John Scalzi

3 weeks ago | mysuncoast.com | John Scalzi

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The low pressure aloft, which will again today enhance our chance for rain, will continue to slowly drift toward the northeast. By the time we get to the weekend the low will have drifted off the coast of the Carolinas. Without that additional upper air support for rainfall development, our pattern of afternoon showers will become typical of afternoon sea breeze development. Today however, we will see good chances for showers and thunderstorms.

3 weeks ago | whatever.scalzi.com | John Scalzi

In New York magazine this week, an article about how US citizens who have been detained by ICE can have an exceptionally difficult time proving that they they are, in fact, US citizens, or will have the ability to prove it before they are sent off to El Salvador or Rwanda or anywhere else in the world this embarrassment of an administration wants to unconstitutionally send people.

3 weeks ago | mysuncoast.com | John Scalzi

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - The chance for heavy rain continues today for the Suncoast. There remains a 5% to 15% chance of minor and temporary flooding in poor drainage areas and low-lying roads. This could primarily impact drivers during periods of heavy downpours. We’ll start the day with a chance of showers and thunderstorms during the morning hours. There will be breaks in the rain, and at times, some sunshine.

3 weeks ago | mysuncoast.com | John Scalzi

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - We had some nice rainfall over the weekend, and now, to start the new workweek, the trend of increased rain chances continues. A pattern across the United States is becoming established—it’s known as a Rex Block, and it tends to cause upper-air weather patterns to become stagnant. In our case, an upper-level low-pressure area will remain stuck over Florida, with a high-pressure center to our north.

4 weeks ago | amazingstories.com | John Scalzi

Take a deep breath. Now exhale. Now find out why, in Renan Bernardo’s book Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle, doing that is not as simple as it sounds — and what that means for the people in the story. RENAN BERNARDO:What if a profit-driven expedition to settle on an distant planet failed so miserably that now the crew has lost all motivation to come back to Earth? That is the Big Idea behind my novella Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle.