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#weather

"We are starting to see a little bit of a tease of fall here with temperatures the last few days, topping out in the 60s, which is around where we should be for early October,"

Good morning. A swell day awaits-weatherwise, to be clear; everything else is terrible-with sun and a high around 71. Crisp again overnight, with a low around 52. You can find me on Bluesky, I'm @abeaujon.87 on Signal, and there's a link to my email address below. This roundup is available as a morning email newsletter. Sign up here. I can't stop listening to: Des Demonas, " The Duke Ellington Bridge."

"I'm very glad to see that America's broadcasters are standing up to serve the interests of their community," FCC chairman Brendan Carr told Sean Hannity last night."We don't just have this progressive foie gras coming out from New York and Hollywood." Carr's forcemeat analogy came as he and the Fox News personality celebrated ABC's decision to yank Jimmy Kimmel's late night talk show indefinitely following Carr's suggestion that his agency could force Disney, which owns ABC, to punish the comic for saying,

"It's mainly down to how changeable it is, and also the fact that we can't plan anything or rely on it," he said. "People are obsessed because there's always something outdoors that they're thinking about doing, whether it be tomorrow, the weekend or a big event coming up. "I think the fact that it varies so much across the island as well. It's a very small island. What I post in Carlow, and it'll be blue skies and sunshine, and I get all these messages from the west of Ireland saying, 'It's not like that here'."

Kirk shooting latest: Officials released photos of a person of interest in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, but still haven't identified the shooter. ( Washington Post) The manhunt has been "plagued by slow, confusing and contradictory disclosures from public officials," including a bulletin that said authorities found ammunition festooned with "transgender and antifascist ideology," a report that officials later downplayed. ( WSJ) Pressure is growing on FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino.

traditional demarcation between the seasons when we arrive home from holiday to find everything in our house in dire need of immediate repair has come so early that we haven't even been away yet. The light switch in the downstairs loo is stuck in the on position. The back door will not shut. The garden hose has exploded. Nothing in this house works, my wife says, trying to flick the jammed light switch. Better always on than always off, I say, trying to be positive.

The average Brit spends a whopping 56.6 hours talking about the weather over the course of a year, equivalent to two days and nine hours.

The smoke from the vast wildfires in Spain and Portugal is drifting into western France, creating bizarre orange-tinted clouds and spectacular sunsets.

The Department of Agriculture has urged visitors to forests, parks, beaches and other recreation areas to not bring barbeques and other sources of ignition as vegetation fires pose a danger to resources and public safety.

Maximum sustained winds are near 70 mph (110 km/h) with higher gusts. Steady strengthening is expected during the next few days and Erin is forecast to become a hurricane later today, and it could become a major hurricane by this weekend.

The squirrels dance effortlessly across the snowy branches, showcasing their agility and vivacity, contrasting sharply with my own frail state of health as I observe from my sick chair.

Today will be warm and humid, with temperatures ranging between 17 and 23C, with Munster and south Leinster enjoying the warmest conditions.

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On August 8, 2007, severe thunderstorms produced two tornadoes in New York City, the first striking Brooklyn in over a century, with significant damage.

Temperatures will reach the mid-20s Celsius in some parts of central and eastern England, with highs of 25-26°C expected.