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National Weather Service Meteorologist Tony Ansuini talks about the active weather WNY will experience August 2nd with a flood watch alert throughout the day.

Surely, no innovation in modern human history has gotten so deeply into our psyche — into our hearts and into our very minds — as the railroad.Train imagery fills our art and music, symbolizing so many beginnings … and, well, endings. Here's a train tune from our folk-infused youth.About the SongAs reported here earlier, singer/songwriter Eric Andersen introduced his “Dusty Boxcar Wall” in 1965 on his debut album for Vanguard Records, Today is the Highway.A few years earlier, Andersen dropped out of college in Geneva, NY, and hitchhiked west to San Francisco to try his luck singing solo in North Beach coffeehouses and to seek out his heroes, the poets of the Beat Generation.In liner notes for that first album, Stacey Williams said “Dusty Boxcar Wall” was written “on the Bay Bridge between Berkeley and San Francisco,” adding, “Eric had been performing at the Cabale coffeehouse in Berkeley with a city group that did country music, The Snopes County Camp Followers.”Wanting to do a solo with the Snopes group, according to Williams, Andersen wrote “this archetypal song of death, love and separation.” For more about this seminal Eric Andersen song, see our earlier Flood Watch article by clicking here.More Music, PleaseIf this week's podcast has you in the mood for more tracks about trains, boy, do we have ya covered! Visit the free Radio Floodango music streaming service, and under “The Special Blends,” click on “The Train Set.” The link below tells you all about that particular project:And if you want even more folk in your Flood Friday, turn on our free Folk Channel.Or just click here to to take the express route to start that randomized rotation of more than a hundred folky Flood tracks recorded over the decades at jam sessions, rehearsals and gigs.Finally, remember, we've now got cool ways to mobilize the ol' Floodango. Click here to find out how to put The Flood's radio activity on your computer desktop and on an iPhone. That way, your Flood fix will always be just a click away. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

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A Flood Watch is in effect across Sullivan County.Important healthcare services lost in Sullivan County are back.A man in Delaware County has been arrested, twice, for DUI in less than a week.A man in Port Jervis who was reported to be shot in the leg, apparently shot himself.

This is the All Local morning update for July 28, 2026.

This is the evening All Local for July 28, 2026.

A flood watch underway for most of the state...and chances of more thunder, and rain, on the forecast. Joining me now LIVE with more is KSL Meteorologist Kevin Eubank

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Charlie Bowen remembers a conversation he once had with his old buddy Jim Strother. It was decades ago and the two of them were reminiscing about a time even earlier.“Remember,” Jim said, “when you'd see a fella ramblin' along carrying a guitar case, and he'd have his coat collar turned up against the wind and a cap pulled down over his eyes. “Just one look and you knew everything you needed to know about that guy.” You know, it probably wasn't always spitting snow, but it certainly is in today's fanciful memory of that scene. And the soundtrack? Then and now? Why, it was always an early Bob Dylan tune, wasn't it? Like this one.Those memories came roaring back at last week's rehearsal when the first tune that popped into the guys' heads that evening was “Don't Think Twice, It's All Right,” a song that Charlie loved from 1963's Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album.LearningTo this day Bowen still remembers Strother using the same song to patiently try to teach him the “Merle Travis pick” whose alternating bass characterized so much of 1960s folkdom.Curiously, the young Dylan said he himself was still learning his composition. “It's a hard song to sing,” he told journalist Nat Hentoff, who wrote the liner notes for the album. “I can sing it sometimes, but I ain't that good yet.”Bob noted that he didn't yet know how to “carry myself” the way veteran musicians like Big Joe Williams, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Lightnin' Hopkins did.“With those older singers,” Dylan told Hentoff, “music was a tool, a way to live more, a way to make themselves feel better at certain points. As for me, I can make myself feel better sometimes, but at other times, it's still hard to go to sleep at night.”As repored here earlier, Bob said of “Don't Think Twice” that a lot of city singer “make it sort of a love song — slow and easygoing — but it isn't a love song. It's a statement that maybe you can say to make yourself feel better. It's as if you were talking to yourself.” For more about the song's history, click here for an earlier Flood Watch article.More Music? Step Right Up!If all this ramblin' down the foggy ruins of time has you in the mood for more Dylan tunes, boy, do we have you covered! Our free Radio Floodango music steaming feature has an entire “Bob Dylan Birthday” playlist with more than an hour's worth of Flooderiffic Bobby bits. Click below to check it out.And if you'd like to put even more Floodified folk in your Friday, tune into the band's free Folk Channel:About a hundred tracks from decades of jam sessions, rehearsals and gigs are waiting for you there. Click here to turn us on.Public FloodifyFinally, in case the heat wave breaks next week and you feel like stepping out again, mark Thursday, July 23, on your calendar. That's when the band rolls back into good ol' Bahnhof WVrsthaus & Biergarten, 745 7th Avenue. Come on down for good food, good tunes and a great jump on your weekend! We play from 6:30 to 8. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

A Flood Watch is in effect until 10 p.m. and today is the day... the Parkway East completely closes on the suburban side after the Squirrel Hill Tunnel.

While last week's rehearsal was our first time to play with the remarkable fiddler John Ace, that evening was likely the last time that Floodster Emeritus Dave “Bub” Ball will get to jam with his old friend.It was only at the end of the evening we learned that John — after two decades of snow-birding it from Virginia to Florida — is at a new crossroads in his life, set to move permanently to New Hampshire to be near his daughter.In fact, just hours after the last notes were played that night, Ball drove Ace to the depot so he could board a train for his Alexandria home. After that, Dave turned the car south for his long drive back to his home with his wife Yvonne in Jupiter, FL.“John and I will stay in touch,” Bub said in an email this week, “but with him in New Hampshire and me about 1500 miles away, the odds are we won't be able to get together again.”A train song seemed like the most appropriate choice for the last number of the night and we picked one of the best in our repertoire.Bub and John's JourneyAs reported here recently, in 2005 John Ace sold his house and car and moved to the sea, living full time on “Four Aces,” his 36-foot fiberglass Cabo Rico sailboat. From then on, he divided his time between summers in Virginia and winters in Florida … and/or the Bahamas, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico … wherever the winds carried him.Now, though, “at 76 traveling becomes a factor,” Bub said of his old friend.Bub met John about three years ago during one of those winter treks to warmer climes.“The band he was playing with at the time, Gypsy String Revival, needed a fill-in bassist and gave me a call,” Ball recalled. “He and I became friends and started playing jams together.”Later, when fiddler Paddy King, one of the original 3 String Circus members, couldn't make a renaissance fair gig, John filled in.“He spent Thanksgiving and Christmas with us here and we became close friends,” Bub recalled. “We played many Faire gigs together.”This summer The Flood got to meet John because Bub needed a fiddler to share the stage with him at the Lewisville, WV, renaissance fair. “John just happened to be in Alexandria, a five- or six-hour train ride to Alderson,” Ball said. “Soooooo, John filled in, and brilliantly I might add.”About the SongFeatured in this week's podcast, those last notes of our last evening with John and Bub are from “Yellow Dog Blues,” W.C. Handy's 1915 masterpiece that speaks so elegantly of the passages in life. As reported earlier, it is the song that brought a classic line to the blues world, talking about going to “where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog.”For more on the history of this grand old tune, see this earlier Flood Watch article. And for more of John Ace's fine fiddling with The Flood during his West Virginia trek, click here and here.Meanwhile, in Flood Movie News…Well, Georgia is on our mind these days. Randy Yohe's award-winning “These Boys” documentary about The Flood has been selected to participate in Augusta's 12th annual Black Cat Picture Show film festival.Black Cat is the Georgia city's only adjudicated international festival for independent films, hosted at Le Chat Noir theater, a 100-seat black box theater in downtown Augusta. This recognition now brings to a half dozen the number of honors the film has received this year. As reported earlier, the picture has been praised by two French festivals — ARFF Paris // International Film Festival and the Cine Paris Film Festival — as well as here in the States by The East Village New York Film Festival and Texas's Austin International Art Festival. Also the Appalachian Film Festival screened the documentary as the featured film on the opening night.Right now “These Boys” is working its way through film festivals like these, but we look forward to sharing the completed film with everyone later this year. We'll keep you posted.Click here to read more about the work on “These Boys.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

The 4 p.m. "All Local" update for Monday, July 6, 2026.

