#WDEFWeather #News12Weather #BlipCast Friday Morning: Brisk but dry early on. Another sunny and mild day coming up with the weekend ahead going above normal on temperatures before next week's cold front.

Much more on your forecast coming up on @wdefnews12

https://youtu.be/vYXE7ZxtEoI

@Ruthat We are all "them" to someone else.

@JPSCHWEIZER63 I would hope so as well. Unfortunately, from what I've heard, at the major social media sites, tamping down the disinformation/hate/blather is either not taken seriously, is an understaffed process, or both.

The best we can do (besides blocking) is to counter - loudly and boldly - anybody's dangerous disinformation/ignorant bushwa at every opportunity. Science and the future demands it of us. Not easy, but necessary.

Head to wdef.com/votenow to make your choice in our FriendInRoofing.com #WeatherPoll #QuestionOfTheDay. Answer coming up tonight on #PrimeNewsAt7

"Scrolling through these platforms, watching them fill with #falseinformation, harebrained theories, and doctored images—all while panicked residents boarded up their houses, struggled to evacuate, and prayed that their worldly possessions wouldn’t be obliterated overnight—offered a portrait of American discourse almost too bleak to reckon with head-on." @TheAtlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221/

Faint, but visible, view of the #NorthernLights from overnight on the Island Cove Marina & Resort camera on the @Epb Fiber Optics Weather Cam Network.

https://youtu.be/hg2aAK8rL90

Seeing bright planet #Venus in the fading #sunset light on the @Epb Fiber Optics Weather Cam Network early Thursday evening.

https://www.wdef.com/weather-cam-network/

"DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he has seen some people affected by Hurricane Milton "reluctant" to access relief because of "fear" from #falseinformation about the government's response to the storm.

He said #disinformation is having "a real-life impact on survivors, and it is also demoralizing for those heroic individuals who are risking their lives in the service of others." CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-milton-how-to-help/

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather #BlipCast Thursday: Beautiful again for Thursday with hardly a cloud in sight. Chances for rain several days away at best.

More on your forecast tonight on @WDEFNews12 at 5:30, 6, 7 & 11, and at wdef.com/weather

“High(+++) aurora activity forecasted. If skies are clear, highly active auroral displays may be visible overhead from locations such as Inuvik, Yellowknife, Rankin and Iqaluit, Canada, to Carson City, Oklahoma City, Little Rock and Raleigh, U.S.A.; and may be visible low on the horizon from Southern California, Phoenix, Austin, and Montgomery, U.S.A..”“

https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/cme-arrival-earth-has-occurred-and-warnings-have-been-issued

"Warm ocean waters due to human-caused #climatechange helped fuel #Hurricane #Milton to become a powerful Category 5 storm.

Sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico were well above average for this time of year as #Milton churned toward #Florida." @NASAClimate

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153429/fuel-for-hurricane-milton

"At Miami International, 148 flights were canceled and 27 were delayed early Thursday morning. At Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International, 11 flights were delayed and 56 were canceled.

On Wednesday, nearly 2,000 flights within, into or out of the United States were canceled, according to the tracking service FlightAware. That includes over 380 flights canceled at Tampa International Airport which is closed." CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-milton-impacts-south-florida/

<LOUD WIND NOISE> WELL, WE SEE MORE..
<LOUD WIND NOISE> ..AND THEN THERE'S...
<LOUD WIND NOISE> ...REALLY DANGEROUS...
<LOUD WIND NOISE> ...BACK TO YOU!
<LOUD WIND NOISE>
Makes _me_ want to watch more.

Saying it louder for the news managers in the back (from the POV of a meteorologist):

Putting reporters/meteorologist out in the worst of the worst of the storm's passage while the winds are buffering the person around and whistling past the microphone turns your "coverage" ultimately useless.
You hear more of the wind, not the reporter's voice. Debris flying by could cause injuries (or worse). One day someone is going to get killed on live TV and you won't be able to shrug that off.

#WDEFWeather #News12Weather #BlipCast Thursday Morning: Continuing with sunny skies and dry weather for the rest of the week and into the weekend.
All that and more this morning on @WDEFNews12.

400 AM EDT POSITION UPDATE...STRONG WINDS SPREAD ALONG THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA AS THE CENTER OF #MILTON NEARS CAPE CANAVERAL.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#Milton

" #Conspiracytheories about #weathermanipulation are, unfortunately, the logical next step in #climatedenialism, and the traction they are getting shows how hard it is to get out of this absurdly terrifying loop."
- Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker

https://www.wired.com/story/hurricane-milton-geoengineer-lasers-fema-conspiracy-theories-debunk/