Matt Gagnon and his colleagues discuss the extreme heat wave affecting the Eastern United States, with temperatures reaching over 100 degrees in New York City. They compare the current heat to European conditions, noting that Europeans are unfamiliar with such high temperatures. The conversation shifts to the metric system versus Fahrenheit, with Matt defending Fahrenheit’s practicality for everyday use. They also touch on lawn care, sharing tips on mowing grass and dealing with long grass due to recent rain. The discussion concludes with personal anecdotes about lawn maintenance and the challenges of adapting to different measurement systems.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