7News' Hayden Nelson joined Kate & Tom after the wild weather from the last few days has put several areas on flood watch. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

St. Louis Morning Briefing — Friday, June 26, 2026Weather With Enthusiasm━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━HEBREW DATE & PARSHA━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━12 Tamuz 5786 — Erev ShabbosParsha: Chukat-Balak (read this Shabbos, June 27)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TODAY'S ZMANIM — St. Louis, MO (ZIP 63132)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Alos HaShachar (Dawn): 3:55 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin: 4:30 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:38 AMSof Zman Krias Shma: 9:21 AMSof Zman Tefila: 10:35 AMChatzos (Solar Noon): 1:04 PMEarliest Mincha: 1:41 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:30 PM━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SHABBOS TIMES — Parshas Chukat-Balak━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Hadlakas Neiros (Candle Lighting): 8:12 PM Friday (18 min before sunset — all customs)Havdalah Young Israel: 9:12 PM Saturday (42 min after sunset)Havdalah Agudah: 9:15 PM Saturday (45 min after sunset)Saturday Sunset: 8:30 PM━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TOMORROW'S ZMANIM — Shabbos, June 27━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Alos HaShachar: 3:56 AMEarliest Talis & Tefillin: 4:30 AMNetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:38 AMSof Zman Krias Shma: 9:21 AMSof Zman Tefila: 10:36 AMChatzos: 1:04 PMEarliest Mincha: 1:41 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:30 PM━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WEATHER SUMMARY — NWS St. Louis (LSX)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Issued: 6:28 AM CDT June 26, 2026 | Forecaster: Kimble⚠️ FLOOD WATCH in effect through 7 PM CDT todayCounties: St. Louis City, St. Louis Co., St. Charles, Jefferson, Franklin, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Gasconade, Iron, Lincoln, Madison, Moniteau, Montgomery, Osage, Pike, Reynolds, Ste. Genevieve, Warren, Washington MO; + multiple IL countiesKey Hazards Today:• Stationary front along I-70 — showers/storms along and south of it• PWAT ~2 inches — very heavy rainfall efficiency• MCV (spinning storm vortex) from eastern Kansas arrives midday — could focus severe risk• Damaging winds and isolated tornado possible if MCV fires storms• Flash flooding primary concern — training storm riskWeekend/Next Week:• Warm front lifts Saturday — additional storm chances overnight/Saturday morning• Sunday: heat builds, heat index into 90s• Monday–Thursday: heat index 100–110°F daily — Heat Advisory likely Sunday, Excessive Heat Warning possible• 850 mb (25.10 inHg) temps rise 5°C Saturday→Sunday• Overnight lows near 80°F in urban core — dangerous for heat stress recovery• No clear end date; possible relief around July 4th weekendMississippi River at St. Louis: 77°F / 25.1°CLake of the Ozarks: ~76°F (seasonal peak ~86°F in late July/August)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━WEATHER HISTORY — June 26━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━June 26, 2008 — South Dakota Severe Weather OutbreakA compact upper-level low triggered three tornadoes, baseball-sized hail, andwind gusts of 124 mph at Onida airport — 4th highest wind speed ever in South Dakota.WAPA transmission towers were completely toppled; winds estimated at 130–140 mph.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━KIDS ACTIVITIES — Greater St. Louis━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. Saint Louis Zoo — Always free, Forest Park, 9 AM–5 PM2. Saint Louis Science Center — Free for MO residents, Oakland Ave3. Missouri Botanical Garden — Free for STL residents (walk-up), 4344 Shaw Blvd4. Laumeier Sculpture Park — Free, Sunset Hills, 105 acres5. Children's Garden Club — Free w/ registration, stlouiscountymo.gov━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT THIS PODCAST━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Morning forecasts every day at 7 AM on Spreaker.Historical weather deep-dive every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 AM CDT.Support the show: $5/monthBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support.Weather with Enthusiasm is produced by Kol Simcha Productions.New episodes drop daily (B'N)— a morning forecast at 7 AM and historical deep dives Tuesdays and Thursdays. Contact: kolsimchaproductions@outlook.comHistorical content is thoroughly researched and factually verified. After it has been factually verified it often will say so in the description. Should you find any mistakes, please email kolsimchaproductions@outlook.com so we can look into it and correct it. Not affiliated with any government agency or academic institution. Presented for educational and entertainment purposes — with meaning.Support the show — exclusive bonus episodes available to subscribers for just $2/month at spreaker.com/organization/kol-simcha

When the room needs a respite from the band's frequent fare of loud and raucous tunes, Randy Hamilton and Danny Cox always have just what the doctor ordered.Friends since high school, these two seem to be able to read each other's mind when it comes to music. Just listen to how they make this 60-year-old Danny O'Keefe composition sound like something they themselves just wrote.As reported here earlier, O'Keefe, a Washington State folkster, wrote “Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues” in 1967, but its early trips to the recording studio were largely fruitless.Danny's own recordings of the tune in 1971 and '72 were generally ignored. But then the following year the song played a part in the turning point in another artist's career.When Waylon Did the SongThat's when country music star Waylon Jennings had started getting restless, wanting to wrestle creative control away from the slick, over-produced “Nashville Sound” establishment that he had grown tired of.The seminal Good Hearted Woman album, quickly followed by Ladies Love Outlaws and Lonesome, On'ry and Mean were Waylon's personal declaration of independence, establishing him as a prominent representative of the new “outlaw country” movement.Watching and listening from the sidelines, O'Keefe later said that Jennings' cover of “Good Time Charlie” on that third of those albums was his absolute favorite version of his own song, capturing the groove and swagger he had always intended.And O'Keefe's lyrics — about aging, watching friends drift away and using “pills to ease the pain” — perfectly fit the rugged, hyper-honest persona of the burgeoning outlaw movement.When Willie AnsweredA half dozen years later, Waylon's fellow outlaw Willie Nelson also took a turn with the tune, but his take of “Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues” gave it a much different vibe.On his 1979 collaborative album with Leon Russell, One for the Road, Willie treated the song as an intimate, jazz-infused acoustic prayer. In his characteristic style of singing slightly behind the beat, Willie captured the lyrics' quiet, lonely acceptance of sitting in an empty room after the party is over, much as Randy and Danny do in this rendering from a recent Flood rehearsal.For more on the history of this lovely tune, see this earlier Flood Watch article.Mid-Year ReportSo, we've reached the midpoint of 2026. If you'd like a sample of what the Floodisphere has been sounding like so far this year, tune into Radio Floodango.Its “Hear by Year” section enables you to aim your time machine at the podcasts of any specific year since 2009. Click to here to reach the 2026 tunes. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch for a portion of southeast Michigan as heavy rain, and possible tornadoes, are in the forecast for Wednesday afternoon and evening. WWJ's Jackie Paige and Chris Fillar have your Wednesday morning news. (Photo credit: National Weather Service)

