check out these random links in the 10-day forecast on weather.com.

very random. they link to in-house weather.com pages talking about hybrid cars and green driving (oxymoron). i have no idea why, but i guess they got me to click on it. twice.

in related useless info, did you know i check the weather from 4 different sources continuously throughout the day? i have weatherbug and accuweather widgets on my mac dashboard, a bookmark for weather.com’s hourly forecast, and some terrible “the weather network” app on my blackberry.

if anyone cares, i like weather.com the best, but most likely b/c i’ve used it the longest. my BB app is by far the least accurate.

feels like: 99.

isn’t 86% humidity basically like rain?

if all goes well, tropical storm hanna will make her way to the dc area. this would be my first natural disaster since i don’t really count blizzards and i’ve never been part of a flood or tornado (although one time my house got struck by lightning). anyway, trying not to think about all the death and destruction hanna has already caused and as long as no one else gets hurt, i’m kind of excited by this.

lastly, don’t you think “hanna” should be “hannah?” there’s something pleasing about that palindrome.

i’ve been morbidly following the floods and bad weather in the midwest. i check cnn all the time, read the des moines register and iowa city press-citizen every day, and every once in a while surf over to the weather channel (on tv, not weather.com, which is sort of more legit), just to see if they have any cool pictures/video.

like all epic disasters (the myanmar cyclone, the great northeast blackout of 2003), i always eagerly anticipate the before and after satellite images. i love nasa.

what you’re looking at:

Nearly every river and creek shown in the top false-color image of eastern Iowa was flooded on June 13, 2008. Compared to June 1 (lower image), the river systems look as if they have been outlined in black or dark blue, the color of water in this type of image. … Bare or lightly vegetated land is tan. Land that has been burned, most likely in agricultural fires, is red-brown, and plant-covered land is bright green. Cities, the most obvious of which is Des Moines, are gray. Clouds are pale blue and white.