Favorites February 6th 2022

Short one today, I hope you had a great weekend!

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

This is an essential explainer on fridays jobs report. A lot more going on than I realized.

apricitas.substack.comOmicron and the Labor MarketUnderstanding the Most Complicated Jobs Report Ever

This was a good deep-dive on the empoyment numbers, if that's something that interests you.

Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler

Dying. This is so bad for the upcoming season. https://t.co/UfyE1JUpRm

Daniel Swain @Weather_West

Pretty good chance of some record February heat in California (and maybe also some adjacent states) in the coming days. In fact, it appears the strength of the ridge will be at record levels for the time of year... #CAwx https://t.co/HCHi0CZg5U https://t.co/z7eYrojIG6

Yikes, that is a very red blob.

Rachel Cohen @rmc031

539 K-12 public schools across the country —out of 98,000—experienced at least one day of disruption last week, a drop of 74.7% from the week before, and drop of 92.8% from the week of January 10th. per @BurbioCalendar

The main case count numbers continue to fall, but it's nice to see other measures showing the same thing.

September 2017

“Use our specially prepared knife powder”