Our Flood brother Danny Cox and his sweet wife Tami are on vacation this week, but before they hit to the road, we had to give them a good Flood set-off. Here's a little traveling music, the last tune of last week's rehearsal.About the SongWhen Merle Travis included “I Am a Pilgrim” on his seminal 1947 Folk Songs from the Hills album in 1947, listeners assumed he wrote it. After all, the same album included two of Travis's best-known original compositions, “Dark as a Dungeon” and “Sixteen Ton.”Actually, though, “Pilgrim” is a traditional gospel tune that has deep roots among white and African-American musicians alike.As we reported earlier, Kentucky-born Travis had a mentor: legendary fingerpicking stylist Mose Rager of Muhlenberg County. Legend has it that Mose's brother Lyman learned "I Am a Pilgrim" while in jail when he heard it being sung by a black prisoner in a nearby cell.As Asheville, NC, musician/author Wayne Erbsen has noted, “I Am A Pilgrim” was recorded “by 14 African-American groups before it was even a gleam in Merle Travis' eyes."For more on the story's curious history, see this earlier Flood Watch backgrounder.More from the Danny ChannelHas today's podcast got you in the mood for more from Danny Cox's fertile musical mind? Us too! So, come with us to the Danny Channel in the free Radio Floodango music steaming service. Click here to give it a spin.For Your Next Road TripSpeaking of travelin' music, remember that your friends in The Flood have created a road-friendly play list. Click below to read all about that: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Thank you for all those that support this podcast  If you benefit from these episodes and are able to provide support- your help is greatly appreciated. Morning Briefing — Wednesday, June 10, 2026 | Zmanim, NWS Chicago and MoreWest Rogers Park, Chicago (ZIP 60645) | Weather With Enthusiasm — Kol Simcha Productions═══════════════════════════════════════════HEBREW DATE & PARSHA═══════════════════════════════════════════Hebrew Date: 25 Sivan 5786Parsha: Shelach — The story of the Meraglim (spies). Kalev and Yehoshua stood firm with faith: "We are surely able to go up and take the land."Shabbos Mevarchim Chodesh Tamuz: June 13, 2026 (28 Sivan 5786)Rosh Chodesh Tamuz: June 15–16, 2026Daf Yomi: Chullin 41═══════════════════════════════════════════TODAY'S ZMANIM — ZIP 60645 (West Rogers Park)═══════════════════════════════════════════Alot HaShachar (Dawn, 16.1°): 3:22:08 AMMisheyakir (Lenient 11.5°): 4:00:38 AMMisheyakir (Machmir 10.2°): 4:10:33 AMHanetz HaChama (Sunrise): 5:14:54 AMSof Zman Shma (GRA): 9:02:39 AMSof Zman Shma (Magen Avraham): 8:26:39 AMSof Zman Tefila (GRA): 10:18:35 AMSof Zman Tefila (Magen Avraham): 9:54:34 AMChatzos (Halachic Midday): 12:50:25 PMMincha Gedola (Earliest Mincha): 1:28:22 PMMincha Ketana (Preferred Mincha): 5:16:08 PMPlag HaMincha: 6:51:02 PMShkiah (Sunset): 8:25:55 PMTzeit HaKochavim (42 min): 9:07:55 PM═══════════════════════════════════════════WEATHER SUMMARY — NWS CHICAGO (LOT)═══════════════════════════════════════════Issued: 2:42 AM CDT Wednesday June 10, 2026 | Forecaster: Borchardt⚠ KEY MESSAGE: Today and Thursday will be hot and humid with multiple rounds of severe storms. Thursday is the day of greatest concern.TODAY:• Morning: Dense fog near Lake Michigan shoreline (Dense Fog Advisory thru 7 AM near I-94). Marine fog clearing.• Midday: Heat index 95–100°F by noon. Mid-upper 80s.• Storm Window 1 (1–6 PM): Upper-level shortwave from central Plains. MLCAPE >3,000 J/kg, PWAT near 2", deep-layer shear 30–35kt. Outflow-dominant storm clusters, damaging to destructive winds 60–80 mph possible, mainly along/north of I-80.• Storm Window 2 (6–10 PM): Secondary shortwave. Possible QLCS tornadoes if bowing segment intersects outflow-reinforced warm front. Coverage decreases NW to SE evening.• Small Craft Advisory: 2 PM–9 PM, IL/IN nearshore waters.THURSDAY (Greater Concern):• Surface low deepens to lower 990s mb (~29.24 inHg), lifts into central Wisconsin.• Morning Window (11 AM–2 PM): Possible gravity-wave supercells from NE Iowa/NW Illinois. Damaging hail up to 2", destructive winds.• Afternoon/Evening Window (3–9 PM): MLCAPE >2,500 J/kg, effective shear >50kt. ALL HAZARDS: tornadoes (EF-2+ possible), damaging winds, large hail, flash flooding.• 0–1km SRH >300 J/kg — significant tornado parameter.• QPF: 3–7 inch widespread, pockets up to 8 inches. Flood Watch possible.FRIDAY–SATURDAY: Surface high. Upper 70s–80°F. Dry and pleasant. Relief.NEXT WEEK: Cool, expansive troughing, periodic rain chances, nothing severe.═══════════════════════════════════════════WEATHER HISTORY — JUNE 10═══════════════════════════════════════════El Dorado, Kansas F4 Tornado — June 10, 1958At 5:45 PM, an F4 (possibly F5) tornado tore through El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas. In approximately two minutes, it destroyed ~200 homes across a 45-block area, killed 15 people, and injured 50+. A car was thrown 100 yards into the air, crashing through a roof. A survivor found a broken record beside her after being flung 60 feet from her home — the record was titled "Stormy Weather."Sources: NOAA NWS Wichita; Grazulis, Significant Tornadoes 1680–1991═══════════════════════════════════════════FAMILY ACTIVITIES — CHICAGO METRO, JUNE 10═══════════════════════════════════════════1. Toyota Movie Night at Gallagher Way — Zootopia 2 | FREE | Gates 6 PM, Movie 7:30 PM | N Clark St, Chicago IL 60613 (check storm timing before heading out)2. Movies in the Parks — Bartelme Park | Zootopia 2 | FREE | 8:45 PM | Chicago Park District3. Lincoln Park Zoo | 2400 N Cannon Dr | FREE | Open daily4. Brookfield Zoo — Dinos Exhibit | 3300 Golf Rd, Brookfield | Fee applies5. Kids Bowl Free Summer Program | FREE daily for kids | kidsbowlfree.com═══════════════════════════════════════════TOMORROW'S ZMANIM — ZIP 60645 (June 11, 2026)═══════════════════════════════════════════Alot HaShachar: 3:21:46 AMMisheyakir (Lenient): 4:00:22 AMMisheyakir (Machmir): 4:10:19 AMHanetz HaChama: 5:14:46 AMSof Zman Shma (GRA): 9:02:41 AMSof Zman Tefila (GRA): 10:18:40 AMChatzos: 12:50:36 PMMincha Gedola: 1:28:36 PMShkiah: 8:26:27 PMNote: Tomorrow is Thursday — Shabbos times for Parshas Shelach will be in Thursday's briefing.═══════════════════════════════════════════Sources for this episode:Jewish Calendar & Zmanim- Hebrew date, Parsha, and Rosh Chodesh info: Hebcal.com (hebcal.com) and Chabad.org (chabad.org/calendar)- Zmanim with exact seconds for zip 60645: MyZmanim.com (myzmanim.com) | Also available at: OU Zmanim (ou.org/zmanim) and Chabad Zmanim (chabad.org/calendar/zmanim)- GRA & Magen Avraham opinions explained: chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/134527Daf Yomi- Today's daf confirmed: Dafyomi Advancement Forum (dafyomi.co.il)Weather Forecast- All forecast data sourced directly from the NWS Chicago/Romeoville Area Forecast Discussion (AFD), issued 2:42 AM CDT, June 10, 2026, authored by forecaster Borchardt: forecast.weather.gov/product.php?issuedby=LOT&product=AFD&site=lot- GOES-19 satellite information: NOAA GOES-R Program (goes-r.gov)- NWS Chicago Decision Support Briefing: weather.gov/lotWeather History — El Dorado, KS Tornado (June 10, 1958)- Grazulis, Thomas P.  Significant Tornadoes 1680–1991. Environmental Films, 1993.- TornadoTalk.com summary: tornadotalk.com/el-dorado-ks-f4-tornado-june-10-1958/- NOAA Climatological Data National Summary (CDNS), June 1958Zmanim & Map ReferenceLocation coordinates (N42°0′10″, W87°42′0″) verified via Windy appAgudath Israel of West Rogers Park: 2801 W. Pratt Blvd, Chicago, IL 60645 | aywrp.orgWeather With Enthusiasm is produced by Kol Simcha Productions.New episodes drop daily (B'N)— morning forecasts at 7 AM every day on Spreaker (except Shabnos, Saturday)plus a historical weather deep-dive every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 AM CDT.  Most podcast platforms (Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music) typically receive new episodes within 1–3 hours of release.Contact: kolsimchaproductions@outlook.comHistorical content is thoroughly researched and factually verified. 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Episode Title: St. Louis Sizzles: Extreme Heat Advisory & Tropical Dew Points Timestamp Breakdown:0:00 - 1:04: Introduction: Intense St. Louis Heatwave, Unusual Upper 70s Dew Points Expected1:04 - 2:12: Dew Points Rising in Afternoon, NWS Heat Advisory Issued, Mid-90s on Wednesday/Thursday with Ozark Winds2:12 - 3:14: St. Louis Summer Forecast, Chicago Heat, East Coast Warmth, Potential Gulf Tropical Development3:14 - 4:14: Podcast Intro, Current St. Louis Conditions: 84F, 75F Dew Point - The Story of the Day4:14 - 5:15: Explaining Oppressive Humidity (75F Dew Point), Heat Index 92F, NWS St. Louis Key Message 1: Showers/Storms Continue5:15 - 6:21: NWS Key Message 2: Flash Flood Threat & Flood Watch, NWS Key Message 3: Damaging Winds/Tornado Threat in SE MO/SW IL6:21 - 7:21: NWS Key Message 4: Multi-Day Heat Event (90s through Thursday), NWS Key Message 5: Heat Index 105F+ on Tuesday7:21 - 8:28: Heat Advisory Details (St. Louis & Illinois Counties), What a Heat Advisory Means (100-109F Heat Index)8:28 - 9:37: Explaining Upper 70s Dew Points (Tropical Air), Why Sweat Doesn't Work, Upper-Level Ridge Effect9:37 - 10:29: Wednesday/Thursday Forecast: Hotter but Slightly Lower Dew Points, Cold Front Relief by Thursday Night10:29 - 11:08: Essential Heat Safety Tips: Hydration, A/C, Checking on Vulnerable, Never Leave Kids/Pets in Cars11:08 - 13:58: Zmanim for St. Louis (June 8, 2026): Detailed Halachic Times13:58 - 14:52: Weekly Outlook: Tonight's Storms, Tuesday's Extreme Heat, Wednesday/Thursday Heat, Weekend Relief & Closing Remarks20 Hashtags: #StLouisWeather #HeatAdvisory #ExtremeHeat #DewPoint #TropicalHumidity #FlashFloodWarning #SevereWeather #WeatherForecast #StLouis #MissouriWeather #WeatherEnthusiasm #SummerHeat #HeatWave #HeatSafety #NWSSTL #Zmanim #HalachicTimes #WeatherPodcast #CommunityCare #StaySafeBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support.Weather with Enthusiasm is produced by Kol Simcha Productions.New episodes drop daily (B'N)— a morning forecast at 7 AM and historical deep dives Tuesdays and Thursdays. Contact: kolsimchaproductions@outlook.comHistorical content is thoroughly researched and factually verified. After it has been factually verified it often will say so in the description. Should you find any mistakes, please email kolsimchaproductions@outlook.com so we can look into it and correct it. Not affiliated with any government agency or academic institution. Presented for educational and entertainment purposes — with meaning.Support the show — exclusive bonus episodes available to subscribers for just $2/month at spreaker.com/organization/kol-simcha

