Good morning from Minneapolis. Like the nonplussed girlfriend, we're lovely and temperate.

Quite early Tuesday morning it's 56℉; light rain, fog, and mist; barometer reads Change; winds west-northwest at 17 gusting to 26; visibility 5 miles at the airport.

Tuesday
Mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 72.

Spotted in an article about the photographer whose image became the Internet's "distracted boyfriend" meme is this one.

“Regarding what I think about the photo has gone viral, I think the image was a good foundation to whoever had the great idea to turn it into a metaphor that works for almost everything.”
—Antonio Guillem in "Wired," 2017

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/antonioguillem

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Good morning from Minneapolis. Sun's out, fun's out.

Unusually cold for this time of year — blanket weather overnight — but it's most welcome, so long as the furnace doesn't come on.

Quite early Monday morning it was 62℉, a few clouds, light southwest winds; visibility 10 miles at the airport.

Today
Mostly sunny, with a high near 78

Come Monday, it’ll be alright
Come Monday, I’ll be holdin’ you tight
I spent four lonely days in a brown L.A. haze
And I just want you back by my side
— Jimmy Buffett

Good luck!
https://americansongwriter.com/a-chronicle-of-life-on-the-road-and-the-meaning-behind-jimmy-buffetts-first-hit-come-monday/

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Good morning from Minneapolis, the City of Lakes, the Mill City, the great City of Cereal in the upper Midwest.

Quite early Thursday morning it was 68℉; light winds; overcast skies; visibility 10 miles at the airport.

- Widespread rain showers expected today.

- A break from the heat & humidity over the next 7 days. Below normal temperatures are likely with high temperatures in the 70s.
—NWS Chanhassen

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.
— https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36/36-h/36-h.htm

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Good morning from Minneapolis, where a line of thunderstorms moved through Lesser Minnesota before dawn, rousing your correspondent from peaceful slumber. We could use the rain.

Quite early Wednesday morning it was 69℉; overcast skies; visibility 10 miles at the airport.

• High heat and humidity are expected Wednesday with heat indices into the 90s to around 100 across southern and eastern Minnesota into western Wisconsin.

• Severe thunderstorms are possible primarily along and east of the I-35 corridor Wednesday. Severe thunderstorms will have the potential to produce large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes Wednesday afternoon and evening.
—NWS Chanhassen

Alice was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire-Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw her. "Cheshire-Puss," began Alice, rather timidly, "would you please tell me which way I ought to go from here?"

"In that direction," the Cat said, waving the right paw 'round, "lives a Hatter; and in that direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like; they're both mad."

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.

"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat; "we're all mad here."

—Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19033/pg19033.txt

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Good morning from Minneapolis where fog and mist are evident and the air temperature is a "nice" 69℉. Visibility 4 miles at the airport.

• Heat indices will warm into the 90s this afternoon. Moderate to major heat risk is forecast, which means that the heat could impact anyone without effective cooling or adequate hydration. Protect yourself against the heat and check on vulnerable individuals such as the elderly, children, and those with chronic illnesses.

• Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible across western Minnesota this evening and tonight. All severe hazards will be possible.
—Hazardous Weather Outlook, NWS Chanhassen

Take it easy. Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy. Lighten up while you still can. Don't even try to understand.
—Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey

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Good morning from Minneapolis where, month-to-date, we've received only about one-tenth the amount of rain we normally'd expect. Got some overnight. Could use some more. Hot summer weather's on the way.

Quite early Monday morning it's 70℉; overcast; breezy southeast winds; visibility 9 miles at the airport.

- Tropical-like airmass settles in through Wednesday. This will lead to the potential for multiple rounds of thunderstorms through mid-week.

- Highs in the low 90s are likely for Tuesday and Wednesday.
—NWS Chanhassen

And we're all fruit salad
All in the same bowl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCoQlFw-ZSQ

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Good morning from Minneapolis where the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad so I had one more for dessert.

Today
Increasing clouds, with a high near 87.

- Air Quality Alert for much of Minnesota through this evening.

- Tropical-like airmass settles in by Monday. This will lead to the potential for several rounds of thunderstorms through mid-week.

If you like Guinness, I can recommend the "Zero" product, a non-alcohol version. Just my opinion, man, it's a faithful rendition of the original.

Guinness 0.0 production 'very complex'
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/1025/1477333-guinness-investment/

I did not really have two beers for breakfast this morning. That was a literary flourish. It's just that Sunday mornings always remind me of that Kris Kristofferson masterpiece, "Sunday Morning Coming Down."

Pepper, the borrowed dog, reminds me of Guinness, owing to his color.

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Good morning from Minneapolis, the City of Lakes and streams.

Quite early Saturday morning it's 70℉; a few clouds; barometer reads Change; visibility 10 miles at the airport.

Today
Sunny, with a high near 87.

I understand that fishing licenses are optional this weekend in Minnesota as the state DNR moves to a new online licensing scheme that's sure to go swimmingly.

I love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But I don't enjoy it half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
—Irving Berlin from the musical "Top Hat"

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Good morning from Minneapolis where we've clawed our way to Friday.

No dogs in Lake Nokomis [blue-green algae]; a campfire ban in the BWCA [wildfire risk]; nineties next week; heat indices approaching 100.

It's summer, all right. Hope you like it.

The great error in Rip’s composition was an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labour. It could not be for want of assiduity or perseverance; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar’s lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbour even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man in all country frolics for husking Indian corn, or building stone fences; the women of the village, too, used to employ him to run their errands, and to do such little odd jobs as their less obliging husbands would not do for them. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody’s business but his own; but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible.
—Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle"
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60976/pg60976.txt

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