Events

It's really nice up here in the middle of Wisconsin 9 km from the nearest expressway. After the sun set, the wind almost completely stopped, making the lake into a mirror:

Cassie and I are spending the weekend with friends in a cabin by a lake in central Wisconsin. We're going to get oriented right now, and then begin doing nothing in earnest. My friends are about 90 minutes away, so it's time for a walk around the neighborhood.

Started in Westfield, Wis.

This morning, a pair of earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 rocked the area around Caracas, Venezuela, killing at least 164 people across a wide area along the Caribbean coast.

The UK hit another record temperature today for the hottest June day ever recorded. The 36.4°C in Yeovilton, Somerset this afternoon comes just one day after breaking the 50-year old record. (The hottest day ever in the UK was 19 July 2022, when Coningsby, Lincolnshire hit 40.3°C. However, it was so dry—the dewpoint only hit 9°C—that the heat index only got up to 38.2°C.)

The Met Office has continued a Red Extreme Heat Warning for most of England and Wales, with Wiggonholt, Sussex hitting the highest June temperature ever recorded at 35.8°C. Gatwick is currently reporting 35°C with a heat index of 38.6°C, which is the psychological equivalent of 120°F in Chicago.

I went to my first Chicago White Sox game 31 years after my first baseball game because, as a lifelong Cubs fan, I had certain prejudices and stereotypes about the South Side team.