National Synoptic Briefing — Heat Dome WeekWeather With Enthusiasm | Kol Simcha ProductionsSaturday, June 6, 2026EPISODE SUMMARYA full national synoptic weather briefing covering the atmospheric setup across the continental United States for the week of June 6, 2026. This episode covers the heat dome building across the South and Plains, the Bermuda High's grip on the eastern US, Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperatures and their role in extreme humidity, surface high and low pressure systems with barometric readings, upper-level ridge and trough positions, dew points, and city-by-city temperature forecasts both short-term and extended.KEY SYNOPTIC FEATURES- Heat Dome / Subtropical Ridge: Centered over East Texas. 500mb heights of 590 dam. 850mb temps 17–20°C. Heat indices 100–107°F across Texas and Gulf Coast next week.- Bermuda High: Locked over western Atlantic, pumping tropical moisture northward via SSW flow. PWATs above 2" across Georgia and South Florida.- Gulf of Mexico SSTs: Running 1–2°F above historical averages, approximately 80–84°F (27–29°C). PWATs of 2.0–2.2" over southeast Texas (Houston).- Upper-Level Ridge/Trough: Classic omega block — western trough (Pacific Coast) vs. eastern ridge (South/Midwest). Ridge building over Midwest and Great Lakes next week.- Surface Pressure: Canadian high ~1020–1024 mb (29.92–30.22 inHg) providing brief relief to Northeast. Surface low over northwest Texas driving North Texas flood threat.CITY FORECASTSDallas-Fort Worth: Sat 91°F / Sun 94°F / Mon–Fri next week: upper 90s with heat indices 100–107°F. Dewpoints low–mid 70s. Flood Watch through Sunday.Houston: Highs upper 80s–low 90s, heat indices 100–108°F. PWATs 2.0–2.2". Heat Risk moderate to major late next week.Miami: Highs upper 80s–low 90s. Heat indices low 100s–105°F Sunday/Monday. Bermuda High driving tropical moisture.Atlanta: Sat 83°F (dry/pleasant), Sun–Mon 80–85°F with heavy rain chances. PWATs >2". Tropical watch on Gulf developments end of next week.New York City: Sat low–mid 80s with severe storm threat (cold front). Sun–Mon 80–84°F (pleasant). Fri next week: heat indices approaching 100°F.Chicago: Weekend 80–83°F with active storm threat, MUCAPE 2,000–3,000 J/kg. Next week: upper 80s–low 90s as ridge builds.DEW POINTS & HUMIDITY HOTSPOTS- Dallas/North Texas: 70–75°F dewpoints next week- Houston: Implied mid-70s dewpoints (tropical air mass)- Miami/South Florida: Consistently mid-70s- Chicago this weekend: Upper 60s–low 70s- NYC this weekend: 50s–low 60s (lower humidity with front)TECHNICAL TERMS EXPLAINED- 500mb heights: Measurement of the mid-atmosphere warmthBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/weather-with-enthusiasm--4911017/support.Weather with Enthusiasm is produced by Kol Simcha Productions.New episodes drop daily (B'N)— a morning forecast at 7 AM and historical deep dives Tuesdays and Thursdays. Contact: kolsimchaproductions@outlook.comHistorical content is thoroughly researched and factually verified. After it has been factually verified it often will say so in the description. Should you find any mistakes, please email kolsimchaproductions@outlook.com so we can look into it and correct it. Not affiliated with any government agency or academic institution. Presented for educational and entertainment purposes — with meaning.Support the show — exclusive bonus episodes available to subscribers for just $2/month at spreaker.com/organization/kol-simcha

