Wave goodbye to the heat wave: The National Weather Service, known for its accuracy (and sense of humor), is saying that weâve made it through the gauntletâthe worst of the heat is over for this year in Seattle. Nothing can feel as hot as the stifling July heat because, from now on, the days will be shorter and sunlight is going to strike Earth at a lower angle. Expect a cooler week, especially on Thursday, when a delicious marine layer of clouds will plant itself over us. Smother me, marine layer. Smother me.
Today, we're learning a new weather term. It will seem rather unfamiliar. Known in climatology as "normal". Pronounced "nor-mal". Defined as "conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected". The last time we experienced such a thing was July 20th - or so I'm told. #wawx pic.twitter.com/DIa457aQae
â NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) August 1, 2018
Washington wildfires are wildinâ: Governor Jay Inslee has declared a state of emergency in the entire state of Washington. There are already several fires burning here, but everything is hot and dry statewide. This move means the Washington National Guard can help out now.
A few teams from the #NationalGuard are making final preps before they leave for #Spokane to assist with firefighting efforts in #EasternWashington pic.twitter.com/tGKJnC4s64
â Alex Rozier (@AlexRozierK5) August 1, 2018
Spokane GOP praises James Allsup at event, denies it after backlash: You remember James Allsup? He attended the alt-right rally in Charlottesville last summer and I spoke with him during the UW Patriot Prayer this February. Spokane GOP Chair Cecily Wright invited him to an event in July called âLabel Lynching.â Essentially, she defended Allsup and said he had âbeen lynched by the media.â She had a whole slide show about it. She thanked him for being there and said she admired him. After the fact, and after the backlash, Wright denied these things. Too bad theyâre on video.
Deal reached for $200 million Hanford cleanup: Thatâs what it will take to finish the eight-mile groundwater restoration at the site. This section of the Hanford site cleanup, near the Columbia River, has been under way since the 1990s. The cleanup as a whole is much larger (weâre talking 586 square miles and billions of dollars).
Bellevue grants its residents a downtown bike laneâmaybe: The three-quarters-of-a-mile bike lanes are the first spanning the length of the downtown corridor. The city celebrated. But the lanes may not be permanent. Bellevue is testing them and may take them away depending on the results of âvehicle-travel delays, traffic volume, on-street parking, and the number of bicycle trips,â reports the Seattle Times. Let them have bike lanes!
There might be a parasite in your Trader Joeâs wrap: It may also be found in any salad and wrap product sold at Kroger and Walgreensâwait, people buy wraps at Walgreens? Well, they should stop while the Cyclospora infection is afoot. Itâs infecting beef, pork, and poultry. Unrelated but equally tragic, Heinz has recalled its Taco Bell Salsa con Queso mild cheese dip.
Sodoâs two-mile stretch of murals is the longest in the world: There are more than 50 murals in the contiguous street art corridor. The work is from 62 artists who hail from right here in Seattle to all over the world. All the murals follow the theme âMotion, Speed, and Progress.â Itâs one of the coolest stretches of the light rail route and it can be seen on the light rail and certain bus routes. It's the longest of its kind in the world.
Boeing is going to college: Freshman year is tough, so maybe we should give Boeing some pointers before its move into a lab space at MIT. The space, 100,000 square feet, is a bit larger than your typical dorm room. There, Boeing is committing to research on the autonomous aircraft. Move in is at the end of 2020.
Letâs all go here: Whoâs booking our tickets?
On a hillside in Vietnam, giant hands extend, holding a new steel bridge that has attracted scores of visitors since opening https://t.co/luIut7dcO1 pic.twitter.com/XSvWXdVXgb
â CNN (@CNN) August 1, 2018
This was the solution to stopping the Mueller investigation all along: Finally, Trump nailed it.
NEW: In series of tweets, Pres. Trump says, "Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right now, before it continues to stain our country any further." https://t.co/Ymagp3lfrH pic.twitter.com/1UVHGNdoRq
â ABC News (@ABC) August 1, 2018
Did a child die in a Texas detention center? Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent out a tweet that said no and that those claims were false. However, an immigration lawyer was alerted by an attorney who was friends with the alleged victimâs family. According to her, a child died in the Dilley facility from a respiratory infection.
If they ask for a visa, the US government wonât give them one. If they stay in their country their kids get killed by the gangs. So they are damned if they try to come the legal or illegal way.
â Mana Yegani (@Law_Mana) August 1, 2018
Facebook identifies digital influence campaign to disrupt the midterms: The company found and removed 32 accounts that were fake and revolved around social issues. There isnât enough definitive information to say whether Russia was behind these accounts, but there are strong links to the Internet Research Agency, or, the Kremlin-linked group at the center of the indictment this year. The campaign Facebook uncovered was meant to meddle in the midterm elections this November.
A plane carrying 103 people crashed in Mexico: Donât worry, everyone survived. The plane was hit by a sudden gust of wind and it caused a sudden descent, BBC reports. The left wing broke off and then both of its engines followed suit. No one died, but 97 people are injured.
Chinese crime author tackled writerâs block by actually committing murders: He and an accomplice killed four people two decades ago. He used the experience as writing fodder. Who can blame him, really? Writing is hard. But he was sentenced to death for murder. Whatâs the real crime here? Lying to his audience about what was real or the murders? Funny enough, this was the same plot as a community theater murder mystery I saw in Greenwood for my birthday.
Tonight's best Seattle entertainment options include: A reading with futurist short fiction writer Brenda Cooper, an all-ages show with R&B icon Freddie Jackson, and the Can Can/Prom Queen collaboration about the life of Mata Hari, Femme Fatale.
Now, what you're eating for breakfast:
Breakfast didn't pan out as Nicole wanted it to. Water will be cool, she says.
Tonio: "Berry delicious." Then he wrote *dabs* because he was proud of his joke.
Ellis starts the day off right.