YAS, ACTUALLY NOOOOOO

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YBD: pig in a hailstorm

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fortnightly boat

this movie appears to have just about everything.

daily ri ri

rihanna looking fierce in tush magazine ya'll

the weather report

Lightning strikes One World Trade Center as the sun sets http://t.co/D1I7krAaNj via @Lucas_Jackson_/@reuterspictures pic.twitter.com/RULzeiQ08d

— NBC News Pictures (@NBCNewsPictures) July 3, 2014

would you like to know what to expect from the sky this summer?

jicydak, i'm a deft amateur meteorologist with some notable talents in weather control. i've had a bad feeling about what's to come based on the relentless brutality of this past winter. and now my fears have been confirmed. please read this summary of the farmer's almanac predictions for summer 2k14:

The 2014 edition of the Farmer’s Almanac predicts the New York area will be socked by a wet, hot summer that’s set to dump a higher-than-average amount of rain across the five boroughs.

“It looks like it’s going to be an oppressively hot and humid summer for the New York area,” said Sandi Duncan, the almanac’s managing editor.

“It’s going to be very humid and thundery,” she added.

Things will start heating up in mid-June, just as heavy rainfalls begin to move into the area, soaking city dwellers.

The heat and heavy rainfall will endure through the month of July and some of August before things begin to cool off and dry out.

also, sandy part two:

Duncan said a severe hurricane will likely threaten the East Coast sometime between Sept. 16 and 19, and take a course similar to that of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

FRANKENSTORM!!!!!!!!1111111

DESPITE A MODEST CLUSTER OF OUTLYING DETERMINISTIC SOLUTIONS AND ENSEMBLE MEMBERS FROM THE VARIOUS MODELING CENTERS, THE LION'S SHARE OF GUIDANCE INDICATES THAT THE CIRCULATION ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANE SANDY WILL PASS CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE AMPLIFYING POLAR TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN UNITED STATES TO BECOME INCORPORATED INTO A HYBRID VORTEX OVER THE MID ATLANTIC AND NORTHEAST NEXT TUESDAY. THE HIGH DEGREE OF BLOCKING FROM EASTERN NORTH AMERICA ACROSS THE ENTIRE ATLANTIC BASIN IS EXPECTED TO ALLOW THIS UNUSUAL MERGER TO TAKE PLACE, AND ONCE THE COMBINED GYRE MATERIALIZES, IT SHOULD SETTLE BACK TOWARD THE INTERIOR NORTHEAST THROUGH HALLOWEEN, INVITING PERHAPS A GHOULISH NICKNAME FOR THE CYCLONE ALONG THE LINES OF "FRANKENSTORM", AN ALLUSION TO MARY SHELLEY'S GOTHIC CREATURE OF SYNTHESIZED ELEMENTS. (via)

kylie is going to love this article about weather

did you know she controls the weather? do you remember that mid 90s cartoon series about the X Men? I like to think about Kylie like this:




anyway, read this article in the nytimes about the predictability of weather.

here comes the hand of god to wipe the republican scourge from the earth

as we speak, tropical storm isaac is gathering strength and is forecast to be a category 2 hurricane directly over tampa, florida on monday night. you might remember that the grand old party has their mitt romney party scheduled at exactly the same time. things are getting serious and the mayor of tampa is threatening to shut the whole thing down. stay tuned. source source

weekend forecast?

vampire cloud attack.

omg, arizona, get OVER yourselves!

PHOENIX — The massive dust storms that swept through central Arizona this month have stirred up not just clouds of sand but a debate over what to call them.

The blinding waves of brown particles, the most recent of which hit Phoenix on Monday, are caused by thunderstorms that emit gusts of wind, roiling the desert landscape. Use of the term “haboob,” which is what such storms have long been called in the Middle East, has rubbed some Arizona residents the wrong way.

“I am insulted that local TV news crews are now calling this kind of storm a haboob,” Don Yonts, a resident of Gilbert, Ariz., wrote to The Arizona Republic after a particularly fierce, mile-high dust storm swept through the state on July 5. “How do they think our soldiers feel coming back to Arizona and hearing some Middle Eastern term?” (via)

JFC. get the sand out, you racists.

Not everyone was put out by the use of the term. David Wilson of Goodyear, Ariz., said those who wanted to avoid Arabic terms should steer clear of algebra, zero, pajamas and khaki, as well. “Let’s not become so ‘xenophobic’ that we forget to remember that we are citizens of the world, nor fail to recognize the contributions of all cultures to the richness of our language,” he wrote.

i'm glad at least one person in that state has some sense.

ps - i'm fairly sure 'haboob' is the phrase with which the countess greeted everyone in morocco.

the birth of venus

A Roman statue stands on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the southern city of Ashkelon on Dec. 14. The statue, which had been buried for centuries, was unearthed by the winter gales that have raked Israel's coast. The marble figure was found in the remains of a cliff that crumbled under the force of winds, waves and rain, the Israel Antiquities Authority said. via. source.

more brooklyn hailstorm internet coverage

gothamist
gawker
nytimes

a wall of water and sky rocks

that's what hit brooklyn a couple of hours ago. i tried to take pixies but it was too dark on my street. luckily, 2Pz reader leigh anne posted some on her fb. so i stole em'

thx leigh anne! omg it's still thundering!!

click play.

and keep watching. it's insanity.

You may have heard about the massive hailstorm that swept through Oklahoma City on Sunday afternoon, leaving softball-sized pellets in its wake. Well, now you can see the tempest—and it's nothing short of jaw-dropping. (via)

what is jazzy doing?

MISSING!!!

i just woke up and it's thunderstorming and she's nowhere to be found!

the king of planets.

Everything about Jupiter is super-sized, including its colorful, turbulent atmosphere. But there's fresh evidence that one of the planet's most recognizable features, the Great Red Spot, is shrinking. The spot, which is actually an ancient monster storm that measures about three Earths across, lost 15 percent of its diameter between 1996 and 2006, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found. (cnn)

hey! what's your favorite planet?