Woody Guthrie once wrote that a song is just “a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.”“When you sit down with a couple of friends,” he continued, “and you've all got your guitars parked under a shade tree or in an old kitchen, you aren't trying to show off. … You're just talking. “One guy tells a story with his strings, and the next guy nods his head and matches it with a little lick of his own. It makes the world twice as level and half as steep.”That is a concept that The Flood certainly embraces. And nothing demonstrates it better than this week's podcast, featuring the guys' latest take on the rockin' “Opus One.” This particular musical conversation — taken from the opening moments of last week's rehearsal at the Bowen house — is really saying, “Damn, man, it's good to see y'all again!”Pete's Two-Cents' WorthWoody's old friend and young protégé Pete Seeger also knew a thing or two about that kind of wordless musical chat. “It's an effortless shorthand,” he wrote in his book, Where Have All the Flowers Gone.“You look across the circle and catch an old friend's eye just as the harmony locks into place,” he wrote, “and there's this quiet, shared smile that says, Yes, this is exactly where we're supposed to be. It's the sound of community in its purest form.”Pete said it even better in one of his “Johnny Appleseed Jr.” columns in the good old Sing Out! magazine: “You realize that the song is just a vehicle for the affection in the room. It's a way of saying ‘I'm glad you're here' without having to make a formal speech about it. It fills you up and stays with you long after the instruments are put back in their cases.”Jive TalkSuch wordless wordiness is even better defined in the jazz world, where improvisation is the mother tongue. Musicians might have played a tune a thousand times before, “a melody so old it felt like part of the weather,” Geoff Dyer wrote in 1991 in his seminal But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz in a passage about listening to old friends play.“But they didn't just play it,” he recalled. “They pulled it apart like an old clock to see how it worked from the inside. … It was a language made entirely of nods, shifts in weight, a sudden drop in volume … that told everyone, let's go down this alleyway for a second.“Listening to them,” Dyer remembered, “was like watching people walk through a dark house they'd lived in for 40 years — they knew exactly where the furniture was, so they could dance through the rooms without ever bumping into a thing, even with the lights completely out.”Brain BusinessFamed neurologist Oliver Sacks was fascinated with how music affects the mind. In an essay called “The Common Pursuit,” reflecting on lifelong bonds forged by musicians, he reached a lovely conclusion.“They do not play to impress,” Sacks wrote. “They play to inhabit a space they built together 50 years ago. To sit in a room and witness this is to realize that music is not merely an acoustic phenomenon, but a profound architecture of memory and shared love.”Meanwhile, About This Week's Tune …As reported earlier, “Opus One,” written by Sy Oliver, became a huge late World War II-era hit for Tommy Dorsey's orchestra. Dorsey recorded it as an instrumental on Nov. 14, 1944.The following summer, the signature vocal version was released by Anita O'Day in an all-star session. Drummer Gene Krupa led the big band and trumpeter Roy Eldridge accented O'Day's vocals.For more on the song's history, click here to read the earlier Flood Watch backgrounder.More from This Groove?If today's musical conversation has you wanting more from The Flood's jazzier selections, drop by the free Radio Floodango music streaming service and click into the “Swingin'” channel. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Three summers ago when Charlie Bowen took his first tremulous steps into the world of banjocity, he bought a six-string banjo … and immediately got grief.“That ain't no banjo!” one friend declared. “That's just a guitar with delusions of grandeur. You can play dress it up all you want, man, but you're not playing a banjo.”“Okay, now, wait a minute,” Charlie protested. “If a banjo's got four strings, it's a banjo, right?”“Sure,” the friend conceded. “That's a tenor banjo, like the late, great Chuck Romine used to play.”“And if it has five strings, it's a banjo?”“Well, of course. That's God's own old-time and bluegrass banjo.”“But,” Charlie persisted, “if it's got six stings, it's NOT a banjo?!”“Nope,” the friend insisted. “You can call it a ‘banjitar' if you'd like or ‘ganjo,' but don't be calling it a banjo.”“You know what, old buddy?” Charlie concluded. “You are a banjo bigot!”But despite his brave front, Bowen finally caved to the peer pressure. The six-string banjo (which by then he had lovingly christened “Buzzkill”) was retired to a lonely closet. In its place Charlie bought his first five-string and began to learn tunes.Truth be told, Bowen has fallen in love with the instrument, practicing every day, even starting to work the five-string into a corner of The Flood's repertoire on a song or two (or three…).Schooled by Seva VenetBy the beginning of this year, Buzzkill had been pretty much forgotten. That is, until last month when Charlie and Pamela traveled to New Orleans for a wonderful Road Scholar program built around the annual French Quarter Festival, four solid days of memorable music.A highlight the whole long weekend was when legendary clarinetist Dr. Michael White played a private concert for the Road Scholar folks at their hotel. Sitting in with White's quartet that morning was renowned New Orleanian Seva Venet, who was holding down the rhythm section with his six-string Vega banjo.During the intermission, Charlie chatted with Venet, who said that he was quite aware of how provincial some banjo fanciers could be. However, Seva said, the six-string banjo has a proud legacy all its own. In fact, the banjo of choice for most players of early jazz and blues was the six-string.Johnny St. Cyr, he noted, famously played his six-string in Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven groups as well as with Jelly Roll Morton's various ensembles. Legendary New Orleanian Danny Barker and early bluesman Papa Charlie Jackson also played the six. Even jazz superstar Django Reinhardt started out playing a six-string banjo in the dance halls of Paris, long before he cemented his legacy as the pioneer of the gypsy jazz guitar.The secret to playing the instrument, Seva said, is that, while it is tuned like a guitar, it's not played like one. Don't pick it like a guitar, he said, but play it high on the neck where the slapped chords can sing out. And, like his hero Danny Barker, Venet likes to add color to his chords by playing 6ths and 9ths and other variations on the usual banjo choices.Buzzkill Bounces BackInspired by hearing and watching Seva Venet play that morning, Charlie came home from the New Orleans Road Scholar outing eager to bring Buzzkill out of the retirement, especially on The Flood's old hokum tunes like this week's podcast selection, “Tear It Down.”As noted earlier in Flood Watch, a lot of the hokum tunes that The Flood has always loved were born far to the south of us, in place like Memphis and New Orleans. So it's always a treat to find a song that grew a little closer to home. This tune traces back to a youngster named Bob Coleman — Kid Cole, they called him — from the west side of Cincinnati. It was 98 years ago this very month that Bob recorded it in Chicago. More Hokum?Finally, if more hokum music is what you need to make your Flood Friday complete, remember we've got a whole channel waiting for you on the free Radio Floodango music steaming service.Just drop in and click the “Hokum” button or, better yet, take the express route by clicking this link to jump to it directly. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

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The Flood band room is usually a rather raucous place — rocking tunes, loud talk, lots of laughter — but often that mood can turn on a dime to something softer, even almost fragile. We hadn't done this old Jackson Browne song for years, but something last week — about watching the beautiful spring evening come falling in, seeing those long shadows rolling down over the newly green leaves outside our windows — brought this song back to mind.About the Song“Jamaica Say You Will,” which Browne wrote in 1969 when he was just 20 years old, not only launched the singer/songwriter's career, but also even helped found the record company that would bring his music to the world.The story goes that artist manager David Geffen signed Browne in 1970 after listening to a demo of this specific song. Right away, Geffen started searching for a record contact for his new artist.At one point, he pitched Browne to Atlantic Records president Ahmet Ertegun, saying, “You'll make a lot of money.” To that, Ertegun reportedly replied, “You know what, David? I have a lot of money. Why don't you start a record company and then you'll have a lot of money.”A year later, Geffen partnered with his old friend Elliot Roberts to create Asylum Records with the help of Ertegun, who put up the initial funds. Atlantic Records distributed Asylum Records with the profits split 50/50.Jackson Browne was one of first artists whom Geffen and Roberts signed for Asylum, and “Jamaica Say She Will” was the opening track of Browne's self-titled debut album when it was released in September 1972. Browne was quickly joined on the new label that same year by Linda Ronstadt, John David Souther, David Blue, Joni Mitchell, Glenn Frey and others.For more about the song's back story, see our earlier Flood Watch article by clicking here.“Jamaica” is one of several Jackson Browne songs in The Flood's repertoire. As reported elsewhere in Flood Watch, from its earliest days the band has played “These Days” from Browne's second album, For Everyman. More Song History?Meanwhile, if these back stories about songs hit the spot, you might want to browse Flood Watch's growing archive of articles that explore the history of tunes in the band's eclectic repertoire by visiting the free “Song Stories” department.There you can browse songs by their titles or by the time periods in which they were written and/or discovered. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

