

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ImGregory📎

@imgregory.bsky.social

15 hours ago

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Greater Lafayette Indivisible ❌ 👑

@lafayetteindivisible.com

19 hours ago

Progressive Indiana Network | Substack Indiana news, opinion, analysis, and historical perspective from a diverse group of politically-progressive Hoosiers. We are here. We exist. We belong. Click to read Progressive Indiana Network, a Sub...

Portraits and perspectives on the amazing current crop of #progressive candidates for office in the #Indiana statehouse. Find 'em here, #Hoosiersky www.progressiveindiana.net?utm_source=s... #FriendsDon'tLetFriendsVoteRepublican

KrissyKat

@krissykat.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy

20 hours ago

I am glad the sandhill cranes are coming back to stop in the Indiana Dunes after wetlands restoration efforts.

I always like visiting Beverly Shores and driving on E. State Park Boundary Road to the lake, then on Beverly Drive back out to Michigan City, where the landscape turns from forest to […]

KrissyKat

@krissykat.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy

20 hours ago

Sandhill cranes are flocking to the Indiana Dunes' Grand Marsh this March!

wimsradio.com/2026/03/13/habitat-resto...

#birds #nature #indiana

War Against War

@waragainstwar.bsky.social

22 hours ago

BP workers in Whiting, Indiana overwhelmingly reject concessions contract The contract would have led to 100 fewer union workers and wider use of contract workers, $8-10 hourly wage cuts, the closure of the environmental department, attacks on seniority and implementation o...

The contract would have led to 100 fewer union workers and wider use of contract workers, $8-10 hourly wage cuts, the closure of the environmental department, attacks on seniority and implementation of AI with no job protections.

#BP #Whiting #Indiana

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

KrissyKat

@krissykat.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy

23 hours ago

Purdue University C.A. Waldo's account of defeating Indiana's Pi Law was written up in the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science.

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14641808

#math #indiana #uspol #history

KrissyKat

@krissykat.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy

23 hours ago

Happy Pi Day!

Always remember the Indiana Pi bill that went before the legislature back in 1897 to round up to 3.2.

Cecil Adams says, "The punishment for unbelievers I have not been able to learn, but I place no credence in the rumor that you had to spend the rest of your natural life in […]

ImGregory📎

@imgregory.bsky.social

1 day ago

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