Best way to use purpleair.com map: click on the gear icon at upper left and choose "US EPA" in the "Apply Conversion" setting, or else readings will be too high. Also uncheck the box "show inside" to avoid seeing monitors located indoors, which have a black circle around the colored dot on the map.

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

We're working with @metroabundance.bsky.social to collect cost drivers in California building codes and standards above and beyond national model codes/standards. See here for more – please circulate among architects, engineers, etc. in the state! admin.centerforbuilding.org/wp-content/u...

The Gann Fire, which started earlier this afternoon in the foothills near New Hogan Reservoir was captured by the alert cams at sunset looking apocalyptically stunning. share.watchduty.org/i/112952?ts=...

‘$71 million…Shipments are expected to begin in the first quarter of 2027…183,000 square foot facility in Sacramento…4 GWh/yr capacity…secured Jupiter Power ~4.75 GWh 2027-2030+1.5 GWh deal with Energy Vault (~2 GWh/yr - 50% capacity)’ Gonna reach out - we need a ~2.5 MWh DC block product…

Peak Energy to build 4 GWh grid-scale sodium-ion BESS factory in California - Energy Storage

Sodium-ion battery startup Peak Energy says its $71 million factory will be the first facility in the United States dedicated to grid-scale sodium-ion energy storage systems. Shipments are expected to...

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100° at Central Park, 101° downtown. No official word if DIA has hit 100° yet. #COwx

A canine mass grave was discovered at a "no-kill" sanctuary in Northern California. A San Francisco Chronicle investigation finds that signs were ignored for decades.

i feel like more than 700 homes burning down in spokane should be a bigger news deal

Geomorphologists being called on for vital skills at this point

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 2d ago

I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The Rising Tide Lifts Some Interest Rates: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Loan Pricing #climaterisk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Rising Tide Lifts Some Interest Rates: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Loan Pricing

Banks adjust loan spreads after observing natural disasters linked to climate change. We isolate this updating process by identifying loans to borrowers at risk of, but not directly affected by, such...

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Hydrology Paper of the Day @hydro-kyleb.bsky.social on the future of urban hydrology: the need for a community of scientists to work together; understanding impacts in the context of sociohydrology; definitions of urban areas and processes; and the need for novel sensing systems and data collection.

Kyle Blount, Ph.D. (they/them)@hydro-kyleb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎉🎉NEW PAPER🎉🎉 "Out of the Forest and Into the Concrete Jungle" This is some of the work I'm most proud of to date: a new commentary co-authored with 15 amazing urban hydrology (or adjacent) folks after the 2024 WaterSciCon! Details and highlights below... 1/5 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

The devastation is unimaginable. I moved here 3 years ago knowing Spokane would be my home. I can’t explain how horrific this is. “It’s like a war zone,” people told me.

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Agree but also general googling has gotten significantly worse. Its a lot more functional to get to Claude and prompt it then it is to parse thru AI generated articles that are vague and useless.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3d ago

A weird downstream effect of LLMs I predict will start having an impact soon is that they are very helpful for fixing a lot of stuff that would not have been worth fixing when information about how to fix them was harder to get.

As the Spokane community continues to face the devastating impacts of local wildfires, you can help your neighbors. We will continue to update this thread with more opportunities to help!

This is a good summary of the status of the complex of three fires now being called the “Spokane Area Fires.” – About 8,000 acres and more than 600 structures burned – Autumn Lane (the most rural of the three fires, burning between Spokane and Deer Park) seems to be the most active this morning.

Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 3d ago

More than 600 (likely homes) burned in and around Spokane County yesterday. The devastation is incomprehensible www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

More than 600 (likely homes) burned in and around Spokane County yesterday. The devastation is incomprehensible www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Wildfire in northwest Spokane destroys 640 structures

The Old Trails wildfire in northwest Spokane destroyed 640 structures Saturday, according to Cody Rohrbach, Spokane County Fire District 3 fire chief.

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Evacuations from the Meadowview Fire have now merged with evacuations from the Old Trails Fire. These are Level 3 (GO NOW!) evacuations.

A dangerous wind shift (visible on radar imagery) has just occurred in #Spokane, WA, where major wildfire disaster is currently unfolding. Three separate major fires (circled) near or within city limits have already caused major structure loss & chaotic, expanding evacs. #WAwx

A major wildland interface fire event currently happening in Spokane. Level 3 evacuations for areas in front of a fast-moving wildfire. Level 3 means GO!! This is a life-threatening event. Do not wait!!! #OldTrailsFire

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is, unfortunately, turning into a dull-fledged wildfire disaster based on the verified reports I've seen.

The fires in Spokane County are already destroying homes as it has jumped the river and crossed into the city. Please keep us in your prayers. Read us for updates or follow me on Instagram for video. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

'Never seen it this bad': Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city

A wildfire driven by high winds jumped the Spokane River Saturday afternoon, burning homes and quickly moving into the Indian Trail Neighborhood.

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Around 8pm, the wind will be shifting, and visibility in the City of Spokane will be limited. Unless you are evacuating, please avoid driving. If you must drive, please be cautious and provide enough space between you and the vehicles around you. For all evacuation info, visit bit.ly/SRECOfficial...

The American Red Cross has opened another evacuation shelter at the Spokane Convention Center for anyone under evacuation orders in north Spokane.

Red Cross opens second evacuation shelter at Spokane Convention Center

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. -- The American Red Cross has opened another evacuation shelter at the Spokane Convention Center for anyone under evacuation orders in north Spokane.

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#climaterisk www.nature.com/articles/ncl...

Vulnerability of US and European electricity supply to climate change - Nature Climate Change

Thermoelectric power in Europe and the United States is vulnerable to climate change. Here research relates lower summer river flows and higher river water temperatures as a result of climate change t...

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Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 4d ago

Record low water levels in Europe continue to have catastrophic effects

Geolocation: Dwight Merkel Sports Complex, Spokane, WA POV1: 47.709532, -117.476943 Fire location: 47.71156, -117.48111 ~500-foot swath of 50' Ponderosa pines 4/

Deb@debsdpt.bsky.social · 4d ago

We are burning up in Spokane. This is the Dwight Merkel Sports Complex which is very close to the VA Medical Complex. Level 3 evacuations extended into the city.

Thread. Spokane. Source: TW-@MatthewBut59357 US/Canada FIRMS map 1/

Watch duty GIS not rendering these but this is literally evacuating an entire suburb?

Lawrence Vulis@lvulis.bsky.social · 4d ago

New fire has popped up across the river with evacuations being requested. #MeadowviewFire share.watchduty.org/i/112638?ts=...

New fire has popped up across the river with evacuations being requested. #MeadowviewFire share.watchduty.org/i/112638?ts=...

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Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 4d ago

With the Autumn Lane Fire spotting near Suncrest, if you live in/near there, you should prepare to evacuate. Suncrest is now under a Level 2 (GET SET) evacuation.

Spokane 5:10 pm. Snorkel helicopter is water bombing on the column of smoke I saw. A tree went up in flames in front of one of the houses, and I can see flames below the rimrock. 30 mph gusts at my location. Flames reaching high there right now. Smoke billowing across Indian Bluff.