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Predicting where wildfire smoke will go next

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The story across its frozen snapshot generations (each shares ≥ half of this snapshot's articles). articles · sources · squares = generation births, sized by importance (outlined = open that snapshot; filled = this one) · baseline band = intervals the story was live · ticks below = each generation's tone.
2 0 Jul 22 22:30 UTC — 1 articles · 1 sources · importance 1.0 · tone -2.0 (viewing)tone -2.0Jul 24 19:30 UTC — 2 articles · 2 sources · importance 2.0 · tone -1.8 · shares 1 with viewedtone -1.8 Jul 22 22:30 Jul 24 22:30 UTC
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Public Discourse · Bluesky · this story as of 8d ago
3 distinct posts / 48h, matching Predicting 3
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9d ago It’s almost like the climate scientists predicting extreme weather and rising global temperatures over the past 50 years were actually basing their claims on…I dunno…science…? Anyway, excuse me wh… -1.5
9d ago They do a good job of predicting the onset of wildfire smoke, but a bad job of predicting when it will go TF away, so you can’t really plan. It almost always lingers way longer than predicted. Mich… -5.0
10d ago I had been so worried about the hot weather they were predicting, trying to figure out what to serve for dinner if a salad is going to give us all explosive diarrhea, then the wildfire smoke kept t… +2.0

Articles in Story

Tier Title Category Source Feeling SentimentSentiment Score (-5 to +5)
LLM-assessed emotional tone of coverage.

-5 = extremely negative/alarming
0 = neutral/factual
+5 = extremely positive/hopeful

The colored bar shows position on the scale. Emotion badge uses Plutchik's 8 primary emotions: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation.
T3 Predicting where wildfire smoke will go next 📄 wildfire_response wisc.edu inquisitive, cautious, hopeful
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