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The U.S. just had its hottest month on record

2
Articles
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Unique Sources
4.0
Importance
2.0
Diversity
T2
Top Tier
Snapshot born 6h ago · present at 10 data intervals (6h ago → 4h 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.
5 0 Aug 10 21:30 UTC — 1 articles · 1 sources · importance 3.0 · tone -4.2 · shares 1 with viewedtone -4.2Aug 10 22:45 UTC — 2 articles · 2 sources · importance 4.0 · tone -3.6 (viewing)tone -3.6Aug 11 01:15 UTC — 4 articles · 4 sources · importance 6.0 · tone -3.0 · shares 2 with viewedtone -3.0Aug 11 02:00 UTC — 5 articles · 5 sources · importance 7.0 · tone -2.9 · shares 2 with viewedtone -2.9 Aug 10 21:30 Aug 11 05:30 UTC
Born Articles Sources Importance Shared with this snapshot
3h ago 5 5 7.0 2
4h ago 4 4 6.0 2
8h ago 1 1 3.0 1

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.
T2 The U.S. just had its hottest month on record weather_heat yahoo.com sizzling, worrying, extreme
-4.2
fear
T3 Contiguous U.S. breaks its record for hottest month ever, NOAA says weather_heat wcbi.com alarming, urgent, foreboding
-3.0
fear