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MAJOR News Occurring in the U.S., Update 5:55pm

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Elon Musk launched Starship at 4:45pm #1 5:52p.  Planes in the air are allowed to continue flying to their destinations but that is it. At 5:53pm, we have confirmed that a few transoceanic flights that originate at airports near both coasts are being allowed to take off. This includes Hawaii from West Coast Airports.      Everyone, I just saw an interview from O'Hare talking about a passenger who wanted to get to St. Louis and "didn't know what to do." There is Amtrak . And, there are multiple train departures to STL daily.  #2  4:38pm, An American Cruise Line river cruise ship has capsized and is sinking in New Orleans after being struck by a cargo ship ~ 12:30pm. There are still passengers in the water. Details are here and they are being kept updated. Earlier.... #3.   The numerous reports that all National Weather Service radars are down and that many of their websites are down are untrue. Below is the Phoenix radar at 3:57p CST.  #4, 4:50pm...
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One of the Finest Papers on Tornadoes That I Have Ever Read

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Two illustrations of wind turbines being destroyed contained in the paper.   If you have an interest in tornadoes and don't mind wading through a scientific discussion, I highly recommend the new paper by Josh Wurman, Karen Kosiba and Paul Robinson which was published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. The title: The Greenfield, Iowa, Tornado (2024): Wind-Damage Relationships, Novel LDR  Dual-Polarization Analysis, and Integrated DOW/Video Analysis of Turbine Destruction Thanks to Reed Timmer, there is excellent video of this tornado while it was destroying wind turbines southwest of Greenfield, Iowa.  Again, the paper is highly recommended. 
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Hmm. This Hasn't Gotten Much Publicity

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Thank You for Your Business!

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A number of entities have licensed my photos the past two weeks. Thank you! I hope you will take a few minutes to browse my galley at Adobe Stock Photography .  There are about 250 curated images I believe you will enjoy. I also want to thank all of the people and/or enterprises who have licensed by stock photography the past few weeks. 
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Yet Another Fatal Error in a Scientific Paper Pertaining to Global Warming

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Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. has the details here . 
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America: Before the Attorneys Took Over

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I was working the other day and had an old Price is Right  on the TV. I'm guessing it was from the late 1970's. I couldn't believe it when they gave away an ultralight airplane! No license is required, they said. Can you image a television show giving away an airplane without lessons  today? The corporate attorneys would go crazy and never allow it and the liability would be through the roof. 
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News About Radar Gaps

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I am pleased to report the State of Missouri is going to fund a radar to fill the southeast Missouri radar gap . This is wonderful news as I rank it the 10th worst radar gap in the United States. When I was with AccuWeather in 2017, some people in Congress asked me to create a map of radar gaps and roughly rank them. Here is the map. Since I created the map, radars (with limited ranges) have been installed in Alamosa and Durango, Colorado, which improve the gap in the Four Corners area. There is also a limited use radar near Columbia, Missouri, but it does not continuously run.  A private sector radar subnetwork has been established since then but the data is not available to the general public. It is mainly east of the Mississippi River.  For what it is worth, this map was prepared because Congress at the time was interested in funding gap-fillers but NOAA/NWS, astonishingly, said "no."
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