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Get your ruby slippers ready again

By adamg on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 11:44am

The National Weather Service has issued another tornado watch for greater Boston, until 8 p.m. today:

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4pm. Some storms could be severe, with large hail and damaging winds.

A tornado watch means weather conditions are right for possible formation of a twister. A tornado warning means one's been detected on radar and you better take your striped socks off so a house doesn't fall on you.


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Shelf cloud

By adamg on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 10:35am

Wall cloud

Ryan Quatrale was at Castle Island on Thursday when he captured a shelf cloud moving over Dorchester Bay and Pleasure Bay (click for the full size).

Copyright Ryan Quatrale. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.


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Man falls off Charlestown pier, drowns

By adamg on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 10:31am

The Boston Fire Department reports divers got him up from 24 feet of water at the bottom of the harbor near Tavern on the Water shortly after 1 a.m. today. The department reports a group of friends noticed one of their friends was missing. Then somebody heard a splash. The Boston Police Department reports he was pronounced dead at 2:43 a.m. at Mass. General. The homicide unit is currently investigating.


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State Dem Convention results put two on Treasurer ballot and three on Auditor

By JohnAKeith on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 6:13pm

The results from the state Democratic Convention being held today in Worcester are in, according to Boston.com and twitter feeds (hash tag: #madem10).

As expected, the Governor and Lieutenant Governor received enough votes to put them on the ballot (at least 15 percent) and receive the endorsement of the party (25 percent).

In the race for State Treasurer, Steve Grossman earned their endorsement by receiving more than 50 percent of the delegates' votes while Boston City Councilor-At-Large Steve Murphy made it to September's ballot with 15.6 percent of the votes.

The state auditor race is considered a hot one after Joe DeNucci announced his decision to retire (after ten years). Suzanne Bump, Guy Glodis, and Michael Lake all made it on the ballot. The rumor in the twittershere is that Glodis instructed some of his supporters to vote for Lake, thereby assuring his place on the ballot and potentially splitting the "progressive" vote between him and Bump, in September.


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Storm coming in

By adamg on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 5:33pm

Storm

Looking northwest at Millennium Park around 4:30 p.m., just as the thunder and rain started.


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Wicked Twistah Watch in effect

By Kaz on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 3:43pm

The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch for much of New England until 10 PM tonight. This means conditions for a twistah are ripe but there has not been a sighting yet (would push to a warning instead).

Included in the watch are 10 counties in MA, 3 in CT, 2 in RI, and 2 in NH.

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF... BOSTON... BROCKTON... FALL RIVER... FITCHBURG... FOXBORO... FRAMINGHAM... GLOUCESTER... GREENFIELD... HARTFORD... KEENE... LAWRENCE... LOWELL... MANCHESTER... NASHUA... NEW BEDFORD... NORTHAMPTON... PLYMOUTH... PROVIDENCE... PUTNAM... QUINCY... SPRINGFIELD... TAUNTON... UNION... VERNON... WARWICK... WILLIMANTIC AND WORCESTER.


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When they drop from heat stroke, co-workers can cover them in Coolatas

By adamg on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 12:18pm

Marcy tweets that the manager of the Dunkin' Donuts at 21 Summer St. in Arlington has locked the air conditioning controls so workers can't turn it on. At noon on Saturday, it was 90+ degrees inside the store, she reports.


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Dory building in Gloucester

By adamg on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 12:15pm

Good Morning Gloucester introduces us to the craft.


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When the North End had a beach

By adamg on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 12:08pm

With sand and everything. Matt Conti posts a couple of photos from 1927 of the beach - which was where Langone Park and the pool are now.


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Fowl deeds: Evil swans attack innocent little ducklings at Public Garden lagoon

By adamg on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 11:29am

Romeo and Juliet? This year's swans are more like dual Lady Macbeths. Mike the Mad Biologist chronicles the avian war on the lagoon:

... One day I saw one swan prevent the flock of ducklings from entering the pond: wherever the ducks went to try to jump in, the swan was right there hissing at them. That day, the swan even jumped out of the water and pursued them on land.

It gets even more vicious. The swan (again, no idea which one) will try to isolate a couple ducklings and then pursue those ducklings. The duck's mother then tries the 'broken wing' gambit (squawking loudly and then veering off, in an attempt to draw the swan away). It never works. These swans are on a mission.


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