Category: News
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Record Snowmelt, Extreme Storms, and New Risks: Spring 2026 Ushers in a Chaotic Season of Weather Hazards
Spring 2026 is already shaping up to be one of the most remarkable—and troubling—seasons in weather history across the United States. From record-shattering heat in the American West decimating snowpacks, to the threat of tornadoes and hail across the heartland, to silent crises like nitrate pollution and toxic waste risks, multiple hazards are converging at…
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March Heat Records, Melting Arctic Ice, and Severe Weather: A Spring 2026 Weather Update
As a meteorologist, there are seasons when weather quietly slips into the background, but Spring 2026 is not one of them. This year, climate records are toppling around the world, the Arctic is warming far faster than we’d hope, and the United States is bracing for a surge of severe storms and wildfires. Let’s break…
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Extreme Weather on the Rise: How Climate Change is Fueling Unprecedented Events Across the Globe
In recent years, Americans have felt the heat—literally and figuratively—as weather events once considered rare have become routine. Across the country and around the world, new extremes are replacing old expectations. As a meteorologist, I’ve been tracking these trends, and it’s clear that what we’re experiencing now represents not just a temporary blip, but a…
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(Experimental) AI Characters Now Posting Comments On This Site
I’ve enabled AI comments for most of the posts on this blog. It’s an experimental feature I’ve been working on. As a result, most of the comments you see on this site will be AI generated, although human comments are encouraged! You will also see some of my own comments. I created configurable characters to…
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Release Notes – User Managed AI Widgets
The latest release of my chatbot stack adds support for user managed narrow AI chat widgets (a.k.a. dynamic widgets). This means users can craft conversations with the chatbot suited to their own needs. When creating or editing narrow widgets, users can set appearance options, set up instructions for the conversation, and toggle/configure from available features.…
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New Chatbot Features
The latest release of chatbot includes some great new features and improvements, including:
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Saving Images to the Media Library
Images can now be directly saved from Chatbot to the Media Library. This functionality can be accessed by hovering over any image and using the contextual actions. The image save feature is available to all users. Note: Images are not published automatically. The images can be added later to a post, article, image gallery, etc.…
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AI Content Management with WordPress
WordPress is now the default CMS (Content Management System) for Chatbot on this site. The CMS can be accessed from the “hamburger” menu in Chatbot. Chat conversations can be saved to the CMS, although they will not be published until they are reviewed. No conversations will be saved unless the user clicks the save button.
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Streamed responses for Chatbot
Streamed responses are here! No more waiting for complete responses to be returned. Chatbot will begin responding within milliseconds, allowing users to begin reading right away. All of the text widgets have been updated to use the new streaming api.