This great late-‘60s Lovin' Spoonful tune is the perfect opportunity to answer readers' requests for another little sample from Danny Cox's latest reunion with his old guitar-pickin' buddy Bobby Murnahan. Just listen and at the end this track you'll hear Dan and Bob trading choruses on “(Sittin' Back) Lovin' You.”As reported here last week, Danny and Bobby grew up together in Lawrence County, Ohio. It's rare they can get together these days, but whenever Murnahan travels back this way from his Colorado home — as he did last month — we try to get him to join us in The Flood band room.About the SongThe vehicle for this Cox-Murnahan moment is John Sebastian's 1966 composition, which was the opening track for Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, the third studio album by Greenwich Village's own folk-rock mavens. Today the disc just barely makes the list of top 50 albums released in that stellar year of rock which saw Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, The Beatles' Revolver, The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, The Rolling Stones' Aftermath and so many more.Not that Hum was ho-hum. On the contrary, as reported here earlier, that one album spawned four (count ‘em, four) charting singles for the Lovin' lads, including “Summer in the City,” “Rain on the Roof,” “Nashville Cats” and "Full Measure.”And while “Lovin' You” was not among the disc's hit singles for The Spoonful, a month after the album's debut in November 1966, the song was covered by Bobby Darin who took it into the Top 40.After that, the tune also became a successful number for four different female artists, including Anne Murray (1969), Helen Reddy (1973), Dolly Parton (1977) and Mary Black (1983).For more on the history of the song — including a side note on The Flood's early infatuation with it — see our earlier Flood Watch article by clicking here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Heavy rainfall is ongoing this morning, primarily north of US-59, where a Flood Watch remains in effect. Early impacts are already being observed, including areas of street flooding and rising water levels along creeks and bayous—especially across the شمال and northwest portions of the Houston metro. Overnight, thunderstorms produced pockets of large hail from Sugar Land to Pearland. While storm intensity has briefly decreased, the overall pattern remains active, and multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms are expected to continue through the day. The axis of heaviest rainfall is currently aligned from Columbus through Sealy, Cypress, Kingwood, and Liberty. Additional rainfall totals of 1 to 3 inches are likely, with isolated areas potentially receiving 4 to 5 inches where storms repeatedly move over the same locations. As rainfall continues and soils become increasingly saturated, runoff will intensify, leading to ongoing rises in creeks, bayous, and rivers. Although storm motions are relatively fast, the potential for training storms raises concern for localized flooding, particularly in more vulnerable watersheds. There is also a limited severe weather risk. A few stronger storms today could produce large hail or gusty winds, especially if the coastal boundary shifts farther inland and enhances instability. A strong cold front is expected to move through later today, bringing an end to the rain from north to south by this evening. In its wake, a much cooler and drier air mass will settle into the region, setting up a more pleasant and stable weather pattern for the weekend. The post Stormy start to the day across Southeast Texas

We knew the band room was going to rock last week as soon as we saw Danny Cox was bringing along his life-long buddy, guitarist Bobby Murnahan, who was visiting from Colorado.As noted here earlier, Danny and Bobby have known each other since before grade school. “Our parents attended the same church,” Danny has said, “and we got acquainted in Sunday school.”Almost immediately the youngsters were united by their interest in guitar innovator Chet Atkins. One day after church, Bobby showed up at the Cox house asking Danny to show him some Atkins-style picking.“I showed him what little I knew,” Dan remembers, and Bob took it from there. He and Dan purchased the Chet Atkins Goes to the Movies songbook and Bobby worked out the tunes. “I learned how to play Chet correctly because of his deciphering abilities,” Dan says. Dan and Bob have been good friends ever since. For more on the story of their friendship, see our earlier Flood Watch article by clicking here. About This Song from Last Week's RehearsalAs we noted in an earlier Flood Watch article, “Deep Ellum Blues” — first recorded on Bluebird by The Shelton Brothers (under the pseudonym “The Lone Star Cowboys”) — is all about life in a notorious neighborhood of Dallas.While New Orleans had its French Quarter and Chicago its Bronzeville, in Dallas it was Deep Ellum with its equally sketchy, colorful résumé. In the 1920s, if you walked down the streets on Deep Ellum, you could easily have rubbed shoulders with Blind Lemon Jefferson and Huddie Ledbetter, with Robert Johnson and Bessie Smith (not to mention with gangsters Bonnie and Clyde and Pretty Boy Floyd).Other versions of the song that celebrated this darker side of the Big D were made between 1957 and 1958 by Jerry Lee Lewis for Sun Records, by Bobby Jackson for Gold Air Records, by Mary McCoy & The Cyclones for Jin Records and, later still, by The Grateful Dead, Levon Helm and Rory Gallagher.For more on the history of this terrific Texas tune — as well as about the district of Deep Ellum — see our earlier article by clicking here.More from Flood Guests?Over the years, many guests — visitors like Bob, as well as returning Flood alumni (whom we call “Floodster Emeriti”) — sit in with us at rehearsals, jam sessions and performances. The band's web site devotes a page to a growing list of these guest appearances, with links to the audio and video of their visits. To use this registry, click here to reach the page, then scroll and click on an underlined date associated with a guest. On the subsequent page, click on the title of the song to hear the audio or on a video's start arrow to view it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

The National Weather Service-Austin/San Antnio has issued a flash flood watch for portions of South Central Texas, including Wilson, Guadalupe, Bexar, and nearby counties, through Friday, May 1, at 9 p.m., as a weather system brings storms to the area. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches with isolated amounts of 6 inches are possible for the duration of the Flood Watch.  Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible for Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Comal, Edwards, Fayette, Gillespie, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays, Kendall, Kerr, Kinney, Lee, Llano, Medina, Real, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Williamson, and Wilson counties.  There is... Article Link

The National Weather Service-Austin/San Antnio has issued a flash flood watch for portions of South Central Texas, including Wilson, Guadalupe, Bexar, and nearby counties, through Friday, May 1, at 9 p.m., as a weather system brings storms to the area. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches with isolated amounts of 6 inches are possible for the duration of the Flood Watch.  Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible for Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Comal, Edwards, Fayette, Gillespie, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hays, Kendall, Kerr, Kinney, Lee, Llano, Medina, Real, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Williamson, and Wilson counties.  There is... Article Link

Spring flooding is threatening several parts of central and eastern Canada this weekend. Environment Canada expects more rain to fall in the coming days. Affected communities across Quebec and Ontario are preparing for the worst.Also: Iran's Revolutionary Guard says any vessel moving towards the Strait of Hormuz will be targeted. The critical waterway was declared open for business just a day ago. But now, access is once again restricted.It's the latest bit of diplomatic whiplash, as both Iran and the U.S. extend olive branches while wielding them like clubs.And: They're catchy, colourful, and potentially harmful. AI generated content aimed at toddlers and pre-schoolers is all over YouTube. That prevalance has child development experts worried.Plus: Farmers fighting outdated tax laws, Corruption inside Cricket Canada, Cherry blossom tourists overwhelming rural Japan, and more.

