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Clear skies and warmer temperatures have combined for a beautiful day across our area. If you enjoy great sunsets setting the stage for ideal conditions for viewing the tail end of the Perseids meteor shower, tonights your night! #CAwx

This is insane. The monsoonal blast hitting California has dumped up to 7.5 inches of rain in Yosemite in less than 48 hours, with back-to-back days of Flash Flood Warnings. An incredible burst of mid-summer rain for the Sierra Nevada.

California has been bombarded by over 10,000 lightning strikes today, sparking dozens of new wildfires. It’s about to get really smoky.

When you think of University of California, you may think of higher education or research, but you should also think of the grocery store. Next time you're doing a grocery run, thank UC Davis (and our sister campuses) 🛒: ucdav.is/4mRlY6E

wow!

The Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter autonomously draws construction plans onto concrete.

Second monitor

Leaked documents detail Trump plans to open up offshore oil and gas development.. BOEM maps suggest this could include a large swath of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, including the Bodega and Año Nuevo basins, and Partington basin off Big Sur. yahoo.com/news/articles/…

A Stoic way of handling problems

not surprising from this administration but still profoundly terrible

Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined:

A back-to-work cartoon for New Scientist

Jan 2, the day after the abundant rains, there was a lot of "moisture magic" in Anza-Borrego Desert (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses. nyti.ms/45RcBNE

Tesla didn't remove the Robotaxi 'safety monitor' – it just moved them to a trailing car electrek.co/2026/01/22/tes… by @fredlambert

Record warmth across much of the West this winter has left the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains with very little snow. “That is the classic global warming mountain snowpack signature.” Daniel Swain Graphics by Sean Greene Los Angeles Times Data and Graphics latimes.com/environment/st…

California has had almost a month of no precipitation. Hoping the upcoming storms in next week can help build some snowpack.

FRODO: I wish it need not have happened in my time GANDALF: so do all who live to see such times. but the Dow is over 50,000!