"Billy, your socks are different colours. One green and one blue."
"Sorry, Miss. That's because of Mister Trumpet."
"Mister Trumpet?"
"Yes. Mother said he made all the sock markers fall. She was really upset. And then she gave me these socks to put on. I think she needs sock markers to see the colours of the socks."
"I see. Yes, the sock-- stock market falls have been severe. Maybe it was Mister Trump, not Trumpet?"
"Yes, Trump. But she didn't say mister, she said bad words."
weather’s turned severe
adjective no adverb here
what’s that you said, dear?
The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 6 April 2025 is:
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From CNN.com: Massive March storm with hurricane-force winds is knocking out power and threatening a blizzard, fires and tornadoes
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/weather/weather-storm-south-central-us-mardi-gras-hnk?cid=ios_app
From NPR.com: Severe weather and critical fire risk, ranked 'multi-hazard,' expected nationwide
#Severe weather alert here in #Asheville, hope everyone can be inside. A noisy storm is just about on top of us.
Just a reminder, if you are looking for #severe #thunderstorm #warnings here, there is a bot at @severetstorm_bot (only visible if you follow it... during storms, it's a firehose of information). #wx #weather #SevereWeather
Level 3 of 5 enhanced #severe #thunderstorm risk Monday from the Storm Prediction Center.
Looks like potential for frontrunning supercells and then a line trying to cross the Appalachians, in the #DC/#Baltimore region and westward.
About 1 enhanced risk on Day 2 (today) per year and a handful for Day 1, via Iowa Environmental Mesonet stats. #uswx #mdwx #vawx #wvwx #dcwx #dmvwx
"Some scientists caution the attention given to these big numbers can overshadow the real-world hazards they amplify: #Heatwaves, #floods and #droughts becoming much more #frequent, #severe and long-lasting as the Earth heats up.
The world gets hung up on blockbuster records but “these heat records are not exciting numbers,” she told CNN. “They mean that people and ecosystems are dying, that people are losing their livelihoods, that agricultural land will be unusable.”"
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/08/world/extreme-global-temperature-heat-records-climate/index.html
[4 PM] Tranquil weather here in Southern New England, but quite the #thunderstorm complex currently over IL into IN. Notice the bowing configuration of the #lightning flashes, indicative of a #severe wind signature.
Great first night of #severe #weather #coverage at the new #feed. Visit the FB group at http://ktc.mikemathia.com for weather updates and the 24/7 (mostly) live feed.
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“Families come in with their #children who have #severe #behavioral problems, and the families really just are at their wit’s end, you know,” said Dr. Anna M. Cushing, a pediatric #emergency room physician at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and one of the authors of the study. “Their child’s behavior may be a #danger to themselves, but also to the parents, to the other children in the home.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/health/children-emergency-room-mental-health.html
In a series of experiments, scientists at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical found that #patients with #severe #COVID19 exhibit a drop in #cognitive performance that mimics accelerated #aging
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/12/severe-covid-19-linked-with-brain-aging-says-study/