With heavy rain, rising temperatures, and snowmelt all happening at once, parts of Quebec are now under flood watch, including here in Montreal, where the city has already activated its special response plan. Jason Thistlethwaite is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development at the University of Waterloo, he spoke to Trudie Mason. Photo Credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

Our rendering of this ancient bittersweet song of love and loss dates back more than 45 years now. But each times the band plays it, it seems as new and fresh as a summer evening.According to Flood lore, our version of this classic Appalachian folk song hearkens back to a hot summer's night at the Bowen House in the early 1980s.Over beers and sandwiches, Flood co-founders Roger Samples and Charlie Bowen sat at the kitchen table trading daydreams, lies and memories, interspersing them with songs, new and old.At some point Rog started playing a melody that he was working out for a possible original song. But right after he laid out his chord sequence, Charlie started singing the lyrics of “Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens” as he remembered them from an old Jean Ritchie album.“Huh!” Rog said with grin. “Who knew my new tune already had words!”For more on the back story of this wonderful old folk song, see our earlier Flood Watch article by clicking here.More Flood Yarns?A band that has been around as long as ours has many stories and yarns that form Flood lore and legends. Often between the tunes at jam sessions, rehearsals and public performances, someone in the group feels compelled to tell a tale, and if there's a recorder running, it is saved for the ages. The “Stories” section of the band's website contains a linked index to the stories we've saved this way, inviting you to click in and enjoy the ride. Some of the stories are about specific songs, and there are even dozens of jokes. Click here to check it all out. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

With municipalities across Quebec under flood watch and rising water levels triggering concern in several regions, municipalities north of Montreal are now on heightened alert. Raymond Rougeau is the Mayor of Rawdon, he spoke to Trudie Mason.

We've had a rainy week in Milwaukee, and there's a chance of more wet weather in coming days. All the water can overwhelm the sanitary sewer system, which can cause overflows or basement backups.

Tunes in The Flood repertoire are always subject to re-evaluation and rehabilitation. Perhaps a new key will freshen it up. Maybe there are new verses that can be sung. A new rhythm? A new chord or two?“Ready for the Times to Get Better,” the Allen Reynolds song that Randy Hamilton brought to the table a few years ago, is just such a song.About the SongAs reported here earlier, the tune already had very long journey to Floodlandia. The first time it was played in our band room was about 15 years ago on a mellow autumn night when Randy and his buddy Paul Martin dropped in to jam with us.Neither man was a member of The Flood yet — Randy would join the following year and Paul a few years after that — but their song was the hit of the evening (as reported in that week's Flood podcast).However, “Ready for the Times to Get Better” didn't work its way into our repertoire until a few years ago when Danny Cox happened to start picking it between songs on the night's practice list.The jaunty melody really jingled in our memory and Dan and Randy got together to woodshed a little, working it out. And since then band had been honing its arrangement, Sam polishing his harmonica solo, Jack and Charlie smoothing out their respective drum and banjo rhythms.The Tommy Emmanuel-Doc Watson EffectThe song's evolution in the band room took another turn last month when a Flood hero saluted another Flood hero with a special release from his first solo album in 10 years. Grammy-winning guitarist Tommy Emmanuel's Living in the Light is a virtuosic blend of acoustic pop, jazz, classical and roots music.Most of the performances on Living in the Light were recorded in one or two takes, exuding the sense of joy and wonder in these sonic explorations.One track on the album — what he listed as “Waiting for the Times to Get Better” — has special meaning for Emmanuel, who in early March chose the 103rd anniversary of the late Doc Watson's birth to release a video of the song he learned from Doc's work.“When I heard Doc Watson sing this song,” he told Bluegrass Today, “I knew I should try to do the same. I love his voice and guitar playing so much — it's so honest. If you look up the word ‘honesty' in the dictionary, there's a picture of Doc!“I wanted to do a tribute in my own way. ‘Ready for the Times to Get Better' is my attempt at singing a message. It's simple. We are all waiting for times to get better in our world, and singing seems to help me get through these tough times.”Meanwhile, when our Danny Cox listened to the track, he heard something else: a chord or two that were different from previous versions. Gently, Danny brought that Emmanuel effect to The Flood's take on the tune, and that's where its Floodifying stands today.For the back story of this great Allen Reynolds composition, see our earlier Flood Watch article by clicking here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Ceasefire Confusion, Diddy's Appeal, Hawaii Flood Watch and more  A fragile US-Israel truce with Iran appears to be holding, as some ships are now moving through the Strait of Hormuz. New data from the department of Commerce shows a mixed picture of the US economy. Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs are back in court today. We explain why the US fertility rate has hit record low. Plus, a powerful storm has triggered flood warning across Hawaii for a second day in a row.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today's EM Morning Brief leads with a joint advisory from CISA, the FBI, NSA, EPA, DOE, and U.S. Cyber Command warning that Iranian-affiliated cyber actors are actively exploiting programmable logic controllers across U.S. water, energy, and government systems. Advisory AA26-097A documents confirmed operational disruptions and financial losses. NERC is actively monitoring the electric grid in response. A fragile two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran — brokered by Pakistan on April 7–8 — remains under pressure as President Trump keeps military assets in position and a dispute over Lebanon's inclusion threatens the agreement's scope.On the weather front, Hawaii is experiencing its third consecutive major flooding event in three weeks, with a statewide Flood Watch in effect through Friday. Florida's East Coast is under a Flash Flood Watch and Wind Advisory with dangerous surf conditions. Active fire weather is affecting South Carolina and Georgia. In Colorado, two wildfires near Boulder and Berthoud were both contained April 8 with no structures lost. FEMA officially designated 15 Tennessee counties as disaster areas following Winter Storm Fern. A boil water notice is active in Petal, Mississippi.All 50 states and U.S. territories are covered.Takeaways:* Operators of Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley CompactLogix and Micro850 PLCs should restrict internet-facing access, apply available patches, and report suspicious activity to CISA or the FBI without delay.* The domestic cyber threat posture remains elevated. The U.S.-Iran ceasefire is active but unsettled — monitor developments and lower thresholds for reporting suspicious cyber and physical security activity.* Hawaii emergency managers should anticipate continued flooding, road closures, and potential landslides through Friday as a third consecutive storm stresses response resources statewide.* Fire weather conditions in South Carolina and Georgia remain dangerous. Confirm current red flag and burn restriction status with state forestry commissions before authorizing any outdoor burning.* Tennessee jurisdictions in the 15 designated counties should begin documenting eligible costs for FEMA Public Assistance. Individual Assistance determination is still pending federal review.SourcesCISA• CISA Advisory AA26-097A — Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit PLCs Across US Critical Infrastructure (April 7, 2026)• CISA / Federal Agencies Issue Advisory on Iran-Related Cyberattacks — ABA Banking Journal• Iran-Linked Hackers Target Water, Energy in US — Cybersecurity Dive• Iranian Hackers Targeting American Critical Infrastructure — TechCrunchDHS / NTAS• DHS National Terrorism Advisory System — Official NTAS Page (note: site not updated since February 17, 2026 due to federal funding lapse)NERC / Energy Grid• NERC Is Actively Monitoring the Grid Following Iran-Linked Cyber Threat — Utility Dive (April 8, 2026)US-Iran Conflict• Iran War Live Blog, April 9, 2026 — Al Jazeera• US-Iran Ceasefire Deal: What Are the Terms, and What's Next? — Al Jazeera (April 8, 2026)NIFC / Wildfire (National)• NIFC National Fire News — National Interagency Fire Center• Unprecedented Snow Drought Sets Up Extreme Wildfires for Western US in 2026 — Wildfire TodayNOAA / NWS• NWS Active Alerts• NWS Weather Prediction Center• NWS Storm Prediction Center — Day 1 Convective OutlookState Department / Travel Advisories• Sao Tome and Principe — Level 3 Travel Advisory (April 8, 2026) — US Embassy Angola and Sao Tome• US State Department Travel Advisories — travel.state.govAlaska• Above-Average Spring Breakup Flooding Expected in Interior Alaska — Fairbanks News MinerArkansas / Oklahoma• Severe Thunderstorms Moving Through Northeast Oklahoma — NewsOn6• SPC Day 1 Convective Outlook — Storm Prediction CenterColorado• Goat Trail Fire 100% Contained — 9NEWS• Cougar Run Fire Contained at 3.5 Acres — Larimer County• Evacuation Orders Lifted for Boulder and Larimer County Fires — Denver GazetteFlorida• NWS Melbourne — Flash Flood Threat• NWS South Florida Hazardous Weather OutlookGeorgia• Fire Danger Elevated Across North and Central Georgia April 8 — Cobb Courier• Red Flag Warning Issued in Georgia as Dry, Windy Conditions Raise Fire Risk — CBS Atlanta• Campfire Ban Issued for Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest — AccessWDUNHawaii• Hawaii Under Statewide Flood Watch — Honolulu Star-Advertiser (April 8, 2026)• Third Storm in Three Weeks to Unleash More Rain, Flooding in Hawaii — AccuWeather• Hawaii Statewide Flood Watch April 2026: Visitor Travel Alert — Hawaii GuideMississippi• Petal Residents Under Boil Water Notice Following Outage — WDAM (April 9, 2026)Montana• Holmes Fire West of Montana City Controlled, Evacuation Notice Cleared — Montana Right NowSouth Carolina• SC Forestry Commission Lifts Red Flag Fire Alert for 25 Counties — Live 5 News (April 8, 2026)• Statewide Red Flag Fire Alert in Effect for South Carolina — WIS TVTennessee• FEMA Designates 15 Tennessee Counties as Natural Disaster Areas — USDA Farm Service Agency (April 7, 2026)• Tennessee Severe Winter Storm Disaster Declaration (DR-4898-TN) — FEMATexas / Plains• Governor Abbott Activates State Emergency Response Resources for Severe Weather — TDEM (March 31, 2026)• Severe Storms, Flooding Downpours to Focus on Plains, Midwest, Great Lakes into Easter Weekend — AccuWeather This is a public episode. 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Disappointment or rather delight? You make the call. Bobby goes solo on the podcast today. Listeners rejoice!

