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Heat dome expands across the central United States, creating dangerous conditions for millions

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Articles
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Unique Sources
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Importance
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Diversity
T3
Top Tier
Snapshot born 15h ago · present at 1 data interval (15h ago → 15h ago)

Story History

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.
13 0 Jul 25 17:00 UTC — 3 articles · 3 sources · importance 3.0 · tone -1.8 (viewing)tone -1.8Jul 25 17:15 UTC — 5 articles · 5 sources · importance 5.0 · tone -1.6 · shares 3 with viewedtone -1.6Jul 25 18:15 UTC — 6 articles · 6 sources · importance 6.0 · tone -1.4 · shares 3 with viewedtone -1.4Jul 25 19:15 UTC — 7 articles · 7 sources · importance 7.0 · tone -1.3 · shares 3 with viewedtone -1.3Jul 25 20:15 UTC — 8 articles · 8 sources · importance 8.0 · tone -1.2 · shares 3 with viewedtone -1.2Jul 25 22:30 UTC — 10 articles · 10 sources · importance 14.0 · tone -1.1 · shares 3 with viewedtone -1.1Jul 25 23:30 UTC — 11 articles · 11 sources · importance 15.0 · tone -1.2 · shares 3 with viewedtone -1.2Jul 26 00:00 UTC — 13 articles · 13 sources · importance 17.0 · tone -1.0 · shares 3 with viewedtone -1.0 Jul 25 17:00 Jul 26 08:45 UTC
Born Articles Sources Importance Shared with this snapshot
8h ago 13 13 17.0 3
9h ago 11 11 15.0 3
10h ago 10 10 14.0 3
12h ago 8 8 8.0 3
13h ago 7 7 7.0 3
14h ago 6 6 6.0 3
15h ago 5 5 5.0 3

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 What is a heat dome? Dangerous heat to grip central US weather_heat wtvq.com stifling, explanatory, alarming
-1.1
fear
T3 Heat dome expands across the central United States, creating dangerous conditions for millions weather_heat wfmz.com oppressive, hazardous, widespread
-2.2
fear
T3 Heat dome expands across the central United States, creating dangerous conditions for millions weather_heat whec.com oppressive, hazardous, widespread
-2.2
fear