Today is a First Alert Weather Day as we have a Flood Watch and High Wind Warning in effect. All state offices, public schools and U-H campuses are closed today out of an abundance of caution. And as the search for Nancy Guthrie enters its second week, authorities are seemingly no closer to identifying any suspects or persons of interest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

LA could be facing its wettest New Year's Day in more than 90 years. One of the hikers who died at Mount Baldy has been identified, and neighbors are in shock. The Rose Parade is getting wet and wild. Plus, more from Morning Edition. Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com Visit www.preppi.com/LAist to receive a FREE Preppi Emergency Kit (with any purchase over $100) and be prepared for the next wildfire, earthquake or emergency!Support the show: https://laist.com

A major storm is coming, and holiday travel will be affected. The verdict is in for an LA tow truck driver accused of stealing a federal car during an immigration raid. New housing laws are about to take effect, and they could hit your wallet. Plus, more from Morning Edition. Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com Visit www.preppi.com/LAist to receive a FREE Preppi Emergency Kit (with any purchase over $100) and be prepared for the next wildfire, earthquake or emergency!Support the show: https://laist.com

The episode articulates the significant impact of a potent Pacific storm train, which continues to target the western region of the United States, particularly California and Washington. We delve into the widespread flood watches issued by the National Weather Service, affecting vast areas along the California coast and valleys, alongside heavy snowfall in the Sierra Nevada, which complicates mountainous travel. Additionally, we address the winter storm warning currently in effect for the Washington Cascades, where hazardous conditions prevail due to blowing snow. Our discussion further encompasses the emergency declaration approved by FEMA for Montana, aimed at providing federal support in response to recent flooding incidents. We conclude by emphasizing the need for vigilance and safety amidst these challenging weather conditions, while we continue to monitor ongoing developments across various states. A comprehensive examination of the ongoing meteorological conditions reveals a formidable Pacific storm train currently imposing significant weather events across the western regions of the United States. The National Weather Service has issued widespread flood watches encompassing much of California's coastal and valley areas, while simultaneously, heavy snowfall is complicating travel through the Sierra Nevada mountains. This duality of weather phenomena underscores the potential for both flooding and treacherous travel conditions, particularly in the context of the Sierra, where snow accumulation is exacerbating the risks associated with winter travel. Further north, the Washington Cascades are under a winter storm warning, highlighting hazardous conditions including blowing snow and limited visibility, which pose serious risks to both residents and travelers alike. As we navigate through these intense weather patterns, it is imperative to remain vigilant and informed, as river flood warnings persist in various basins, reflecting the substantial impact these storms are having on local ecosystems and communities alike.Takeaways:* The National Weather Service has issued widespread flood watches across California's coastal regions and valleys.* A potent Pacific storm is currently affecting the West, leading to hazardous weather conditions.* FEMA has approved an emergency declaration for Montana in light of recent flooding incidents.* Winter storm warnings are in effect for the Washington Cascades, indicating severe weather challenges ahead.* Flood warnings persist on several rivers, including the Skokomish, indicating ongoing minor flooding issues.* Minnesota is experiencing icy road conditions due to overnight freezing rain, affecting travel safety.Sources[FEMA | https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20251220/president-donald-j-trump-approves-emergency-declaration-montana][NWS San Diego | https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=flood+watch][NWS Bay Area | https://www.weather.gov/mtr/][NWS Sacramento | https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?product1=Flood+Watch&warnzone=CAZ066][NWS Eureka (Eel River) | https://www.weather.gov/eka/][NWS Seattle | https://www.weather.gov/sew/][NWS Warning Text | https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sew&wwa=winter+storm+warning][NWS River Warning | https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=flood+warning][NWS Medford | https://www.weather.gov/mfr/][NWS Advisory Timing | https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=43.1787&lon=-122.1389][NWS Spokane | https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?firewxzone=IDZ101&product1=Winter+Weather+Advisory][Montana Governor | https://gov.mt.gov/Documents/GovernorsOffice/executiveorders/View?doc=EO112025DisasterDeclarationStatewideSevereWindEvent002.pdf][NWS Missoula | https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=winter+weather+advisory][NWS Fairbanks | https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=usa&wwa=winter+weather+advisory][MnDOT 511 | https://511mn.org/list/events][MPR News | https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/22/road-conditions-icy-schools-delayed-in-southern-minnesota] This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emnetwork.substack.com/subscribe

A flood watch goes into effect later today. The Getty Villa has been added to the biggest lawsuit over the Palisades Fire. Orange County wants to know if disgraced former Supervisor Andrew Do has done anything else that's illegal. Plus, more from Morning Edition. Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com This LAist podcast is supported by Amazon Autos. Buying a car used to be a whole day affair. Now, at Amazon Autos, you can shop for a new, used, or certified pre-owned car whenever, wherever. You can browse hundreds of vehicles from top local dealers, all in one place. Amazon.com/autos Visit www.preppi.com/LAist to receive a FREE Preppi Emergency Kit (with any purchase over $100) and be prepared for the next wildfire, earthquake or emergency! Support the show: https://laist.com

A flood watch is now in effect because of remnants from Tropical Storm Mario. Hollywood rallies around Jimmy Kimmel after A-B-C pulls him from the air. SoCal homeowners near burn zones are struggling to get the insurance coverage they really need. Plus, more.Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.comVisit www.preppi.com/LAist to receive a FREE Preppi Emergency Kit (with any purchase over $100) and be prepared for the next wildfire, earthquake or emergency! Support the show: https://laist.com

The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for parts of the region until Wednesday. Two surf organizations battle over team USA at the 2028 Olympics. A new LAist project will illustrate your memories, hopes, and dreams of Altadena and the Pacific Palisades. Plus, more.Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.comVisit www.preppi.com/LAist to receive a FREE Preppi Emergency Kit (with any purchase over $100) and be prepared for the next wildfire, earthquake or emergency! Support the show: https://laist.com

The All Local Afternoon Update for Thursday July 31st 2025

Heavy rain has caused flash flood warnings throughout the northwest. Elmo was hacked on X. Starbucks CEO is making workers return to work to bring back in person work culture. India wants to limit air conditioners temperatures.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.